FIRST THEORY WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS

 

Organizers: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania) and Gustavo Manso (MIT)

 

Saturday, November 21, 2009, Sloan School, MIT

 

PROGRAM

 

 

08:00-09:00: Breakfast

 

09:00-10:00:

The Economics of Club Bidding in Private Equity

Robert Marquez (Boston University) and Rajdeep Singh (University of Minnesota)

 

10:00-11:00:

Financial Expertise as an Arms Race

Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania), Richard Green (Carnegie Mellon University), and Richard Lowery (University of Texas)

 

11:00-11:30: Break

 

11:30-12:30:

Financing Risk and Innovation Waves

Ramana Nanda (Harvard University) and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard University)

 

12:30-1:45: Lunch + Discussion on future meetings

 

1:45-2:45:

Optimal Securitization with Moral Hazard

Barney Hartman-Glaser (UC Berkeley), Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia University), and Alexei Tchistyi (UC Berkeley)

 

2:45-3:00: Break

 

3:00-4:00:

A Theory of Slow Moving Capital and Contagion

Viral Acharya (New York University), Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University), and Tanju Yorulmazer (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

 

4:00: Adjourn


 

PARTICIPANTS (By invitation only)

 
Viral Acharya (NYU), Rui Albuquerque (BU), Ulf Axelson (LSE), Nittai Bergman (MIT), Philip Bond (Wharton), Archishman Chakraborty (York), Hui Chen (MIT), Alex Edmans (Wharton), Simon Gervais (Duke), Vincent Glode (Wharton), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Brett Green (Kellogg), Dirk Hackbarth (UIUC), Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton), Ohad Kadan (WashU), Dmitry Livdan (Berkeley), Richard Lowery (Texas), Evgeny Lyandres (BU), Gustavo Manso (MIT), Robert Marquez (BU), Rich Matthews (Duke), Jianjun Miao (BU), Holger Mueller (NYU), Marcus Opp (Berkeley), Christine Parlour (Berkeley), Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia), Paul Povel (Houston), Uday Rajan (Michigan), Adriano Rampini (Duke), Matt Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard), Gustav Sigurdsson (Wharton), Raj Singh (Minnesota), Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford), Alexei Tchistyi (Berkeley), Neng Wang (Columbia), Lucy White (Harvard), Bilge Yilmaz (Wharton).