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Session Overview
Location: Studio 7
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025
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 Stefanescu2

1Carnegie Mellon University; 2Federal 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 Seo1

1University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2University or Kansas; 3University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Yoshio Nozawa (University of Toronto)



Collateral Demand in Wholesale Funding Markets

Patrick Coen1, Jamie Coen2, Anne-Caroline Huser3

1Toulouse School of Economics; 2Imperial College London; 3Bank of England

Discussant: Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)

 
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

1Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 2University of Pennsylvania; 3Columbia 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)

 
Date: Friday, 30/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amInvestors and Information
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: Yen-Cheng Chang, National Taiwan University
 

Fund Investor Attention: Uncovering Fund Links through Revealed Preferences

Thanh Huynh

Monash University

Discussant: Shujing Wang (Tongji University)



Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency

Yan Xiong1, Liyan Yang2, Zexin Zheng3

1University of Hong Kong; 2University of Toronto; 3Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Discussant: Jungsuk Han (Seoul National University)



Debt Dictionaries

Jawad M. Addoum1, Vitaly Meursault2, Justin Murfin1

1Cornell University; 2Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Discussant: Hae Lee (Korea University Business School)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmHousehold Finance
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: Wenlan Qian, National University of Singapore
 

How Do Income-Driven Repayment Plans Benefit Student Debt Borrowers?

Sylvain Catherine1, Mehran Ebrahimian2, Constantine Yannelis3

1University of Pennsylvania; 2Stockholm School of Economics; 3University of Cambridge

Discussant: Tianyue Ruan (National University of Singapore)



Can Nonprofits Save Lives Under Financial Stress? Evidence from the Hospital Industry

Janet Gao1, Tim Liu2, Sara Malik3, Merih Sevilir4

1Georgetown University; 2University of Utah; 3University of Utah; 4Halle Institute for Economic Research

Discussant: Jash Jain (Indian School of Business)



The Impact of Finfluencers on Retail Investment

Isaiah Hull1, Yingjie Qi2

1BI Norwegian Business School; 2Copenhagen Business School

Discussant: Hyun-Soo Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmExternalities
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin
 

Up in Smoke: The Impact of Wildfire Pollution on Healthcare Municipal Finance

Luis Lopez1, Dermot Murphy1, Nitzan Tzur-Ilan2, Sean Wilkoff3

1University of Illinois Chicago; 2Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; 3University of Nevada, Reno

Discussant: Qifei Zhu (National University of Singapore)



The Color of Finance: Can Bank Capital Requirements Influence Transition to a Green Economy?

Fenghua Song1, Anjan Thakor2

1Pennsylvania State University; 2Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant: Angela Ma (Boston College)



Transaction Costs, the Price of Convenience, and the Cross-Section of Safe Asset Returns

Ragnar Juelsrud1, Fabienne Schneider2, Plamen Nenov1,3, Olav Syrstad3

1Norges Bank; 2Bank of Canada; 3BI Norwegian Business School

Discussant: Jonathan Cohn (University of Texas at Austin)

 
Date: Saturday, 31/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amRuns
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: Yiming Ma, Columbia University
 

Two Centuries of Systemic Bank Runs

Rustam Jamilov1, Tobias König2, Karsten Müller3, Farzad Saidi2

1All Souls College; 2University of Bonn; 3National University of Singapore

Discussant: Thomas Flanagan (Ohio State University)



Investor Fragility, Bargaining Power, and Pricing Implications for Short-Term Funding Markets

Yi Li, Sean Tibay, Ashley Wang

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Jonathan Wallen (Harvard University)



CEO Ownership, Risk Management, and Bank Runs at Unlimited Liability Banks during the 1890s

Jennifer Rhee1, Haelim Anderson2, Jaewon Choi3

1Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; 2Bank Policy Institute; 3University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussant: Tianyue Ruan (National University of Singapore)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmGovernance
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: Tingjun Liu, Hong Kong University
 

Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders

Robin Döttling1, Doron Levit2, Nadya Malenko3, Magdalena Rola-Janicka4

1Erasmus University Rotterdam; 2University of Washington; 3Boston College; 4Imperial College London

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University)



Leaks, Disclosures and Internal Communication

Snehal Banerjee1, Peicong {Keri} Hu2, Taejin Kim3

1University of Michigan; 2University of Hong Kong; 3Korea University

Discussant: Keeyoung Rhee (Sungkyunkwan University)



Kamikazes in Public Procurements: Bid-Rigging and Real Non-Market Outcomes

Dimas Fazio, Alminas Zaldokas

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Discussant: Kunru Zou (Hong Kong Baptist University)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmFinancing in Low Income Countries
Location: Studio 7
Session Chair: S. Viswanathan, Duke University
 

The Welfare Benefits of Pay-As-You-Go Financing

Paul Gertler1, Brett Green2, Renping Li2, David Sraer1

1University of California, Berkeley; 2Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant: Dong Beom Choi (Seoul National University)



Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance

Muhammad Meki

University of Oxford

Discussant: Angela Ma (Boston College)



Financial Stimulus and Microfinance Institutions in Emerging Markets

Carlos Burga1, Walter Cuba2, Eduardo Díaz2, Elmer Sánchez2

1Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 2Central Reserve Bank of Perú

Discussant: Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)

 

 
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