Call for Papers
Second Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference
Paris, May 27-28, 2010
HEC Paris and Université Paris-Dauphine are organizing the Second Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference under the sponsorship of FBF, the French Banking Federation, following the successful launch of the Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference in May 2009. The conference will be held at the FBF headquarters in central Paris on May 27-28, 2010.
Keynote Speaker: Jean Tirole (Toulouse)
Program Committee: Catherine Casamatta (Toulouse), Francesca Cornelli (LBS), Eric De Bodt (Lille), Francois Degeorge (Lugano), Ben Esty (HBS), Josef Fan (CUHK), Chitru Fernando (Oklahoma), Denis Gromb (Insead), Christopher Hennessy (LBS), Tim Jenkinson (Oxford), Steven Kaplan (Chicago), Gordon Phillips (Maryland), Annette Poulsen (Georgia), Manju Puri (Duke), Luc Renneboog (Tilburg), Jay Ritter (Florida), Michael Roberts (Wharton), Aïlsa Roëll (Columbia), Laura Starks (Texas), Per Strömberg (SIFR), Marie Sushka (Arizona State), Kent Womack (Dartmouth), Josef Zechner (Vienna).
Paper Selection Process:
For this conference, we are soliciting papers, both theoretical and empirical, that relate to a wide range of topics in the area of corporate finance that include the following:
- Corporate aspects of the financial crisis and of financial cycles
- The use of leverage, and in general capital structure and payout policy
- Security issuance and primary security markets
- Financial regulation and its impact on corporate finance and investment
- International aspects of corporate finance
- M&A and divestitures
- Private equity and financial intermediaries
- Privatization and nationalization
- Corporate governance
- Long-term and short-term investors, shareholder activism, and sovereign wealth funds
- Boundaries of the firm, internal capital markets, and firm organization
- Corporate risk management
We expect the paper selection process to be highly selective since only about a dozen papers will be selected.
Paper Submissions:
Electronic submissions of unpublished papers until November 15, 2009 via the conference website: http://www.pariscorporatefinance.fr. Authors will be notified at the end of January 2010. We will cover local costs and make a financial contribution sufficient to cover most or all of the travel expenses for speakers of accepted papers.
Organization Committee:
Bill Megginson (Oklahoma), Edith Ginglinger (Paris-Dauphine), Ulrich Hege (HEC Paris) [co-chairs], François Derrien (HEC Paris) and Antoine Renucci (Paris-Dauphine).
Website: Additional information and contacts can be found at http://www.pariscorporatefinance.fr . Details of the first conference are at http://www.pariscorporatefinance.fr/conference2009 .