Conference Archives

Does Uncertainty Boost or Hinder Firm Investment? The Role of Product Life Cycle 

• Sebastião Oliveira (UIUC)
  Discussant: Miao Ben Zhang (USC Marshall) 

The Pricing and Economic Impact of Legal Risk  

• Dean Ryu (Oxford University)
  Discussant: Tom Chang (USC Marshall) 

Barriers to Reentry: Initial Borrowing Frictions, Refinancing, and Wealth Redistribution 

• Heejin Yoon (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Discussant: Jack Lieberson (UC Irvine) 

Monetary Policy Transmission through Housing Duration: Evidence from Reaching-for-Income Investors  

• Gen Li (UBC, Sauder)
  Discussant: Selale Tuzel (USC Marshall) 

Bailouts, Regulation and Banks' Risk-Taking  

• Luigi Falasconi (University of Pennsylvania)
  Discussant: Quinn Maingi (USC Marshall) 

Quantifying the Loss from Blockchain Network Delay: Evidence from Ethereum  

• Yinhong Zhao (Princeton University)
  Discussant: Vincenzo Quadrini (USC Marshall) 

The Impact of Institutional Investors on Homeownership and Neighborhood Access

• Joshua Coven (NYU, Stern)
  Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)

Political Connections in Times of Social Protest: Assets or Liabilities? 

• Navid Neshat (Indiana University, Kelley)
  Discussant: Ran Duchin (Boston College, Carroll)

Delay Your Rivals: Vertical Integration in Securitization and Lending Competition

• Brandon Zborowski (Northwestern University, Kellogg)
  Discussant: Jinyuan Zhang (UCLA, Anderson)

Do Exchange Rate Shocks Affect Firms' Production Capacity? The Working Capital Channel 

• Sebastiao Oliveira (UIUC)
  Discussant: Oguzhan Ozbas (Boğaziçi University)

Taking the Road Less Traveled? Market Misreaction and Firm Innovation Directions 

• Tianshu Lyu (Yale SOM)
  Discussant: Samuel Hartzmark (Boston College, Carroll)

Spatial Extrapolation in the Housing Market 

• Gen Li (UBC, Sauder)
  Discussant: Selale Tuzel (USC Marshall)

Network Factors for Idiosyncratic Volatility Spillover

• Belinda Chen (UIUC, Gies)
  Discussant: Bernard Herskovic (UCLA, Anderson)

Global Footprint of US Fiscal Policy

• Sun Yong Kim (Northwestern University, Kellogg)
  Discussant: Lukas Schmid (USC Marshall)

Do ESG investors care about carbon emissions? Evidence from securitized auto loans 

• Christian Kontz (Stanford GSB)
  Discussant: Mete Kilic (USC Marshall)

How does Supply Chain Fragility Affect Corporate Policies?

• Leandro Sanz (Ohio State University, Fisher)
  Discussant: Kenneth Ahern (USC Marshall)

The Convenience Yield and the Demand for U.S. Treasury Securities 

• Filippo Cavaleri (Chicago University, Booth)
  Discussant: Kristy Jansen (USC Marshall)

Bank Competition and Entrepreneurial Gaps: Evidence from Bank Deregulation 

• Xiang Li (Boston College)
  Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)

Benchmarking and Securities Lending: When More Supply Means Higher Fees 

• Taisiya Sikorskaya (LBS)
  Discussant: Christopher Schwarz (UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business)

Tracing Out International Data Flow: the Value of Data and Privacy

• Junjun Quan (Columbia Business School)
  Discussant: Yaron Levi (USC Marshall)

The Unintended Consequences of Financial Sanctions

• Ritt Keerati (Columbia Business School)
  Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)

Financial Regulatory Competition 

• Johnny Tang (Harvard)
  Discussant: Kenneth Ahern (USC Marshall)

An Inside View of Corporate ESG Practices

• Hoa Briscoe-Tran (Ohio State University)
  Discussant: Jerry Hoberg (USC Marshall)

Who Chases Returns in the Chinese Stock Market?

• Shushu Liang (Harvard)
  Discussant: Christopher Jones (USC Marshall)

Product Price Change Timing and Stock Returns

• Andrew Kane (Duke University)
  Discussant: David Zeke (USC Dornsife)

Student Debt and Labor Market Trajectories

• Menaka Hampole (Northwestern University)
  Discussant: Andrii Parkhomenko (USC Marshall)

Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

• S.Lakshmi Naaraayanan (HKUST)
  Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)

Public Listing Choice with Persistent Hidden Information 

• Mark Rempel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Discussant: Mark Garmaise (UCLA Anderson)

Technology Shift in M&A

• Danqing Mei (Columbia Business School)
  Discussant: Jerry Hoberg (USC Marshall)

