2021 Program
Wednesday, December 15
Beginning at 5:00 pm — Arrival, Registration, and Welcome Reception
Thursday, December 16
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:05 am: Introduction and Welcome
7:05 am -- 8:30 am — Corporate Investment
Session Chair: Janis Skrastins (WashU)
Waiting on a Friend: Strategic Learning and Corporate Investment, Paul Décaire (ASU), Michael Wittry (OSU)
Discussant: Mark Leary (WashU)
Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment, Cameron LaPoint (Yale), Shogo Sakabe (Columbia)
Discussant: Taylor Begley (WashU)
4:30 pm: Reception Begins
5:00 pm -- 7:00 pm — Job Market Session: Our Profession's Promise
Session Chair: TBD
Increasing Corporate Bond Liquidity Premium and Post-Crisis Regulations, Botao Wu (NYU)
Ex-Post Loss Sharing in Consumer Financal Markets, Alexandru Barbu (LBS)
Rise of Superstar Firms and Fall of the Price Mechanism, Dan Su (Minnesota)
Strategic Intangible Investment: The Case of Campaign Finance, Sylvain Delalay (Maryland)
Long-term Investors, Demand Shifts, and Yields, Kristy Jansen (Tillburg)
Friday, December 17
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Race & Culture
Session Chair: Jawad Addoum
Partisan Entrepreneurship, Joey Engelberg (UCSD), Jorge Guzman (Columbia), Runjing Lu (Alberta), Will Mullins (UCSD)
Discussant: Ben McCartney (Purdue)
Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes, Bronson Argyle (BYU), Sasha Indarte (Wharton), Ben Iverson (BYU), and Christopher Palmer (MIT)
Discussant: Michaela Pagel (Columbia)
4:30 pm: Reception Begins
5:00 pm -- 6:30 pm — Who Still Does Theory?
Session Chair: TBD
Debt Maturity Management, Yunzhi Hu (UNC), Felipe Varas (Duke), Chao Ying (CUHK)
Discussant: Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern)
Firm Quality Dynamics and the Slippery Slope of Credit Intervention, Wenhao Li (USC), Ye Li (OSU)
Discussant: Martin Oehmke (LSE)
Saturday, December 18
6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins
7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Financing Investment
Session Chair: Jordan Nickerson
Barriers to Global Capital Allocation, Bruno Pellegrino (Maryland), Enrico Spolaore (Tufts), Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)
Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)
Startup (Dis)similarity and Types of Early-stage Financing, Katie Moon (Colorado), Paula Suh (Georgia)
Discussant: Xinxin Wang (UCLA)