Special Sessions & Events

AFA Panel - Geopolitical Fragmentation
AFA Panel - Polarization and Finance
AFA Panel - Generative AI and Finance
AFA Panel - Doing Research with an Impact
AFA Panel - Behavioral Finance 3.0
AFA Lecture - Behavioral Finance at 40: Progress, Open Questions, and New Directions

PhD Poster Session

Friday, Jan 03  |  7:00 am - 6:00 pm PST

Session: AFA PhD Student Poster Session
Session Chair: Wei Jiang (Emory University)


How Do ETFs Affect Stock Volatility?

Chen Lin (University of Mannheim)

Trading on Hearsay: The Role of Rumors and Influencers’ Investment Horizon in Shaping Asset Prices

Edward Halim (Nanyang Technological University)
Yohanes Riyanto (Nanyang Technological University)
Nilanjan Roy (City University of Hong Kong)
Yan Wang (Nanyang Technological University)

The Impact of Climate Policies on Financial Markets: Evidence from the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Mengjie Shi (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Yupu Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
Christoph Meinerding (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Value versus Values: Can Stock Liquidity Save the Planet?

Zhenkai Ran (University of Cambridge)
Mao Ye (Cornell University)

Inequality and the Rise of Finance

Dario Laudati (Columbia University)

Betting Against Others' Beta

Xi Dong (CUNY-Baruch College)
Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
Zilong Niu (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Cathy Yuqing Yang (CUNY-Baruch College)

Corporate Agility and Monetary Policy Transmission

Sinh Thoi Mai (University of Lisbon)
Gonul Colak (Hanken School of Economics)

Endogenous Matching in the Private Debt Market

Paul Rintamäki (Aalto University)

Passive Investing and Market Quality

Philipp Höfler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Christian Schlag (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Maik Schmeling (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Unpackaging ESG: Evidence from 401(k) Investment

Jiaxing Tian (Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen)
Jiahong Shi (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Impact of Institutional Owners on Housing Markets

Zipei Zhu (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Franklin Qian (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Caitlin Gorback (University of Texas-Austin)

Expansion of Deposit Insurance: Adverse Selection Following 2023 Banking Crises

David Huberdeau-Reid (University of Memphis)
George Pennacchi (University of Illinois)

Spatial Extrapolation in The Housing Market

Gen Li (University of British Columbia)

Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure

Jarrad Harford (University of Washington)
Qiyang He (University of Sydney)
Buhui Qiu (University of Sydney)

Dynamic Market Choice

Xian Wu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Intergenerational Effects of Debt Relief: Evidence from Bankruptcy Protection

Naser Hamdi
Ankit Kalda (Indiana University)
Qianfan Wu (Indiana University)

Information Partitioning, Learning, and Beliefs

Pascal Kieren (Heidelberg University)
Lukas Mertes (University of Mannheim)
Martin Weber (University of Mannheim)

From Availability to Affordability: The Role of Small Dollar Mortgage in Cash vs. Mortgage Property Price Disparities

Liu Ee Chia (Pennsylvania State University)
Brent Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University)

Market vs Social norms: Evidence from ESG fund flows

Soohun Kim
Katie Moon (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Jiyeon Seo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Market Concentration, Capital Misallocation, and Asset Pricing

Ngoc Minh Thu Nguyen (University of Amsterdam)

The Role of Equity Financing Constraints in the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois)
Timothy Johnson (University of Illinois)
Sebastiao Oliveira (University of Illinois)
Yucheng Zhou (University of Illinois)

Financial Markets with Externalities

Yang Guo (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tax Incidence in Consumer Financial Markets: Evidence from Auto Leases

Sarah Najafzadeh khoei (University of Kentucky)
Morteza Momeni (Dartmouth College)
David Sovich (University of Kentucky)

Intellectual Property Protection and Staying Private Longer

Adel Khusnulgatin (University of Toronto)

Vertical Integration, Supply Chain Disruptions, and Corporate Yield Spreads

Anni Wang (University of Nevada-Reno)
Yifei Li (University of Nevada-Reno)
Qun Wu

One Hundred and Thirty Years of Corporate Responsibility

Joel Houston (University of Florida)
Sehoon Kim (University of Florida)
Boyuan Li (University of Florida)

Drivers and Effects of Radical vs. Incremental Innovation Purchases

Daria Davydova (EPFL & Swiss Finance Institute)

Opioid Crisis and Firm Downside Tail Risks: Evidence from the Options Market

Jie Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Amit Goyal (University of Lausanne)
Yajing Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Xintong Zhan (Fudan University)
Weiming Zhang (IE Business School)

Demand-Based Expected Returns

Alessandro Crescini (Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva)
Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva)
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)

The Noise Share of the 52-Week Price-Peak Effect on Mergers and Acquisitions

Ke Bi (University of Edinburgh)
Leonidas Barbopoulos (University of Edinburgh)
Yue Liu (University of Edinburgh)

Interpreting Cross-Section Returns of Machine Learning Models: Firm Characteristics and Moderation Effect through LIME

Zequn Li (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Xiaoxia Lou (University of Delaware)
Ying Wu (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Steve Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology)

The Invisible Handshake: State Pensions and Corporate Political Contributions

Jun Tu (Singapore Management University)
Jingshu Wen (University of Oxford)
Fan Zhang (Bentley University)
Haofei Zhang (Nankai University)

Dilutive Financing

Hanjoon Ryu (Duke University)

Market Fragmentation and Price Informativeness

Filipp Prokopev (University of Michigan)

The Zero-Beta Rate Revisited

Rong Wang (Duke University)

Auditor Screening in the Presence of Social Polarization

Neil Hwang (Stevens Institute of Technology)

The Real Cost of Benchmarking

Sebastian Hanson (Stanford University)
Christian Kontz (Stanford University)

Muddy Waters Research and U.S. Stock Market Reaction

Shawn Simpson (Morgan State University)
Alex Tang (Morgan State University)
Mohammed Alsurayhi (Morgan State University)

Disruptive Innovation and IPO Outcomes: Evidence from Machine Learning

Hoang Nguyen (University of Alabama)
Anup Agrawal (University of Alabama)

Synthetic Dollar Funding

Umang Khetan (University of Iowa)

Are Stablecoins the Money Market Mutual Funds of the Future?

Nico Oefele (University of Western Australia)
Dirk G. Baur (University of Western Australia)
Lee A. Smales (University of Western Australia)

The Impact of Social Media Influencers on the Financial Market Performance of Firms

Zhengfa Zhang (University of Leeds)
Kevin Keasey (University of Leeds)
Danilo V. Mascia (University of Leeds)
Costas Lambrinoudakis (University of Leeds)

Media Coverage and Corporate Bond Momentum

Grace Liu (City University of Hong Kong)
Junbo Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Chunchi Wu (State University of New York-Buffalo)

Political Ideology Alignment on Supply Chain

Zhihong Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Ting Dai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Yonghao Zhai (Singapore Management University)

Learning from failure: The role of disclosure on innovation

Menghan Wang (University of Hong Kong)

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Naman Nishesh (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Where does gamma hedge drive the intraday market move?

Taeyoung Park (University of Texas-Dallas)

Tick size and price discovery: Futures-options evidence

Richie Ma (University of Illinois)
Teresa Serra (University of Illinois)

The Value of Information from Sell-side Analysts

Linying Lyu (Zhejiang University)

Empirical Asset Pricing with Probability Forecasts

Songrun He (Washington University in St. Louis)
Linying Lyu (Zhejiang University)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis)

External Governance Responses to Major Environmental and Social Incidents

Suxin Deng (University of New South Wales)
Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales)
Kingsley Fong (University of New South Wales)

The Real Effects of China’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions Trading Program

Xiangzhen Li (Tsinghua University)
Hao Wang (Tsinghua University)

Local, Regional, and Global Asset Pricing?

