Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 29/May/2024
9:30am - 6:00pmConference Registration
Location: Gartenlounge
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.1: Consequences of Market Intervention
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Viral Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business
 

Voters, Bailouts, and the Size of the Firm

Linda Schilling

Olin Business School Washington University in St Louis, United States of America

Discussant: Wenhao Li (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business)



When Should Governments Buy Assets?

Michael Sockin1, Daniel Neuhann2

1University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Discussant: Victoria Vanasco (CREI, UPF, Barcelona GSE)



Bailout Addiction: Does Bailout Anticipation Induce Adverse Selection?

Fenghua Song1, Anjan Thakor2

1Pennsylvania State University, United States of America; 2Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America

Discussant: Martin Oehmke (London School of Economics)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.2: Corporate Investment and Financial Frictions
Location: Köpenick
Session Chair: Lukas Schmid, USC Marshall School of Business
 

Precautionary Debt Capacity

Deniz Aydın1, Olivia Kim2

1Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School; 2Harvard Business School

Discussant: Egemen Eren (Bank for International Settlements)



Identifying Firm-Level Financial Frictions using Theory-Informed Restrictions

Andrea Caggese, Geert Mesters

UPF, Spain

Discussant: Roberto Steri (University of Luxembourg)



Investing in Misallocation

Mete Kilic, Selale Tuzel

USC Marshall School of Business, United States of America

Discussant: Lars Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon University)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.3: Incentives of Central Bankers and Regulators
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
 

The Reverse Revolving Door in the Supervision of European Banks

Stefano Colonnello1,2, Michael Koetter2,3, Alex Sclip4, Konstantin Wagner2

1Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy; 2Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany; 3Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg; 4University of Verona

Discussant: Mikhail Mamonov (Toulouse Business School)



The Political Economy of Financial Regulation

Rainer Haselmann1, Arkodipta Sarkar2, Shikhar Singla3, Vikrant Vig3

1Goethe University Frankfurt; 2National University of Singapore; 3Stanford University

Discussant: Orkun Saka (City, University of London)



The Value of Private Meetings with Central Bankers

Rainer Haselmann1, Maik Schmeling1, Sebastian Schreiber1, Michael Weber2

1Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; 2Chicago Booth

Discussant: Franco Fiordelisi (University of Essex)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.4: Asset Pricing with Heterogeneity and Subjective Beliefs
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Raman Uppal, EDHEC Business School
 

Asset Prices, Wealth Inequality, and Taxation

Suleyman Basak1, Georgy Chabakauri2

1London Business School; 2London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Discussant: Ali Lazrak (UBC)



Economic Growth Through Diversity in Beliefs

Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen3, Philipp Illeditsch1, Howard Kung2

1Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2London Business School; 3BI Oslo

Discussant: Burton Hollifield (Carnegie Mellon University)



Risk Premia, Subjective Beliefs, and Bundled Monetary Shocks

Paymon Khorrami, Anna Cieslak

Duke University, United States of America

Discussant: Harjoat Bhamra (Imperial College Business School)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.5: Financial Decisions of Households
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University
 

Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich1, Plamen Nenov2,3, Vitor Santos3, Alp Simsek4

1Harvard University; 2Norges Bank; 3BI Norwegian Business School; 4Yale University

Discussant: Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)



The Banker in Your Social Network

Samuli Knüpfer1, Elias Rantapuska1, Theresa Spickers2

1Aalto University; 2University of Amsterdam

Discussant: Noah Stoffman (Indiana University)



(Not) Anticipating Predictable Inheritances

Erkki Johannes Vihriälä1, Tuomo Virkola2

1Aalto University School of Business; 2VATT Institute for Economic Research

Discussant: Akash Raja (Copenhagen Business School)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.6: Financing Clean Vehicles
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Effi Benmelech, Northwestern University
 

Financing the Global Shift to Electric Mobility

Jan Bena1, Bo Bian1, Huan Tang2

1University of British Columbia, Canada; 2The Wharton School

Discussant: Joao Monteiro (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF))



Auto Finance in the Electric Vehicle Transition

Elizabeth Klee1, Adair Morse2, Chaehee Shin1

1Federal Reserve Board; 2UC-Berkeley

Discussant: Miriam Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)



Do ESG Investors Care About Carbon Emissions? Evidence From Securitized Auto Loans

Christian Kontz

Stanford GSB, United States of America

Discussant: Lior Shabtai (Northwestern University)

 
1:30pm - 3:15pm1.7: PhD Session 1: Intermediaries and Pricing
Location: Tegel
Session Chair: Elena Loutskina, UVA
 

The Flattening Demand Curves

Alireza Aghaee Shahrbabaki

Bocconi University, Italy

Discussant: Chotibhak Jotikasthira (SMU - Cox School of Business)



Disentangling the Loan Premium: The Value of Bank Lending

Zhuolu Gao

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Discussant: Christopher James (University of Florida)



Monetary Policy Complementarity: Bank Regulation and the Term Premium

Stefan Walz

Columbia Business School, United States of America

Discussant: Johan Walden (University of California, Berkeley)

 
3:15pm - 3:30pmCoffee Break
Location: Gartenlounge
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.1: Data Use by Banks and FinTechs
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: S "Vish" Viswanathan, Duke University
 

Fintech Disruption, Banks, and Credit (Dis-)Intermediation: When Do Foes Become Friends?

