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

Isolating Media Effects 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: Phillipe Jorion

When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?
Author: Bruce Carlin, Simon Gervais, and Gustavo Manso
Discussant/Presenter: James Choi

5:30 PM Wine Tasting-- Giorgio Ristorante, 2004 Brunello di Montalcino

Sunday December 13, 2008 ---

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

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 4:50 PM Session 4: Audience feedback on early ideas.
Chairperson: Robert Parrino

6:00 PM Dinner-Fleur de Lys