The BI Conference on Corporate Governance
BI Norwegian Business School
Venue: BI Campus in Nydalen (Nydalsveien 37), room A2-080
Friday May 29
| 08:10 | Registration and Coffee |
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| 08:30 | Introduction |
| 08:45 | Session I. Chair: Øyvind Norli (BI Norwegian Business School) Equity Issuances and Agency Costs: The Telling Story of Shareholder Approval Around the World Clifford G. Holderness (Carroll School of Management, Boston College) Discussant: William Mann (Anderson School of Management, UCLA) CEO Investment Cycles Michael S. Weisbach (Ohio State University), Yihui Pan (University of Utah), Tracy Yue Wang (University of Minnesota) Discussant: Lucian Taylor (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) |
| 10:15 | Fruit |
| 10:15 | Session II. Chair: Bogdan Stacescu (BI Norwegian Business School) Shareholder Power and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from Hedge Fund Activism Alon Brav (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), Wei Jiang (Columbia Business School Columbia University), Song Ma (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), Xuan Tian (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) Discussant: Taylor Begley (London Business School) Performance-induced CEO Turnover Dirk Jenter (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University), Katharina Lewellen (Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College) Discussant: Hamid Boustanifar (BI Norwegian Business School) |
| 12:15 | Lunch in building C, floor 1 |
| 13:15 | Session III. Chair: Charlotte Ostergaard (BI Norwegian Business School) Donor Governance and Financial Management in Prominent U.S. Art Museums David Yermack (Stern School of Business, NYU) Discussant: Johann Reindl (BI Norwegian Business School) Governing Multiple Firms Alex Edmans (London Business School and Wharton), Doron Levit (Wharton), Devin Reilly (University of Pennsylvania) Discussant: Jonathan Cohn (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) |
| 14:45 | Coffee |
| 15:15 | Session IV. Chair: Salvatore Miglietta (BI Norwegian Business School) Advertising, Attention, and Acquisition Returns Laura T. Starks (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas), Eliezer M. Fich (LeBow College of Business, Drexel University), Anh L. Tran (Cass Business School, City University London) Discussant: Xavier Giroud (Sloan School of Management, MIT) The Changing Nature of Corporate Board Activity Renee B. Adams (University of New South Wales), Vanitha Ragunathan (University of Queensland), Robert Tumarkin (University of New South Wales) Discussant: Danielle Zhang (BI Norwegian Business School) |
| 16:45 | End of the academic program |
| 18:00 | Dinner at Mares, Skovveien 1, Frogner (a bus to the restaurant will pick us up at 17.30 in front of BI's main entrance) |
