NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

CORPORATE FINANCE PROGRAM MEETING

Mitchell Petersen and Paola Sapienza, Organizers

April 9, 2004

Gleacher Center, GSB

University of Chicago

Room 308

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 9:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM PHILIP BOND, University of Pennsylvania

Optimal Plaintiff Incentives When Courts are Imperfect

Discussant: LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

9:50 AM FRANCESCA CORNELLI, London Business School

DAVID GOLDREICH, London Business School

ALEXANDER LJUNGQVIST, New York University

Pre-IPO Markets

Discussant: KENT WOMACK, Dartmouth College

10:40 AM Break

11:10 AM LEORA KLAPPER and LUC LAEVEN, World Bank

RAGHURAM RAJAN, International Monetary Fund and NBER

Business Environment and Firm Entry:

Evidence from International Data

Discussant: MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

12:00 PM Lunch-Room 320

1:00 PM NOEL MAURER, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

STEPHEN HABER, Stanford University and NBER

Related Lending and Economic Performance:

Evidence from Mexico

Discussant: RANDALL KROSZNER, University of Chicago and NBER

1:50 PM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER

ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns,

and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments_

Discussant: ROBERTA ROMANO, Yale University and NBER

2:40 PM Break

Over, Please!

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3:10 PM JOHN R. GRAHAM, Duke University

KRISHNAMOORTHY NARASIMHAN, University of Pennsylvania

Corporate Survival and Managerial Experiences During the Great Depression

Discussant: ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

4:00 PM AYLA KAYHAN, University of Texas

SHERIDAN TITMAN, University of Texas and NBER

Firms' Histories and Their Capital Structure

Discussant: MALCOLM BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

4:50 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Joint Group Dinner

University of Chicago

Gleacher Center

Room 621

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

Chicago, IL

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