Joshua Traut (University of St. Gallen)

Inflation Hedging and Pricing Power

Amra Hrustanovic (University of Zurich)
Alexander Wagner (University of Zurich)

Rewiring supply chains through climate policy

Emanuela Benincasa (University of Zurich)
Olimpia Carradori (Swiss Finance Institute)
Miguel Ferreira (NOVA University Lisbon)
Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Norges Bank)

Mosaics of Predictability

Will Cong (Cornell University)
Guanhao Feng (City University of Hong Kong)
Jingyu He (City University of Hong Kong)
Yuanzhi Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Intergenerational Effects of Financial Crises. Evidence from the Panic of 1873

Harsha Dutta (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Political Connections and Carbon Emission Disclosures: A Cross-Country Examination

John McKenzie (Florida State University)
April Knill (University of South Carolina)
Omrane Guedhami (University of South Carolina-Columbia)
Sadok El ghoul (University of Alberta - Saint-Jean)

The Ripple Effects of China’s Global Ownership

Hong Ru (Nanyang Technological University)
Yaojun Ke (Nanyang Technological University)
Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)
Luc Laeven (European Central Bank)

Economic Linkages from the Wisdom of Crowds

Huaixin Wang (Tsinghua University)
Weichen Zhang (Tsinghua University)

Increased Creditor Protection and Trade Credit: Evidence from India

Khushboo Rajendra Thakkar (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Predictability of Firm-Level Stock Crash Risk

Gregory Gillis (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Who Wins and Who Loses when Firms Stay Private Longer?

Leo Stanek (University of Minnesota)

Limit Order Clustering and Stock Price Movements

Xiao Zhang (University of Maryland)

Venture Capital Response to Government-Funded Basic Science

Roham Rezaei (University of New South Wales)
Yufeng Yao (University of New South Wales)

Impact of Culture in Peer to Peer Lending

hongju ren (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Anand Goel (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Statistical Validation of Contagion Centrality in Financial Networks

Agathe Sd (Stevens Institute of Technology)
zachary feinstein (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Balance Sheet Constraints of Prime Brokers on Hedge Fund Performance: Evidence from GSIB Surcharge

Yueting Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yiwen Shen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Returns to scale in passive management: Evidence from ETFs

Bong Ko (University of California-Irvine)

Stock Mispricing and Dual Holders' Loan Pricing

Yun-Soo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Yeonggyu Yun (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time Series Reversal: A Payment Cycle Friction

Giuliano Graziani (Bocconi University)

The Economics of Patent Licensing: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants and Consequences of Patent Licensing Transactions

Thomas Chemmanur (Boston College)
Xi Chen (University of Houston)
Jingxuan Zhang (University of Alberta)

The Effect of U.S. Monetary Policy on Foreign Firms: Does Debt Maturity Matter?

Sebastiao Oliveira (University of Illinois)
Jay Rafi (University of Illinois)
Pedro Simon (University of Illinois)

Trust and Credit Divergence

Zhiheng He (Tsinghua University)
Yang You (University of Hong Kong)

Data Breach Information, Hospital Financing, and Patient Outcomes

Banks Osborne (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

Financial Health Scoring and Personal Finances

Moritz Nardini (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU))
Emanuel Renkl (Technical University of Munich)
Philipp Winder (University of St. Gallen)
Christian Hildebrand (University of St. Gallen)
Benjamin Loos (University of New South Wales)

Taking the Road Less Traveled? Market Misreaction and Firm Innovation Directions

Tianshu Lyu (Yale University)
Zunda Winston Xu (Stanford University)

Memory and Beliefs in Financial Markets: A Machine Learning Approach

Zhongtian Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
Jiyuan Huang (University of Zurich)

Disentangling the loan premium: The value of bank lending

Zhuolu Gao (Copenhagen Business School)

Transaction-cost-aware Factors

Federico Baldi Lanfranchi (EPFL & Swiss Finance Institute)

Push to Read and Trade

Minxia Chen (INSEAD)

Does Sustainable Investing Dull Stock Reactions to Cash Flow News?

Steffen Hitzemann (University of Houston)
An Qin (Rutgers University)
Andrea G Tamoni (Rutgers University)
Stanislav Sokolinski (Michigan State University)

Anomalies and Links to Market: Supranational Evidence Abroad from New Market Efficiency Measures

Yanran Li (CUNY-Baruch College)
Xi Dong (CUNY-Baruch College)
Yan Li (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
David Rapach (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis)

Corporate Finance with Asset Demand

Hulai Zhang (ESCP Business School)

Corporate Debt Maturity and Output Price Dynamics

Minseog Kim (University of Texas-Austin)
Geunyong Park (National University of Singapore)

Is the gig up? The impact of worker-status reclassification regulation on shareholder value

Amedeo De Cesari (University of Manchester)
Marie Dutordoir (University of Manchester)
Lingxiao Liu (University of Manchester)
João Quariguasi Frota Neto (Alliance Manchester Business School)

The Numbers Game: Effects of Listing and Counteroffer Pricing Format in Housing Bargaining

Haaris Mateen (University of Houston)
Franklin Qian (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Ye Zhang (Stockholm School of Economics)
Tianxiang Zheng (University College London)

How Does VC Specialization Backfire in Startup Experimentation?

Xuelin Li (Columbia University)
Sijie Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen)
Jiajie Xu (University of Iowa)
Xiang Zheng (University of Connecticut)

Why and How Do Analysts Make Multiple Forecasts in a Day?

Chuyi Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
Tse-chun Lin (University of Hong Kong)

What Drives Bank Credit Lines? Wholesale Funding and Bank Liquidity Creation

Mohit Desai (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Decentralized and Centralized Options Trading: A Risk Premia Perspective

Andrea Andolfatto (Bocconi University)
Lorenzo Schoenleber (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Siddharth Naik (Independent Researcher)

Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines

Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Franklin Qian (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Yifan Sun (University of Pennsylvania)

Paper Sessions

Friday, Jan 03  |  8:00 am - 10:00 am PST

Session: Bank Lending
Session Chair: Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics)


Collateralization, Monitoring, and Credit Reallocation

Tong Zhao (KU Leuven)

Discussant: Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University)

Debt Flexibility

Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern University)
Rhys Bidder (King's College London)
Margaret M Jacobson (Federal Reserve Board)
Michael Siemer (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: David Smith (University of Virginia)

Non-Fundamental Loan Renegotiations

AJ Yuan Chen (University of British Columbia)
Matthew Phillips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Regina Wittenberg-Moerman (Northwestern University)
Tiange Ye (University of Southern California)

Discussant: Shohini Kundu (University of California-Los Angeles)

Monetary Policy in the Age of Universal Banking

Michael Gelman (University of Delaware)
Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Mackinlay (Virginia Tech)

Discussant: Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago)


Session: Finance, Development, and Growth
Session Chair: Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)


Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance

Muhammad Meki (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Gautam Rao (University of California-Berkeley)

Bridging the Information Gap: Sowing the Seeds of Productivity with High-Speed 4G Internet

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Mohit Desai (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Pulak Ghosh (Indian Insitute of Management-Bangalore)
Nishant Vats (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Raissa Fabregas (University of Texas-Austin)

Financial Kuznets Facts

Emil Verner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Paul Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Kristina Manysheva (Columbia University)

Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation

Rebecca De Simone (London Business School)
S. lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School)
Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)

Discussant: Sumudu Watugala (Indiana University)


Session: How Firms Manage Climate Change
Session Chair: Kilian Huber (University of Chicago)


Climate Postures

Thomas Cauthorn (University of Kassel)
Samuel Drempetic (University of Kassel)
Andreas Hoepner (University College Dublin)
Christian Klein (University of Kassel)
Adair Morse (University of California-Berkeley)

Discussant: Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)

On the Importance of Assurance in Carbon Accounting

Florian Berg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jaime Oliver (Clarity AI)

Discussant: Laura Starks (University of Texas-Austin)

Temperature, Adaptation, and Local Industry Concentration

Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)
Qiping Xu (University of Illinois)
Stefan Zeume (University of Illinois)

Discussant: Shan Ge (New York University)


Session: Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Performance
Session Chair: Justin Birru (Ohio State University)


(Not) Everybody's Working for the Weekend: A Study of Mutual Fund Manager Effort

Boone Bowles (Texas A&M University)
Richard Evans (University of Virginia)

Discussant: Ryan Israelsen (Michigan State University)

Displaced by Big Data: Evidence from Active Fund Managers

Thierry Foucault (HEC - Paris)
Maxime Bonelli (London Business School)

Discussant: Clifton Green (Emory University)

Remeasuring Scale in Active Management

Shiyang Huang (University of Hong Kong)
Lu Xu (University of Washington)
Yang Song (University of Washington)
Hong Xiang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Discussant: Alexander Chinco (CUNY-Baruch College)

