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