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Tinbergen Institute Finance Workshop 2010
David L. Yermack, the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, will give a Finance workshop at the Tinbergen Institute, May 2010.
Professor Yermack has been with NYU Stern for more than 10 years. His primary research areas include boards of directors, executive compensation, executive stock options, and law and finance. He has published in the leading journals in his field, including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations. Professor Yermack has held a variety of visiting positions, teaching courses in corporate finance, restructuring firms and industries, and law and finance.
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Title Workshop: Empirical Corporate Finance
In this workshop, the broad spectrum of empirical corporate finance is reviewed. All major issues like capital structure, capital raising, distribution and dividend policies, investment policies, corporate voting and control, and governance are reviewed. The course is taught at the PhD level and helps students in getting a firm understanding of the empirical literature and finding their way to their own research topic. Participation is open to graduate level students, but capacity is limited.
Date: 17, 21 and 27 May 2010
Venue: Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam
External students are explicitly invited to participate.
For registration: please use our Online Registration form. (Registration code: TI975)
Participation is free for TI-members. Fee for non-TI members is 100 €.