Selected slide presentations for papers I discussed at different Conferences:
"Star Firms, Information Externalities, and Predictability", by Vidhi Chaochharia, Alok Kumar, Mehrshad Motahari, and Ville Rantala (slides, December 2023)
"Investor Heterogeneity and Time-varying Lottery Demand: Evidence from Repeated Experiments", by Jiaqi Guo, Xing Han, and Alok Kumar (slides, June 2023)
"Expected Return Auto-Correlation: Beliefs, Efficiency and Meltdowns", by Wolfgang Schadner (slides, July 2022)
"Retail Derivatives and Sentiment: A Sentiment Measure Constructed from Issuances of Retail Structured Equity Products", by Brian J. Henderson, Neil D. Pearson, and Li Wang (slides, December 2021)
"(In)voluntary Information Leakage in Alliances with Competitors", by Felipe Chávez-Bustamante and Cristián Troncoso-Valverde (slides, September 2021)
"Hedging Risk Factors", by Bernard Herskovic, Alan Moreira and Tyler Muir (slides, December 2019)
"Partial Moment Momentum", by Yang Gao, Henry Leung, and Stephen Satchell (slides, November 2018)
"Restrictions on Asset-Price Movements Under Rational Expectations: Theory and Evidence", by Ned Augenblick and Eben Lazarus (slides, October 2018)
"Aggregate Expected Investment Growth and Stock Market Returns", by Jun Li, Huijun Wang and Jianfeng Yu (slides, June 2018)
"Delegated Learning in Asset Management", by Michael Sockin and Mindy Zhang Xiaolan (slides, November 2017)
"Cheaper Is Not Better: On the Superior Performance of High-Fee Mutual Funds", by Jinfei Sheng, Mikhail Simutin and Terry Zhang (slides, March 2017)
"Are Firms in “Boring” Industries Worth Less?", by Jia Chen, Kewei Hou, and Rene M. Stulz (slides, October 2016)
"Tax-Efficient Asset Management: Evidence from Equity Mutual Funds", by Clemens Sialm and Hanjiang Zhang (slides, May 2015)
"Mutual Fund Competition, Managerial Skill, and Alpha Persistence", by Gerard Hoberg, Nitin Kumar and Nagpuranand Prabhala (slides, March 2015). [Best Discussion Award, FDU Conference 2015]
"On Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in a Class of Noisy Rational Expectations Models", by Bradyn Breon-Drish (slides, November 2014)
"Portfolio Manager Compensation in the U.S. Mutual Funds Industry", by Linlin Ma, Yuehua Tang, and Juan-Pedro Gomez (slides, April 2014)
"Option-Implied Variance and Future Stock Returns: Cross-Section and Time-Series Evidences", by Hui Guo and Buhui Qiu (slides, April 2013)
"The Investment Behavior of State Pension Plans", by J. Brown, J. Pollet, S. Weisbenner (slides, March 2013)
"Information Asymmetry: Talent Competition, and the Decline in Incentives with Firm Size: Theory and Evidence", by J. Sung and P. Swan (slides, November 2012)