MEMORANDUM


TO:       Corporate Finance Mailing List

FROM:     Gary Gorton and Ivo Welch

DATE:     January 31, 2001

RE:       Call for Papers

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the NBER Corporate
Finance Summer Institute in Cambridge on August 6th and 7th 2001. Please send one
copy of your paper to each one of us marked "NBER Corporate Finance Summer
Institute" to reach us by April 16.  Our contact information is as follows:

     Professor Gary Gorton              Professor Ivo Welch
     Department of Finance              SOM, Box 208200
     The Wharton School            	Yale University
     University of Pennsylvania         46 Hillhouse Avenue
     Philadelphia, PA 19104             New Haven, CT 06520-8200
     ph: 215/898-4802              	ph: 203/436-0777
     fax: 215/898-6200             	fax: 203/436-0779
     email: gorton@wharton.upenn.edu    email: ivo.welch@yale.edu

Detailed logistical information will be sent out in early May.  If you have any
questions or need additional information, please contact the NBER's Conference
Department at 617/868-3900, fax 617/864-1825 or email confer@nber.org.