v    Corporate Finance

 

My Presentations are marked with an asterisk (*):

 

Wk 1:  Capital Structure    Holmstrom           Myers Puzzle

Wk 2:  Capital Structure (continued)                           Titman                   Rajan                     Flannery

Wk 3: Signaling Basics       Akerlof  Spence                   Miller Rock (Not “Required”)           Myers Info            *Adams & Ferreira

Wk 4:  Agency Theory Basics           Barnea Haugen Senbet      Jensen & Meckling

Wk 5:  Agency Theory Basics (continued) *Fama Agency Problems   Fama & Jensen Separation                               Jensen Agency Costs

Wk 6:  Executive Compensation     *Jensen & Murphy                              Hall & Liebman   Coles, Daniel, & Naveen—Incentives and risk-taking     Yermack

Wk 7: Ownership Structure                *La Porta et al     Demsetz & Lehn  Morck, Shleifer, & Vishny                 Bognanno Tournaments (Only required for J.J.)

Wk 8:  Large Shareholders                Gompers & Metrick            Burkart, Gromb, & Panunzi              *Anderson & Reeb              Helwege & Stulz       Faccio (Not Required)              The Other Burkart (Not Required)

Wk 9:  Board of Directors  *Harford               Hermalin & Weisbach        Boone et al.—Board Size & Composition      Coles, Daniel, & Naveen—unisize boards

Wk 10: Corporate control  Field & Karpoff   Bettis, Coles, & Lemmon   Faccio, Masulis, & McConnell

Wk 11: Corporate Diversification    Berger & Ofek      Campa & Kedia  Mansi & Reeb

Wk 12:  VCs and IPOs       Loughran & Ritter               Ljungqvist et al    Brau & Fawcett

Wk 13:  Debt Financings and Bankruptcy     *Haugen & Senbet              Gertner & Scharstein           Dahiya et al 

Wk 14:  Dividend Policy and Share Repurchases         *DeAngelo & DeAngelo    Denis, Denis, & Sarin          Grullon & Michaely

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