Home Equity, Liquidity Considerations, and Entrepreneurship

• Xiao Cen (Columbia Business School)
  Discussant: Christopher Parsons (University of Washington Foster)

Option-Implied Bounds for the Crash Probability of a Stock

• Ran Shi (LSE)
  Discussant: Christopher Jones (USC Marshall)

Monetary Policy Exposure of Banks and Loan Contracting

• Ahmet Degerli (Duke University)
  Discussant: David Zeke (USC Dornsife)

Capital Gains Tax and Real Corporate Investment

• Terry S. Moon (Princeton University)

CEO Leadership and Talent Retention

• Yosub Jung (Harvard University)

Corporate Debt Choice and Bank Capital Regulation

• Haotian Xiang (University of Pennsylvania)

Prudential Capital Controls and Risk Misallocation: Bank Lending Channel

• Lorena Keller (Northwestern University)

Real Option Exercise: Empirical Evidence

• Paul Decaire (University of Pennsylvania)

Stock Return Predictability: Riding the Risk Premium

• Roberto Gomez Cram (University of Pennsylvania)

Does Accountability Deter Individuals from Serving as Independent Directors? Evidence from   A Corporate Governance Reform in India

• S.Lakshmi Naaraayanan (HKUST)
  Discussant: Ran Duchin (University of Washington)

Can Reinvestment Risk Explain the Dividend and Bond Term Structures?

• Andrei Gonçalves (The Ohio State University)
  Discussant: Michael Brennan (UCLA)

Financial Intermediaries and International Risk Premia

• Kyriakos Chousakos (Yale University)
  Discussant: Tyler Muir (UCLA)

Downward Wage Rigidity, Corporate Investment, and Firm Value

• DuckKi Cho (Arizona State University)
  Discussant: Andres Donangelo (UT Austin)

Corruption and Firms

• Emanuele Colonnelli (Stanford University)
  Discussant: Marcus Opp (UC Berkeley)

Short Selling ETFs

• Qifei Zhu (UT Austin)
  Discussant: Andrew (Di) Wu (University of Michigan)

News-Based Macroeconomic Asset Pricing

• Ben Matthies (Yale)
  Discussant: Richard Roll (Caltech and UCLA Anderson)

Intervention Policy in a Dynamic Environment: Coordination and Learning

• Yunzhi Hu (Chicago Booth)
  Discussant: Pavel Zryumov (Wharton)

Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers?

• Preetesh Kantak (UNC Kenan-Flagler)
  Discussant: Zheng Sun (UCI Merage)

How Does Monetary Policy Affect Shadow Banking Money Creation?

• Kairong Xiao (UBC Sauder)
  Discussant: Michael Sockin (UT Austin McCombs)

Financial Innovation and Borrowers: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending

• Tetyana Balyuk (Toronto Rotman)
  Discussant: Berk Sensoy (OSU Fisher)

Subsidizing the Firm: New Evidence on the Impact of Politically Connected Boards

• Shuang Jin (HKUST)
  Discussant: Ran Duchin (UW Seattle Foster)

The CAPM Strikes Back? An Investment Model with Disasters

• Hang Bai (Ohio State University)

Firm Innovation and Financial Analysis: How Do They Interact?

• Jim Goldman (INSEAD)

Hedge Fund Family Ties

• Harold ("Tray") Spilker (Boston College)

Mutual Fund Flight-To-Liquidity

• Aleksandra Rzeznik (Copenhagen)

Shadow Banking and Asset Pricing

• Jinji Hao (Washington University at St. Louis)

Are Dividends and Stock Returns Predictable? New Evidence Using M&A Cash Flows

• Riccardo Sabbatucci (UCSD)

Labor-Machine Substitution: Implications for Corporate Investment and Asset Pricing

• Miao Ben Zhang (UT Austin)

Systemic Risk of Distressed Asset Acquisition

• Jessie Jiaxu Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Mystery of Currency Betas

• Steven Riddiough (University of Warwick)

Macro Disagreement and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

• Weikai Li (HKUST)

Investment Waves under Cross Learning

• Yao Zeng (Harvard University)

The Information Content of Realized Losses

• Peter Kelly (University of Notre Dame)

Credit Markets with Search Frictions

• Yasser Boualam (Wharton)

Valuing Changes in Political Networks: Evidence from Campaign Contributions to Close Congressional Elections

• Pat Akey (LBS)

Design of Financial Securities: Evidence from Private-label RMBS Deals

• Taylor Begley (Michigan)

The X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model

• Lawrence Jin (Yale)

Director Connections in the Mutual Fund Industry

• Paul Calluzzo (Rutgers)

Are Investors Influenced by How Information Is Displayed?  Evidence from Regulatory Change in the Israeli Long-Term Savings Market

• Maya Shaton (Chicago)