NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

Corporate Law and Investor Protection

Lucian Bebchuk and Christine Jolls, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 28, 2008

PROGRAM

This meeting is preceded by the Law and Economics Workshop
MONDAY, JULY 28
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Effects of Corporate Law/Investor Protection Reforms
	FENG GAO, University of Rochester
	JOANNA SHUANG WU, University of Rochester
	JEROLD ZIMMERMAN, University of Rochester
	Unintended Consequences of Granting Small Firms Exemptions from Securities Regulation: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
	Discussant: YAEL HOCHBERG, Northwestern University
	MARTIJN CREMERS, Yale University
	ROBERTA ROMANO, Yale University and NBER
	Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation
	Discussant: JOHN CORE, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	The Effects of Corporate Law/Investor Protection Reforms (cont.)
	FABRIZIO FERRI, Harvard University
	DAVID MABER, Harvard University
	Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK
	Discussant: LAURA STARKS, University of Texas at Austin
11:35 am	Corporate Law and Investor Protection In Closely Held Firms
	J.C. DAMMANN, University of Texas at Austin
	MATTHIAS SCHUNDELN, Harvard University
	The Incorporation Choices of Privately Held Corporations
	Discussant: HENRY HANSMANN, Yale University
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Securities Regulation
	M. TODD HENDERSON, University of Chicago
	ALAN D. JAGOLINZER, Stanford University
	KARL A.MULLER, Pennsylvania State University
	Scienter Disclosure
	Discussant: ROBIN GREENWOOD, Harvard University
	LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER
	The Future of Security Regulation
	Discussant: ANDREW METRICK, Yale University and NBER
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Corporate Law and Investor Protection around the World
	ENRICO PEROTTI, Amsterdam Business School
	PAOLO VOLPIN, London Business School
	Politics, Investor Protection and Competition
	Discussant: ALEXANDER DYCK, University of Toronto
	KATE LITVAK, University of Texas at Austin
	The Correlation between Cross-Listing Premia, US Stock Prices, and Volume of US Trading: A Challenge to Law-Based Theories of Cross-Listing
	Discussant: MICHAEL WEISBACH, University of Illinois and NBER
4:40 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA