2008 Conference Papers

Keynote speaker papers

Market and Political/Regulatory Perspectives on the Recent Accounting Scandals

     Ray Ball

The Development of Securities Law in the United States

     Paul Mahoney

Do national capital markets have a future in the age of globalization?

     René M. Stulz

The Future of Security Regulation

     Luigi Zingales

Accepted conference papers

Unintended Consequences of Granting Small Firms Exemptions from Securities Regulation: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

     Feng Gao, Joanna Wu, and Jerold Zimmerman

A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

     Yael V. Hochberg, Paola Sapienza, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the home bias

     Bong-Chan Kho, René M. Stulz, and Francis E. Warnock