UNC - Duke 2008 Corporate Finance Program Friday, October 31 6:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST BUFFET - Dining Room A&B, DuBose House (overnight guests) 10:30 - 12:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION - Loudermilk East Lobby; Guest room check-in in McLean Hall 11:20 - 12:20 LUNCH - Magnolia Room AB, Loudermilk 12:30 - 5:50 SESSIONS - Magnolia Room C, Loudermilk Session: Corporate Governance 12:30 - 1:10 Governance through Exit and Voice: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders 1:10 - 1:50 Why Do Firms Appoint CEOs as Outside Directors? 1:50 - 2:10 COFFEE BREAK Session: Credit Markets 2:10 - 2:50 Public Information and Coordination: Evidence from a Credit Registry Expansion 2:50 - 3:30 Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking 3:30 - 4:10 Love & Loans: The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets 4:10 - 4:30 COFFEE BREAK Session: Equity Markets 4:30 - 5:10 Determinants of Private Benefits of Control 5:10 - 5:50 Imperfect Monitoring and Fixed Spreads in the Market for IPOs 5:50 - 6:30 SOCIAL - Loudermilk East Lobby 6:30 - 9:00 DINNER - Magnolia Room AB, Loudermilk Saturday, November 1 6:30 - 8:30 BREAKFAST - Dining Room A, DuBose House (for McLean Hall guests) 8:30 - 12:10 SESSIONS - Magnolia Room C, Loudermilk Session: Governance and Ownership Structure 8:30 - 9:10 Relative Governance 9:10 - 9:50 Pyramids: Empirical Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Family Business Groups 9:50 - 10:30 When Shareholders Are Creditors: Effects of the Simultaneous Holding of Equity and Debt by Institutional Investors 10:30 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK Session: Dynamic Models 10:50 - 11:30 A Bayesian Approach to Real Options: The Case of Distinguishing Between Temporary and Permanent Shocks 11:30 - 12:10 Time Varying Corporate Capital Stocks and the Cross Section and Intertemporal Variation in Stock Returns 12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH - Dining Room A&B, DuBose House 1:30 Shuttle to RDU Airport from McLean Hall Conference seating is limited due to space constraints
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