16th Annual Conference on Corporate Finance 2019 | Washington University in St. Louis | 21 November 2019 | Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

The topics of interest for the conference are broad, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate control and organization, international issues in corporate finance, capital structure, payout decisions, corporate investment decisions, corporate governance, financial intermediation, and banking. This is not an exhaustive list, and empirical and theoretical papers on these, as well as related topics, are most welcome.

2019 Speakers

Michael Ewens
Associate Professor, California Institute of Technology

Adriano Rampini
Professor of Finance and Economics, Duke University

Dimitris Papanikolaou
Professor of Finance, Northwestern University

Song Ma
Professor , Yale University

Liu Yang
Associate Professor in Finance, University of Maryland

Andrew Winton
Professor, University of Minnesota

Michael Gofman
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

Selman Erol
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Matteo Crosignani
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Anthony DeFusco
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Patrick Bolton
Professor, Columbia University

Michael Roberts
Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania

Murillo Campello
Professor, Cornell University

Effi Benmelech
Professor, Northwestern University

Greg Nini
Associate Professor - Finance, Drexel University

Chris James
Professor, University of Florida

Yaniv Grinstein
Professor, Arison School of Business

Marcus Opp
Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Mark Westerfield
Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Nickolay Gantchev
Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University

Bilge Yilmaz
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Janis Skrastins
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Jan Bena
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Jessica Jeffers
Associate Professor, University of Chicago

Erik Gilje
Associate Professor, University of Pennslyvania

Julia Fonseca
Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign