NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Pre-Conference on the History of Corporate Ownership:

The Rise and Fall of Great Business Families

Randall Morck, Organizer

October 5, 2002

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM The History of Corporate Ownership in Canada

RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER

MICHAEL PERCY, University of Alberta

GLORIA TIAN, University of Alberta

BERNARD YEUNG, New York University

9:10 AM The History of Corporate Ownership in China

WILLIAM GOETZMANN, Yale University and NBER

ELISABETH KÖLL, Case Western Reserve University

9:50 AM The History of Corporate Ownership in Developing Economies

TARUN KHANNA, Harvard University

KRISHNA PALEPU, Harvard University

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM The History of Corporate Ownership in Germany

CAROLINE FOHLIN, California Institute of Technology

11:25 AM The History of Corporate Ownership in Great Britain

JULIAN FRANKS, London Business School

COLIN MAYER, University of Oxford

STEFANO ROSSI, London Business School

12:05 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in France

ANTOIN MURPHY, Trinity College Dublin

12:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in Italy

ALEXANDER AGANIN, Cornerstone Research

PAOLO VOLPIN, London Business School

2:25 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in Japan

RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER

MASAO NAKAMURA, University of British Columbia

3:05 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in the Netherlands

AILSA ROELL, Princeton University

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in Sweden

PETER HÖGFELDT, Stockholm School of Economics

4:40 PM The History of Corporate Ownership in the United States

MARCO BECHT, Université Libre de Bruxelles

J. BRADFORD DELONG, UC, Berkeley and NBER

5:20 PM Adjourn

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