2026 FIRS Conference

Financial Intermediation Research Society

May 28-30, 2026

Miami, Florida

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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, 04:44:41pm EDT

Agenda Overview

Session

Corporate Governance - Theory and Empirics

Time:

Friday, 29/May/2026:

8:30am - 10:15am

Session Chair: Alon Brav, Duke University

Presentations

Impact Trickles Down: Exit, Engagement and Firm-Stakeholder Relationships

Briana Chang¹, Harrison Hong²

¹HKUST, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); ²Columbia University

Discussant: Joao Thereze (Duke University)

Hedge Fund Activism and the Retreat from Corporate Science

Elia Ferracuti¹, Kevin Standridge², Rahul Vashishtha¹

¹Duke University; ²University of Utah

Discussant: Nickolay Gantchev (University of Virginia)

Blockholder Representation on the Board: Theory and Evidence

Samed Krueger¹, Peter Limbach², Paul Voss³

¹University of Wuppertal; ²University of Bielefeld; ³HEC Paris, France

Discussant: Adrian Corum (Cornell University)