Yasser Boualam1, Paul Yoo2

1UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; 2American University - Kogod School of Business

Discussant: Yue Yuan (University College London)



Information Span in Credit Market Competition

Zhiguo He2, Jing Huang1, Cecilia Parlatore3

1Texas A&M University; 2Stanford University; 3New York University

Discussant: Basil Williams (Imperial College)



The Limits of Big Data in Credit Markets

Uday Rajan2, Yan Xiong1

1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2University of Michigan

Discussant: Stefano Pegoraro (University of Notre Dame)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.2: Pricing of Corporate Bond and ABS Characteristics
Location: Köpenick
Session Chair: Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota
 

Textual Disclosure in Prospectuses and Investors’ Security Pricing

Jörn Debener1, Arved Fenner1, Philipp Klein1,2,3, Steven Ongena3,4,5,6,7

1University of Münster, Germany; 2University of Paderborn, Germany; 3University of Zurich, Switzerland; 4SFI; 5KU Leuven; 6NTNU Business School; 7CEPR

Discussant: Melina Papoutsi (ECB)



Heterogeneous Intermediaries and Bond Characteristics in the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Matteo Leombroni1, Federic Holm-Hadulla2

1Boston College, United States of America; 2ECB

Discussant: Veronica De Falco (Harvard University)



Financially Sophisticated Firms

Lira Mota, Kerry Siani

MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, United States of America

Discussant: Stefano Lugo (Utrecht University)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.3: Bank Assets
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Jan P. Krahnen, SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt
 

Failing Banks

Sergio Correia1, Stephan Luck2, Emil Verner3

1Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 2Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 3MIT

Discussant: Kasper Zimmermann (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)



Monetary Transmission through Bank Securities Portfolios

Daniel Greenwald1, John Krainer2, Pascal Paul3

1New York University; 2Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve; 3Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Discussant: Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University)



The Secular Decline in Interest Rates and the Rise of Shadow Banks

Andres Pablo Sarto, Olivier Wang

New York University

Discussant: Dmitry Kuvshinov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.4: Factors in Bond and Equity Returns
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Svetlana Bryzgalova, London Business School
 

Does Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns?

Andrew Chen1, Alejandro Lopez Lira2, Tom Zimmermann3

1Federal Reserve Board; 2University of Florida; 3University of Cologne

Discussant: Shri Santosh (University of Maryland)



The Corporate Bond Factor Zoo

Alexander Dickerson1, Christian Julliard2, Philippe Mueller3

1University of New South Waes, Australia; 2London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 3Universisty of Warwick, United Kingdom

Discussant: Lukas Schmid (USC Marshall School of Business)



Corporate Bond Factors: Replication Failures and a New Framework

Jens Dick-Nielsen, Peter Feldhütter, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Christian Stolborg

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Discussant: Chuck Fang (Drexel University)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.5: Student Loans and Entrepreneurship
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Merih Sevilir, ESMT-Berlin and Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), ECGI
 

The Effects of the QSBS Exemption on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Jun Chen1, Joan Farre-Mensa2

1Renmin University of China; 2University of Illinois Chicago

Discussant: Alexander Reifschneider (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH))



Labor Market Polarization and Student Debt

Sanket Korgaonkar1, Elena Loutskina1, Constantine Yannelis2

1University of Virginia; 2University of Chicago

Discussant: Tim Liu (University of Utah)



The Effect of Student Loans on Entrepreneurial Firm Risk-taking, Performance, and Access to Venture Capital with Implications for the Biden Administration's Student Loan Forgiveness Program

Harshit Rajaiya1, Tom Chemmanur2, Karthik Krishnan3, Pinshuo Wang4

1University of Ottawa, Canada; 2Boston college; 3Northeastern University; 4University of South Florida

Discussant: Ekaterina Gavrilova (Nova School of Business and Economics)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.6: Climate Concerns of Households and Analysts
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
 

Household Climate Finance: Theory and Survey Data on Safe and Risky Green Assets

Shifrah Aron-Dine2, Johannes Beutel1, Monika Piazzesi2, Martin Schneider2

1Deutsche Bundesbank; 2Stanford University

Discussant: Ye Zhang (Stockholm School of Economics)



Fighting Climate Change with FinTech

Antonio Gargano1, Alberto Rossi2

1University of Houston; 2Georgetown University

Discussant: Ruidi Huang (Southern Methodist University)



Climate Value and Values Discovery in Earnings Calls

Zacharias Sautner1, Grigory Vilkov2, Laurence van Lent3, Ruishen Zhang4

1University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute; 2Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; 3Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; 4Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Discussant: Maria Loumioti (The University of Texas at Dallas)

 
3:30pm - 5:15pm2.7: PhD Session 2: Climate Risks and Effects of IPOs
Location: Tegel
Session Chair: Martin Oehmke, London School of Economics
 

