12th Annual USC Marshall Ph.D. Conference in Finance

Date: June 15, 2026

Location: 

JKP Room 110 (Popovich Hall), Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Registration:

Please register here if you will be attending the conference.

12th Annual Marshall PhD Conference in Finance

June 15, 2026 • USC Popovich Hall (JKP), Room 110 

For paper sessions, presenters will have 30 minutes, discussants 15 minutes, and 5 minutes for Q&A. The keynote address includes Q&A

8:30am Continental Breakfast and Check-In - sponsored by USC Marshall School of Business

8:55am Welcome 

Keynote Address

9:00 – 9:45am   Economic Entities in Finance: Research Using Big Data and AI

Speaker: Gerard Hoberg (USC Marshall)

Session 1 – 

10:00 – 10:50am The Rise in Insurance Costs for Commercial Properties: Causes, Effects on Rents,
and the Role of Owners

Presenter: Prateek Mahajan (University of Texas at Austin)

Discussant: Richard Green (USC Price / USC Marshall)

10:50 – 11:40am  Venture Capital, Engineering Quality, and Technical Debt

Presenter: Lampros Pnevmatikos (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Arthur Korteweg (USC Marshall)

    11:40 – 1:00pm  Lunch - Suryan Plaza - sponsored by USC Marshall School of Business

Session 2 – 

1:00 – 1:50pm   Selective Recall and the Story-Statistics Gap in Stock Market Misreaction

Presenter: Weiting Hong (Yale)

Discussant: Ricardo De La O (USC Marshall)

1:50 – 2:40pm  The Information Effect of Stock Prices on Household Consumption

Presenter: Myunghwan Andrew Lee (New York University)

Discussant: Şelale Tüzel (USC Marshall)

Session 3 – 

3:00 – 3:50pm   Who Do Regulators Care About? Recovering Welfare Weights from Bank Merger Decisions

Presenter: Harry Cooperman (Stanford)

Discussant: Rodney Ramcharan (USC Marshall)

3:50 – 4:40pm   The Value of Supplier Relationships: Measuring Supply-Chain Capital as an Intangible Asset

Presenter: Huseyin Emre Sayici (The Ohio State University)

Discussant: Quinn Maingi (USC Marshall)

   4:40 – 5:00pm Best paper voting and announcement - award sponsored by WRDS

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Committee

• Jieying Hu: jieying.hu@marshall.usc.edu

• Winston Chen: wenqian.chen@marshall.usc.edu

• Calvin Wright: calvin.wright@marshall.usc.edu

• Federica Ansbacher: federica.ansbacher@marshall.usc.edu

• Gayoung Koo: gayoung.koo@marshall.usc.edu

• Manlin Sun: manlin.sun@marshall.usc.edu

• Zichen Zhao: zichen.zhao@marshall.usc.edu

​For additional information, don't hesitate to get in touch with any of us.

Sponsored by

• Marshall School of Business Ph.D. Program

• Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

• Marshall Center for Investment Studies

• Marshall School of Business Department of Finance and Business Economics​ (FBE)