Volatility Timing Using ETF Options: Evidence from Hedge Funds

George Aragon (Arizona State University)
Shuaiyu Chen
Zhen Shi (Georgia State University)

Discussant: Sophia Zhengzi Li (Rutgers University)


Session: Behavioral Corporate Finance
Session Chair: Marius Guenzel (University of Pennsylvania)


Meaning at Work

Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
Nava Ashraf (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Virginia Minni (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Jessica Jeffers (HEC - Paris)

Succession

Thomas Geelen (Pennsylvania State University)
Jakub Hajda (HEC - Montréal)

Discussant: Peter Cziraki (Texas A&M University)

Managers' Diversity Experiences and Workforce D&I

Turk Al-Sabah (San Diego State University)

Discussant: Vineet Bhagwat (George Washington University)


Session: Credit Risk and Asymmetric Information
Session Chair: Xiaoji Lin (University of Minnesota)


On the Importance of Accounting Information in Early-Stage Financing

Katja Kisseleva (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH)
Aksel Mjos (Norwegian School of Economics)
David Robinson (Duke University)

Discussant: Hashim Zaman (Harvard University)

Do Bankers matter for Main Street? The Financial Intermediary Labor Channel

Yuchen Chen (University of Illinois)
Xiaoji Lin (University of Minnesota)
Jack Favilukis (University of British Columbia)
Xiaofei Zhao (Georgetown University)

Discussant: Maxi Guennewig (University of Bonn)

Incentives to Lose: Disclosure of Cover Bids in OTC Markets

Andrey Ordin (University of Texas-Austin)
Ruslan Sverchkov (University of Warwick)

Discussant: Scott Condie (Brigham Young University)


Session: Household Financial Behavior
Session Chair: Julia Fonseca (University of Illinois)


Cookies and Shopping

Bo Bian (University of British Columbia)
Michaela Pagel (Washington University in St. Louis)
Huan Tang (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Emily Williams (Harvard University)

Discussant: Sheisha Kulkarni (University of Virginia)

Rewards and Consumption in the Credit Card Market

Tianyu Han (University of California-Berkeley)

Discussant: Benedict Guttman-Kenney (Rice University)

Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy

Samuel Antill (Harvard University)
Megan Hunter (Boston College)

Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota)

Friday, Jan 03  |  10:15 am - 12:15 pm PST

Session: Safe Asset Markets
Session Chair: Giang Nguyen (Pennsylvania State University)


Inflation and Treasury Convenience

Anna Cieslak (Duke University)
Wenhao Li (University of Southern California)
Carolin Pflueger (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Anh Le (Pennsylvania State University)

The Stock-Bond Correlation: A Tale of Two Days in the Treasury Bond Market

Grace Xing Hu (Tsinghua University)
Zhao Jin (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Discussant: Min Wei (Federal Reserve Board)

Identifying the Effects of Demand for Safe Assets

Jefferson Duarte (Rice University)
Tarik Umar (Rice University)

Discussant: Zhaogang Song (Johns Hopkins University)

Safe Assets in Emerging Market Economies

Cristian Cuevas (Universidad de los Andes)

Discussant: Yoshio Nozawa (University of Toronto)


Session: Money, Banking and Competition
Session Chair: Kose John (New York University)


Smart Banks

Alkis Georgiadis-Harris (University of Warwick)
Maxi Guennewig (University of Bonn)
Yuliyan Mitkov (University of Bonn)

Discussant: Philip Dybvig (Washington University in St. Louis)

Payments, Reserves, and Financial Fragility

Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Ming Yang (University College London)
Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Wei Xiong (Princeton University)

Oligopolistic Competition, Fund Proliferation, and Asset Prices

Marco Loseto (University of Chicago)
Federico Mainardi (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Anna Pavlova (London Business School)


Session: Corporate Investment at Public and Private Firms
Session Chair: Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)


Asymmetric Investment Rates

Hang Bai (University of Connecticut)
Erica X. N. Li (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Chen Xue (University of Cincinnati)
Lu Zhang (Ohio State University)

Discussant: Brandon Julio (University of Oregon)

How Do Firms Withstand A Global Economic Shock: Evidence From Within-Firm Responses

Xiao Cen (Texas A&M University)
Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College)
Wei Jiang (Emory University)

Discussant: Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)

Precautionary Debt Capacity

Olivia Kim (Harvard University)
Deniz Aydin (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: David Robinson (Duke University)


Session: Asset Pricing: Climate Change/Climate Finance
Session Chair: Ayako Yasuda (University of California-Davis)


The Benchmark Greenium

Stefania Damico (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Johannes Klausmann (University of Virginia)
Aaron Pancost (University of Texas-Austin)

Discussant: Peter Feldhütter (Copenhagen Business School)

Climate Capitalists

Kilian Huber (University of Chicago)
Niels Gormsen (University of Chicago)
Sangmin Oh (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Aymeric Bellon (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Climate Transition Risk and Energy Prices

Viral Acharya (New York University)
Stefano Giglio (Yale University)
Stefano Pastore (New York University)
Johannes Stroebel (New York University)
Zhenhao Tan (Yale University)

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University)

Systemic Climate Risk

Tristan Jourde (Bank of France)
Quentin Moreau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant: Hyeyoon Jung (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)


Session: Finance and Race
Session Chair: Rohan Williamson (Georgetown University)


Who Benefits from an Increase in Enfranchisement? Evidence from Brazil

Spyridon Lagaras (University of Illinois)
Rodrigo Schneider (Skidmore College)
Margarita Tsoutsoura (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Will Gornall (University of British Columbia)

Board Diversity in Private vs. Public Firms

Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt University)
James Weston (Rice University)
Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia University)

Discussant: Laura Field (University of Delaware)

Does the Market Mis-Value Non-Executive Employee Diversity?

Shiyi Zhang (University of Technology Sydney)

Discussant: Justin Birru (Ohio State University)

Gender and Racial Favoritism in Crowdfunding—Evidence from the Field

Ha Diep-Nguyen (Purdue University)
Michael Price (University of Alabama)
Jun Yang (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant: Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)


Session: Cryptoassets and DeFi
Session Chair: Jonathan Payne (Princeton University)


Automated Exchange Economies

Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon University)
Yikang Shen (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)

Discussant: Chuck Fang (Drexel University)

Crypto Tax Evasion

Tom Meling (Ohio State University)
Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)
Arnstein Vestre (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Vivian Fang (Indiana University)

Equilibrium in a DeFi Lending Market

Thomas Rivera (McGill University)
Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)
Quentin Vandeweyer (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Joseph Abadi (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

The Tokenomics of Staking

Will Cong (Cornell University)
Zhiheng He (Tsinghua University)
Ke Tang (Tsinghua University)

Discussant: Jonathan Payne (Princeton University)


Session: Social Interactions and Financial Decisions
Session Chair: David Hirshleifer (University of Southern California)


Social Learning and Sentiment Contagion in the Bitcoin Market

Bing Han (University of Toronto)
Haoyang Liu (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Pengfei Sui (Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen)

Discussant: William Mullins (University of California-San Diego)

Social Media and Stock Market Participation

Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore)
Yuanyan Pan (National University of Singapore)
Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University)

Discussant: J Cookson (University of Colorado-Boulder)

Social Influence in Household Equity Investment: Evidence from Randomized Military Drafts

Chun-Che Chi (Academia Sinica)
Tim Hung (National Taiwan University)
Ming-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University)
Kevin Tseng (National Taiwan University)

Discussant: Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technological University)

Is Fraud Contagious? Social Connections and the Looting of COVID Relief Programs

John Griffin (University of Texas-Austin)
Samuel Kruger (University of Texas-Austin)
Prateek Mahajan (University of Texas-Austin)

Discussant: Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore)


Session: Insurance and Pension Funds
Session Chair: Ishita Sen (Harvard University)


Long Rates, Life Insurers, and Credit Spreads

Ziang Li (Imperial College London)

Discussant: Kerry Siani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Pension Liquidity Risk

Kristy Jansen (University of Southern California)
Sven Klingler (BI Norwegian Business School)
Angelo Ranaldo (University of Basel)
Patty Duijm (De Nederlandsche Bank)

Discussant: Juliane Begenau (Stanford University)

Equal Prices, Unequal Access: The Effects of National Pricing in the US Life Insurance Industry

Derek Wenning (Princeton University)

Discussant: Johnny Tang (Cornell University)

Performance Capital Flows in DC Pensions

Bryan Richard Gutierrez Cortez (University of Minnesota)
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University)
Juliana Salomao (University of Minnesota)

Discussant: Clemens Sialm (University of Texas-Austin)

Friday, Jan 03  |  2:30 pm - 4:30 pm PST

Session: Special Topics: Climate Finance
Session Chair: Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)


A Breath of Change: Can Personal Exposures Drive Green Preferences?

