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The W.E. Carroll School of Management and
Financial Service Research Center at Boston College
present the 2000 Journal of Financial Intermediation Symposium

NEW TECHNOLOGIES, FINANCIAL INNOVATION, AND INTERMEDIATION

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

May 25-27, 2000

Thursday, May 25

  7:00 PM Welcome Reception
  Friday, May 26

     SESSION 1:  BANKING
  Chair:  Edward J. Kane, Boston College
  9:30 AM Andres Almazan (University of Texas-Austin)
    "A Model of Competition in Banking:  Bank Capital vs. Expertise"
    Discussant:  Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College
     
  10:30 AM Break
     
     SESSION 2:  TOPICS IN MARKET MICROSTRUCTURE - I
  Chair:  Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University
  11:00 AM Thierry Foucault (L'Ecole HEC)
  Ailsa Roell (Princeton University)
  Patrik Sandas (University of Pennsylvania)
    "Imperfect Market Monitoring and SOES Trading"
    Discussant: Matthew Spiegel, Yale University
   
   12:00 Noon Gordon J. Alexander (University of Minnesota)
    Mark A. Peterson (Southern Illinois University)
    "Implications for Short-Selling Associated with a Reduction in Tick Size"
    Discussant:  Fu-Kuo (Albert) Wang, Rice University
     
  1:00 PM Lunch
     
     SESSION 3:  INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS
  Chair:  Tim Opler, W.R. Hambrecht & Co.
  2:30 PM Jorg Kukies (University of Chicago)
    "The Effects of Introducing a New Stock Exchange on the IPO Process"
    Discussant:  William J. Wilhelm, Jr., Boston College
     
  3:30 PM Break
     
  4:00 PM Bruno Biais (Universite de Toulouse)
  Anne Marie Faugeron-Crouzet (Universite de Paris Val de Marne)
    "IPO Auctions:  English, Dutch, ... French and Internet"
    Discussant: Pegaret Pichler, Boston College
     
  5:00 PM Lawrence M. Benveniste (University of Minnesota)
     Walid Y. Busaba (University of Arizona)
  William J. Wilhelm, Jr. (Boston College)
    "Information Externalities in Primary Equity Markets"
    Discussant: Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
 
  7:00 PM Cocktails
 
  7:30 PM Conference Dinner
  Victor R. Simone, Managing Director and Head of E-Commerce, Fixed Income Division, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
  "E-Commerce in the Fixed Income Markets"
 
Saturday, May 27
  9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
     
     SESSION 4:  VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING
  Chair:  Anjan V. Thakor, University of Michigan
  10:00 AM Thomas Hellman (Stanford University)
    Manju Puri (Stanford University)
    "Venture Capital and the Professionalization of Start-up Firms:  Empirical Evidence"
    Discussant: Josh Lerner, Harvard University
     
  11:00 AM Andrei A. Kirilenko (International Monetary Fund)
    "Valuation and Control in Venture Finance"
    Discussant: George Kanatas, Rice University
   
  12:00 Noon Lunch
     
     SESSION 5:  TOPICS IN MARKET MICROSTRUCTURE - II
  Chair:  Lawrence M. Benveniste, University of Minnesota
   2:00 PM Ananth Madhavan (University of Southern California)
    David Porter (University of Wisconsin)
    Daniel Weaver (Baruch College)
    "Should Securities Markets Be Transparent?"
    Discussant: Erik Sirri, Babson College
     
  3:00 PM Jay F. Coughenour (University of Delaware)
    Daniel N. Deli (United States Securities and Exchange Commission)
    "Liquidity Provision and the Organizational Form of NYSE Specialist Firms"
    Discussant: William G. Christie, Vanderbilt University
     
  4:00 PM Concluding Remarks