1st Meeting (Fall 2009)

Nov 21 - Nov 22, 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, MA

Organizers: Itay Goldstein (Wharton) and Gustavo Manso (MIT)


1st Members Meeting of the Finance Theory Group

Schedule

Saturday, November 21, 2009
8:00am − 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am − 10:00am The Economics of Club Bidding in Private Equity by Robert Marquez and Rajdeep Singh
10:00am − 11:00am Financial Expertise as an Arms Race by Vincent Glode, Richard Green, and Richard Lowery
11:00am − 11:30am Break
11:30am − 12:30pm Financing Risk and Innovation Waves by Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
12:30pm − 1:45pm Lunch and discussion about future meetings
1:45pm − 2:45pm Optimal Securitization with Moral Hazard by Barney Hartman-Glaser, Tomasz Piskorski, and Alexei Tchistyi
2:45pm − 3:00pm Break
3:00pm − 4:00pm A Theory of Slow Moving Capital and Contagion by Viral Acharya, Hyun Song Shin, and Tanju Yorulmazer
4:00pm Adjourn
 

Program

  • Viral Acharya (NYU)
  • Rui Albuquerque (Boston U)
  • 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 (Northwestern)
  • Dirk Hackbarth (Illinois)
  • Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton)
  • Ohad Kadan (Wash U)
  • Dmitry Livdan (UC Berkeley)
  • Richard Lowery (UT Austin)
  • Evgeny Lyandres (Boston U)
  • Gustavo Manso (MIT)
  • Robert Marquez (Boston U)
  • Rich Matthews (Duke)
  • Jianjun Miao (Boston U)
  • Holger Mueller (NYU)
  • Marcus Opp (UC Berkeley)
  • Christine Parlour (UC 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 (UC Berkeley)
  • Neng Wang (Columbia)
  • Lucy White (Harvard)
  • Bilge Yılmaz (Wharton)



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