Steffen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School)
Dmitry Chebotarev (Indiana University)
Fatima Filali (Copenhagen Business School)
Kasper meisner Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School)

Discussant: Jian Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

Investments that Make our Homes Greener: The Role of Regulation

Nuno Clara (Duke University)
Joao Cocco (London Business School)
S. lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School)
Varun Sharma (Indiana University)

Discussant: Qifei Zhu (National University of Singapore)

Adaptation Using Financial Markets: Climate Risk Diversification through Securitization

Matthew Kahn (University of Southern California)
Amine Ouazad (HEC - Montréal)
Erkan Yonder (Concordia University)

Discussant: Shashwat Alok (Indian School of Business)


Session: Corporate Debt
Session Chair: David Matsa (Northwestern University)


Tax Policy, Investment, and Firm Financing: Evidence from the U.S. Interest Limitation

Lucas Goodman (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Adam Isen (Johns Hopkins University)
Jordan Richmond (University of Maryland)
Matthew Smith (U.S. Department of the Treasury)

Discussant: Mara Faccio (Purdue University)

The Secular Decline in Private Firm Leverage

Christine Dobridge (Federal Reserve Board)
Aymeric Bellon (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Erik Gilje (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Whitten (U.S. Department of the Treasury)

Discussant: Benjamin Iverson (Brigham Young University)

Capital Structure & Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Dividend Recapitalizations in Private Equity

Abhishek Bhardwaj (Tulane University)
Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Sabrina Howell (New York University)

Discussant: Shai Bernstein (Harvard University)


Session: Managers, Shareholder Preferences, and Voting
Session Chair: Jonathan Karpoff (University of Washington)


Managing Ownership by Management

Julian Franks (London Business School)
Colin Mayer (University of Oxford)
Hideaki Miyajima (Waseda University)
Ryo Ogawa (Cambridge Universal College)

Discussant: Randall Morck (University of Alberta)

Custom Proxy Voting Advice

Edwin Hu (New York University)
Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
Jonathon Zytnick (Georgetown University)

Discussant: Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University)

The Politicization of Social Responsibility

Todd Gormley (Washington University in St. Louis)
Manish Jha (Washington University in St. Louis)
Meng Wang (University of South Florida)

Discussant: Simi Kedia (Rutgers University)

Political Preferences and Financial Market Equilibrium

Youchang Wu (University of Oregon)
Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Discussant: Luke Taylor (University of Pennsylvania)


Session: Neurofinance, Cognition
Session Chair: Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)


On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting

Cary Frydman (University of Southern California)
Lawrence Jin (Cornell University)

Discussant: Lars Lochstoer (University of California-Los Angeles)

A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

J. Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania)
Josh Hascher (University of Chicago)
Alex Imas (University of Chicago)
Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University)
Martin Weber (University of Mannheim)

Discussant: Ryan Oprea (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making

Teppo Felin (University of Oxford)
Matthias Holweg (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Barney Hartman-glaser (University of California-Los Angeles)

Cognitive Inequality and Big Data

Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
Indira Puri (New York University)

Discussant: Michael Sockin (University of Texas-Austin)


Session: Financial Sector Profits and Societal Losses
Session Chair: Anat Admati (Stanford University)


Tax Heist using American Depositary Receipts

Jonathan Brogaard (University of Utah)
Dominik Roesch (State University of New York-Buffalo)

Discussant: Shane Heitzman (University of Southern California)

Know Your Customer: Informed Trading by Banks

Rainer Haselmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Christian Leuz (University of Chicago)
Sebastian Schreiber (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Discussant: John Griffin (University of Texas-Austin)

MiFID II Research Unbundling: Cross-border Impact on Asset Managers

Richard Evans (University of Virginia)
Juan-pedro Gomez (IE Business School)
Rafael Zambrana (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: Mark Egan (Harvard University)

Branching Out Inequality: The Impact of Credit Equality Policies

Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota)
Erica Xuewei Jiang (University of Southern California)
Carlos Parra (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Jinyuan Zhang (University of California-Los Angeles)

Discussant: Julia Fonseca (University of Illinois)


Session: Uninformed Trading and Asset Prices
Session Chair: Samuel Hartzmark (Boston College)


Price Multipliers are Larger at More Aggregate Levels

Jiacui Li (University of Utah)
Zihan Lin (Stanford University)

Discussant: Philippe van der Beck (Harvard University)

Short Covering

Jesse Blocher (Vanderbilt University)
Xi Dong (CUNY-Baruch College)
Matthew Ringgenberg (University of Utah)
Pavel Savor (DePaul University)

Discussant: Owen Lamont (Acadian Asset Management)

Inelastic Equity Markets: New Evidence From A Reform of U.S. Trust Law

Oliver Spalt (University of Mannheim)
Stefano Cassella (Tilburg University)
Antonino emanuele Rizzo (University of Notre Dame)
Leah Zimmerer (University of Mannheim)

Discussant: David Solomon (Boston College)

Losing is Optional: Retail Option Trading and Expected Announcement Volatility

Tim de Silva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kevin Smith (Stanford University)
Eric So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussant: Taisiya Sikorskaya (London Business School)


Session: Funds and Liquidity
Session Chair: Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)


Information Acquisition by Mutual Fund Investors: Evidence from Stock Trading Suspensions

Clemens Sialm (University of Texas-Austin)
David Xiaoyu Xu (Southern Methodist University)

Discussant: Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

Passive Investing and Market Quality

Philipp Höfler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Christian Schlag (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Maik Schmeling (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Discussant: Naz Koont (Columbia University)

Active ETFs Cloned from Mutual Funds: Competing for Investor Flows

Linda Du (Carnegie Mellon University)
Laura Starks (University of Texas-Austin)
Mindy Xiaolan (University of Texas-Austin)

Discussant: Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)

Saturday, Jan 04  |  8:00 am - 10:00 am PST

Session: Financial Intermediation: ESG and Sustainable Finance
Session Chair: Sumudu Watugala (Indiana University)


Defunding Controversial Industries: Can Targeted Credit Rationing Choke Firms?

Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)
Andre F. Silva (Federal Reserve Board)
Pablo Slutzky (University of Maryland)
Billy Xu (University of Rochester)

Discussant: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)

Green Tilts

Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)
Luke Taylor (University of Pennsylvania)
Robert Stambaugh (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)

Stakeholders' Aversion to Inequality and Bank Lending to Minorities

Hanh Le (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Matteo Crosignani (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Discussant: Harrison Hong (Columbia University)

Politically Polarized Depositors

Jinoug Jeung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: J Cookson (University of Colorado-Boulder)


Session: Mergers and Acquisitions
Session Chair: Gustavo Grullon (Rice University)


Geographic Overlap, Agglomeration Externalities and Post-Merger Restructuring

Jarrad Harford (University of Washington)
Samuel Piotrowski (Norwegian School of Economics)
Yiming Qian (University of Connecticut)

Discussant: Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California)

When Private Equity comes to Town: The Local Economic Consequences of Rising Healthcare Costs

Cyrus Aghamolla (University of Minnesota)
Jash Jain (Indian School of Business)
Richard Thakor (University of Minnesota)

Discussant: Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago)

See the Gap: Firm Returns and Shareholder Incentives

Eitan Goldman (Indiana University)
Jinkyu Kim (Indiana University)
Wenyu Wang (Indiana University)

Discussant: David Robinson (Duke University)

Competition Enforcement and Accounting for Intangible Capital

John Kepler (Stanford University)
Charles McClure (University of Chicago)
Christopher Stewart (University of Chicago)

Discussant: David De Angelis (University of Houston)


Session: New Perspectives in Forecasting the Cross Section of Returns
Session Chair: Danling Jiang (Stony Brook University)


