Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session Overview
Location: Studio 5
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025
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

1Bank of Canada; 2University 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

1Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; 2Yale University; 3Northwestern 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

1Bank of England; 2HEC Paris

Discussant: Sebastian Doerr (Bank for International Settlements)

 
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

1Boston College; 2New York University; 3Stanford University; 4Columbia University

Discussant: Andrej Mijakovic (European University Institute)



High Net Worth Individuals, Private Capital Markets and Inequality

Ararat Gocmen1, Clara Martinez-Toledano2, Vrinda Mittal3

1University College London; 2Imperial College London; 3University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Magnus Dje Bi Anges Hjortfors Irie (Princeton University)



Poverty Spreads in Deposit Markets

Emilio Bisetti1, Arkodipta Sarkar2

1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2National University of Singapore

Discussant: Richard Stanton (University of California, Berkeley)

 
Date: Friday, 30/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amBank Incentives
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Robert Marquez, University of California, Davis
 

The Making of (Modern) Banks

Kebin Ma1, Lucy White2, Zhao Li3

1University of Warwick; 2Boston University; 3Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Discussant: John Chi-Fong Kuong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)



The Evolution and Economic impact of African American banks The USA from 1900 to present

Mintra Dwarkasing1, Narly Dwarkasing2, Yashvir Gangaram Panday3, Lucia Gomez Llactahuamani4

1University of Bonn; 2Forum on Economic and Fiscal Policy; 3Erasmus University Rotterdam; 4Harvard University

Discussant: Hugh Hoikwang Kim (University of South Carolina)



Bank Stress Testing, Human Capital Investment and Risk Management

Thomas Schneider1, Philip Strahan2, Jun Yang3

1University of Oklahoma; 2Boston College; 3University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Oliver Rehbein (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmClean Economy
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Adriano Rampini, Duke University
 

Sustainable Investing and Market Governance

Alvin Chen1, Deeksha Gupta2, Jan Starmans1

1Stockholm School of Economics; 2Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Magdalena Rola-Janicka (Imperial College London)



Carbon Offsets: Decarbonization or Transition-Washing?

Sehoon Kim, Tao Li, Yanbin Wu

University of Florida

Discussant: Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)



Green Products

Wan-Chien Chiu1, Po-Hsuan Hsu2, Kai Li3, Joy Tianjiao Tong4

1National Tsing Hua University; 2National Tsing Hua University; 3University of British Columbia; 4University of Western Ontario

Discussant: Nora Pankratz (University of Toronto)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmCleanest Economy
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Alminas Zaldokas, National University of Singapore
 

Financing the Adoption of Clean Technology

Andrea Lanteri, Adriano Rampini

Duke University

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University)



Do Carbon Markets Undermine Private Climate Initiatives?

Pat Akey1, Ian Appel2, Aymeric Bellon3, Johannes Klausmann2

1INSEAD; 2University of Virginia; 3University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Amanda Heitz (Tulane University)



Climate Innovation and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Supply Chain Networks

Ulrich Hege1, Kai Li2, Yifei Zhang2

1Peking University; 2Toulouse School of Economics

Discussant: Chhavi Rastogi (International Finance Corporation)

 
Date: Saturday, 31/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amLeverage
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Abhiroop Mukherjee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 

Uncertainty Creates Zombie Firms: Implications for Industry Dynamics and Creative Destruction

Kevin Aretz1, Murillo Campello2, Gaurav Kankanhalli3, Kevin Schneider4

1University of Manchester; 2University of Florida; 3University of Pittsburgh; 4University of Cambridge

Discussant: Eyub Yegen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)



Corporate Credit Conditions Around the World: Novel Facts Through Holistic Data

Nina Boyarchenko, Leonardo Elias

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant: Seongjin Park (Nanyang Technological University)



The Real Effects of Debt Relief: Evidence from Independent School Districts in Texas

Thomas Seunghyun Lee

University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Varun Sharma (Indiana University)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmCleaner Economy
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
 

ESG Incidents and Fundraising in Private Equity

Teodor Duevski1, Chhavi Rastogi2, Tianhao Yao3

1HEC Paris; 2International Finance Corporation; 3Singapore Management University

Discussant: Mayank Kumar (Boston University)



Funding the Fittest? Pricing of Climate Transition Risk in the Corporate Bond Market

Yasmine Van der Straten1, Maurice Bun2, Martijn Boermans2

1University of Amsterdam; 2De Nederlandsche Bank

Discussant: Will Liu (City University of Hong Kong)



ESG Investing and Stock Return Comovements

Marcin Kacperczyk1, Lin Peng2, Jing Xie3

1Imperial College London; 2Baruch College; 3University of Macau

Discussant: Shane Miller (University of Michigan)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmProduct Markets
Location: Studio 5
Session Chair: Xiaoji Lin, University of Minnesota
 

The Product Market Consequences of Corporate Bankruptcy: New Evidence from 300 Million Retail Transactions

Murillo Campello2, Gustavo Cortes2, Sergio H. Rocha1

1Monash University; 2University of Florida

Discussant: Jaewon Choi (Seoul National University)



Firm Product Concentration and Asset Prices

Alexandre Corhay

University of Toronto

Discussant: Yu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)



Adverse Selection and Endogenous Information

Joao Lucas Thereze Ferreira

Duke University

Discussant: Chao Ying (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

 
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