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The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met at the University of Chicago Booth School on April 19, 2013. Philipp Schnabl, NBER and Stern School of Business at New York University New York University,?mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the , and Zhiguo He, NBER and University of Chicago Booth School, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: * Rene Stulz, Ohio State University Ohio State University,?main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. ?and NBER; Taylor Nadauld and Craig Merrill, Brigham Young University; and Shane Sherlund, Federal Reserve Board, "Why Did Financial Institutions Sell RMBS at Fire Sale Prices During the Financial Crisis?" * William Fuchs and Aniko Oery, University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , and Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University, "Transparency and Distressed Sales under Asymmetric Information" * Kelly Shue, University of Chicago, and Richard Townsend, Dartmouth College, "Swinging for the Fences: Executive Reactions to Quasi-Random Option Grants" * Bruno Biais and Augustin Landier, University of Toulouse, "The (Ir)resistible Rise of Agency Rents" * David Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER, and Adi Sunderam, Harvard University, "Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates" * Tobias Berg, Humboldt University; Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER; and Jorg Rocholl, ESMT, "Loan Office Incentives and the Limits of Hard Information" * Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics The School is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as well as the Golden ?and NBER, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER, "The Information and Agency Effects of Scores: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees" Summaries of these papers may be found at: http://www.nber.org/confer/2013/CFs13/summary.html
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