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9:30am - 6:00pmConference Registration
1:30pm - 3:15pmPhD Session #1 Location: Studio 4 Session Chair: Snehal Banerjee , University of Michigan
Analysts' Belief Formation in Their Own Words
Shikun {Barry} Ke
Yale University
Discussant: Zhengyang Xu (City University of Hong Kong)
Disagreement, Subjective Uncertainty, and the Stock Market
Jingoo Kwon1 , Seung Hyeong Lee2 , Younggeun Yoo1
1 University of Chicago; 2 Northwestern University
Discussant: Paula Cocoma (Frankfurt School of Finance)
Barriers to Reentry: Initial Borrowing Frictions, Refinancing, and Wealth Redistribution
Heejin Yoon
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Poorya Kabir (National University of Singapore)
1:30pm - 3:15pmReturns Location: Studio 5 Session Chair: Harold Zhang , University of Texas at Dallas
Expectation-Driven Term Structure of Equity and Bond Yields
Guihai Zhao1 , Ming Zeng2
1 Bank of Canada; 2 University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Kai Li (Peking Uniersity)
The Dependence of Belief Dynamics on Beliefs: Implications for Stock Returns
Ian Dew-Becker1 , Stefano Giglio2 , Pooya Molavi3
1 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; 2 Yale University; 3 Northwestern University
Discussant: Jiantao Huang (University of Hong Kong)
Loan Spreads and Interest Rates: The Role of The Deposit Channel and Lending Market Power
Pierre Alexandre Dubuis1 , Antoine Hubert de Fraisse2
1 Bank of England; 2 HEC Paris
Discussant: Sebastian Doerr (Bank for International Settlements)
1:30pm - 3:15pmLending Location: Studio 6 Session Chair: Elena Loutskina , University of Virginia
Shadow Always Touches the Feet: Implications of Bank Credit Lines to Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries
Viral V Acharya3 , Manasa Gopal2 , Maximilian Jager1 , Sascha Steffen1
1 Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; 2 Georgia Tech; 3 New York University
Discussant: Sanket Korgaonkar (University of Virginia)
Non-Fundamental Loan Renegotiations
AJ Chen1 , Matt Phillips2 , Regina Wittenberg-Moerman3 , Tiange Ye4
1 University of British Columbia; 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3 Northwestern University; 4 University of Southern California
Discussant: Jun Yang (University of Notre Dame)
Bank Specialization in Lending to New Firms
Ralph De Haas1 , Diana Bonfim2 , Alexandra Matyunina3 , Steven Ongena4
1 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; 2 Bank of Portugal; 3 Banco d'Espana; 4 University of Zurich
Discussant: Sangeun Ha (Copenhagen Business School)
1:30pm - 3:15pmCorporate Borrowing Location: Studio 7 Session Chair: Vidhan Goyal , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Private Debt versus Bank Debt in Corporate Borrowing
Sharjil Haque2 , Simon Mayer1 , Irina Stefanescu 2
1 Carnegie Mellon University; 2 Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Discussant: Tatyana Marchuk (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Pricing of Corporate Bonds: Evidence From a Century-Long Cross-Section
Mohammad Ghaderi2 , Sebastien Plante1 , Nikolai Roussanov3 , Sang Byung Seo 1
1 University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2 University or Kansas; 3 University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Yoshio Nozawa (University of Toronto)
Collateral Demand in Wholesale Funding Markets
Patrick Coen1 , Jamie Coen2 , Anne-Caroline Huser3
1 Toulouse School of Economics; 2 Imperial College London; 3 Bank of England
Discussant: Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)
1:30pm - 3:15pmCorporate Investment Location: Studio 8 Session Chair: Bing Han , University of Toronto
Stochastic Social Preferences
Thomas Dangl1 , Michael Halling2 , Jin Yu 3 , Josef Zechner4
1 Vienna University of Technology; 2 University of Luxembourg; 3 Monash University; 4 Vienna University of Economics and Business
Discussant: Darwin Choi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Mispricing and Firm Investment
Dora Horstman1 , Yong Chen2
1 North Carolina State University; 2 Texas A&M University
Discussant: Chanik Jo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel
Mehdi Beyhaghi1 , Murray Frank 2 , Ping McLemore3 , Ali Sanati4
1 Federal Reserve Board of Governors; 2 University of Minnesota; 3 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; 4 American University
Discussant: Jincheng Tong (University of Toronto)
1:30pm - 3:15pmBehavioral Responses Location: Studio 9 Session Chair: Simon Gervais , Duke University
Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data
Sean Chanwook Lee1 , Peter Maxted 2
1 Harvard University; 2 University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Arthur Taburet (Duke University)
Beliefs-driven Entry and Exit
Paul Ehling, Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, Zeshu Xu
BI Norweigian Business School
Discussant: Hongye Guo (University of Hong Kong)
Risk Revisited
Xindi He1 , Yucheng Liang2
1 Georgia Institute of Technology; 2 Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Zhengyang Xu (City University of Hong Kong)
1:30pm - 3:15pmAsset Pricing I Location: Studio 10 Session Chair: Jungsuk Han , Seoul National University
A Stock Return Decomposition Using Observables
Benjamin Knox, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Discussant: Thummim Cho (Korea University)
The Real Cost of Benchmarking
Christian Kontz, Sebastian Hanson
Stanford University
Discussant: David Schoenherr (Seoul National University)
