10th Annual USC Marshall Ph.D. Conference in Finance

Date: June 24, 2024

Location: 

JKP Room 102 (Popovich Hall), Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Registration:

Please register here if you will be attending our conference!

10th Annual Marshall PhD Conference in Finance

June 24, 2024  •  USC Popovich Hall (JKP Room 102)

Presenters will have 25 minutes, discussants 15 minutes, 5 minutes for Q&A

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

8:55am     Welcome

Morning session

9:00 – 9:45am The Impact of Institutional Investors on Homeownership and Neighborhood Access

Presenter: Joshua Coven (NYU, Stern)

Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)

9:45 – 10:30am Corporate Political Connections During Social Protests

Presenter: Navid Neshat (Indiana University, Kelley)

Discussant: Ran Duchin (Boston College, Carroll)

10:45 – 11:30am     Delay Your Rivals: Vertical Integration in Securitization and Lending Competition

Presenter: Brandon Zborowski (Northwestern University, Kellogg)

Discussant: Jinyuan Zhang (UCLA, Anderson)

11:30 – 12:15pm Do Exchange Rate Shocks Affect Firms' Production Capacity? The Working Capital Channel

Presenter: Sebastiao Oliveira (UIUC)

Discussant: Oguzhan Ozbas (Boğaziçi University)

12:15 – 1:45pm     Lunch: Suryan Plaza - sponsored by USC Marshall School of Business

Afternoon session

1:45 – 2:30pm Taking the Road Less Traveled? Market Misreaction and Firm Innovation Directions

Presenter: Tianshu Lyu (Yale SOM)

Discussant: Samuel Hartzmark (Boston College, Carroll)

2:30 – 3:15pm Spatial Extrapolation in the Housing Market

Presenter: Gen Li (UBC, Sauder)

Discussant: Selale Tuzel (USC Marshall)

3:15 – 4:00pm Network Factors for Idiosyncratic Volatility Spillover

Presenter: Belinda Chen (UIUC, Gies)

Discussant: Bernard Herskovic (UCLA, Anderson)

4:00 – 4:20pm Best paper award voting and announcement - award sponsored by WRDS

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Committee

• Ioannis Moustakis: Ioannis.Moustakis@marshall.usc.edu

• Litong Zhang: Litong.Zhang@marshall.usc.edu

• Sidd Mehta: Siddharth.Mehta@marshall.usc.edu

• Augusto Orellana: Augusto.Orellana@marshall.usc.edu

• Tiange Ye: Tiange.Ye@marshall.usc.edu

​For additional information, please contact 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)