What Drives Beliefs about Climate Risks? Evidence from Financial Analysts

Matilde Faralli

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Discussant: Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge)



Climate Risk and Contract Completeness: Evidence from Corporate Real Estate Leases

Masashi Takahashi

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Discussant: Francesco D\'Acunto (Georgetown University)



The Silicon Divide: High-Technology IPOs and the Widening Socioeconomic Gap

Wenchuan Zhao

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Discussant: Ting Xu (University of Toronto)

 
6:00pm - 8:00pmElsevier-Sponsored Welcome Reception
Location: Hugos 360°
Date: Thursday, 30/May/2024
7:30am - 8:30amBreakfast Buffet - for participants staying at the InterContinental Hotel under FIRS room block
Location: L.A. Café
7:30am - 12:30pmConference Registration
Location: Gartenlounge
8:30am - 10:15am3.1: Voting and Trading
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Alon Brav, Duke University
 

Bankruptcy Law and the Market for Corporate Influence

Mike Burkart1, Lee Samuel2, Vladimirov Vladimir3

1London School of Economics and Political Science; 2University of Santa Clara; 3University of Amsterdam

Discussant: Arthur Taburet (Duke University)



Untying the Knot: Disentangling Cash Flow and Voting Rights for Better Price Informativeness

Aaron Burt1, Ran Duchin2, Christopher Hrdlicka3

1University of Oklahoma; 2Boston College; 3University of Washington

Discussant: Matthew Ringgenberg (University of Utah)



Trading and Voting on Proxy Advice

Markus Parlasca1, Paul Voss2

1Vienna University of Economics and Business; 2HEC Paris

Discussant: Shaoting Pi (Iowa State University)

 
8:30am - 10:15am3.2: Market for Executives and Talent
Location: Köpenick
Session Chair: Dirk Jenter, The London School of Economics and Political Science
 

The Talent Gap in Family Firms

Morten Bennedsen3, Margarita Tsoutsoura1, Daniel Wolfenzon2

1Washington University, United States of America; 2Columbia University; 3University of Copenhagen

Discussant: Joacim Tåg (IFN and Hanken)



Succession

Thomas Geelen1,2, Jakub Hajda3

1Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; 2Danish Finance Institute; 3HEC Montreal

Discussant: James Dow (London Business School)



Why Are CEOs Rarely Succeeded by External Candidates?

Li He1, Enrique Schroth2

1Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam; 2EDHEC Business School and CEPR

Discussant: Francesco Celentano (HEC Lausanne)

 
8:30am - 10:15am3.3: Relationship Lending and Bank Specialization
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Allen Berger, University of South Carolina
 

Specialization in Banking

Kristian Blickle2, Cecilia Parlatore1, Anthony Saunders1

1New York University; 2Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant: John Sedunov (Villanova University)



Banking on Deposit Relationships: Implications for Hold-Up Problems in the Loan Market

Jin Cao1,2, Emilia Garcia-Appendini1,3, Cédric Huylebroek1,4

1Norges Bank; 2CESifo; 3University of Zurich; 4KU Leuven

Discussant: Hugh Hoikwang Kim (University of South Carolina)



Do Bank Branches Matter? Evidence From Mandatory Branch Closings

Sergio Vicente1, Alfredo Martin-Oliver2, Anna Toldra-Simats3, Jose-Luis Peydro4, Gabriel Jimenez5

1University of Luxembourg; 2Universitat de les Illes Balears; 3Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; 4Imperial College London; 5Banco de España

Discussant: Lars Norden (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

 
8:30am - 10:15am3.4: Convenience Yields and Interest Rates
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Paymon Khorrami, Duke University
 

Inflation and Treasury Convenience

Anna Cieslak1, Wenhao Li2, Carolin Pflueger3

1Duke University; 2University of Southern California; 3University of Chicago

Discussant: Quentin Vandeweyer (University of Chicago)



The Zero-Beta Interest Rate

Sebastian Di Tella1,4, Benjamin Hebert1,2,4, Pablo Kurlat3,4, Qitong Wang3

1Stanford University, United States of America; 2UC Berkeley, United States of America; 3University of Southern California, United States of America; 4NBER

Discussant: Asaf Manela (Washington University in St. Louis and Reichman University)



Monetary Policy, Segmentation, and the Term Structure

Rohan Kekre2, Moritz Lenel1, Federico Mainardi2

1Princeton; 2Chicago Booth

Discussant: Dejanir Silva (Purdue University)

 
8:30am - 10:15am3.5: Intermediaries in Treasury and OTC Markets
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Entry and Exit in Treasury Auctions

Jason Allen1, Ali Hortacscu2, Eric Richert3, Milena Wittwer4

1Bank of Canada; 2Univeristy of Chicago; 3Univeristy of Chicago; 4Boston College

Discussant: Pietro Bonaldi (Carnegie Mellon University)



Dealer Capacity and U.S. Treasury Market Functionality

Darrell Duffie1, Michael Fleming2, Frank Keane2, Claire Nelson3, Or Shachar2, Peter Van Tassel4