Mosaics of Predictability

Will Cong (Cornell University)
Guanhao Feng (City University of Hong Kong)
Jingyu He (City University of Hong Kong)
Yuanzhi Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: David Rapach (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

Empirical Asset Pricing with Probability Forecasts

Songrun He (Washington University in St. Louis)
Linying Lyu (Zhejiang University)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore)

Narrative Attention Pricing

Hojoon Lee (Boston College)
Xiaoxia Lou (University of Delaware)
Gideon Ozik (EDHEC Business School)
Ronnie Sadka (Boston College)

Discussant: Kuntara Pukthuanthong (University of Missouri)

Moving Targets

Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Quoc Nguyen (DePaul University)

Discussant: Lin Peng (CUNY-Baruch College)


Session: Digital Currencies
Session Chair: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)


Tokenomics: Optimal Monetary and Fee Policies

Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania)
Haotian Xiang (Peking University)

Discussant: Dino Palazzo (Federal Reserve Board)

A Macroeconomic Model of Central Bank Digital Currency

Pascal Paul (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Mauricio Ulate (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Cynthia Wu (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: Michael Kumhof (Bank of England)

Token-Based Platform Governance

Joseph Abadi (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)

Discussant: Ming Yang (University College London)

Optimal Data Security with Redundancies

Rod Garratt (Bank for International Settlements)
Linda Schilling (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Jacob Leshno (University of Chicago)


Session: Asset Pricing: Behavioral
Session Chair: Michaela Pagel (Washington University in St. Louis)


(Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment

Jules Van Binsbergen (University of Pennsylvania)
Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School)
Mayukh Mukhopadhyay (London Business School)
Varun Sharma (Indiana University)

Discussant: Bryan Kelly (Yale University)

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk-Averse?

Yuree Lim (Texas Woman's University)

Discussant: Leland Bybee (University of Chicago)

Resolving Estimation Ambiguity

Paul Decaire (Arizona State University)
Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)
Michael Wittry (Ohio State University)

Discussant: Steffen Meyer (University of Southern Denmark, Danish Finance Institute)

Peering into the Black Box: Trader Strategies in the Iowa Electronic Markets

Thomas Gruca (University of Iowa)
Thomas Rietz (University of Iowa)

Discussant: Will Cassidy (Washington University in St. Louis)


Session: Bankruptcy and Distress
Session Chair: David Schoenherr (Seoul National University)


Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11?

Edie Hotchkiss (Boston College)
Benjamin Iverson (Brigham Young University)
Xiang Zheng (University of Connecticut)

Discussant: Jean-Marie Meier (University of Pennsylvania)

Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring

Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics)
Jens Josephson (Stockholm University)

Discussant: Samuel Antill (Harvard University)

The Limits of Coase: A Study of Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry

Julian Franks (London Business School)
Gunjan Seth (University of Southern California)
Oren Sussman (University of Oxford)
Vikrant Vig (London Business School)

Discussant: Dong Beom Choi (Seoul National University)


Session: Market and Funding Liquidity/Market Risk Factors
Session Chair: Bige Kahraman (University of Oxford)


Market Opacity and Fragility: Why Liquidity Evaporates when it is most Needed

Giovanni Cespa (City University of London)
Xavier Vives (University of Navarra)

Discussant: Michael Sockin (University of Texas-Austin)

Liquidity Provision in a One-Sided Market: The Role of Dealer-Hedge Fund Relations

Mathias Kruttli (Indiana University)
Marco Macchiavelli (University of Massachusetts)
Phillip Monin (Federal Reserve Board)
Alex Zhou (Southern Methodist University)

Discussant: George Aragon (Arizona State University)

Rethinking Transparency - Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Jeff Meli (Barclays)
Zornitsa Todorova (Barclays)
Andrea Diaz (Barclays)

Discussant: Kumar Venkataraman (Southern Methodist University)

Constraint-Induced Factors

Samuel Slocum (Yale University)
Kaushik Vasudevan (Purdue University)

Discussant: Carter Davis (Indiana University)

Saturday, Jan 04  |  10:15 am - 12:15 pm PST

Session: The Political Economy of FinTech
Session Chair: Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown University)


Fintech to the Rescue: Navigating Climate Change

Kim Cramer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Nishant Vats (Washington University in St. Louis)
Nirupama Kulkarni (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL))
Pulak Ghosh (Indian Insitute of Management-Bangalore)

Discussant: Rebecca De Simone (London Business School)

CBDCs, Payment Firms, and Geopolitics

Tobias Berg (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Jan Keil (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Felix Martini (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH)
Manju Puri (Duke University)

Discussant: Sergey Sarkisyan (Ohio State University)

Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem

Will Cong (Cornell University)
Ke Tang (Tsinghua University)
Yanxin Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Xi Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk (University of California-Berkeley)


Session: Finance and Gender
Session Chair: Kai Li (University of British Columbia)


Productivity Changes around Childbirth: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

Larissa Ginzinger (University of Mannheim)
Kun Li (Australian National University)
Alexandra Niessen-ruenzi (University of Mannheim)
Gang Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Discussant: Xing Huang (Washington University in St. Louis)

Beyond Old Boys’ Clubs: Financial Analysts’ Utilization of Professional Connections

Rachel Zhang (National University of Singapore)
Mengqiao Du (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Lin Peng (CUNY-Baruch College)

To Grant or Not to Grant: Inventor Gender and Patent Examination Outcomes

Yuqi Gu (Willamette University)
Connie (Xiangdong) Mao (Temple University)
Yueru Qin (Temple University)

Discussant: Bo Bian (University of British Columbia)

Financing The Next VC-Backed Startup: The Role of Gender

Camille Hebert (University of Toronto)
Heather Tookes (Yale University)
Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia University)

Discussant: Ayako Yasuda (University of California-Davis)


Session: Belief Formation and Economic Implications
Session Chair: Yueran Ma (University of Chicago)


Taking the Road Less Traveled? Market Misreaction and Firm Innovation Directions

Tianshu Lyu (Yale University)
Zunda Winston Xu (Stanford University)

Discussant: Aakash Kalyani (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

Finfluencers

Ali Kakhbod (University of California-Berkeley)
Seyed Mohammad Kazempour (Rice University)
Dmitry Livdan (University of California-Berkeley)
Norman Schuerhoff (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Runjing Lu (University of Toronto)

Law of Small Numbers in Financial Markets: Theory and Evidence

Lawrence Jin (Cornell University)
Cameron Peng (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Discussant: Eben Lazarus (University of California-Berkeley)


Session: Market Microstructure
Session Chair: Caroline Fohlin (Emory University)


Dynamic Market Choice

Xian Wu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant: Chaojun Wang (University of Pennsylvania)

Order Book Spreads, Depth, and Market Efficiency in a General Equilibrium Model

Scott Condie (Brigham Young University)
Brennan Platt (Brigham Young University)

Discussant: Maria Chaderina (University of Oregon)

Trading with Expert Dealers

Maria Chaderina (University of Oregon)
Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Batchimeg Sambalaibat (Princeton University)

Information Friction in OTC Interdealer Markets

Benjamin Gardner (Yale University)
Yesol Huh (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Xingtan Zhang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)


Session: Real Estate and Housing Finance
Session Chair: Nancy Wallace (University of California-Berkeley)


The effects of Environmental Health Risks on Housing Values and Minorities

Marco Grotteria (London Business School)
Jules Van Binsbergen (University of Pennsylvania)
Joao Cocco (London Business School)
S. lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School)

Discussant: Lucas Davis (University of California-Berkeley)

The Winner’s Curse in Housing Markets

Soon Hyeok Choi (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Adam Nowak (West Virginia University)
Patrick Smith (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Alexei Tchistyi (Cornell University)

Discussant: Alina Arefeva (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University)
William Diamond (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Bronson Argyle (Brigham Young University)

Financial Technology and the 1990s Housing Boom

Stephanie Johnson (Rice University)
Nitzan Tzur-Ilan (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

Discussant: Daniel Greenwald (New York University)


Session: Firm Growth via Labor and Intangible Capital
Session Chair: Matt Gustafson (Pennsylvania State University)


Venture Labor: A Nonfinancial Signal for Start-up Success

Sean Cao (University of Maryland)
Jie He (University of Georgia)
Zhilu Lin (University of Tampa)
Xiao Ren (Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen)

