Financial Intermediation Research Society
2025 Conference

May 29-31, 2025

Seoul, South Korea

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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Session

Politics

Time:

Saturday, 31/May/2025:

2:30pm - 4:15pm

Session Chair: Jonathan Brogaard, University of Utah

Location: Studio 8

Presentations

Mega-Donors and Representation of the Wealthy in the Wake of Citizens United

Ilona Babenko¹, Viktar Fedaseyeu², Guosong Xu³

¹Arizona State University; ²China Europe International Business School; ³Erasmus University

Discussant: Matthew Denes (Carnegie Mellon University)

Corporate Lobbying of Bureaucrats

Michelle Lowry¹, Ekaterina Volkova²

¹Drexel University, USA; ²University of Melbourne, Australia

Discussant: Pat Akey (University of Toronto)

Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending

Erik Mayer¹, Scott Frame², Kristopher Gerardi³, Billy Xu⁴, Lawrence Zhao⁵

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison; ²Structured Finance Association; ³Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; ⁴University of Rochester; ⁵Texas Tech University

Discussant: Keling Zheng (University of British Columbia)