Program

9:00am.  BREAKFAST (30 min)   

9.25 – 9.30am.  Welcome from Tania Babina 

Session 1  

9.30 – 11:00am.  Chair  Yuri Tserlukevich: “Shocks to Finance and Political Participation” 

9:30am.  Daniel Bias (with Alexander Ljungqvist) “Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth?” 

10:15am. Spyridon Lagaras (with Margarita Tsoutsoura and Rodrigo Schneider)  “Who Benefits from an Increase in Enfranchisement? Evidence from Brazil” 

11:00am. COFFEE BREAK (30 min) 

Session 2  

11.30 – 1:00pm. Chair  Chris Stanton:  “Labor and Finance meets Household Finance”  

11.30am.  David Matsa (with Brian Melzer and Michal Zator) “Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption”  

12.15pm.  Chanik Jo  “Unintended Benefits of Employment Protection: Households' Stock Market Participation” 

1.00pm.  LUNCH (1 hour) 

Session 3  

2:00 – 3:30pm.  Elena Simintzi:  “Finance and Gender” 

2:00pm.  Ramin Baghai (with Rui Silva and Margarida Soares)  “Are women more exposed to firm shocks?” 

2:45pm. Alan Benson (with Danielle Li and Kelly Shue) “Potential and the Gender Promotion Gap” 

3:30pm.  COFFEE BREAK (30 min) 

Session 4  

4:00 – 5:00pm.  Xavier Giroud: PhD student session  

4:00pm. Allison Cole “Worker Valuation of Retirement Benefits” 

4.20pm. Clemens Mueller “Non-compete agreements and labor allocation across product markets” 

4.40pm. Shuang Chen “Green Investors and Green Transition Efforts: Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk?” 

5:00pm.  BREAK (30 min) 

5.30pm.   Panel. Moderator: Tania Babina, and industry guests: Allison Rosengard, Christine Hendrickson, Deb Ghosh  

One hour panel with industry professionals to talk about major challenges firms face in managing labor related issues: compensation, technology, retraining, retaining, etc. 

6.45pm 

Dinner at Bylander, Hudson River Greenway, New York, NY 10027