2018 Program
Thursday, December 13
Beginning at 5:00 pm — Arrival, Registration, and Welcome Reception
Friday, December 14
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:05 am: Introduction and Welcome
7:05 am -- 8:30 am — Slants and Slopes from Long Ago
Session Chair: Cami Kuhnen (UNC)
Intermediaries and Asset Prices: Evidence from the U.S., U.K., and Japan, 1870-2016, Matt Baron (Cornell University), Tyler Muir (UCLA)
Home-country Media Slant and Equity Prices, Benjamin Golez (Notre Dame), Rasa Karapandza (European Business School)
4:30 pm: Reception Begins
5:00 pm -- 7:00 pm — Job Market Session: Our Profession's Promise
Session Chair: Nathalie Moyen (Colorado)
Mergers and Managers: Wage Premiums and Rent Extraction in M&As, Alex He (MIT), Daniel le Maire (University of Copenhagen)
Mind the Gap: Gender Stereotypes and Entrepreneur Financing, Camille Hebert (Tilburg and Université Paris-Dauphine)
Sophisticated Investor Attention Allocation and Price Underreaction to Information, Jiacui Li (Stanford)
(Debt) Overhang: Evidence from Resource Extraction, Michael Wittry (Washington)
Binding Capital Requirements, Asset Similarity and Systemic Risk, Suzanne Steele (Brandeis)
Saturday, December 15
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Lifting Wages
Session Chair: Emily Williams (HBS)
Disclosing the Gender Pay Gap, Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University), Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen and INSEAD), Elena Simintzi (UNC), Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia)
Do Minimum Wage Increases Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses? Evidence from 15 Million Establishments, Manpreet Singh (Georgia Tech), Sudheer Chava (Georgia Tech), Alexander Oettl (Georgia Tech)
4:30 pm: Reception Begins
5:00 pm -- 6:30 pm — Smooth Powder on the Fringe of Finance
Session Chair: Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia)
Credit Smoothing, Michaela Pagel (Columbia), Sean Hundtofte (Federal Reserve), Arna Olafsson (University of Copenhagen)
Does Increasing Formal Credit Access Reduce Payday Borrowing?, Cindy K. Soo (Michigan), Sarah Miller (Michigan)
Sunday, December 16
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Finance All Over the Mountain
Session Chair: Eric Hughson (Claremont McKenna)
Family Knows Best: Fund Advisors as Talent-Rating Agencies, Dmitry Orlov (Rochester), Ron Kaniel (Rochester)
Medicaid and Household Savings Behavior: New Evidence from Tax Refunds, Emily A. Gallagher (Colorado), Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Washington University, St. Louis), Michal Grinstein-Weiss (Washington University, St. Louis), Jorge Sabat (Washington University, St. Louis)