Discussant: Paige Ouimet (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Corporate Finance Through Loyalty Programs

Dan Luo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: William Mann (Emory University)

The Politics of Corporate Investment: Evidence from Political Turnovers and IPO Proceeds

Matthew Denes (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ran Duchin (Boston College)
Hongbo Pan (Wuhan University)
Wei Shi (Deakin University)

Discussant: David Schoenherr (Princeton University)

Entrepreneur Experience & Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines

Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Franklin Qian (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Yifan Sun (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Michael Ewens (Columbia University)


Session: Corporate Finance: Corporate Disclosure
Session Chair: Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University)


The Information Content of Tone Dispersion: Evidence from Earnings Conference Call Q&As

Jyun-Ying Fu (National Taiwan University)
Alan Huang (University of Waterloo)
Russell Wermers (University of Maryland)
Jingyu Zhang (Queen's University)
Yuxin Zhang (University of Nottingham, Ningbo)

Discussant: Daisy Wang (Ohio State University)

Performance Indicators of the Digital Age: Mobile Apps, Firm Disclosure, and Stock Returns

Shuping Chen (University of Texas-Austin)
Xi Wu (University of California-Berkeley)
Yukun Liu (University of Rochester)

Discussant: Amin Shams (Ohio State University)

Endogenous Corporate Disclosure during the COVID-19 Lockdown

Yeejin Jang (University of New South Wales)
Taehyun Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)

Discussant: Vivian Fang (Indiana University)

How Managers Communicate about Capital Budgeting to Investors

Robert Battalio (University of Notre Dame)
Tim Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
Bill Mcdonald (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: John Barry (Duke University)


Session: SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL FINANCE: Experiments in Finance
Session Chair: Sascha Füllbrunn (Radboud University Nijmegen)


Credit Ratings and Investments

Anna Bayona (ESADE Business School)
Oana Peia (University College Dublin)
Razvan Vlahu (Bank of The Netherlands)

Discussant: John Duffy (University of California-Irvine)

How General Equilibrium in Markets with Indivisible Goods Obtains Thanks to Complexity

Peter Bossaerts (University of Cambridge)
Konstantinos Ionnidis (University of Cambridge)
Robert Woods (University of Cambridge)
Nitin Yadav (University of Melbourne)

Discussant: Alec Smith (Virginia Tech)

ETF Indexing Strategies and Asset Prices: Experimental Evidence

Peter Bossaerts (University of Cambridge)
John Duffy (University of California-Irvine)
Jean Paul Rabanal (University of Stavanger)
Olga Rud (University of Stavanger)
Nitin Yadav (University of Melbourne)

Discussant: Steve Heinke (University of Basel)

Disposed to be Overconfident

Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University)
Terrance Odean (University of California)
Paul Smeets (University of Amsterdam)

Discussant: Peiran Jiao (Maastricht University)

Saturday, Jan 04  |  2:30 pm - 4:30 pm PST

Session: Big Data / Machine Learning
Session Chair: Anastassia Fedyk (University of California-Berkeley)


Cyber Risk-Driven Innovation in the Modern Data Economy

Orlando Gomes (ISCAL)
Roxana Mihet (University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute)
Kumar Rishabh (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Alex He (University of Maryland)

Data Regulation in Credit Markets

Uday Rajan (University of Michigan)
Yan Xiong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant: Jian Li (Columbia University)

Capital Market Consequences of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the Ban of ChatGPT in Italy

Jeremy Bertomeu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Yupeng Lin (National University of Singapore)
Yibin Liu (National University of Singapore)
Zhenghui Ni (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Gregor Schubert (University of California-Los Angeles)


Session: Portfolio Choice and Asset Allocation
Session Chair: Xing Huang (Washington University in St. Louis)


Higher-Order Beliefs and Risky Asset Holdings

Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley)
Xiao Yin (University College London)

Discussant: Cameron Peng (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice

Aizhan Anarkulova (Emory University)
Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona)
Michael O'Doherty (University of Missouri)

Discussant: Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)

How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings?

Taha Choukhmane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Christopher Palmer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussant: Jialan Wang (University of Illinois)


Session: ESG and Sustainable Finance
Session Chair: Kelly Shue (Yale University)


Corporate Actions as Moral Issues

Zwetelina Iliewa (University of Bonn)
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University)
Oliver Spalt (University of Mannheim)

Discussant: Sascha Füllbrunn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Pollution-Shifting vs. Downscaling: How Financial Distress Affects the Green Transition

Aymeric Bellon (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Yasser Boualam (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Daniel Green (Harvard University)

Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets

Matthias Rodemeier (Bocconi University)

Discussant: Florian Heeb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Brown Capital (Re)Allocation

Olivier Darmouni (Columbia University)
Yuqi Zhang (Columbia University)

Discussant: Ran Duchin (Boston College)


Session: Real Effects of Information and Regulatory Frictions
Session Chair: Geoffrey Tate (University of Maryland)


The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States

Francesco Trebbi (University of California-Berkeley)
Miao Zhang (University of Southern California)
Michael Simkovic (University of Southern California)

Discussant: Ting Xu (University of Toronto)

Financial News Production

Allen Hu (University of British Columbia)

Discussant: Diego Garcia (University of Colorado-Boulder)

Government Arrears and Corporate Decisions: Lessons from a Natural Experiment

Vicente Cunat (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Rafael Zambrana (University of Notre Dame)
Vicente Bermejo (ESADE Business School)
Jose Maria Abad (World Bank)

Discussant: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Naman Nishesh (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Discussant: Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown University)


Session: Mortgage Markets: Risk, Access, and Transparency
Session Chair: Vicki Bogan (Duke University)


When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

Parinitha Sastry (Columbia University)
Ishita Sen (Harvard University)
Ana-maria Tenekedjieva (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Jawad Addoum (Cornell University)

Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption

David Matsa (Northwestern University)
Brian Melzer (Dartmouth College)
Michal Zator (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: Michaela Pagel (Washington University in St. Louis)

Financial Skills and Search in the Mortgage Market

Marta Cota (CERGE-EI)
Ante Sterc (CERGE-EI)

Discussant: Sheisha Kulkarni (University of Virginia)

Does the Disclosure of Consumer Complaints Reduce Racial Disparities in the Mortgage Lending Market

Xiang Li (Fordham University)

Discussant: Feng Liu (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)


Session: International Finance
Session Chair: Chenzi Xu (Stanford University)


Implications of Asset Market Data for Equilibrium Models of Exchange Rates

Zhengyang Jiang (Northwestern University)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford University)
Hanno Lustig (Stanford University)

Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki (University of California-Los Angeles)

A Currency Premium Puzzle

Jingye Wang (Renmin University of China)
Tarek Hassan (Boston University)
Thomas Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Discussant: Valentin Haddad (University of California-Los Angeles)

Following the Fed: Limits of Arbitrage and the Dollar

Nikolai Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania)
Xiaoliang Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant: Antonio Coppola (Stanford University)

Which Exchange Rate Matters to Global Investors?

Kristy Jansen (University of Southern California)
Hyun Shin (Bank for International Settlements)
Goetz von Peter (Bank for International Settlements)

Discussant: Fabricius Somogyi (Northeastern University)


Session: Entrepreneurial Finance/Private Equity/Venture Capital
Session Chair: Joshua Lerner (Harvard University)

With special guest, Lara Druyan, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Data Capital


Moral Hazard in Experiment Design: Implications for Financing Innovation

Patrick Bolton (Columbia University)
Ramana Nanda (Imperial College London)
Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial College London)
Shannon Liu (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

How Does Active Involvement Benefit Investors? Evidence from 85 Billion Cell Phone Signals

Jack (Xiaoyong) Fu (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Shai Bernstein (Stanford University)

Venture Capital Response to Government-Funded Basic Science

Roham Rezaei (University of New South Wales)
Yufeng Yao (University of New South Wales)

Discussant: Tania Babina (Columbia University)

Sunday, Jan 05  |  8:00 am - 10:00 am PST

Session: Corporate Finance: ESG and Sustainable Finance I
Session Chair: Adair Morse (University of California-Berkeley)


The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green Revenues

Johannes Klausmann (University of Virginia)
Philipp Krueger (Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva)
Pedro Matos (University of Virginia)

