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Finance Conference in Honor of Stephen D. Smith

The Federal Reserve Bank Of Atlanta
September 20 and 21, 2007

Thursday, September 20
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. Welcome (Larry Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
8:30 a.m. Responding to Risk
"The Corporate Propensity to Save"
Leigh A. Riddick, American University
Toni M. Whited, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Systemic Risk and Competition in OTC Derivatives Dealing: Evidence from Client Failures in the 1990s"
Ekaterina E. Emm, Seattle University
Ufuk Ince, University of Washington
"Why Didn't the United States Establish a Central Bank Until AAfter the Panic of 1907?"
Jon R. Moen, The University of Mississippi
Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Empirical Corporate Governance
"Listing effects and the private company discount in bank acquisitions"
Atul Gupta, Bentley College
Lalatendu Misra, University of Texas at San Antonio
"Hedge funds as shareholder activists from 1994-2005"
Nicole M. Boyson, Northeastern University
Robert M. Mooradian, Northeastern University
"Political Connections and the Process of Going Public: Evidence from China"
Bill B. Francis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Iftekhar Hasan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xian Sun, U.S. Department of Treasury

12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Theoretical Corporate Governance
"Activists, raiders, and directors: Opportunism and the balance of corporate power"
Thomas H. Noe, Tulane University
Michael J. Rebello, Tulane University
Ramana Sonti, Indian School of Business
"Institutions, Markets and Growth: A Theory of Comparative Corporate Governance"
Kose John, New York University
Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
2:00 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Risk Management
“The Effects of Capital Structure on Employee Productivity”
Jayant R. Kale, Georgia State University
Harley E. Ryan, Jr., Georgia State University
Lingling Wang, Georgia State University
“Debt, Hedging and Human Capital”
Stephen D. Smith, Georgia State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Larry D. Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
“Derivatives Use and the Cost of Equity”
Gerald D. Gay, Georgia State University
Chen-Miao Lin, Clark Atlanta University
Stephen D. Smith, Georgia State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
4:00 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. Steve Smith's Contributions and Memorials
George Morgan, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University
David Nachman, Georgia State University
Sheila Tschinkel, United States Treasury
Gerald Gay, Georgia State University

Jackye Brown, Atlanta Children's Shelter, Stephen DeWitt Smith Sunshine Fund
Harley E. "Chip" Ryan, Georgia State University, Stephen D. Smith Doctoral Student Research Fund
6:45 p.m. Reception


Friday, September 21

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Investments
"Home Bias: Taking Comfort in What You Know?”
Lucy F. Ackert, Kennesaw State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Bryan K. Church, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The Rise of the Rule 144A Market for Convertible Debt Offerings”
Rongbing Huang, Kennesaw State University
Gabriel G. Ramirez, Kennesaw State University

10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Returns, Volatility and Higher Moments
“The Impact of Options Introduction on the Price and Volatility of Underlying Securities: A Study of American Depository Receipts”
Spencer A. Case, Texas State University
Janet Payne, Texas State University
“The Value Premium and Firm Volatility in Merton's ICAPM”
Robert Savickas, George Washington University
“Higher-Moment Equity Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns”
Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
Gurdip Bakshi, University of Maryland
Joop Huij, RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Adjourn

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