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)

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)

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)

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)

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)