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Session Overview
Location: Studio 9
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025
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 Maxted2

1Harvard University; 2University 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

1Georgia Institute of Technology; 2Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant: Zhengyang Xu (City University of Hong Kong)

 
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

1University of Utah; 2University 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

1University of Florida; 2National 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 Marchuk4

1Johns Hopkins University; 2Ohio State University; 3Emory University; 4Nova School of Business and Economics

Discussant: Katie Moon (University of Colorado)

 
Date: Friday, 30/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amRisky Climate
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Bart Zhou Yueshen, Singapore Management University
 

Physical Climate Risk Factors and an Application to Measuring Insurers’ Climate Risk Exposure

Hyeyoon Jung1, Robert Engle2, Shan Ge2, Xuran Zeng2

1Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 2New York University

Discussant: Sangmin Simon Oh (Columbia University)



Business as Usual: Bank Climate Commitments, Lending, and Engagement

David Marques Ibanez3, Emil Verner2, Pari Sastry1

1European Central Bank; 2Columbia University; 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant: Tim Eisert (Nova School of Business and Economics)



Bank Competition and Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change

Dasol Kim1, Luke Olson1, Toan Phan2

1Office of Financial Research; 2Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Discussant: Mayank Kumar (Boston University)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmBanks and Markets
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Philip Strahan, Boston College
 

The Debt Ceiling’s Disruptive Impact: Evidence from Many Markets

William Cassidy, Shreye Mirani

Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant: Jonathan Wallen (Harvard University)



Pre-Refunding Announcement Gains in US Treasurys

Chen Wang1, Kevin Zhao2

1University of Notre Dame; 2Office of Financial Research

Discussant: Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technological University)



The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Traded Event Contracts

Eric Swanson1, Renxuan Wang2, Yanbin Wu3

1University of California, Irvine; 2China Europe International Business School; 3University of Florida

Discussant: Nancy Xu (Boston College)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmInventors
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Tao Shu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
 

Regulating Inventors

Torin McFarland

Drexel University

Discussant: Xiangqian Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)



How Scientists on Corporate Boards Drive Innovation by Bridging Research and Development

Ronald W. Masulis, Yufeng Yao

University of New South Wales

Discussant: Xing Liu (Tsinghua University)



Are Patents with Female Inventors Under-Cited? Evidence from Text Estimation

Yael Hochberg1, Ali Kakhbod2, Peiyao Li2, Kunal Sachdeva3

1Rice University; 2University of California, Berkeley; 3University of Michigan

Discussant: Alan Kwan (University of Hong Kong)

 
Date: Saturday, 31/May/2025
8:30am - 10:15amBeliefs
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Philip Bond, University of Washington
 

A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

Aislinn Bohren4, Josh Hascher3, Alex Imas3, Michael Ungeheuer1, Martin Weber2

1Aalto University, Finland; 2University of Mannheim; 3University of Chicago; 4University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Tse-Chun Lin (The University of Hong Kong)



Information Partitioning, Learning, and Beliefs

Pascal Kieren1, Lukas Mertes2, Martin Weber2

1Heidelberg University; 2University of Mannheim

Discussant: Suk Lee (University of New South Wales)



An Arrow-Pratt Theory of Preference for Early Resolution of Uncertainty

Hengjie Ai1, Ravi Bansal2, Hongye Guo3, Amir Yaron4

1University of Wisconsin, Madison; 2Duke University; 3University of Hong Kong; 4University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Yizhou Xiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 
10:30am - 12:15pmLabour Markets
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Jianqiu Bai, Northeastern University
 

Exploitation Payoffs and Incentives for Exploration

Jangwoo Lee1, William Fuchs2, Martin Dumav3

1Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2University of Texas at Austin; 3University of Carlos III

Discussant: Di Li (Peking University)



Financial Innovation, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems

Jacelly Cespedes1, Carlos Burga2, Carlos Parra2, Bernardo Ricca3

1University of Minnesota; 2Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 3Insper

Discussant: Jian Zhang (University of Hong Kong)



Human Capital, Competition and Mobility in the Managerial Labor Market

John Barry1, Noah Lyman2, Lin Zhao3

1Rice University; 2University of Warwick; 3Duke University

Discussant: Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore)

 
2:30pm - 4:15pmCredit and Interest Rate Risk
Location: Studio 9
Session Chair: Patrick Augustin, McGill University
 

Excess Co-movement in Default Risk

Jan Ericsson1, Kristoffer Glover2, Alexandre Jeanneret3, Lucie Lu4

1McGill University; 2University of Technology Sydney; 3University of New South Wales; 4University of Melbourne

Discussant: Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)



The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

Umang Khetan1, Jian Li2, Ioana Neamtu3, Ishita Sen4

1University of Iowa; 2Columbia University; 3Bank of England; 4Harvard University

Discussant: Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)



Bond Funds and Credit Risk

Jaewon Choi1, Amil Dasgupta2, Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh3

1Seoul National University; 2London School of Economics; 3Sungkyunkwan University

Discussant: Alex Dickerson (University of New South Wales)

 

 
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