INSEAD Finance Symposium

Date: June 3rd, 4th, 5th , 2020

Location: Zoom

Video recordings: day 1, day 2, day 3

Program

All times are Central European Time, GMT+2

Presenters are underlined

Wednesday June 3rd

Chair: Frederico Belo (INSEAD)

Session 1: Credit Ratings and Real Estate

15h00 "Soft Collateral, Bank Lending, and the Optimal Credit Rating System"

Lixin Huang (Georgia State University) and Andrew Winton (Carlson School of Management)

Discussant: John Kuong (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

15h40 "When Discounted Rates End: The Cost of Taking Action in the Mortgage Market"

Adiya Belgibayeva (FCA), Teresa Bono (FCA), Philippe Bracke (FCA), João Cocco (London Business School) and Tommaso Majer (FCA)

Discussant: Pierre Mabille (NYU-Stern & INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

16h20 Break

Session 2: Liquidity

16h40 "Fake Liquidity?"

Terrence Hendershott (Haas School of Business), Dan Li (Board of Governors of the Federal ReserveSystem), Dmitry Livdan (Haas School of Business), and Norman Schürhoff (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Bart Yueshen (INSEAD)

Slides: discussion

17h20 "Asset Prices and Liquidity with Market Power and Non-Gaussian Payoffs"

Sergei Glebkin (INSEAD), Semyon Malamud (EPFL), and Alberto Teguia (Sauder School of Business)

Discussant: S "Vish" Viswanathan (Duke)

Slides: presentation, discussion

18h00 Adjourn


Thursday June 4th

Chair: Lily Fang (INSEAD)

Session 3: Socially Responsible Investment

15h00 "A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment"

Martin Oehmke (London School of Economics) and Marcus M. Opp (Stockholm School of Economics)

Discussant: Lin Shen (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

15h40 "Sustainable Investing in Equilibrium"

Lubos Pastor (Booth School of Business), Robert F. Stambaugh (The Wharton School) and Luke Taylor (The Wharton School)

Discussant: Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)

Slides: discussion

16h20 Break

Session 4: Intermediation

16h40 "Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects "

Ron Kaniel (Simon School of Business) and Dmitry Orlov (University of Wisconsin School of Business)

Discussant: Adrian Buss (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

17h20 "Rational Sentiment and Economic Cycles"

Maryam Farboodi (MIT) and Péter Kondor (London School of Economics)

Discussant: Junyuan Zou (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

18h00 Adjourn


Friday June 5th

Chair: Joel Peress (INSEAD)

Session 5: Disagreement and Feedback

15h00 "Testing Disagreement Models"

Yen-Cheng Chang (National Taiwan University), Pei-Jie Hsiao (National Taiwan University), Alexander Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), Kevin Tseng (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

Discussant: Olivier Dessaint (Rotman School of Management & INSEAD)

15h40 "Market Feedback: Who Learns What?"

Itay Goldstein (Wharton School of Business), Jan Schneemeier (Kelley School of Business) Liyan Yang (Rotman School of Management)

Discussant: Sergei Glebkin (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

16h20 Break

Session 6: Disagreement and Resolution of Uncertainty

16h40 "Identifying preference for early resolution from asset prices"

Hengjie Ai (Carlson School of Management), Ravi Bansal (Fuqua School of Business), Hongye Guo (The Wharton School), and Anmir Yaron (The Wharton School).

Discussant: Federico Gavazzoni (INSEAD)

Slides: presentation, discussion

17h20 "Choosing to Disagree in Financial Markets"

Snehal Banerjee (Rady School of Management), Jesse Davis (University of North Carolina) and Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD)

Discussant: Xavier Vives (IESE Business School)

Slides: presentation, discussion

18h00 Symposium ends.