Discussant: Andreas Hoepner (University College Dublin)

Environmental Scandals and Green Products

Wan-chien Chiu (National Tsing Hua University)
Po-hsuan Hsu (National Tsing Hua University)
Kai Li (University of British Columbia)
Joy Tianjiao Tong (University of Western Ontario)

Discussant: Umit Gurun (University of Texas-Dallas)

Environmental Regulation, Pollution, and Shareholder Wealth

Seungho Choi (Hanyang University)
Ross Levine (Stanford University)
Raphael Park (University of Technology Sydney)
Simon Xu (Harvard University)

Discussant: Ian Appel (University of Virginia)

Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Cost of Biodiversity Conservation

Fukang Chen (Renmin University of China)
Minhao Chen (Renmin University of China)
Will Cong (Cornell University)
Haoyu Gao (Renmin University of China)
Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)

Discussant: Laura Starks (University of Texas-Austin)


Session: Government Intervention and the Local Economy
Session Chair: Mara Faccio (Purdue University)


Segmented Multipliers: Evidence from Welfare Cuts

Manuel Adelino (Duke University)
Jim Goldman (University of Warwick)

Discussant: Maria-teresa Marchica (Manchester Business School)

Municipal and Economic Consequences of PFAS Contamination Discovery

Daisy Huang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Amit Kumar (Singapore Management University)

Discussant: Jess Cornaggia (Pennsylvania State University)

The Golden Revolving Door

Ling Cen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Jing Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Fan Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)


Session: Asset Pricing: Machine Learning
Session Chair: Bryan Kelly (Yale University)


Asset Embeddings

Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University)
Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago)
Robert Richmond (New York University)
Motohiro Yogo (Princeton University)

Discussant: Markus Pelger (Stanford University)

The Expected Returns on Machine-Learning Strategies

Vitor Azevedo (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Christopher Hoegner (Technical University of Munich)
Mihail Velikov (Pennsylvania State University)

Discussant: Andrew Chen (Federal Reserve Board)

What Drives Trading in Financial Markets? A Big Data Perspective

Anton Lines (Copenhagen Business School)
Shikun Ke (Yale University)

Discussant: Yinan Su (Johns Hopkins University)


Session: Derivatives and Commodities
Session Chair: Xiaohui Gao (Temple University)


A New Closed-Form Discrete-Time Option Pricing Model with Stochastic Volatility

Steven Heston (University of Maryland)
Kris Jacobs (University of Houston)
Hyung Joo Kim (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Bjorn Eraker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Forecasting Option Returns with News

Jie Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Bing Han (University of Toronto)
Gang Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ruijing Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Xintong Zhan (Fudan University)

Discussant: Christopher Jones (University of Southern California)

Decentralized and Centralized Options Trading: A Risk Premia Perspective

Lorenzo Schoenleber (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Andrea Andolfatto (Bocconi University)
Siddharth Naik (Independent Researcher)

Discussant: Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Relative Basis and Expected Returns in Commodity Futures Markets

Ming Gu (Xiamen University)
Wenjin Kang (University of Macau)
Dong Lou (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Ke Tang (Tsinghua University)

Discussant: William Diamond (University of Pennsylvania)


Session: Investor Expectations and Trading Behavior
Session Chair: Spencer Kwon (Brown University)


Daily Momentum and New Investors in an Emerging Stock Market

Zhenyu Gao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Wenxi Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Wei Xiong (Shenzhen Stock Exchange)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)

Discussant: Cameron Peng (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Crash Narratives

William Goetzmann (Yale University)
Dasol Kim (Office of Financial Research)
Robert Shiller (Yale University)

Discussant: Aditya Chaudhry (Ohio State University)

What Drives Very Long-Run Cash Flow Expectations?

Paul Decaire (Arizona State University)
Marius Guenzel (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Kaushik Vasudevan (Purdue University)

Subjective Beliefs and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from Financial Advisors

Cynthia Balloch (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Cameron Peng (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Discussant: Johnny Tang (Cornell University)


Session: Return Dynamics/Volatility and Tail Risk
Session Chair: Johan Walden (University of California-Berkeley)


Volatility Disagreement and Asset Prices

Adem Atmaz (Purdue University)
Andrea Buffa (University of Colorado-Boulder)

Discussant: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen (BI Norwegian Business School)

Demand-Based Subjective Expected Returns

Alessandro Crescini (Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva)
Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva)
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)

Discussant: Eben Lazarus (University of California-Berkeley)

Growth and Differences of Log-Normals

Robert Parham (University of Virginia)

Discussant: Rustam Ibragimov (Imperial College London)


Session: Bank Competition/Bank Funding and Risk Management
Session Chair: Toni Ahnert (European Central Bank)


Information-Based Pricing in Specialized Lending

Kristian Blickle (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Zhiguo He (Stanford University)
Jing Huang (Texas A&M University)
Cecilia Parlatore (New York University)

Discussant: Robert Marquez (University of California-Davis)

CEO Ownership, Risk Management, and Bank Runs at Unlimited Liability Banks during the 1890s

Haelim Anderson (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Jaewon Choi (Seoul National University)
Jennifer Rhee (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Discussant: Rodney Ramcharan (University of Southern California)

The Effect of Instant Payments on the Banking System: Liquidity Transformation and Risk-Taking

Rodrigo Gonzalez (Central Bank of Brazil)
Yiming Ma (Columbia University)
Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Sunday, Jan 05  |  10:15 am - 12:15 pm PST

Session: Finance and Industrial Organization
Session Chair: Maria Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland)


Supply Chain Shortages, Large Firms’ Market Power, and Inflation

Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano)
Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
Roberto Tubaldi (BI Norwegian Business School)

Discussant: Ina Simonovska (University of California-Davis)

Board Connections, Firm Profitability, and Product Market Actions

Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Washington University in St. Louis)
Renping Li (Washington University in St. Louis)
Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Felipe Cabezon (Virginia Tech)

Ownership and Competition

Alessio Piccolo (Indiana University)
Jan Schneemeier (Michigan State University)

Discussant: Mina Lee (Federal Reserve Board)


Session: The Innovation Process
Session Chair: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University)


Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers

Colleen Chien (University of California-Berkeley)
Jillian Grennan (Emory University)

Discussant: Jiajie Xu (University of Iowa)

Teamwork and the Homophily Trap: Evidence from Open Source Software

Davidson Heath (University of Utah)
Nathan Seegert (University of Utah)
Jeffrey Yang (University of Utah)

Discussant: Geoffrey Tate (University of Maryland)

Patent Hunters

Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Umit Gurun (University of Texas-Dallas)
Katie Moon (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Paula Suh (University of Georgia)

Discussant: Joan Farre-Mensa (University of Illinois-Chicago)


Session: Experience Effects and Memory
Session Chair: Alexandra Wellsjo (University of California-San Diego)


Information Partitioning, Learning, and Beliefs

Pascal Kieren (Heidelberg University)
Lukas Mertes (University of Mannheim)
Martin Weber (University of Mannheim)

Discussant: Michael Thaler (University College London)

Memory and Beliefs in Financial Markets: A Machine Learning Approach

Zhongtian Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
Jiyuan Huang (University of Zurich)

Discussant: Zhengyang Jiang (Northwestern University)

Risk-Taking Adaptation to Macroeconomic Experiences

Remy Levin (University of Connecticut)
Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut)

Discussant: Michael Weber (University of Chicago)


Session: Executive Pay and Incentives
Session Chair: Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics and Political Science)


Growth-promoting Bonuses and Mergers and Acquisitions

Tor-erik Bakke (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Mathias Kronlund (University of Illinois)
Hamed Mahmudi (University of Delaware)
Aazam Virani (University of Arizona)

Discussant: Jarrad Harford (University of Washington)

Executive Compensation with Social and Environmental Performance

Pierre Chaigneau (Queen's University)
Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC - Montréal)

Discussant: Doron Levit (University of Washington)

Non-Compete Agreements and the Market for Corporate Control

Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto)
Yuanqing (Lorna) Zhong (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Jessica Jeffers (HEC - Paris)

Does Enhanced Disclosure Curb CEO Pay? Evidence from a Modern Information Technology Improvement

Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University)
Ben Bennett (Ohio State University)
Zexi Wang (Lancaster University)

Discussant: Michelle Lowry (Drexel University)


Session: Quantities and Prices
Session Chair: Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago)


The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

Umang Khetan (University of Iowa)
Jian Li (Columbia University)
Ioana Neamtu (Bank of England)
Ishita Sen (Harvard University)

Discussant: Kristy Jansen (University of Southern California)

Who Clears the Market When Passive Investors Trade?