1Stanford University; 2Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 3Princeton University; 4Independent

Discussant: Maria Chaderina (University of Oregon)



LTCM Redux? Hedge Fund Treasury Trading and Funding Fragility

Mathias Kruttli1, Phillip Monin2, Lubomir Petrasek2, Sumudu Watugala1

1Indiana University, United States of America; 2Federal Reserve Board of Governors, United States of America

Discussant: Matthias Fleckenstein (University of Delaware)

 
8:30am - 10:15am3.6: Cyber Risk Management
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Kristine Hankins, University of Kentucky
 

Cybersecurity And Financial Stability

Kartik Anand1, Chanelle Duley2, Prasanna Gai2

1Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany; 2University of Auckland, New Zealand

Discussant: Lin Shen (INSEAD)



Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud

Bo Bian1, Michaela Pagel2, Devesh Ravel3, Huan Tang4

1UBC Sauder School of Business; 2Washington University Olin Business School; 3The Federal Trade Commission; 4The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Pat Akey (INSEAD)



The Supply Of Cyber Risk Insurance

Martin Eling1, Anastasia Kartasheva1,2, Dingchen Ning1

1University of St Gallen, Switzerland; 2Swiss Finance Institute

Discussant: Jakob Ahm Sørensen (Università Bocconi)

 
10:15am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Gartenlounge
10:30am - 12:15pm4.1: Debt Structure
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Elu von Thadden, Mannheim University
 

A New Theory of Credit Lines (With Evidence)

Jason R Donaldson1, Naz Koont2, Giorgia Piacentino1, Victoria Vanasco3

1University of Southern California, United States of America; 2Columbia University; 3CREI

Discussant: Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA)



Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics

Samuel Antill1, Zhaoli Jiang2, Neng Wang3

1Harvard Business School; 2The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3Columbia University

Discussant: Thomas Geelen (Copenhagen Business School)



Explaining Debt Covenant Amendments: A Structural Approach

Irina Luneva

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Discussant: Simon Rother (University of Mannheim)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm4.2: Effects of Managerial Characteristics
Location: Köpenick
Session Chair: Christa Bouwman, Texas A&M University
 

Similarity Breeds Trust: Political Homophily and CEO-Board Communication

Sudipto Dasgupta1, Ran Guo3,4, Xiao Ren2, Tao Shu1

1The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 3Erasmus University Rotterdam; 4Stockholm University

Discussant: Spyridon Lagaras (University of Pittsburgh)



The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives

Ran Duchin1, Denis Sosyura2

1Boston College; 2Arizona State University

Discussant: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)



Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark

Alex He1, Daron Acemoglu2, Daniel le Maire3

1University of Maryland; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technologyv; 3University of Copenhagen

Discussant: Daniel Metzger (Erasmus University)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm4.3: Corporate Debt and Loan Renegotiation
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Arnoud Boot, University of Amsterdam
 

Debt Flexibility

Rhys Bidder1, Nicolas Crouzet2, Margaret Jacobson3, Michael Siemer3

1King's College London; 2Northwestern University; 3Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Tomislav Ladika (University of Amsterdam)



Strategic Default and Renegotiation: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Loans

Serdar Dinc1, Erkan Yonder2

1Rutgers University; 2Concordia University

Discussant: Dong Beom Choi (Seoul National University)



Corporate Debt, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Financial Crises

Victoria Ivashina1, Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan2, Luc Laeven3, Karsten Mueller4

1Harvard University; 2University of Maryland; 3European Central Bank; 4National University of Singapore

Discussant: Tanju Yorulmazer (Koc University)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm4.4: Fund Mandates and Pricing Consequences
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Chotibhak Jotikasthira, SMU - Cox School of Business
 

Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds

Lorenzo Bretscher1, Lukas Schmid2, Tiange Ye2

1University of Lausanne; 2University of Southern California

Discussant: Giorgio Ottonello (Nova School of Business and Economics)



Off Target: On the Underperformance of Target-Date Funds

David Brown1, Shaun Davies2

1University of Arizona; 2University of Colorado, Boulder

Discussant: Jinming XUE (Southern Methodist University)



Institutional Investors, Securities Lending, and Short-Selling Constraints

Taisiya Sikorskaya

London Business School, United Kingdom

Discussant: Mehrdad Samadi (Federal Reserve Board)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm4.5: Limited Liquidity of Money Markets
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University
 

The Central Bank's Balance Sheet and Treasury Market Disruptions

Adrien d Avernas1, Quentin Vandeweyer2, Damon Petersen3

1Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; 2Chicago Booth; 3MIT

Discussant: Amy Huber (The Wharton School)



Financially Constrained Intermediaries and the International Pass-Through of Monetary Policy

Xiaoliang Wang

HKUST, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Discussant: Xiang Fang (University of Hong Kong)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm4.6: FinTech Apps and Household Behavior
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Andreas Fuster, EPFL
 

