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).

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Covenants, Bank Specialization, and Equity Returns
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Simon Gervais
Session Chair: Simon Gervais, Duke University

Do Covenants Bite Softly? Theory and Structural Estimates of Creditor Control Rights

Mian Liu

HEC Paris, France

Discussant: Jason Roderick Donaldson (University of Southern California)



Lender Specialization in Small Business Lending

Jun Yoo

The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America

Discussant: Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam)



The Intersection of Expected Returns

Austin Sobotka

The University of Arizona, United States of America

Discussant: Andrew Chen (Federal Reserve Board)

Healthcare and Finance
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Christopher Hansman
Session Chair: Christopher Hansman, Emory

Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets

Anran Li1, Tong Liu2, Anthony LoSasso3, Nicholas Tilipman4

1: Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; 2: Sloan School of Management, MIT; 3: Department of Economics, DePaul University; 4: Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Adam Jorring (University of Massachusetts Amherst)



Hidden Medical Debt and Consumer Access to Credit

Elena Loutskina, Joonsung Won

University of Virginia, United States of America

Discussant: Avantika Pal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)



What Constrains Medicare Fraud? The Role of Firm Culture in Nursing Homes

John Griffin1, Alex Priest2

1: University of Texas, McCombs School of Business; 2: University of Rochester, Simon Business School, United States of America

Discussant: Jillian Grennan (Emory University)

Credit Supply
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Daniel Carvalho
Session Chair: Daniel Carvalho, Kelley School of Business

Estimating the Impact of Loan Supply Shocks

Nittai Bergman1, Alejandro Casado2, Rajkamal Iyer3,4,5, Itay Saporta-Eksten1,4,6,7

1: Tel Aviv University; 2: Banco de España; 3: Imperial College London; 4: CEPR; 5: ABFER; 6: University of Manchester; 7: IZA



A Public-Private Partnership? Central Bank Funding and Credit Supply

Matthieu Chavaz1, David Elliott2, Win Monroe3

1: Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland; 2: Bank of England; 3: Copenhagen Business School

Discussant: Indraneel Chakraborty (University of Miami)



Banks' Inflation Expectations and Credit Allocation: the Fisher Effect

Filippo De Marco1, Diego Friedheim2

1: Bocconi University, Italy; 2: Di Tella University, Argentina

Discussant: Francesco D\'Acunto (Georgetown University)

Demand Systems and Asset Pricing
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Erik Loualiche
Session Chair: Erik Loualiche, University of Minnesota

How (Not) to Identify Demand Elasticities in Dynamic Asset Markets

Jules van Binsbergen2, Benjamin David2, Christian Opp1

1: University of Rochester, Simon Business School, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Julie Fu (Washington University in St. Louis)



Risk and Return in Asset Demand Systems

Ozan E. Akbas1, Ao Wang2

1: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Discussant: Leo Stanek (Vanderbilt University)



A Trilemma for Asset Demand Estimation

William Fuchs1, Satoshi Fukuda2, Daniel Neuhann1

1: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2: Santa Clara University, United States of America

Discussant: Aditya Chaudhry (Ohio State University)

Collateral and Covenants
1:30pm - 3:15pm
William Mann
Session Chair: William Mann, Emory University

Collateral, Monitoring, and Bank Information Production

Tong Zhao

KU Leuven

Discussant: Tong Yu (Tsinghua University)



Monetary Policy Exposure of Banks and Loan Contracting

Ahmet Degerli1, Jing Wang2

1: Federal Reserve Board; 2: University of Missouri, United States of America

Discussant: Thomas Flanagan (The Ohio State University)



Do Institutional Investors Trade on Covenant Violations?

Anthony Saunders1, Sascha Steffen2, Paulina Verhoff2

1: NYU Stern School of Business; 2: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

Discussant: Sharjil Haque (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Climate Finance I
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Kunal Sachdeva
Session Chair: Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan

Beyond the Storm: Climate Risk and Insurers of Last Resort

Ankit Kalda1, Varun Sharma1, Vikas Soni2, Derek Wenning1

1: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, United States of America; 2: USF

Discussant: Christoph Herpfer (UVA Darden)



Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Macrofinancial Implications of Climate Change and Adaptation

Yasmine Van der Straten

Nova SBE, Portugal

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins)



The Economics of Insurance Guaranty Funds

Boaz Abramson4, Parinitha Sastry1, Ishita Sen2, Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva3

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: Harvard Business School; 3: Arizona State University; 4: Columbia University

Discussant: Brian Jonghwan Lee (Emory University)

Labor and Finance
1:30pm - 3:15pm
Janet Gao
Session Chair: Janet Gao, Georgetown University

Firms as Electoral Monopsonies

Carlos F Avenancio-Leon3, Adelina Barbalau2, Cyndi {Xinyu} Hou1, Alessio Piccolo1

1: Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, United States of America; 2: University of Alberta; 3: University of California -- San Diego, Rady School of Management

