FBF CHair of Corporate Finance

HEC University od Paris Dauphine Fédération bancaire française FBF Chair in Corporate Finance

Welcome

Welcome to the website of the 4th Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference, May 31/June 1, 2012 !

HEC Paris and Université Paris-Dauphine are organizing the 4th Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference under the sponsorship of FBF, the French Banking Association. The conference will be held on May 31-June 1, 2012 in downtown Paris.

Keynote Speaker: David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School)

The conference program is now posted online.

The conference is again co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies under its Dual Review system. The RFS Sponsoring Editor is Andrew Karolyi.

Organizaton Committee:  Edith Ginglinger, Ulrich Hege, Bill Megginson (co-chairs), Gilles Chemla, François Derrien, and Andrew Karolyi.

We received more than 300 submissions following our call for papers (pdf) that solicited papers, both theoretical and empirical, from a wide range of topics in corporate finance. The paper selection process was extremely selective with an acceptance rate of 4%.

Participation in the conference is by invitation only; academics interested in receiving an invitation to the conference should send an email to Ulrich Hege, hege AT hec DOT fr. 

 

Bill Megginson -- Edith Ginglinger -- Ulrich Hege
Co-chairs of the Organizing Committee.