2015 GCGC CONFERENCE: STANFORD

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Programme

Friday
05 June 2015 (Etc/GMT-8)

8:45 AM

Introduction

Conference Chair: Professor Ronald Gilson, Stanford Law School

9:00 AM

Audit Oversight and Reporting Credibility

Speaker: Christian Leuz | Discussant: Woochan Kim

9:45 AM

Why Do Corporate Charters Waive Liability for Breach of the Duty of Care?

Speaker: Holger Spamann | Discussant: Curtis J. Milhaupt

10:30 AM

Coffee break

10:45 AM

Corporate Governance and Risk Management at Unprotected Banks

Speaker: Charles Calomiris | Discussant: Joseph McCahery

11:30 AM

Contractual Governance in the Absence of Law: Bylaws of Norwegian Firms in the Early 20th Century

Speaker: Charlotte Ostergaard | Discussant: Jennifer Hill

12:15 PM

Lunch break

2:00 PM

The Great Pyramids of America: A Revised History of US Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950

Speaker: Yishay Yafeh | Discussant: Uwe Walz

2:45 PM

Corporate Chartering and Federalism: A New View

Speaker: Henry Hansmann | Discussant: Luca Enriques

3:30 PM

Coffee break

3:45 PM

Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent

Speaker: Viral Acharya | Discussant: Luca Enriques

7:00 PM

Reception followed by dinner
Saturday
06 June 2015 (Etc/GMT-8)

8:45 AM

Morning session introduction

Session Chair: Professor Gerard Hertig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

9:00 AM

Financing Disruption

Speaker: John Armour | Discussant: Allen Ferrell

9:45 AM

Privatized bankruptcy: a study of shipping financial distress

Speaker: Julian Franks | Discussant: Dan Puchniak

10:30 AM

Coffee break

10:45 AM

The Wolf at the Door: The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism on Corporate Governance

Speaker: John Coffee | Discussant: Randall Thomas

11:30 AM

Ownership, Investment and Governance: The Costs and Benefits of Dual Class Shares

Speaker: Ronald Masulis | Discussant: Li Jin

12:15 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

Panel discussion - Empirical Finance in the Face of Institutional Complexity

Moderator: Marco Becht | Panelists: David Larcker, Michael Klausner

2:00 PM

The Changing Nature of Corporate Board Activity

Speaker: Renée Adams | Discussant: Jeffrey Gordon

2:45 PM

Do mandatory board gender quotas reduce firm value?

Speaker: Karin Thorburn | Discussant: Belen Villalonga

3:30 PM

Coffee break

3:45 PM

Financial Markets and the Political Center of Gravity

Speaker: Mark Roe | Discussant: Hideki Kanda

4:30 PM

Conference summary

5:00 PM

Drinks reception

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