7th Annual Academic Conference

The Seventh Annual Academic Conference on Corporate Governance will be held at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business April 25, 2014. The conference features theoretical and empirical research related to corporate governance with a slight preference to research related to work by this year’s honoree, Michael S. Weisbach.

Michael S. Weisbach, the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance at The Ohio State University will receive our award for outstanding contributions to research in corporate governance and present the keynote speech at Friday’s luncheon. Previous recipients were Michael Jensen, Rene Stulz, Andrei Shleifer, Steven Kaplan, Harold Demsetz, and Kevin Murphy.

2014 Accepted Papers

Director skill sets. Written by Adams, Akyol and Verwijmeren Presented by: Renee B. Adams, The University of New South Wales

Dual Ownership, Returns, and Voting in Mergers. Written by Bodnaruk and Rossi Presented by: Andriy Bodnaruk, The University of Notre Dame

Out of the Money CEOs: Private Control Premium and Option Exercise by CEOs. Written by Fos and Jiang Presented by: Wei Jiang, Columbia University

Compensation of Divisional Managers: Peer Effects Inside the Firm. Written by Duchin, Goldberg and Sosyura Presented by: Denis Sosyura, The University of Michigan

Corporate News Releases and Equity Vesting. Written by Edmans, Pinto, Wang and Xu Presented by: Moqi Xu, The London School of Economics

This year we also welcome F. William McNabb, Chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group as our keynote dinner speaker. Bill will give his insights on governance and Vanguard at the welcome dinner on Thursday April 24th. Please contact Tamika Washington at Tamikaw@Drexel.edu to confirm your attendance at the dinner.