The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps

Bo Bian1, Xinchen Ma2, Huan Tang3

1University of British Columbia; 2London School of Economics; 3University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Roxana Mihet (SFI & HEC Lausanne)



Mood Swings and Money: The Role of Financial Technology in Household Credit Demand

Ran Duchin1, Paul Freed2, John Hackney2

1Boston College; 2University of South Carolina

Discussant: Tobias Berg (Goethe University Frankfurt)



The Digital Banking Revolution: Effects on Competition and Stability

Naz Koont

Columbia University

Discussant: Gloria Yang Yu (Singapore Management University)

 
12:30pm - 2:00pmLunch and Keynote Address by Albert S. "Pete" Kyle
Location: Pavillon
2:00pm - 5:00pmConference Registration
Location: Gartenlounge
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.1: Finance and Political Economy
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Bruno Biais, HEC
 

How Effective are Portfolio Mandates?

Jack Favilukis1, Lorenzo Garlappi1, Raman Uppal2

1University of British Columbia; 2EDHEC Business School

Discussant: Valeria Fedyk (London Business School)



All The President's Money: Market Concentration, Oligarchs and Sanctions in Hybrid Regimes

Peter Kondor1, Gergely Ujhelyi2

1London School of Economics; 2University of Houston

Discussant: Paul Voss (HEC Paris)



Political Preferences and Financial Market Equilibrium

Youchang Wu1, Josef Zechner2

1University of Oregon; 2Vienna University of Economics and Business

Discussant: Magdalena Rola-Janicka (Imperial College London)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.2: Mergers and Acquisitions
Location: Köpenick
Session Chair: Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina
 

Negotiation, Auction, or Negotiauction?! Evidence from the Field

Tingting Liu1, Micah S. Officer2, Danni Tu3

1Iowa State University; 2Loyola Marymount University; 3Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Discussant: William Fuchs (University of Texas Austin / UC3M)



Maturity Overhang: Evidence from M&A

Zhiyao Chen1, Dirk Hackbarth2, Jarrad Harford3, Yuxin Luo2

1Lingnan University; 2Boston University; 3University of Washington

Discussant: Francesca Zucchi (ECB)



Tax Avoidance through Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Jean-Marie Meier1, Jake Smith2

1University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas at Dallas; 2Securities and Exchange Commission

Discussant: Merih Sevilir (ESMT-Berlin and Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), ECGI)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.3: Mortgage Lending and Inequality
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Felipe Severino, Tuck- Dartmouth College
 

Keeping Up With The Blackstones: Institutional Investors And Gentrification

Neroli Joy Austin

University of Michigan, United States of America

Discussant: Jamie Coen (Imperial College London)



Minority Specialized Lenders

Erica Jiang2, Gregor Matvos1, Amit Seru3, Lulu Wang1

1Northwestern University; 2University of Southern California; 3Stanford GSB

Discussant: Kim Fe Cramer (LSE)



Leverage Regulation and Housing Inequality

Jens Kvaerner1, Nicola Pavanini2, Yushi Peng1

1Tilburg University; 2Tilburg University and CEPR

Discussant: Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.4: New Perspectives on Asset Pricing Theory
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Hengjie Ai, University of Wisconsin
 

Responsible Consumption, Demand Elasticity, and the Green Premium

Xuhui Chen, Lorenzo Garlappi, Ali Lazrak

University of British Columbia

Discussant: Shaojun Zhang (Ohio State University)



Dynamic Trading and Asset Pricing with Time-Inconsistent Agents

Lars A. Lochstoer1, Stig R. H. Lundeby2, Zhaneta K. Tancheva2

1UCLA Anderson School of Management; 2BI Norwegian Business School

Discussant: Ella Patelli (UBC)



Demand-System Asset Pricing: Theoretical Foundations

William Fuchs1, Satoshi Fukuda2, Daniel Neuhann1

1University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2Bocconi University

Discussant: Hengjie Ai (University of Wisconsin)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.5: Refinancing Mortgages
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
 

Mortgage Lock-In, Mobility, and Labor Reallocation

Julia Fonseca1, Lu Liu2

1UIUC; 2The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Eric Hardy (Fannie Mae)



The Digital Divide and Refinancing Inequality

Edward T. Kim

University of Michigan

Discussant: Charlotte Haendler (Southern Methodist University)



Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution

Konstantin Milbradt1, Fabrice Tourre2, David Berger3, Joseph Vavra4

1Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA; 2Baruch College, CUNY, USA; 3Duke University, USA; 4Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA

Discussant: Nicolae Garleanu (Washington University in St. Louis)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm5.6: Fragility of Payment Systems
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Johan Walden, University of California, Berkeley
 

CBDCs, Payment Firms, and Geopolitics

Tobias Berg1, Jan Keil1,2, Felix Martini3, Manju Puri4,5

1Goethe University Frankfurt; 2Humboldt University Berlin; 3Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; 4Duke University; 5National Bureau of Economic Research

Discussant: Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley)



Payments, Reserves, and Financial Fragility

Itay Goldstein1, Ming Yang2, Yao Zeng1

1University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2University College London, United Kingdom

