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The 2024 Wellington Finance Summit

June 21

Wellington, New Zealand

Organised by

School of Economics and Finance

Victoria University of Wellington

Program Schedule

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For each paper: 25 min for presentation including Q&A, 15 min for discussion.

Friday, June 21, 2024

8.00am-8.30am Registration / Welcome Breakfast, RH103

Welcome Remarks

8.30am-8.40am: RH104

TBD

Session One

8.40am-10.00am: RH104

Chair:

The Low Frequency Trading Arms Race: Machines Versus Delays

Alexander Dickerson (University of New South Wales Business School)

Yoshio Nozawa (University of Toronto)

Cesare Robotti (Warwick Business School)

Discussant:

Paper 2

Discussant:

10.00am-10.30am: Morning Break and Refreshments, RH103

Session Two

10.30am-11.50pm: RH104

Chair:

Capital Structure and ESG Integration

Dongkyu Chang (City University of Hong Kong)

Keeyoung Rhee (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU))

Aaron Yoon (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University)

Discussant:

Environmental Activism: Endogenous Risk and Asset Prices

Ravi Jagannathan (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and NBER)

Soohun Kim (KAIST)

Robert McDonald (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and NBER)

Shixiang Xia (City University of Hong Kong)

Discussant:

11.50pm-1.10pm: Lunch Break and Refreshments, RH103

Keynote Speech

1.10pm-2.10pm: RH104

Chair:

Title

Stavros Panageas (University of California, Los Angeles)

2.10pm-2.30pm: Afternoon Break and Refreshments, RH103

Session Three

2.30pm-3.50pm: RH104

Chair:

Escaping Pay-for-Performance

Jason Chen (Auburn University)

Jakub Hajda (HEC Montreal)

Joseph Kalmenovitz (University of Rochester)

Discussant:

Paper 6

Discussant:

3.50pm-4.20pm: Afternoon Break and Refreshments, RH103

Session Four

4.20pm-5.40pm: RH104

Chair:

When Does Intra-Household Risk Sharing Matter for Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice?

Joachim Inkmann (University of Melbourne)

Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College London)

Yuxin Zhang (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)

Discussant:

Approaching the Mean-Variance Efficiency in a High Dimension: Which Firm Characteristics Matter?

Bin Luo (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Ti Zhou (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Discussant:

6:15pm: Main dinner