CCF Conference

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 9:20 Registration & coffee
9:20 – 9:30 Welcome & introductions
9.30 – 10.30 Erik Lie, University of Iowa, “Competition and executive compensation: Evidence from pharmaceutical breakthrough designations” (with Jon A. Garfinkel, Mosab Hammoudeh, and Steven Irlbeck).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Greg Nini, Drexel University, “Go with the flow: debt structure changes and monetary policy transmission” (with Chuck Fang).
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13.00 – 13:20 Nihat Aktas, WHU, “Product Market Competition, Stock Price Informativeness, and Managerial Learning” (with Eric deBodt and Jean-Gabriel Cousin).
13.20 – 13:40 Ron Masulis, UNSW, “How scientists on the board enhance corporate innovation by bridging research and development (with Y. Yao).
13.40 – 14:00 B. Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth College, “Are bidder-initiated takeovers opportunistic?” (with Tanakorn Makaew and Karin Thorburn).
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 – 15:30 Andrey Malenko, Boston College, “Voting choice” (with Nadya Malenko).
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Ron Giammarino, UBC, “Autocrats, infrastructure, and credit spreads” (with Isha Agarwal, Alberto Teguia, and Emmanuel Yimfor).
17:00 Closing of the scientific program
 
To participate in the conference registration is required. 
Please contact Kjersti Hafstad in the Department of Finance if you want to join. Deadline for registration is Monday, 2 June.