Marco Sammon (Harvard University)
John Shim (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: Matthew Ringgenberg (University of Utah)

The Derivative Payoff Bias

Guido Baltussen (Erasmus University)
Paul Whelan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Julian Terstegge (Copenhagen Business School)

Discussant: Vincent Bogousslavsky (Boston College)


Session: Macro Finance (incl. Financial Crises and Inflation)
Session Chair: Robin Greenwood (Harvard University)


Corporate Debt, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Financial Crises

Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University)
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland)
Luc Laeven (European Central Bank)
Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore)

The Riskiness of Credit Origins and Downside Risks to Economic Activity

Claudio Raddatz (University of Chile)
Jerome Vandenbussche (International Monetary Fund)
Yizhi Xu (International Monetary Fund)
Peichu Xie (Citadel LLC)
Dulani Seneviratne (International Monetary Fund)


Session: Climate Finance and Asset Pricing
Session Chair: Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)


How Effective are Portfolio Mandates?

Jack Favilukis (University of British Columbia)
Lorenzo Garlappi (University of British Columbia)
Raman Uppal (EDHEC Business School)

Discussant: Jaromir Nosal (Boston College)

Green Intermediary Asset Pricing

Maxime Sauzet (Boston University)

Discussant: Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)

The Public Cost of Net Zero

Jess Cornaggia (Pennsylvania State University)
Peter Iliev (Pennsylvania State University)

Discussant: Harrison Hong (Columbia University)


Session: Household Finance: Borrowing and Investing
Session Chair: Pascal Noel (University of Chicago)


Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias

Marianne Andries (University of Southern California)
Maxime Bonelli (London Business School)
David Sraer (University of California-Berkeley)

Discussant: Samuel Hartzmark (Boston College)

Financial Advice and Investor Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Active vs. Passive Strategies

Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yang Sun (Brandeis University)

Discussant: Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania)

To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments

Jialan Wang (University of Illinois)

Discussant: Taha Choukhmane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Better than Human? Experiments with AI Debt Collectors

James Choi (Yale University)
Dong Huang (Yale University)
Zhishu Yang (Tsinghua University)
Qi Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Discussant: Anthony DeFusco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Sunday, Jan 05  |  1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

Session: Technology and Risk in Banking and Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries
Session Chair: Christa Bouwman (Texas A&M University)


Tech-Driven Intermediation in the Originate-to-Distribute Model

Zhiguo He (Stanford University)
Sheila Jiang (University of Florida)
Douglas Xu (University of Florida)

Discussant: Christine Parlour (University of California-Berkeley)

The Disciplining Effect of Bank Supervision: Evidence from SupTech

Hans Degryse (KU Leuven)
Cedric Huylebroek (KU Leuven)
Bernardus Doornik (Bank for International Settlements)

Discussant: Philip Strahan (Boston College)

Failing Banks

Sergio Correia (Federal Reserve Board)
Stephan Luck (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Emil Verner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussant: Aditya Sunderam (Harvard University)

Where Do Banks End and NBFIs Begin?

Viral Acharya (New York University)
Nicola Cetorelli (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Bruce Tuckman (New York University)

Discussant: Juliane Begenau (Stanford University)


Session: Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
Session Chair: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford University)


The Liquidity State-Dependence of Monetary Policy Transmission

Oliver Ashtari Tafti (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Rodrigo Guimaraes (Bank of England)
Gabor Pinter (Bank for International Settlements)
Jean-Charles Wijnandts (Bank of England)

Discussant: Jiacui Li (University of Utah)

The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets

Jeremy Stein (Harvard University)
Jonathan Wallen (Harvard University)

Discussant: Quentin Vandeweyer (University of Chicago)

Fed Information Effects: Evidence from the Equity Term Structure

Benjamin Golez (University of Notre Dame)
Ben Matthies (University of Notre Dame)

Discussant: Michael Bauer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)


Session: Labor Finance
Session Chair: Paige Ouimet (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)


Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Edoardo Di Porto (University of Naples Federico II)
Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)
Vincenzo Pezone (Tilburg University)
Raffaele Saggio (University of British Columbia)
Fabiano Schivardi (LUISS and EIEF)

Discussant: Spyridon Lagaras (University of Illinois)

Equity Pay Beyond the C-Suite

Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Antonio Falato (Federal Reserve Board)
Dongryeol Lee (University of California-Los Angeles)
Mindy Xiaolan (University of Texas-Austin)

Discussant: Tania Babina (Columbia University)

Longevity and Occupational Choice

Marius Guenzel (University of Pennsylvania)
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)

Discussant: Malcolm Wardlaw (University of Georgia)

Talent Market Competition and Firm Growth

AJ Yuan Chen (University of British Columbia)
Miao Zhang (University of Southern California)
Zhao Zhang (International Monetary Fund)

Discussant: Jan Bena (University of British Columbia)


Session: Corporate Finance: Corporate Governance
Session Chair: Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)


Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
Matilde Bombardini (University of California-Berkeley)
Raymond Fisman (Boston University)
Francesco Trebbi (University of California-Berkeley)
Eyub Yegen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant: Ekaterina Neretina (Bocconi University)

A Diverse View on Board Diversity

Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College)
Wei Jiang (Emory University)
Huasheng Nie (University of California-Los Angeles)

Discussant: Daehyun Kim (University of Toronto)

Corporate Behavior when Running the Firm for Stakeholders: Evidence from Hospitals

Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia)
Gonzalo Maturana (Emory University)
Jianzhang Lin (Emory University)

Discussant: Tong Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Session: New Perspectives on Cross-sectional Asset Pricing
Session Chair: Ricardo De la O (University of Southern California)


Is there a Cash-flow Timing Premium?

Dominik Walter (University of Konstanz)
Rudiger Weber

Discussant: Andrea G Tamoni (Rutgers University)

Anomalies and Cash Flows

Yi Zhou (University of Arizona)

Discussant: Christian Opp (University of Rochester)

Model Uncertainty in the Cross Section

Ran Shi (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Jiantao Huang (University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Alexander Chinco (CUNY-Baruch College)

Which (Nonlinear) Factor Models ?

Caio Almeida (Princeton University)
Gustavo Freire (Erasmus School of Economics)

Discussant: Mirela Sandulescu (University of Michigan)


Session: Household Finance
Session Chair: James Choi (Yale University)


The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States

Alexander Bartik (University of Illinois)
Elizabeth Rhodes
David Broockman (University of California-Berkeley)
Patrick Krause
Sarah Miller (University of Michigan)
Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto)

Discussant: David Cesarini (New York University)

Business Education and Portfolio Returns

Adam Altmejd (Stockholm University)
Thomas Jansson (Sveriges Riksbank)
Yigitcan Karabulut (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH)

Discussant: Philippe D'astous (HEC - Montréal)

Longterm Beliefs

Laura Starks (University of Texas-Austin)
Richard Sias (University of Arizona)
Harry Turtle (Colorado State University)

Discussant: Michael Weber (University of Chicago)


Session: Fixed Income
Session Chair: Kerry Siani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Asset Heterogeneity, Market Fragmentation, and Quasi-Consolidated Trading

Wei Li (CUNY-Baruch College)
Zhaogang Song (Johns Hopkins University)

Discussant: Patrick Blonien (Carnegie Mellon University)

Whose Asset Sales Matter?

Rhys Bidder (King's College London)
Jamie Coen (Imperial College London)
Caterina Lepore (International Monetary Fund)
Laura Silvestri (Bank of England)

Discussant: Jian Li (Columbia University)

Hidden Duration: Interest Rate Derivatives in Fixed Income Funds

Jaewon Choi (Seoul National University)
Minsoo Kim (University of Melbourne)
Oliver Randall (University of Melbourne)

Discussant: Ishita Sen (Harvard University)

Data Uncertainty in Corporate Bonds

Gergana Jostova (George Washington University)
Stanislava Nikolova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Alexander Philipov (George Mason University)

Discussant: Peter Feldhütter (Copenhagen Business School)

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