Discussant: Vincent Maurin (HEC Paris)



Anatomy of a Run: The Terra Luna Crash

Jiageng Liu1, Igor Makarov2, Antoinette Schoar3

1MIT Sloan; 2LSE; 3MIT Sloan, NBER and CEPR

Discussant: Linda Schilling (Olin Business School Washington University in St Louis)

 
6:30pm - 10:30pmConference Dinner at Gendarmerie
Date: Friday, 31/May/2024
7:30am - 8:30amBreakfast Buffet - for participants staying at the InterContinental Hotel under FIRS room block
Location: L.A. Café
7:30am - 10:30amConference Registration
Location: Gartenlounge
8:30am - 10:15am6.1: Design of DeFi and Exchanges
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Vincent Maurin, HEC Paris
 

Arms Sales in Financial Markets

Vincent Glode1, Xingtan Zhang2

1The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania; 2University of Colorado at Boulder, United States of America

Discussant: Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)



Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement

Alfred Lehar1, Christine Parlour2

1University of Calgary, Canada; 2UC Berkeley

Discussant: Michael Junho Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)



Equilibrium in a DeFi Lending Market

Thomas Rivera1, Fahad Saleh2, Quentin Vandeweyer3

1McGill University; 2Wake Forest University; 3University of Chicago

Discussant: Maximilian Guennewig (University of Bonn)

 
8:30am - 10:15am6.2: Real Effects of Private Equity
Location: Tegel
Session Chair: Ulrich Hege, Toulouse School of Economics
 

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

Cyrus Aghamolla2, Jash Jain1, Richard Thakor1

1University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, United States of America; 2Rice University, Jones School of Business

Discussant: Tong Liu (MIT)



More Guns Lead to More Crime: Evidence from Private Equity Deals

Niklas Hüther

Indiana University, United States of America

Discussant: Tereza Tykvova (University of St. Gallen and Swiss Finance Institute)



Desperate Capital Breeds Productivity Loss: Evidence from Public Pension Investments in Private Equity

Vrinda Mittal

Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Marco Da Rin (Tilburg University)

 
8:30am - 10:15am6.3: Lending and Intermediation in Mortgage Markets
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Barney Hartman-Glaser, UCLA
 

Army of Mortgagors: Long-Run Evidence on Credit Externalities and the Housing Market

Tobias Herbst1, Moritz Kuhn2, Farzad Saidi1

1University of Bonn, Germany; 2University of Mannheim, Germany

Discussant: Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern University)



Housing Speculation, GSEs, and Credit Market Spillovers

Natee Amornsiripanitch1, Philip Strahan2, Song Zhang3, Xiang Zheng4

1Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States of America; 2Boston College; 3University of Delaware; 4University of Connecticut

Discussant: Pierre Mabille (INSEAD)



Spatially Targeted LTV Policies and Collateral Values

Chun-Che Chi1, Cameron LaPoint2, Ming-Jen Lin3

1Academia Sinica, Department of Economics; 2Yale School of Management; 3National Taiwan University, Department of Economics

Discussant: Jin Cao (Norges Bank)

 
8:30am - 10:15am6.4: Narratives and Investor Memory
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Francesco D'Acunto, Georgetown University
 

Memory and Beliefs in Financial Markets: A Machine Learning Approach

Zhongtian Chen1, Jiyuan Huang2

1University of Pennsylvania; 2University of Zurich; Swiss Finance Institute

Discussant: Yong Kwon (Brown University)



Crash Narratives

William Goetzmann, Dasol Kim, Robert Shiller

Yale University, United States of America

Discussant: Constantin Charles (London School of Economics)



Media Narratives and Price Informativeness

Chukwuma Dim2, Francesco Sangiorgi1, Grigory Vilkov1

1Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany; 2George Washington University

Discussant: Katrin Goedker (Bocconi University)

 
8:30am - 10:15am6.5: Household Finance over the Lifecycle
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: João Cocco, London Business School
 

Interest-Rate Risk And Household Portfolio

Sylvain Catherine2, Max Miller1, James Paron2, Natasha Sarin3

1Harvard Business School, United States of America; 2Wharton; 3Yale

Discussant: Matteo Leombroni (Boston College)



How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings?

Taha Choukhmane, Christopher Palmer

MIT Sloan, United States of America

Discussant: Paolina Medina (University of Houston)



Borrow Now, Pay Even Later: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Debt Payment Plans

Nuno Clara1, Francisco Gomes2, Michael Boutros3

1Duke University; 2London Business School; 3Bank of Canada

Discussant: Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago)

 
8:30am - 10:15am6.6: Corporate Social Responsibility
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Nickolay Gantchev, University of Warwick
 

One Hundred and Thirty Years of Corporate Responsibility

Joel F. Houston, Sehoon Kim, Boyuan Li

University of Florida, United States of America

Discussant: Nora Pankratz (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)



Corporate Actions as Moral Issues

Elisabeth Kempf1, Oliver Spalt2

1Harvard University; 2University of Mannheim

Discussant: Emirhan Ilhan (National University of Singapore)



