NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Corporate Governance Meeting

 

Lucian Bebchuk, Organizer

 

May 12, 2005

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MAY 12:

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER

 8:30 a.m.

Shuttle van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

DAVID YERMACK, New York University

 

Golden Handshakes:  Rewards for CEOs Who Leave

 

 

 

Discussant: DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

9:50 a.m.

DAVID LARCKER and SCOTT RICHARDSON, University of Pennsylvania

 

ANDREW J. SEARY, Simon Fraser University

 

IREM TUNA, University of Pennsylvania

 

Back Door Links Between Directors and Executive Compensation

 

 

 

Discussant HENRY HANSMANN, Yale University

 

 

10:40 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 a.m.

LUCIAN BEBCHUK, Harvard University and NBER

 

YANIV GRINSTEIN, Cornell University

 

Pay and Size

 

 

 

Discussant: ARTURO BRIS, Yale University

 

 

11:50 a.m.

MARTIN CONYON, JOHN CORE and WAYNE GUAY,

 

University of Pennsylvania

 

How High is US CEO Pay?  A Comparison with UK CEO Pay

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALEXANDER DYCK, University of Toronto

 

 

12:40 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

1:40 p.m.

LILY QIU, Brown University

 

Which Institutional Investors Monitor?  Evidence from Acquisition Activity

 

 

 

Discussant: STUART GILLAN, Arizona State University

 

 

2:30 p.m.

ANDRES ALMAZAN, JAY HARTZELL, and LAURA STARKS

 

University of Texas

 

Active Institutional Shareholders and Costs of Monitoring: Evidence from Executive Compensation

 

 

 

Discussant: FLORENCIO LOPEZ-DE-SILANE, Yale University and NBER

 

 

3:20 p.m.

Break

 

 

3:40 a.m.

KOSE JOHN, LUBOMIR LITOV, and BERNARD YEUNG,

New York University

 

Corporate Governance and Managerial Risk Taking: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

Discussant: RENE STULZ, Ohio State University and NBER

 

 

4:30 a.m.

MIHIR A. DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

 

ALEXANDER DYCK, University of Toronto

 

LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Theft and Taxes

 

 

 

Discussant: ENRICO PEROTTI, Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

 

5:20 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 p.m.

Group Dinner

 

Davio’s Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

 

 

5/10/05