Empirical Law and Finance Fall 2019 Speaker Schedule

Fall 2019 Speaker Schedule

Wednesdays from 5:00-7:00

Sept. 4: Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard Law School)

Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors (w/ Grinstein and Peyer).
Dancing with Activists.(w/ Brav, Jiang and Keutsch)

Sept. 11: Charles Wang (Harvard Business School)

Short-Termism and Capital Flows (w/ Fried)
The Impact of Stewardship Codes on Shareholder Voting: Initial Evidence.

Sept. 18: Eugene Soltes (Harvard Business School)

Is Not Guilty the Same as Innocent? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations (w/ David Solomon)
What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?

Oct. 2: Georgios Serafeim (Columbia Law School)

Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy? (w/ Ioannis Ioannou)
Four Things No One will Tell you About ESG Data? (w/ Sakis Kotsantonis)

Oct. 16: Robert Jackson, Jr. (SEC Commissioner and NYU Law School Professor)

Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study (w/ Cain, Davidoff, and Griffith).
SEC Commissioner Jackson’s statements on “Final Rules Governing Investment Advice,” “Proposed Amendments to Sarbanes Oxley 404(b) Accelerated Filer Definition,” and “Stock Buyouts and Corporate Cashouts.”

Oct. 23: Alon Brav (Duke School of Business)

Picking Friends before Picking 9Proxy) fights: How Mutual Fund Voting Shapes Proxy Contests (w/ Jiang, Li, and Pinnington)

*For those not registered for the seminar who would like to get copies of papers, please visit the course website at https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/2253 and select "Course Materials," or please contact the workshop coordinator Marina Apostol at mapostol@law.harvard.edu .