Conference Archives
2023
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: Discussant: Yaron Levi (USC Marshall)
2022
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)
2019
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)
2018
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)
2017
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)
2016
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)
2015
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)
2014
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)
2013
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)