Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER and Robert Vishny, University of Chicago and NBER
"Stock Market Driven Acquisitions"
    Discussant: David Scharfstein, MIT and NBER

Amit Goyal and Pedro Santa-Clara, UC, Los Angeles
"Idiosyncratic Risk Matters!"
    Discussant: John Campbell, Harvard University and NBER

Harrison Hong, Stanford University and Jeffrey Kubit, Syracuse University
"Analyzing the Analysts: Career Concerns and Biased Earnings Forecasts"
    Discussant: Kent Womack, Dartmouth College

Brad M. Barber, UC, Davis and Terrance Odean, UC, Berkeley
"All That Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors"
    Discussant: Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT and NBER

Artyom Durnev, University of Michigan, Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER and Bernard Yeung, New York University
"Value Enhancing Capital Budgeting and Firm-Specific Stock Returns Variation"
    Discussant: Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER

Conference sponsored by
Bracebridge Capital, Fuller & Thaler Asset Management and
LSV Asset Management
under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research