First ECCCS Workshop
Lille, France
March 8-9, 2010
We thank all the participants for their presence.
- Workshop Dinner Pics Gallery
Program
Monday, March 8
12h00 : Registration
13h30 : PhD Symposium – Session 1
15h45 : Coffee Break
16h15 : PhD Symposium – Session 2
19h00 : Lille – the Old City Walk
20h30 : Workshop Dinner
Selected papers:
- Shareholder Activism through Proxy Proposals: The European Perspective, [275 KB]
Peter Cziraki (Tilburg University/Visiting Stanford)
- Empirical Evidence on Ownership Structure, Management Control and Agency Costs, [598 KB]
Sridhar Gogineni (University of Oklahoma)
- The Value of CEOs' Industry Expertise - Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions, [221 KB]
Daniel Metzger (London School of Economics)
- Performance Pay, CEO Dismissal and the Dual Role of Takeovers, [282 KB]
Konrad Raff (Toulouse School of Economics)
- The Acquisitiveness of Youth: CEO Age and Acquisition Behavior [268 KB]
, Soojin Yim (Harvard University)
- The Impact of Corporate Pension Funding Status on M&A: Do Employees Discipline Managers in the Corporate Control Market?, [321 KB]
Wenrui Zhang (Nanyang Business School - Singapore)
Tuesday, March 9
Workshop Chairman: Richard Roll - UCLA
8h30 : Registration
9h00 : Workshop Opening
9h30 : The importance of industry links in merger waves [588 KB]
(Jarrad Harford – Washington)
10h30 : Coffee Break
10h45 : Waves of Financial vs. Strategic Buyers (Marc Martos-Villa – UCLA)
11h45 : CEO employment contract horizon and myopic behavior [200 KB]
(Moqi Xu – INSEAD)
12h45 : Workshop Lunch
CMNE/UFG Best PhD Paper Prize
ECCCS M&A Database Release
14h15 : Offer Price Dynamics and Bidder Returns in Takeovers (Espen Eckbo – Dartmouth)
15h15 : Is cash king? An analysis of mixed payments in corporate takeovers and the preferences of target shareholders [125 KB]
(Audra Boone - Kansas)
16h15 : Coffee Break
16h30 : Board Connections and M&A Transactions [247 KB]
(Ye Cai - Kenan-Flagler Business School)
17h30 : Closing Cocktail
Download pdf [345 KB]
Scientific Advisory Board
Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth College), Denis Gromb (INSEAD), Richard Roll (UCLA), Henri Servaes (London Business School), Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
