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MONDAY, December 12, 2011
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18:30 - 21:30
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Welcome Reception and Cocktail at Pacific Club,
Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
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DAY1:
TUESDAY, December 13, 2011 |
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VENUE: Council Chamber (Room 7336 LIFT 13/15,
7/F), HKUST
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08:45
- 09:05 |
Conference registration and Coffee
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09:05
- 09:15 |
Dean’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Leonard Cheng, HKUST Business School
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Session I: Corporate Governance
Session Chair :
Viral Acharya, New York University |
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09:15 - 10:10
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A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas
David Matsa, Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Discussant: Kasper Meisner Nielsen, HKUST
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10:10 - 11:05 |
The Optimal Duration of Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Rik Sen, HKUST
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11:05 -
11:35 |
Coffee
Break
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11:35 -
12:30 |
Are Control Rights Valuable When Shareholders Lack Information?
Abhiroop Mukherjee, HKUST
Discussant:
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, École Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute
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12:30 -
14:30 |
Lunch, Chinese
Restaurant, G/F, HKUST
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Session II: Internal Capital Markets
Session Chair: Mark Flannery, University of Florida |
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14:30 -
15:25 |
The Effect of Internal Capital Markets on Corporate Investment:
Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Discussant: David Reeb, National University of Singapore and Temple University
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15:25 -
16:20 |
Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation:
Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates
Amit Seru, University of Chicago
Discussant: Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University
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DAY
2: WEDNESDAY, December 14, 2011 |
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VENUE: Council Chamber (Room 7336, Lift 13/15, 7/F), HKUST
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Session III: Capital Structure
Session Chair: Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
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09:15
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10:10
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Do Institutional Investors Influence Capital Structure Decisions?
Roni Michaely, Cornell University
Discussant: Vidhan Goyal, HKUST
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10:10
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11:05 |
Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure
Decisions
Mark Flannery, University of Florida
Discussant: Laura Liu,
HKUST
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11:05
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11:35 |
Coffee
Break
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11:35
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12:30 |
Growth Option Exercise and Capital Structure
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan
Discussant:
Bang Dang Nguyen, University of Cambridge
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12:30 -
14:30 |
Lunch,
Bistro, University Center, HKUST
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Session IV: Financial Crisis
Session Chair: Roni Michaely, Cornell University |
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15:25 |
Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector
Viral Acharya, New York University
Discussant:
Sudipto Dasgupta, HKUST
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| 15:25 -
16:20 |
The Time is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank
Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and
Swiss Finance Institute
Discussant: Peter Mackay, HKUST
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16:20 -
16:30 |
Closing Remarks by the Finance Department
Chair
Kalok Chan, HKUST
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16:30
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17:15 |
Cocktail reception at Council Chamber
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17:30
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Coach departs to Hong Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley
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18:15 -
22:00 |
Dinner at Hong Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley
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End of Conference
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