CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS

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1 CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS December 2009 NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House, National University of Singapore Registration Info: Please visit Organised By: Department of Finance The Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre Key Speakers Enrico Perotti is Professor of International Finance at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and at the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Entrepreneurship Research Group at the NBER in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty at the Graduate School of Management at Boston University and at LSE. Enrico Perotti has held visiting appointments at the London Business School, London School of Economics, and Central European University. His research focuses on corporate finance and governance, financial development, international finance, theory of the firm and entrepreneurial innovation. His publications appeared in major academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economics, Law and Organization, and the European Economic Review. He worked as a consultant for the World Bank since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar at the IMF in 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 and In 1998 he established the Amsterdam Center for International Finance (CIFRA). Randall Morck holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance at the University of Alberta School of Business, where he also holds the rank of University Professor. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Senior Research Associate with Harvard Law School s Labor and Worklife Program. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1979, and earned a PhD from Harvard in 1986, to which he returns periodically as a visiting professor. Professor Morck has published over 70 articles on corporate governance, corporate ownership, and corporate finance in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Financial Economics. His research papers include some of the first systematic investigations of corporate governance, and are cited in more than 1,600 other research papers. Professor Morck has served as a consultant to the Canadian and U.S. governments, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund on corporate governance and other economic issues. He is a frequent speaker at academic, business, and government seminars and conferences in Canada and abroad. Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty since He is currently Co Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth and ninth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.

2 Paper Presenters Jin Li is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches the required finance course in the first year MBA program. His primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance and asset pricing. His current researches study trading patterns of institutional investors such as hedge funds, mutual funds and pension. He has also studied compensations of corporate managers and the comparison of securities markets across countries. Professor Jin received his PhD in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Before entering graduate school, he was a full time faculty member at Fudan University, and has worked as a part time consultant in the Investment Banking Division of Shanghai International Securities Co. Ltd. Meijun Qian is an Assistant Professor at NUS Business School and an affiliated Research Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institution Center and the Risk Management Institute (NUS). Her research covers the comparing financial systems, institutions, corporate governance, and mutual funds. She has published in top tier academic journals, such as Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as practice journals, such as CFA Research Monograph and Harvard China Review, and book chapters. She is also active in professional services, contributing as reviewers for conferences and ad hoc referee for many prestigious journals, such as Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. Rajesh Chakrabarti is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. He received his PhD in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research covers International Finance and the Indian Financial Markets. Rajesh has published in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of International Business Studies. He has also authored two books and has recently edited a volume on the socio economic issues and human rights in India. At ISB, he teaches two courses International Finance and The Indian Financial System. Emir Hrnjic is an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in Finance from Tulane University. His research covers Empirical Corporate Finance and more specifically, Securities Issuance. His papers have been presented at conferences like American Finance Association, European Finance Association, Financial Intermediation Research Society and others. He teaches Investments and Empirical Corporate Finance. Alexander Ljungqvist is the Ira Rennert Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business. He also serves as Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels. Dr. Ljungqvist received his Master of Science in economics and business from Lund University in Sweden, and his Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University. Prior to joining NYU in 2000, Dr. Ljungqvist taught at London Business School and Oxford University. He has held visiting appointments at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, LBS, and the University of Sydney, and he was recently named the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Fellow at Cambridge University. Dr. Ljungqvist's primary research areas include financial intermediation, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, corporate governance, and behavioral corporate finance. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ljungqvist has consulted widely, including for the European Central Bank, the World Bank, and Deutsche Bank. Between 1995 and 2000, he was a senior consultant with OXERA Ltd, where he advised corporate clients on questions of regulatory economics and corporate strategy. The recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Ljungqvist teaches an MBA class in new venture financing, a PhD seminar in empirical corporate finance, and executive courses in venture capital, private equity, and investment banking. Dr. Jiekun Huang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Finance from Boston College. His primary research interests are in institutional investors and their roles in various corporate events (e.g., IPOs, takeovers, and stock splits). His single authored research has received several best paper awards and has been presented at the American Finance Association conference and the European Finance Association conference.

