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The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation
Thursday and Friday, February 7-8, 2008

Sponsored by:

RAND Corporation
And
The Financial Economics Institute
Claremont McKenna College

Thursday, February 7th


p.m.

Participants arrive in Ontario
Overnight room block reserved
Sheraton Ontario Airport Hotel
429 N. Vineyard Avenue
Ontario, CA 91764
(909) 937-8000
When making reservation, please refer to:
"Securities Fraud Symposium"

6:00 p.m.

Reception and casual dinner (open seating)
Rosa's Restaurant, 425 N. Vineyard Avenue, Ontario, (909) 937-1220 (attire: casual)

 

Friday, February 8th


7:30 a.m.

Participants take shuttle to the Claremont Colleges

8:15 a.m.

Participants arrive at Burkle Building (1021 North Dartmouth Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711)

8:15-8:45 a.m.

Continental breakfast and registration in Jenkins Courtyard (south side of Burkle Building)

8:45-9:00 a.m.

Welcoming remarks, Burkle Building, Room 16, 1st Floor
Pamela Gann, President, Claremont McKenna College

9:00-10:15 a.m.

SESSION 1: Plaintiffs, Settlements and Litigation Reform
Session Chair: Cindy R. Alexander, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

 

Presenter 1: 9:00-9:15 a.m.
"An Eliot Effect? Prosecutorial Discretion in Mutual Fund Settlement Negotiations, 2003-07"
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College

 

Presenter 2: 9:15-9:30 a.m.
"The Screening Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act" (PDF)
Stephen J. Choi, New York University
Karen K. Nelson, Rice University
Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan

 

Presenter 3: 9:30-9:45 a.m.
"There are Plaintiffs and…There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements" (PDF)
James D. Cox, Duke University
Randall S. Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Lynn Bai, University of Cincinnati

 

Discussion:

9:45-10:15 a.m.

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break, Jenkins Courtyard, Burkle Building, 1st Floor

10:30-11:30 a.m.

SESSION 2: Market Efficiency, Reliance and Damages
Session Chair: Michael A. Perino, St. John's University School of Law

 

Presenter 1: 10:30-10:45 a.m.
"Do Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Out Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence"
Alicia Davis Evans, University of Michigan

 

Presenter 2: 10:45-11:00 a.m.
"The Paradox of 'Fraud-on-the-Market' Theory"
Janet Kiholm Smith, Claremont McKenna College
Richard L. Smith, Claremont Graduate University

 

Presenter 3: 11:00-11:15 a.m.
"A Simple, Nonparametric Approach to Asymptotically Valid Inference in Single-Firm Event Studies with One Event Date"
Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona
Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College and RAND Corporation
Jonathan Klick, Florida State University

 

Discussion:

11:15-11:45 a.m.

11:45-12:00 p.m.

Students escort participants to luncheon at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, CMC

12:00-1:15 p.m.

Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: John C. Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law,
Columbia Law School

1:30-2:45 p.m.

PRACTITIONER PANEL: CURRENT ISSUES IN SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION

 

Panelists:
Vincent Cappucci, Partner, Entwistle & Cappucci
Brad Cornell, Senior Consultant, CRA International and Professor, California Institute of Technology
James Farrell, Partner, Securities Litigation and Professional Liability, Latham & Watkins, LLP
Larry Fine, Senior Vice President, AIG
David Tabak, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
Moderator: Eric Landau, Partner, Securities and Shareholder Litigation Group, Jones Day

2:45-3:00 p.m.

Students escort participants back to Burkle Building, Room 16

3:00-4:30 p.m.

SESSION 3: Securities Litigation and Corporate Governance
Session Chair: Michael Klausner, Stanford University

 

Presenter 1: 3:00-3:15 p.m.
"Insider Trading Before Accounting Scandals" (PDF)
Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama
Tommy Cooper, University of Alabama

 

Presenter 2: 3:15-3:30 p.m.
"The Determinants of Managerial Decisions to Cook the Books" (PDF)
Jonathan M. Karpoff, University of Washington, Seattle
D. Scott Lee, Texas A&M University
Gerald S. Martin, Texas A&M University

 

Presenter 3: 3:30-3:45 p.m.
"Securities Fraud Class Actions and Corporate Governance: New Evidence on the Role of Merit" (PDF)
Christopher F. Baum, Boston College and DIW Berlin
James G. Bohn, UHY Advisors, Boston, MA
Atreya Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

Presenter 4: 3:45-4:00 p.m.
"The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors' Labor Market"
Eric Helland, RAND Corporation and Claremont McKenna College

 

Discussion:

4:00-4:45 p.m.

4:45-5:00 p.m.

Wrap-up

5:00 p.m.

Students escort participants to the Green Room, 1st Floor, Platt Campus Center, HMC

5:00-5:30 p.m.

Cocktail Reception

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Dinner - for participants only
Comments: Robert Reville, Senior Economist and Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (on leave)

8:00 p.m.

Participants take shuttle to Sheraton Ontario Airport Hotel

 

Saturday, February 9th


Elective activities in the Los Angeles area



                                     Conference generously underwritten by Jones Day and Entwistle & Cappucci


 

Financial Economics Institute
Claremont McKenna College
Bauer Center
500 E. Ninth Street
Claremont, CA 91711-6400
FEI@cmc.edu
(909) 607-0042 phone
(909) 607-0088 fax