2022 Program
Finance, Organizations and Markets (FOM) Conference
hosted by Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Room 110 Popovich Hall (JKP), USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089
November 18 - 19, 2022
Click here for program in PDF format
*** Notes for participants ***
Each paper has 45 minutes total: allocated as 25 for presenter, 12 for discussant, and 8 for audience
*We thank iORB (Institute for Outlier Research in Business) and the FBE department at USC Marshall for generously funding conference expenses.
Friday, November 18, 2022
*Click on each paper for PDF file (when available)
8:15 am – 8:45 am Continental Breakfast and Conference Check-In (Popovich Room 110)
8:50 am – 9:00 am Opening Remarks (Popovich Room 110, all sessions will be here too)
SESSION I Session Chair: John Matsusaka (USC)
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Authors: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee
Speaker: Daniel Green, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Ian Appel, University of Virginia
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Paper 2: What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Authors: Raghuram Rajan, Pietro Ramella, and Luigi Zingales
Speaker: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Discussant: Doron Levit, University of Washington
10:30 am – 11:00 am COFFEE BREAK
SESSION II Session Chair: Katya Neretina (USC)
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Paper 3: Remotely Productive: The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives [click to download]
Authors: Ran Duchin and Denis Sosyura
Speaker: Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University
Discussant: Tania Babina, Columbia University
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Paper 4: Did Western CEO Incentives Contribute to China’s Technological Rise? [click to download]
Authors: Bo Bian, and Jean-Marie Meier
Speaker: Jean-Marie Meier, University of Texas, Dallas
Discussant: Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch @ Suryan Plaza
SESSION III Session Chair: Umit Gurun (UT Dallas)
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Paper 5: Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry [click to download]
Authors: Florian Ederer and Bruno Pellegrino
Speaker: Bruno Pellegrino, University of Maryland
Discussant: Tong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Authors: Yao Lu, Gordon M. Phillips and Jia Yang
Speaker: Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
Discussant: Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK
SESSION IV Session Chair: Ivo Welch (UCLA)
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Paper 7: Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns
Authors: Matthew Denes, Spyridon Lagaras, and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Speaker: Matthew Denes, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Greg Buchak, Stanford University
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Keynote Presentation: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
Title: Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy [click to download paper]
Speaker: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Pre-Dinner Reception @ University Club, University of Southern California, Scriptorium Room
6:30 pm Dinner @ University Club, University of Southern California, Scriptorium Room
Saturday, November 19, 2022
7:45 am – 8:15 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
SESSION V Session Chair: Shawn Thomas (University of Pittsburgh)
8:15 am – 9:00 am
Paper 8: Funding Black High-Growth Starups [click to download]
Authors: Lisa Cook, Matt Marx, Steven Wu-Chaves, and Emmanuel Yimfor
Speaker: Emmanuel Yimfor, University of Michigan
Discussant: Kelly Shue, Yale University
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Paper 9: Portfolio Management in Private Equity [click to download]
Author: Gregory Brown, Celine Fei, and David Robinson
Speaker: Celine Fei (University of North Carolina)
Discussant: Morten Sorensen, Dartmouth College
9:45 am – 10:00 am COFFEE BREAK
SESSION VI Session Chair: Nagpurnanand Prabhala (Johns Hopkins University)
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Paper 10: Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation [click to download]
Author: Ernest Liu and Song Ma
Speaker: Song Ma, Yale University
Discussant: Jillian Grennan, Santa Clara University
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Paper 11: The Epidemiology of Financial Constraints [click to download]
Author: William Grieser, Ioannis Spyridopoulos, and Morad Zekhnini
Speaker: William Grieser, Texas Christian University
Discussant: Winston Dou, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
11:30 am Closing Remarks
11:35 am Box Lunch and End of Conference