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).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Apr 2026, 04:51:08pm EDT
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Daily Overview |
| Date: Friday, 29/May/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Beliefs and Expectations Session Chair: Snehal Banerjee, University of Michigan |
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From Numbers to Words: Breaking Down Institutional Beliefs 1Bocconi University; 2London Business School, United Kingdom Fading-Memory Expectations in Equity Markets INSEAD, Singapore Experience-Driven Mental Models 1University of Rochester, United States of America; 2Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Bank Deposits Session Chair: Elena Carletti, Bocconi University |
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Sticky Deposits, not Depositors 1BYU; 2MIT and NBER Deposit Competition Beyond Rates 1Berkeley Haas, United States of America; 2Stanford GSB, United States of America; 3Berkeley Haas, United States of America How Do Government Guarantees Affect Deposit Supply? 1Ohio Fisher, United States of America; 2Michigan Ross, United States of America; 3UCLA Anderson, United States of America; 4Texas McCombs, United States of America |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Macro-Finance Session Chair: Leyla Han, Boston University |
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The Original Sin Revisited: Investor Composition and Sovereign Risk 1Harvard University, United States of America; 2European Central Bank The Costs of Financial Crises in the United States 1National University of Singapore; 2Princeton University The Austerity Threshold 1Johns Hopkins University, United States of America; 2The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; 3Columbia Business School |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Entrepreneurial Finance Session Chair: Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University |
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Elite Capture: Government Loan Guarantees for Startups University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Multilateral Contracting in Stage Financing 1UNC, United States of America; 2UT Dallas, United States of America Venture Fraud University of Toronto, Canada |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Household Investments Session Chair: Nandini Gupta, Indiana University |
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Household Portfolio and Deposit Insurance: Implications for the Supply of Safe Assets 1Washington University in St Louis, United States of America; 2IIM Bangalore; 3Bocconi University Financial Advisors and Retirees’ Risk-Taking 1Indiana University, United States of America; 2Arizona State University; 3Washington University in St. Louis Rising Risk Among the Rich: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Interest Rates 1University of Wisconsin; 2University of Minnesota; 3New York University; 4US Census Bureau; 5Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Corporate Governance - Theory and Empirics Session Chair: Alon Brav, Duke University |
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Impact Trickles Down: Exit, Engagement and Firm-Stakeholder Relationships 1HKUST, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2Columbia University Hedge Fund Activism and the Retreat from Corporate Science 1Duke University; 2University of Utah Blockholder Representation on the Board: Theory and Evidence 1University of Wuppertal; 2University of Bielefeld; 3HEC Paris, France |
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Cof2 |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Technology and Patents Session Chair: Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College |
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Why Don't Old Firms Do New Things? 1Northwestern University; 2Stanford University; 3University of Michigan; 4University of Chicao Demographics and Technology Adoption BI Norwegian business school, Norway Patent Intensity, Firm Life Cycle, and the Long-Run Return and Risk Dynamics of Technological Innovators 1Said Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia; 3Theory and Practice |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Bank Regulation Session Chair: Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Texas |
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Rules versus Disclosure: Prudential Regulation and Market Discipline 1UT Austin, United States of America; 2University of Santa Clara; 3UT Austin, United States of America Mitigating the risks of deregulation: The role of supervisory attention 1Bocconi University, Italy; 2Federal Reserve Board of Governors When Banks Fail: Depositor Attention and the Cost of Funding for Survivors 1Emory University Goizueta Business School; 2Boston College |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Inefficiencies in ETFs Session Chair: Alexander Chinco, Michigan State University |
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Underlying Valuation Uncertainty, Strategic ETF Creation and Pricing Efficiency 1Southern Methodist University, United States of America; 2University of Maryland; 3University of Waterloo Index Disruption: The Promise and Pitfalls of Self-Indexed ETFs 1UNIV OF OXFORD, United Kingdom; 2Brandies University ETFs as a disciplinary device 1BIS (Bank for International Settlements), Switzerland; 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Information and Timing in Financial Markets Session Chair: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto |
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Certain vs Uncertain Timing: Financial Markets and Pricing Implications NYU Stern, United States of America The Magic of Markets: Information Acquisition and Aggregation with Strategic Traders Duke University, United States of America Data versus Information Sales under Financial Constraints 1University of Rochester, United States of America; 2University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3University of Rochester Simon Business School, |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Climate Finance II Session Chair: Jawad Addoum, Cornell University |
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Government-Funded Green Banks: Catalysts for the Green Transition 1IESE Business School, University of Navarra; 2Harvard Business School, Harvard University; 3American University, United States of America Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging 1HEC Paris, France; 2UCLA, USA The Labor Market Effects of Carbon Pricing 1EPFL & Swiss Finance Institute; 2Tilburg University; 3Luiss; 4Norges Bank |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Shareholder Voting Session Chair: Michelle Lowry, Drexel University |
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Fragmentation of Shareholder Power 1Boston College, United States of America; 2University of Toronto, Canada Information and Preferences in Shareholder Voting 1Duke University; 2Rice University; 3Individual Freeriders and Underdogs: Participation in Corporate Voting 1Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 2Cornell University |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch1 |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Supply Chains and Trade Credit Session Chair: Adrien Matray, Atlanta Fed |
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Cross-border knowledge flow, international supply chains, and the innovation ecosystem: a cautionary reminder for aggressive trade policy 1Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2University of Liverpool The Ripple Effect: Supply Chain Reconfigurations and Cross-border Credit Dynamics 1Federal Reserve Board, United States of America; 2Bank of Italy; 3Bank of Spain; 4Banco de la Republica Corporate Liquidity Supply from Non-Bank Intermediaries and the Real Effects of Factoring 1CUHK Business School; 2Wharton School; 3Central Bank of Brazil |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Bank Lending Session Chair: Elena Loutskina, Darden School of Business |
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How Costly is It for Firms to Find a New Bank? 1federal reserve bank of new york; 2university of chicago; 3federal reserve bank of richmond; 4columbia university Bank Financing of Global Supply Chains 1Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, United States of America; 2Harvard University; 3Inter-American Development Bank; 4International Monetary Fund; 5Ibmec-RJ Bank Sentiment, Loan Loss Provisioning, and Lending 1University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business, United States of America; 2KAIST, Korea |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Geopolitical Risk Session Chair: Naveen Gondhi, INSEAD |
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Geopolitical Risk and Stock Returns 1UC Irvine, United States of America; 2Hong Kong Baptist University Political risk everywhere 1Morningstar Investment Management LLC; 2BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; 3Wisconsin School of Business; 4Durham University Military Hegemony as Enforcement Capital: A Fiscal Theory of the Global Financial Cycle University of Arizona, United States of America |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Trading and Reinforcement Learning Session Chair: Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
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(Deep) Learning to Trade: An Experimental Analysis of AI Trading and Market Outcomes 1Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany; 2Luiss University Financial Market Fragility in the Era of AI Planning 1University of Pennsylvania and NBER; 2HKUST Trading against Algorithms: Price Dynamics and Risk-sharing in a Market with Q-learners 1University of Michigan, United States of America; 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Corporate Financing and Investment Policies Session Chair: Carola Schenone, University of Virginia |
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Investment, Debt and Taxes 1Duke University, United States of America; 2Chicago Fed; 3Wash U in St Louis; 4San Diego State University Strategic Bankruptcy and Corporate Negligence 1Harvard Business School; 2University of Georgia; 3University of Michigan The Optimal Schedules of Incentives and Cash Flows 1University of Georgia, United States of America; 2University of Washington, United States of America |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Venture Capital Session Chair: Jie He, University of Georgia |
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Tax Incentives and Venture Capital Risk-Taking 1University of Florida; 2NBER Group vs. Individual Decision Making Under Real World Uncertainty: Internal Evidence from a Venture Capital Accelerator 1Texas A&M University; 2Texas A&M University Retail Capital as a Stepping Stone in Venture Capital: Theory and Empirics 1Stockholm University; 2Columbia Business School |
