The Financing of Corporations in Emerging Countries

 

The Darden Graduate School of Business and the World Bank, in partnership with the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute and State Street Global Markets, held the fifth annual Emerging Markets conference on 28−29 March 2006 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. PDF presentations from this conference are available below:

 

• The Colors of Investors’ Money: Which Firms Attract Institutional Investors From Around the World, presented by Pedro Matos, University of Southern California
• Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, presented by Dean Yang, University of Michigan
• Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms? presented by Karl Lins, University of Utah
• Do Local Analysts Know More? A Cross-Country Study of the Performance of Local Analysts and Foreign Analysts, presented by Rene Stulz, Ohio State University
• Does Campaign Finance Imply Political Favors? The Case of the 1998 Brazilian Elections, presented by Stijn Claessens, World Bank
• Financing Firms in India, presented by Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania
• Firm Risk and Capital Structure Choice, presented by Mihir Desai, Harvard University
• Incumbents and Protectionism: The Political Economy of Foreign Entry Liberalization, presented by Anusha Chari, University of Michigan
• Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation, presented by Ross Levine, Brown University
• The Law & Economics of Self-Dealing, presented by Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College
• Legality and Venture Governance Around the World, presented by Douglas Cumming, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Mixing Family with Business, presented by Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Why Have Debt Ratios Increased for Firms in Emerging Markets?, presented by Todd Mitton, Brigham Young Univ