Plenary session of the conference in Pisa

Dear participants, below you may find detailed plan of the plenary session for the conference in Pisa, 19 September, 2012.

9.30-13.00 - Plenary session

9.30 – 10.00 – Opening speeches

Marco Guidi, Ph.D., Professor, Delegate of the Rector for Internationalization Promotion, University of Pisa (Italy)

Sergiy Kozmenko, Ph.D., Professor, Vice-Rector and Delegate of the Rector for Internationalization Promotion, Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine (Ukraine)

Giulia Romano, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Pisa (Italy), co-chair of the conference organizing committee

Alexander N. Kostyuk, Ph.D., DBA, Professor, Chair of the International Center for Banking and Corporate Governance, Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine (Ukraine), Hanken School of Economics (Finland), Co-chair of the conference organizing committee

10.00 – 11.15 - Key note speeches

DONATO MASCHIANDARO, Full Professor of Economics, Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation, Bocconi University, Italy

ULRICH HEGE, Professor of Finance, FBF Chair in Corporate Finance, HEC Paris, France

11.15 – 11.30 - COFFEE TIME

11.30 – 13.00 - KEY PAPERS

AUDIT MARKET CONCENTRATION IN EUROPE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON AUDIT QUALITY

Patrick Velte, University of Hamburg, Germany
Markus Stiglbauer, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

TO BAIL OUT OR NOT TO BAIL OUT SYSTEMICALLY RELEVANT
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: The Incentives of Policy Makers

Lucas Marc Fuhrer, University of Bern, Switzerland

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND PERFORMANCE IN ITALIAN BANKING GROUPS

Giulia Romano, Paola Ferretti, Alessandra Rigolini, University of Pisa, Italy