Program for the 2009 Financial Research Association Meeting
Saturday December 12, 2009
12:30 PM Pre-Meeting Coffee–Mariners Ballroom
1:00 PM Introductory Remarks
1:10 PM to 3:10 PM Session 1
Chairperson: Hassan Tehranian
Dividend Smoothing and Predictability
Author: Long Chen, Zhi Da, and Richard Priestly
Discussant/Presenter: Ralph Koijen
The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets
Author: Joseph Engleberg and Christopher Parsons
Discussant/Presenter: Stefano DellaVigna
Role of Managerial Overconfidence in the Design of Debt Covenants
Author: Jayanth Shyam, Sunder Shyam and Lian Tan
Discussant/Presenter: Geoffrey Tate
3:10 PM to 3:40 PM Break
3:40 PM to 5:00 PM Session 2
Chairperson: Micah Officer
Hedge Funds: Pricing Controls and the Smoothing of Self-Reported Returns
Author: Joseph J. Gerakos and Gavin Cassar
Discussant/Presenter: Philippe Jorion
Libertarian Paternalism and Information Sharing
Author: Bruce Carlin, Simon Gervais, and Gustavo Manso
Discussant/Presenter: James Choi
5:15 PM Wine Tasting–2004 Brunello di Montalcino, Giorgio Ristorante, at Mandalay Place.
Sunday December 13, 2009
12:30 PM Pre-Meeting Coffee–Mariners Ballroom
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Session 3
Chairperson: Christophe Moussu
Margin-Based Asset Pricing and the Law of One Price
Author: Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Pedersen
Discussant/Presenter: Zhiguo He
Published: Review of Financial Studies, 2012, and recipient of the Blackrock/Brennan Award for Best Paper in the RFS.
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
Author: Joshua Coval, Lauren Cohen, and Chris Malloy
Discussant/Presenter: Eric Zitzewitz
Dynamic Incentive Accounts
Author: Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabiax, and Tomasz Sadzik
Discussant/Presenter: Michael Fishman
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM Break
3.30 PM to 5:15 PM Session 4
Audience feedback on early ideas.
Chairperson: Robert Parrino
Stephen Siegel and Henrik Cronqvist
Tom Bates and Micah Officer
Zhiguo He
Lars-Alexander Kuehn
Paul Irvine
Neal Stoughton
Wayne Ferson and Min Kim
Eric Zitzewitz and Jon Reuter
6:00 PM Dinner-Fleur de Lys