Rajan is with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER. This paper draws from many conversations I have had with my co-authors over the years, in particular, Viral Acharya, Douglas Diamond, Stewart Myers, Mitch Petersen, Henri Servaes, Jeremy Stein, Julie Wulf, and Luigi Zingales. I thank Douglas Baird, Effi Benmelech, Steve Kaplan, L̆ubos̆ Pástor, Amit Seru, Ram Shivakumar, and Rob Vishny for valuable comments on this draft and Maryam Farboodi for very helpful research assistance. I bear responsibility for all errors.
Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance
Article first published online: 19 JUL 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01745.x
© 2012 The American Finance Association
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RAJAN, R. G. (2012), Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance. The Journal of Finance, 67: 1173–1217. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01745.x
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Rajan is with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER. This paper draws from many conversations I have had with my co-authors over the years, in particular, Viral Acharya, Douglas Diamond, Stewart Myers, Mitch Petersen, Henri Servaes, Jeremy Stein, Julie Wulf, and Luigi Zingales. I thank Douglas Baird, Effi Benmelech, Steve Kaplan, L̆ubos̆ Pástor, Amit Seru, Ram Shivakumar, and Rob Vishny for valuable comments on this draft and Maryam Farboodi for very helpful research assistance. I bear responsibility for all errors.
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- Issue published online: 19 JUL 2012
- Article first published online: 19 JUL 2012
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