Schedule

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 160 East Pearson, Chicago
Time	Event	Room
8 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.	Welcome Reception	Terrace Glass Room

Gleacher Center
Time	Event	Room
7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.	Continental Breakfast	Room 100
8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Opening Remarks – Edward Snyder, Dean of Chicago GSB
8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.	The Development of Securities Law in the United States Keynote Speaker Paul Mahoney
9:50 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.	Break
10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Yael V. Hochberg*, Paola Sapienza, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Break
11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.	Unintended Consequences of Granting Small Firms Exemptions from Securities Regulation: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Feng Gao, Joanna Wu, and Jerold Zimmerman*
1:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	Lunch	Room 621
	Remarks on regulation from Andrei Shleifer
2:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.	Market and Political/Regulatory Perspectives on the Recent Accounting Scandals Keynote Speaker Ray Ball
4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Break
4:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.	Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the home bias Bong-Chan Kho, René Stulz, and Francis E. Warnock*
Spiaggia, 980 North Michigan Avenue (corner of Oak Street), Chicago
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Reception
7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.	Dinner

Gleacher Center
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.	Do national capital markets have a future in the age of globalization? Keynote Speaker René Stulz
9:50 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.	Break
10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	The Future of Security Regulation Keynote Speaker Luigi Zingales
11:30 a.m.	Box Lunch