Do Consumers Care About ESG? Evidence from Barcode-Level Sales Data

Jean-Marie Meier1, Henri Servaes2, Jiaying Wei3, Steven Chong Xiao4

1University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas at Dallas; 2London Business School; 3Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE); 4University of Texas at Dallas

Discussant: Marco Ceccarelli (VU Amsterdam)

 
10:15am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Gartenlounge
10:30am - 12:15pm7.1: Implementing Optimal Trades
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Jason Roderick Donaldson, USC
 

Money and Taxes implement Dynamic Optimal Mechanisms

Bruno Biais1, Jean Charles Rochet2, Stéphane Villeneuve2, Hans Gersbach3, Elu von Thadden4

1HEC, France; 2TSE; 3ETH; 4Mannheim University

Discussant: Vladimir Asriyan (CREI and BSE)



Time Trumps Quantity in the Market for Lemons

William Fuchs, Piero Gottardi, Humberto Moreira

University of Texas Austin / UC3M, United States of America

Discussant: S \"Vish\" Viswanathan (Duke University)



Committing to Trade: A Theory of Intermediation

Francesco Sannino

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

Discussant: Xiaobo Yu (Columbia Business School)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm7.2: Determinants of Firm Investment and Labor Demand
Location: Tegel
Session Chair: Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
 

Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure

Qiyang He1, Jarrad Harford2, Buhui Qiu1

1University of Sydney Business School; 2University of Washington

Discussant: Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics)



ChatGPT and Corporate Policies

Manish Jha1, Jialin Qian1, Michael Weber2, Baozhong Yang1

1Georgia State University; 2University of Chicago

Discussant: Gaurav Kankanhalli (University of Pittsburgh)



Temperature and Local Industry Concentration

Jacopo Ponticelli1, Qiping Xu2, Stefan Zeume2

1Northwestern University; 2University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Discussant: Ivo Welch (UCLA)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm7.3: Heterogeneity in Runs
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Mark Flannery, University of Florida
 

Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Runs

Marco Cipriani, Gabriele La Spada

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, United States of America

Discussant: Kebin Ma (Warwick Business School)



Corporate Runs and Credit Reallocation

Filippo De Marco1, Elena Carletti1, Vasso Ioannidou2, Enrico Sette3

1Bocconi University, Italy; 2Bayes Business School, UK; 3Bank of Italy, Italy

Discussant: Reint Gropp (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH))



The Making of an Alert Depositor: How Payment and Interest Drive Deposit Dynamics

Xu Lu1, Yang Song2, Yao Zeng3

1University of Washington, United States of America; 2University of Washington, United States of America; 3University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Discussant: Christoph Schiller (Arizona State University)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm7.4: Exports, Sovereign Debt, and Currencies
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Daniel Neuhann, University of Texas at Austin
 

The Real Effects of Export Credit Subsidies: Evidence from the U.S. EXIM Shutdown

Poorya Kabir1, Adrien Matray2, Karsten Mueller1, Chenzi Xu2

1National University of Singapore; 2Stanford University

Discussant: Mehran Ebrahimian (Stockholm School of Economics)



Dollar and Carry Redux

Sining Liu3, Thomas Maurer1, Andrea Vedolin2, Yaoyuan Zhang1

1The University of Hong Kong; 2Boston University; 3Soochow University

Discussant: Federico Gavazzoni (BI - Norwegian Business School)



Fiscal Constraints, Disaster Vulnerability, and Corporate Investment Decisions

Thorsten Martin1, Florian Nagler2, Nicola Fiore2

1Frankfurt School; 2Bocconi

Discussant: Seung Joo Lee (University of Oxford)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm7.5: Investor Beliefs and Biases
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Simon Gervais, Duke University
 

Extrapolators and Contrarians: Forecast Bias and Household Stock Trading

Steffen Andersen1, Stephen G. Dimmock2, Kasper Meisner Nielsen1, Kim Peijnenburg3

1Copenhagen Business School; 2National University of Singapore; 3EDHEC Business School, France

Discussant: Cameron Peng (London School of Economics)



Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias

Marianne Andries1, Maxime Bonelli2, David Sraer3

1University of Southern California; 2London Business School; 3university of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Alessandro Previtero (Indiana University)



Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation

Philip Schnorpfeil1, Michael Weber2, Andreas Hackethal1

1Goethe University Frankfurt; 2University of Chicago

Discussant: João Cocco (London Business School)

 
10:30am - 12:15pm7.6: Real Effects of ESG
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
 

“Glossy Green” Banks: The Disconnect Between Environmental Disclosures and Lending Activities

Mariassunta Giannetti1, Martina Jasova2, Maria Loumioti3, Caterina Mendicino4

1Stockholm School of Economics; 2Barnard College, Columbia University, United States of America; 3UT Dallas; 4ECB

Discussant: Jess Cornaggia (Penn State University, Smeal College of Business)



Getting Dirty Before You Get Clean: Institutional Investment in Fossil Fuels and the Green Transition

Mayank Kumar

University of Michigan, United States of America

Discussant: Ulrich Hege (Toulouse School of Economics)



Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

Josh Lerner1, Markus Lithell2, Gordon Phillips2

1Harvard Business School; 2Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Discussant: Kelly Posenau (Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management)

 
12:30pm - 2:00pmLunch: FIRS Business Meeting, JFI Awards, 20th Anniversary Address, and Denis Gromb Award
Location: Pavillon
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.1: Equilibrium and Feedback from Financial Markets
Location: Tiergarten
Session Chair: Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
 

Feedback Between the Financial Market and the Product Market

Ken Deng, Joel Shapiro

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Discussant: Alexander Guembel (Toulouse Capitole University)



Feedback on Emerging Corporate Policies

Sean Cao1, Itay Goldstein2, Jie He3, Yabo Zhao4

1University of Maryland; 2University of Pennsylvania; 3University of Georgia; 4Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Discussant: Olivier Dessaint (INSEAD)



Multiple Equilibria in Noisy Rational Expectations Economies

Domotor Palvolgyi1, Gyuri Venter2, Liyan Yang3

1Eotvos Lorand University; 2University of Warwick; 3University of Toronto, Rotman

Discussant: James Dow (London Business School)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.2: Financial and Production Networks
Location: Tegel
Session Chair: Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University
 

Global Business Networks

Christian Breitung, Sebastian Müller

Technische Universität München, Germany

Discussant: Christoph Schiller (Arizona State University)



The Epidemiology of Financial Constraints and Corporate Investment

William Grieser1, Ioannis Spyridopoulos2, Morad Zekhnini3

1Texas Christian University; 2American University; 3Michigan State University

Discussant: Clemens Otto (Singapore Management University)



His Pain Is Your Gain: Market Competition and Foreign Currency Exposure

Yancheng Qiu

The University of Sydney Business School, Australia

Discussant: Paul Beaumont (McGill)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.3: Fund Flows
Location: Charlottenburg I
Session Chair: Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
 

Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers

Xiao Cen1, Winston Wei Dou2, Leonid Kogan3, Wei Wu1

1Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and NBER; 3MIT (Sloan) and NBER

Discussant: Alberto Manconi (Bocconi University)



Mutual Fund Clientele and Fund Flows

Daniel Fricke, Stephan Jank, Hannes Wilke

Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany

Discussant: Christian Kubitza (European Central Bank)



Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, Bond Mutual Funds’ Strategies, and Bond Returns

Mariassunta Giannetti2, Chotibhak Jotikasthira1, Andreas Rapp3, Martin Waibel2

1SMU - Cox School of Business; 2Stockholm School of Economics; 3Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Karamfil Todorov (BIS (Bank for International Settlements))

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.4: Expectations of Professional Forecasters and Investors
Location: Charlottenburg II
Session Chair: Harjoat Bhamra, Imperial College Business School
 

Excess Volatility in Professional Stock Return Forecasts

Martijn Boons1, Giorgio Ottonello2, Rossen Valkanov3

1Tilburg, Netherlands; 2Nova SBE, Portugal; 3UCSD, United States of America

Discussant: Paul Whelan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)



Over/Under-reaction and Judgment Noise in Expectations Formation

Junyi Liao

university of essex, United Kingdom

Discussant: Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial College)



The Subjective Risk and Return Expectations of Institutional Investors

Couts Spencer1, Andrei Goncalves2, Johnathan Loudis3

1University of Southern California, Lusk Center of Real Estate; 2Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University; 3Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Federico Bastianello (London Business School)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.5: Finance and Inequality
Location: Charlottenburg III
Session Chair: Murillo Campello, Cornell University
 

The Financial Origins Of Regional Inequality

Anne Beck1, Sebastian Dörr2

1World Bank, United States of America; 2Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland

Discussant: Yaniv Grinstein (Reichman University)



The Price Of Leverage: Learning From The Effect Of LTV Constraints On Job Search And Wages

Gazi Kabas1, Kasper Roszbach2

1Tilburg University; 2Norges Bank

Discussant: Hyunseob Kim (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)



Escaping Violent Death: Access to Credit and Female Mortality

Janis Skrastins1, Bernardus van Doornik2, David Schoenherr3

1Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America; 2Central Bank of Brazil; 3Princeton University

Discussant: Maria Boutchkova (The University of Edinburgh)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pm8.6: Market Incentives for Clean Investment
Location: Schöneberg
Session Chair: Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis
 

Reducing Carbon using Regulatory and Financial Market Tools

Franklin Allen2, Adelina Barbalau1, Federica Zeni3

1University of Alberta; 2Imperial College London; 3World Bank

Discussant: Robin Döttling (Erasmus University Rotterdam)



Externalities of Responsible Investments

Michele Bisceglia1, Alessio Piccolo2, Jan Schneemeier2

1Toulouse School of Economics; 2Indiana University

Discussant: David Pothier (University of Vienna)



The Market for ESG Ratings

Ehsan Azarmsa1, Joel Shapiro2

1University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America; 2University of Oxford, Said Business School

Discussant: Jan Starmans (Stockholm School of Economics)

 

 
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