THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 10:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legals Seafood

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel to the Harvard Business School

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel to the Harvard Business School

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School

RANGARAJAN SUNDARAM and KOSE JOHN, Ne w York University

Cross-Country Variations in Capital Structures: The Role of Bankruptcy Codes

Discussant: MATIAS BRAUN, UC, Los Angeles

9:50 AM JEAN HELWEGE, University of Arizona

CHRISTO PIRINSKY, Texas A&M University

RENE STULZ, Ohio State University and NBER

Why Do Firms Become Widely Held? An analysis of the Dynamics of Corporate Ownership

Discussant: RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta

10:40AM Break

11:00 AM AMIR SUFI, University of Chicago and NBER

Bank Lines of Credit in Corporate Finance: An Empirical Analysis

Discussant: MURILLO CAMPELLO, University of Illinois

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

Politically Connected CEOs and Corporate Outcomes: Evidence from France

(Joint with Francis Kramarz and David Thesmar)

Discussant: MARA FACCIO, Vanderbilt University

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1:50 PM MASSIMO MASSA, INSEAD

ANDREI SIMONOV, Stockholm School of Economics

Shareholder Homogeneity and Firm Value;

The Disciplining Role of Non-Controlling Shareholders

Discussant: MARTIJN CREMERS, Yale University

2:40 PM Break

3:00 PM ALEXANDER DYCK, University of Toronto

LUIGI ZINGALES, Harvard University and NBER

(Joint with Natalya Volchkova)

The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia

Discussant: STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC, Berkeley

3:50 PM Adjourn

10/28/05