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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Yael Hochberg and Alexander Ljungqvist, Organizers

April 13, 2012

University of Chicago
Gleacher Center, Booth School of Business (Downtown Chicago)
Room 308
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL

PROGRAM

Friday, April 13, 2012
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	DIVERSIFICATION John Hund, Rice University Donald R. Monk, Rutgers University Sheri T. Tice, Tulane University Apples to Apples: The Economic Benefit of Corporate Diversification Discussant: Gordon Phillips, University of Southern California and NBER
9:20 am	Geoffrey Tate and Liu Yang, University of California at Los Angeles The Bright Side of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Internal Labor Market Discussant: Ashwini Agrawal, New York University
10:10 am	Break
10:40 am 11:30 am	DEBT AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE Zhiguo He, University of Chicago Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago and NBER Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt Be Optimal? Discussant: Adriano Rampini, Duke University Dirk Hackbarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richmond D. Mathews, University of Maryland David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER Capital Structure, Product Market Dynamics and the Boundaries of the Firm Discussant: Alex Edmans, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch- Room 621
1:30 pm 2:20 pm	CORPORATE INVESTMENT Casey Dougal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Christopher A. Parsons, University of California at San Diego Sheridan Titman, University of Texas, Austin and NBER Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER Moqi Xu, London School of Economics The Costs and Benefits of Long-Term CEO Contracts Discussant: Dirk Jenter, Stanford University and NBER
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Erik P. Gilje and Jerome P. Taillard, Boston College Do Public Firms Invest Differently than Private Firms? Taking Cues from the Natural Gas Industry Discussant: Joan Farre Mensa, Harvard University
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Joint Dinner University of Chicago Gleacher Center, Room 621 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive Chicago, IL
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