Tuesday, Jan 05, 2027

10:15 am - 12:15 pm EST

CHAIR: Wei Jiang, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Finance, Emory University PAPERS: “Motivating Political Connections” (Stefan Lewellen and Devin Zhang) Discussant: Robert Novy-Marx, Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Rochester “What Do Earnings Prediction Markets Know?” (Tengfei Zhang) Discussant: Itay Goldstein, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor and Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania “Taking Stock: Do Equity-Based Managerial Incentives Drive Corporate Innovation?” (Mark Chen, Erol Oytun Ercan, and Yaswanth Pothuru) Discussant: William Mann, Associate Professor of Finance, Emory University