3 Moderators and Discussants Allaudeen Hameed is Professor, Provost s Chair and Head of the Department of Finance, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests are asset pricing, international finance and return based trading strategies. Allaudeen received his PhD in Finance from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published in journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Yupana Wiwattanakantang is Professor at Centre for Economic Institutions, Hitotsubashi University. Her research interests are in the area of corporate governance with the focus on East Asia. Her current research projects focuse on how family firms evolve over time; the succession or CEO transition decision of family firms; and the effects of political influence by established families who own business empires on public policies and institutional development. Yupana received her PhD in Economics from Hitotsubashi University. Anand Srinivasan is Associate Professor, Dean s Chair and Deputy Head of the Department of Finance, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests are banking, default and bankruptcy and executive stock options. Anand received his PhD in Finance from New York University. He has published in journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Carlos D. Ramirez is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, His major fields of interest are corporate finance, banking regulation, financial economic history, as well as international finance and macroeconomics. Carlos received his M.A. in 1991 and PhD in 1993 in economics from Harvard University. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in the same year. Takeshi Yamada is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests are empirical asset pricing and Japanese financial markets and institutions. He received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. His previous appointments include assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, associate professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, and economist at Daiwa Securities. Huasheng Gao is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Nanyang Technological University. He received his PhD in June 2009 from University of British Columbia. His research covers executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, and behavioral finance. He has published in journals such as Journal of Financial Economics and Financial Management. Dr. Angie Low is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Angie's current research interests include corporate governance, managerial compensation, corporate culture, and capital structure. Angie received her PhD in Finance from Ohio State University and is a recipient of the Rene M. Stulz Scholar Development Award at Ohio State. She has published in the Journal of Financial Economics. Wei ling Song is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Louisiana State University. Her research interests are financial intermediation, financial institutions, corporate governance and econometrics. Wei ling received her PhD from Michigan State University. She has published in journals such as Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

4 CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS Day 1: Thursday, 17 December 2009 PROGRAMME 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 2:15pm 3:45pm 3:45pm 4:05pm 4:05pm 5:30pm REGISTRATION OPENING REMARKS Bernard Yeung, Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor, NUS Business School LECTURE 1: POLITICAL ALLOCATION OF BANK CAPITAL Speaker: Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) Moderator: Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore) PAPER 1: LITIGATION RISK AND CEO COMPENSATION Presenter: Jin Li (Harvard Business School) Discussant: Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University) 5:30pm End of Day 1 PAPER 2: CREDITOR RIGHTS AND CROSS BORDER LBOs Presenter: Meijun Qian (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University)

5 Day 2: Friday, 18 December :45am 10:15am 10:15am 10:35am 10:35am 12:00pm LECTURE 2: THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Speaker: Randall Morck (University of Alberta) Moderator: Anand Srinivasan (National University of Singapore) PAPER 3: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA Presenter: Rajesh Chakrabarti (Indian School of Business) Discussant: Yupana Wiwattanakantang (Hitotsubashi University) PAPER 4: THE DECLINING OF INVESTMENT BANKING BEFORE THE FALL Presenter: Emir Hrnjic (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Carlos D Ramirez (George Mason University) 12:00pm 1:30pm 1:30pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 3:20pm 3:20pm 4:45pm Lunch LECTURE 3: INFORMAL MECHANISM IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Speaker: Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Takeshi Yamada (National University of Singapore) PAPER 5: MONITORING MANAGERS: DOES IT MATTER? Presenter: Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University) Discussant: Huasheng Gao (Nanyang Technological University) PAPER 6: HEDGE FUNDS AND SHAREHOLDER WEALTH GAINS IN LEVERAGED BUYOUTS Presenter: Jiekun Huang (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Wei ling Song (Louisiana State University) 4:45pm 5:00pm 5:00pm CLOSING REMARKS Meijun Qian (National University of Singapore) End of Conference