Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Köpenick
Date: Wednesday, 29/May/2024
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)

Aydın-Precautionary Debt Capacity-1044.pdf


Identifying Firm-Level Financial Frictions using Theory-Informed Restrictions

Andrea Caggese, Geert Mesters

UPF, Spain

Discussant: Roberto Steri (University of Luxembourg)

Caggese-Identifying Firm-Level Financial Frictions using Theory-Informed Restrictions-1188.pdf


Investing in Misallocation

Mete Kilic, Selale Tuzel

USC Marshall School of Business, United States of America

Discussant: Lars Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon University)

Kilic-Investing in Misallocation-525.pdf
 
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)

Debener-Textual Disclosure in Prospectuses and Investors’ Security Pricing-158.pdf


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)

Leombroni-Heterogeneous Intermediaries and Bond Characteristics-663.pdf


Financially Sophisticated Firms

Lira Mota, Kerry Siani

MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, United States of America

Discussant: Stefano Lugo (Utrecht University)

Mota-Financially Sophisticated Firms-1537.pdf
 
Date: Thursday, 30/May/2024
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)

Bennedsen-The Talent Gap in Family Firms-1476.pdf


Succession

Thomas Geelen1,2, Jakub Hajda3

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

Discussant: James Dow (London Business School)

Geelen-Succession-180.pdf


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)

He-Why Are CEOs Rarely Succeeded by External Candidates-1285.pdf
 
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)

Dasgupta-Similarity Breeds Trust-347.pdf


The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives

Ran Duchin1, Denis Sosyura2

1Boston College; 2Arizona State University

Discussant: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)

Duchin-The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives-1515.pdf


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)

He-Eclipse of Rent-Sharing-457.pdf
 
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)

Liu-Negotiation, Auction, or Negotiauction! Evidence-382.pdf


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)

Chen-Maturity Overhang-623.pdf


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)

Meier-Tax Avoidance through Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions-1477.pdf
 

 
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