The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS)
Conference on Banking, Corporate Finance and Intermediation

May 27-29, 2009
Prague Marriott Hotel

Prague, the Czech Republic

Planning Committee

Chair

Mark Flannery University of Florida

Associate Chairs

Franklin Allen University of Pennsylvania
Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University
Kose John New York University
Mitchell Petersen Northwestern University
Raghu RajanUniversity of Chicago
Anthony SaundersNew York University
Anjan ThakorWashington University in St. Louis

Program Committee

VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School
FRANKLIN ALLEN, University of Pennsylvania
ADAM ASHCRAFT, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
KERRY BACK, Texas A&M University
THORSTEN BECK, Tilburg University
ALLEN BERGER, University of South Carolina
SUDIPTO BHATTACHARYA, London School of Economics
UTPAL BHATTACHARYA, Indiana University
SUGATO BHATTACHARYYA, University of Michigan
ARNOUD BOOT, University of Amsterdam
DAVID BROWN, University of Florida
MIKE BURKART, Stockholm School of Economics
MURILLO CAMPBELLO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MARK CAREY, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
ELENA CARLETTI, European University Institute
THOMAS CHEMMANUR, Boston College
FRANCESCA CORNELLI, London Business School
SANKAR DE, Indian School of Business
HANS DEGRYSE, University of Tilburg
ASLI DEMIGUC-KUNT, World Bank
JEROME DETEMPLE, Boston University
HULYA ERASLAN, Johns Hopkins University
OZGUR ERGUNGOR, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
MICHAEL FAULKENDER, University of Maryland
FABRIZIO FERRI, Harvard University
MICHAEL FISHMAN, Northwestern University
SCOTT FRAME, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
PAOLO FULGHIERI, University of North Carolina
AMAR GANDE, Southern Methodist University
SIMON GERVAIS, Duke University
RON GIAMMARINO, University of British Columbia
RADHA GOPALAN, Washington University in St. Louis
TODD GORMLEY, Washington University in St. Louis
VIDHAN GOYAL, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
STUART GREENBAUM, Washington University in St. Louis
REINT GROPP, European Business School
DIRK HACKBARTH, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ALLAUDEEN HAMEED, National University of Singapore
JOEL HASBROUCK, New York University
BEVERLY HIRTLE, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
BURTON HOLLIFIELD, Carnegie Mellon University
JOEL HOUSTON, University of Florida
RAVI JAGANNATHAN, Northwestern University
KOSE JOHN, New York University
OHAD KADAN, Washington University in St. Louis
RAYMOND KAN, University of Toronto
GEORGE KANATAS, Rice University
YRJO KOSKINEN, Boston University
LUC LAEVEN, International Monetary Fund
MARK LEARY, Cornell University
ALFRED LEHAR, University of Toronto
ROSS LEVINE, Brown University
BING LIANG, University of Massachusetts
LUBO LITOV, Washington University in St. Louis
HONG LIU, Washington University in St. Louis
BRANDON LOCKHART, University of Florida
JOSE LOPEZ, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
ULRIKE MALMENDIER, INSEAD
ROBERT MARQUEZ, Arizona State University
MASSIMO MASSA, INSEAD
PEDRO MATOS, University of Southern California
LORETTA MESTER, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
TODD MILBOURN, Washington University in St. Louis
HOLGER MUELLER, New York University
VIKRAM NANDA, Arizona State University
MAUREEN O'HARA, Cornell University
STEVEN ONGENA, Tilberg University
GEORGE PENNACCHI, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MITCHELL PETERSEN, Northwestern University
RICHARD PHILLIPS, Georgia State University
EDWARD PRESCOTT, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
MANJU PURI, Duke University
JIANPING QI, University of South Florida
JUN QIAN, Boston College
MICHAEL ROBERTS, University of Pennsylvania
KRISTIAN RYDQVIST, Binghamton University
JOAO SANTOS, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
ANTHONY SAUNDERS, New York University
TIL SCHUERMANN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
ANDREI SIMONOV, Michigan State University
DAVID SMITH, University of Virginia
FENGHUA SONG, Pennsylvania State University
SORIN SORESCU, Texas A&M University
PHILIP STRAHAN, Boston College
AVANIDHAR SUBRAHMANYAM, University of California at Los Angeles
AMIR SUFI, University of Chicago
ANJAN THAKOR, Washington University in St. Louis
GREGORY UDELL, Indiana University
MASAKO UEDA, University of Wisconsin
DIMITRI VAYANOS, London School of Economics
KUMAR VENKATARAMAN, Southern Methodist University
JAMES VICKERY, New York University
S. VISWANATHAN, Duke University
TONI WHITED, University of Wisconsin
JAMES WILCOX, University of California at Berkeley
ANDREY WINTON, University of Minnesota
DANIEL WOLFENZON, Columbia University
AYAKO YASUDA, University of Pennsylvania
BILGE YILMAZ, Stanford University
LU ZHANG, University of Michigan
LU ZHENG, University of California at Irvine
GUOFU ZHOU, Washington University in St. Louis
HAIBIN ZHU, Bank for International Settlements




For questions about the conference, please email FIRS2009@cba.ufl.edu