Artificial Intelligence and Firms' Systematic Risk
Tania Babina2 , Anastassia Fedyk1 , Alex He3 , James Hodson4
1 University of California, Berkeley; 2 Columbia University; 3 University of Maryland; 4 AI for Good Foundation
Discussant: Sean Seunghun Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
3:15pm - 3:30pmCoffee Break
3:30pm - 5:15pmPhD Session #2 Location: Studio 4 Session Chair: Snehal Banerjee , University of Michigan
Dilutive Financing
Hanjoon Ryu
Duke University
Discussant: Christine Parlour (University of California, Berkeley)
Anything but Equity - On Banks’ Preference for Hybrid Debt
Tanja Brieden
Vienna Graduate School of Finance
Discussant: Edward T. Kim (University of Michigan)
The Value of Contingent Liquidity from Banks to Nonbank Financiers
Chi {"Clara"} Xu
University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Angela Ma (Boston College)
3:30pm - 5:15pmInequality Location: Studio 5 Session Chair: Hyunseob Kim , Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Financial and Total Wealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates
Matteo Leombroni1 , Dan Greenwald2 , Hanno Lustig3 , Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh4
1 Boston College; 2 New York University; 3 Stanford University; 4 Columbia University
Discussant: Andrej Mijakovic (European University Institute)
High Net Worth Individuals, Private Capital Markets and Inequality
Ararat Gocmen1 , Clara Martinez-Toledano2 , Vrinda Mittal3
1 University College London; 2 Imperial College London; 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Magnus Dje Bi Anges Hjortfors Irie (Princeton University)
Poverty Spreads in Deposit Markets
Emilio Bisetti1 , Arkodipta Sarkar2
1 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2 National University of Singapore
Discussant: Richard Stanton (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30pm - 5:15pmRaising Capital Location: Studio 6 Session Chair: Martin Szydlowski , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Equity ATMs
Nicolas Inostroza1 , Anton Tsoy2
1 University of Toronto; 2 University of Toronto
Discussant: Zhen Zhou (Tsinghua University)
Capitalizing on Crowd Capital
Spyros Terovitis
University of Amsterdam
Discussant: Jian Sun (Singapore Management University)
Corporate Finance Through Loyalty Programs
Dan Luo
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Jungsuk Han (Seoul National University)
3:30pm - 5:15pmModern Banking Location: Studio 7 Session Chair: Anjan Thakor , Washington University in St. Louis
Credit Card Banking
Hyeyoon Jung1 , Itamar Drechsler2 , Weiyu Peng2 , Dominik Supera3 , Guanyu Zhou2
1 Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 2 University of Pennsylvania; 3 Columbia University
Discussant: Sheng Huang (China Europe International Business School)
Banks' Risk Exposures and the Zero Lower Bound
Andres Schneider
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota)
Keeping Up in the Digital Era: How Mobile Technology Is Reshaping the Banking Sector
Charlotte Haendler
Southern Methodist University
Discussant: Richard Thakor (University of Minnesota)
3:30pm - 5:15pmBank and Corporate Profits Location: Studio 8 Session Chair: Nagpurnanand Prabhala , Johns Hopkins University
Leasing as a Corporate Risk Management Mechanism
Weiwei Hu1 , Kai Li1 , Chenjie Xu2
1 Peking University; 2 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Discussant: Vasudha Nukala (Indian School of Business)
The Changing Structure of Corporate Profits
Jing Gao, Murray Frank
University of Minnesota
Discussant: Fotis Grigoris (University of Iowa)
What Do Bank Trading Desks Do?
Lina Lu1 , Jonathan Wallen2
1 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; 2 Harvard University
Discussant: Nitin Kumar (Nanyang Technological University)
3:30pm - 5:15pmInstitutions and Governance Location: Studio 9 Session Chair: Angie Low , Nanyang Technological University
The Economics of Investor Engagement
Davidson Heath1 , Daniele Macciocchi2 , Matthew Ringgenberg1
1 University of Utah; 2 University of Miami
Discussant: Sean Seunghun Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
(Re)call of Duty: Mutual Fund Securities Lending and Proxy Voting
Tao Li1 , Qifei Zhu2
1 University of Florida; 2 National University of Singapore
Discussant: Maxime Couvert (University of Hong Kong)
Common Investors Across the Capital Structure: Private Debt Funds as Dual Holders
Tetiana Davydiuk1 , Isil Erel2 , Wei Jiang3 , Tatyana Marchuk 4
1 Johns Hopkins University; 2 Ohio State University; 3 Emory University; 4 Nova School of Business and Economics
Discussant: Katie Moon (University of Colorado)
3:30pm - 5:15pmAlgorithmic Trading Location: Studio 10 Session Chair: Emiliano Pagnotta , Singapore Management University
AI Powered Trading, Algorithimic Collusion and Price Efficiency
Winston Dou1 , Itay Goldstein1 , Yan Ji2
1 University of Pennsylvania; 2 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Discussant: Xian Wu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Employing Artificial Intelligence to Create Smart Limit Orders
Seongkyu {Gilbert} Park1 , Patrik Sandas2
1 Willamette University; 2 University of Virginia
Discussant: Chen Yao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Machine Traders, Human Behavior, and Model (Mis)Specification
Ahmed Guecioueur
University of Washington
Discussant: Don Noh (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
6:00pm - 8:00pmWelcome Reception Location: Vvertigo, Level 9 Sponsored by Elsevier, Inc.