SIXTH ANNUAL
PENN / NYU CONFERENCE
ON LAW AND FINANCE

SIXTH ANNUAL
PENN / NYU CONFERENCE ON LAW AND FINANCE

Jointly sponsored by
the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics,
Wharton’s Financial Institutions Center,
and New York University’s Pollack Center for Law & Business.

Friday, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, FEBRUARY 27, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Levy Conference Center
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Entrance on 34th Street between Chestnut and Sansom
Directions to Penn Law

By invitation only.

For more information, contact Vicki Hewitt
at vhewitt@law.upenn.edu or 215.898.7719.

Conference Organizers

William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business
New York University School of Law

Yakov Amihud
Ira Rennert Professor of Finance
Stern School of Business
New York University

Jill E. Fisch
Perry Golkin Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Michael R. Roberts
Associate Professor of Finance
The Wharton School

Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
9:30 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast
10:00 a.m	Welcoming Remarks Michael A. Fitts Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Guhan Subramanian Harvard Law School Steven Herscovici Analysis Group, Inc. Brian Barbetta Analysis Group, Inc. Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008 Download Paper Commentator: Robert M. Daines Stanford Law School Moderator: Hon. Jack B. Jacobs Supreme Court of Delaware
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University Department of Economics Robert W. Vishny Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing Download Paper Commentator: Jonathan R. Macey Yale Law School Moderator: Michael Roberts The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Michael Klausner Stanford Law School Are Securities Class Actions ‘Supplemental’ to SEC Enforcement? An Empirical Analysis Download Paper Commentator: Simi Kedia Rutgers Business School Moderator: William T. Allen New York University School of Law
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Ashwini K. Agrawal Stern School of Business, New York University The Impact of Investor Protection Law on Corporate Policy: Evidence from the Blue Sky Laws Download Paper Commentator: Allen Ferrell Harvard Law School Moderator: William T. Allen New York University School of Law
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Marcel Kahan New York University School of Law Edward B. Rock University of Pennsylvania Law School When the Government Is the Controlling Shareholder Download Paper Commentator: Heitor V. Almeida University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Moderator: Hon. Travis Laster Delaware Court of Chancery

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Bart M. Lambrecht Lancaster University Management School Stewart C. Myers MIT Sloan School of Management A Lintner Model of Dividends and Managerial Rents Download Paper Commentator: Alan Schwartz Yale Law School Moderator: Richard E. Kihlstrom The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Stephen J. Choi New York University Law School Drew T. Johnson-Skinner Law Clerk to Judge John G. Koeltl of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York A.C. Pritchard University of Michigan Law School The Price of Pay To Play in Securities Class Actions Download Paper Commentator: Sanjai Bhagat University of Colorado Moderator: Richard E. Kihlstrom The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Gustav Sigurdsson The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Share Auctions and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganizations Download Paper Commentator: Kenneth M. Ayotte Northwestern University School of Law Moderator: Hon. Donald F. Parsons, Jr. Delaware Court of Chancery
12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks

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SIXTH ANNUAL
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ON LAW AND FINANCE