PAST EVENTS
ILE/Wharton Finance SeminarsThursday, MARCH 27, 2008ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR Colin Mayer "Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry" Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. Mayer has been at the Saïd Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor. He has built an international reputation within the field of finance, has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance, and on the regulation of financial markets. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Mayer's current research is on the relation between financial systems and economic performance, the financing of high technology firms and large investment projects, and the evolution of ownership and control of firms. Thursday, NOVEMBER 8, 2007ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR BERNARD BLACK “Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Bernard S. Black is Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence and Professor of Law at University of Texas Law School, Professor of Finance at UT's McCombs School of Business, and managing director of the Legal Scholarship Network. Professor Black received his B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. in physics from University of California at Berkeley and J.D. from Stanford Law School. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, practiced corporate and securities law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City, and served as Counsel to Commissioner Joseph Grundfest of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before coming to Texas, he was Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (1998-2004) and Columbia Law School (1988-1998). He has been an advisor on company law, securities law, and corporate governance in Armenia, Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Thursday, MARCH 22, 2007ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR JOHN C. COFFEE “Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement” Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Prof. Coffee received his B.A. from Amherst, his LL.B. from Yale, and his LL.M. (in taxation) from New York University. Following graduation from law school, he was a Reginald Heber Smith fellow for one year, doing poverty law litigation in New York City. Between 1970 and 1976, he was a corporate lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 1976 until coming to Columbia in 1980, he was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Thursday, NOVEMBER 30, 2006ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR LUIGI ZINGALES “Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?” Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Luigi Zingales studies the theory of the firm, the relation between organization and financing, and the going-public decision. In addition to holding his position at the GSB, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. He is also the director of the American Finance Associations and an editorialist for Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian correspondent of the Financial Times. Zingales also serves on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, which has been examining the legislative, regulatory, and legal issues affecting how public companies function. Zingales received a bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude from Universita Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Thursday, APRIL 6, 2006ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR Roberta Romano "The States as A Laboratory: Legal Innovation and State Competition for Corporate Charters" Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Roberta Romano is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of financial instruments and securities markets. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, and a past President of the American Law and Economics Association. She is the author of The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation and The Genius of American Corporate Law and editor of Foundations of Corporate Law. Professor Romano has a B.A. from The University of Rochester, an M.A. from The University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Yale. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR Raghuram G. Rajan "Creating Constituencies for Reform" Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM  RAGHURAM G. RAJAN is the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to holding this post, Rajan taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago where he is the Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance. His research is broadly on the role of institutions, especially financial institutions, in fostering economic development. In 2003, Rajan was awarded the inaugural Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association for contributions to finance by an economist under 40. Rajan is an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his Ph.D. from MIT. |
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