2014 PENN / NYU CONFERENCE
TENTH 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 Center for Law & Business.
Friday, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, MARCH 1, 2014
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 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
Conference Organizers
William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business
New York University School of Law
Yakov Amihud
Ira Rennert Professor of Finance
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University
Stephen Choi
Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Jill E. Fisch
Perry Golkin Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Itay Goldstein
Professor of Finance
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
David Yermack
Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
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Conference Schedule
| FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 | |
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| 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast |
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10:00 a.m |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Erik Gilje
Jérôme P. Taillard Do Private Firms Invest Differently than Public Firms? Taking Cues from the Natural Gas Industry
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| 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Marcel Kahan
Edward Rock Symbolic Corporate Governance Politics
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| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Eric A. Posner
E. Glen Weyl Quadratic Voting as Efficient Corporate Governance
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| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Patrick Augustin
Menachem Brenner
Marti Subrahmanyam Informed Options Trading prior to M&A Announcements: Insider Trading?
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| 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
John Morley The Separation of Funds and Managers: A Theory of Investment Fund Structure and Regulation
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| SATURDAY, MARCH 1 | |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
B. Espen Eckbo
Tanakorn Makaew
Karin S. Thorburn Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?
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| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Daniel Ferreira
David Kershaw
Tom Kirchmaier
Edmund Schuster Shareholder Empowerment and Bank Bailouts
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| 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Simon Gervais
Günter Strobl Transparency and Talent Allocation in Money Management
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| 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Closing |