Corporate Finance.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met in Cambridge on November 20, 2009. Christian Leuz, NBER and University of Chicago, and Morten Sorensen, NBER and Columbia University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania, and Bong H. Kim and Xiumin Martin, Washington University of St. Louis, "Can Firms Adjust Their Opaqueness to Lenders? Evidence from Foreign Bank Entry into India"

* Daniel Paravisini, Columbia University, and Hannah Lin, International Monetary Fund, "What's Bank Reputation Worth? The Effect of Fraud on Financial Contracts and Investment"

* Michael R. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, and Mark Leary, Cornell University, "Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy?"

* Ivo Welch, Brown University and NBER, and Peter Iliev, Pennsylvania State University, "How Quickly Do Firms...