21st MITSUI FINANCE SYMPOSIUM
"Labor and Finance"

Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
June 13-15, 2013

Registration is now open.  If you have any questions, please contact Rochelle Haug (rohaug@umich.edu) for more information.  

ACCEPTED PAPERS 
(in alphabetical order)

Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Jennifer Brown, David Matsa
Discussant: Edith Hotchkiss

Contracting with Synergies
Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein, John Zhu
Discussant: TBA

Cost Shifting and the Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans
Joshua Rauh, Irina Stefanescu, Stephen Zeldes
Discussant: Andrew Ellul

Cultural Proximity and the Processing of Financial Information
Qianqian Du, Frank Yu, Xiaoyun Yu
Discussant: Jeffrey Kubik

Employee Inside Debt and Firm Risk-Taking: Evidence from Employee Deposit Programs in Japan
Sudipto Dasgupta, Yupeng Lin, Takeshi Yamada, Zilong Zhang
Discussant: Vikrant Vig

Exploration for Human Capital: Theory and Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
Camelia Kuhnen, Paul Oyer
Discussant: Martin Schmalz

Labor Market Frictions and Corporate Investment
Ashwini Agrawal, Alexander Ljungqvist
Discussant: Kelly Shue

Risk-Sharing within Firms: Worldwide Evidence
Andrew Ellul, Marco Pagano, Fabiano Schivardi
Discussant: Ernst Maug

The Bright Side of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Internal Labor Markets
Geoffrey Tate, Liu Yang 
Discussant: Susan Chaplinsky

The Option to Quit: The Effect of Employee Stock Options on Turnover
Serdar Aldatmaz, Paige Ouimet, Edward Van Wesep 
Discussant: Paul Oyer

Time Varying Risk Aversion
Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales 
Discussant: Stefan Nagel