Tuesday – June 16, 2026
8:30 - 9:00: Registration
Session 1: Discrimination & Market Access
Session Chair: Edward Shore, UNSW
9:00-9:45 : Kamikazes in Public Procurements: Bid-Rigging and Real Non-Market Outcomes
Authors: Dimas Fazio, Alminas Zaldokas
Presented by: Dimas Fazio, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Kentaro Asai, Kyoto University
9:45-10:30 : Denied: Racial Disparities in Insurance Claims
Authors: Pulak Ghosh, Ankit Kalda, Avantika Pal, Vikas Soni
Presented by: Avantika Pal, University of Illinois
Discussant: Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
10:30-10:45 : Break
Session 2: Consumer Finance & Fintech
Session Chair: Jing Lu, UNSW
10:45 -11:30 : Who Benefits from Buy Now Pay Later? Merchant Heterogeneity and Financial Constraints
Authors: Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh, Ankit Kalda, Chirasree Mitra
Presented by: Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management
Discussant: Vincent Yao, Georgia State University
11:30 -12:15 : The Numbers Game: Signaling Effects of Pricing Formats in Housing Bargaining
Authors: Haaris Mateen, Franklin Qian, Ye Zhang, Tianxiang Zheng
Presented by: Tianxiang Zheng, University College London
Discussant: David Schoenherr, Seoul National University
12:15 - 13:30: Lunch
14:00 - 16:00: Coogee to Bondi Walk
18:00 - 21:30: Workshop Dinner: Luis
Wednesday – June 18, 2025
Session 3: Corporate Governance & Politics
Session Chair: Jason Zein, UNSW
9:00-9:45 : Cross-Insider Trading
Authors: Pulak Ghosh, Ruiqing Hu, Shiyang Huang
Presented by: Shiyang Huang, The University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Michael Wittry, Ohio State University
9:45-10:30 : Trickle-Down Ideology: How CEO Politics Shape the Workforce
Authors: Elisabeth Kempf, Margarita Tsoutsoura, Qiping Xu
Presented by Qiping Xu, University of Illinois
Discussant:, Rik Sen, University of Georgia
10:30-10:45 : Break
Session 4: Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
Session Chair: Yeejin Jang, UNSW
10:45 -11:30 : Entrepreneurs as Households
Authors: Isaac Hacamo, Valentina Rutigliano
Presented by Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University
Discussant: Paul Freed, University of Virginia
11:30 -12:15 : How do Venture Capitalists (actually) make investment decisions? Internal evidence from a private startup accelerator
Authors: Tristan Fitzgerald, Korok Ray
Presented by Tristan Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University
Discussant: Roham Rezaei, University of Amsterdam
12:15-2:00 : Lunch
Session 5: Innovation & Firm Value
Session Chair: Ron Masulis, UNSW
2:00-2:45 : New Products
Authors: Abhiroop Mukherjee Bruno Pellegrino ,Alminas Žaldokas, Yiman Ren, Tomas Thornquist
Presented by Alminas Zaldokas, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Edward Shore, University of New South Wales
2:45-3:30 : Technological Life Cycles: Investment, Growth, and Firm Value
Authors: David Barkemeyer, Jan Bena, Xiyue Li
Presented by Xiyue Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Danqing Mei, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business