Discussant: Doron Levit (University of Washington)



Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta, Elena Siminitzi, Naman Nishesh

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

Discussant: Gaurav Kankanhalli (University of Pittsburgh)



Task Efficiency and Signaling in the Age of GenAI: Effort Reallocation and Firm Value Effects

Shiwei Ye

Erasmus University, Netherlands, The

Discussant: Wenting Ma (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Cof1
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Mortgage Finance and Property Insurance
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Adriano Rampini
Session Chair: Adriano Rampini, Duke University

"Giving Up": The Impact of Decreasing Housing Affordability on Consumption, Work Effort, and Investment

Younggeun Yoo1, Seung Hyeong Lee2

1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: Northwestern University



Unintended Risks of Bank Capital Regulations

Dongkeun Choi

University of California, San Diego, United States of America

Discussant: Juliane Begenau (Stanford University)



The Rise in Insurance Costs for Commercial Properties: Causes, Effects on Rents, and the Role of Owners

Minjoo Kim, Prateek Mahajan, Zirui Wang

University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Parinitha Sastry (University of Pennsylvania)

ESG and Contracting
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Deeksha Gupta
Session Chair: Deeksha Gupta, Johns Hopkins

The Role of Social Value in Contracting

Shu Zhang1, Nickolay Gantchev2, Jim Goldman3

1: University of Exeter, United Kingdom; 2: University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce; 3: McGill University

Discussant: Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)



(Ir)responsible Takeovers

Philip Bond, Doron Levit

University of Washington, United States of America

Discussant: Paul Voss (HEC Paris)



Beyond ESG: Executive Pay Metrics and Shareholder Support

Nickolay Gantchev1, Mariassunta Giannetti2, Marcus Hober3

1: University of Virginia, CEPR, ECGI; 2: Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, ECGI; 3: Stockholm School of Economics

Discussant: Alexandr Kopytov (University of Rochester)

Open Banking and Alternative Data
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Julapa Jagtiani
Session Chair: Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Open Banking and Competition in Banks and Fintech: Evidence from Mobile Apps

Xinchen Ma

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Discussant: Giulio Cornelli (Bank for International Settlements)



Data as Collateral: Open Banking for Small Business Lending

Tong Yu

Tsinghua University

Discussant: Seung Jung Lee (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)



Borrowers in the Shadows: The Promise and Pitfalls of Alternative Credit Data

Mark Jansen1, Sam Kruger2, Gonzalo Maturana3, Amin Shams4

1: University of Utah, Eccles School of Business; 2: University of Texas at Austin, Mc{C}ombs School of Business; 3: Emory University, Goizueta Business School; 4: Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business

Discussant: Christina Wang (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

Re-evaluating Concepts in Asset Pricing
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Dimitri Vayanos
Session Chair: Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics

Asset Pricing with Supply Shocks

Shidong Shao1, Chen Yao2, Mao Ye3, Jason Zou4

1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: Cornell University; 4: Cornell University

Discussant: Paul Huebner (Stockholm School of Economics)



Erasing Alpha

Carter Davis2, Xiao Han3, Stanislav Sokolinski1, Andrea Tamoni4

1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: Ohio State University; 3: City St George's, University of London; 4: University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Julie Fu (Washington University in St Louis)



Equity Valuation Without DCF

Thummim Cho2, Christopher Polk1, Robert Rogers1

1: London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 2: Korea University

Discussant: Christian Opp (University of Rochester, Simon Business School)

Private Equity
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Session Chair: Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Georgetown University

Selling to Yourself: Continuation Funds in Private Equity

Rustam Abuzov1, Will Gornall2, Sophie Shive3, Ilya Strebulaev4, Michael Weisbach5

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia; 3: University of Notre Dame; 4: Stanford University; 5: The Ohio State University

Discussant: Morten Sorensen (Tuck School of Business)



FX Neglect in Private Equity Buyouts

Vesa Pursiainen1,2, Wang Tang1,2

1: University of St. Gallen; 2: Swiss Finance Institute

Discussant: Juliana Salomao (University of Minnesota)



How do Barbarians Get to the Gates? Private Equity Careers, Styles, and Returns

Blake Jackson

University of Florida, United States of America

Role of Funds in Intermediation
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Jiekun Huang
Session Chair: Jiekun Huang, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Asset Reclassification and Mutual Fund Flows

Nick Bollen, Veronika Pool, Alexey Vasilenko

Vanderbilt University, United States of America

Discussant: Jonathan Reuter (Boston College)



The Longs and Shorts of Hedge Funds

Alan Kwan1, Po-Yu Liu2, Yukun Liu3

1: University of Hong Kong; 2: National Taiwan University; 3: University of Rochester, United States of America

Discussant: Mehrdad Samadi (Rutgers University)



The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits

Lubos Pastor, Taisiya Sikorskaya, Jinrui Wang

University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States

Discussant: Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

Retail Investor Trading Behavior
3:30pm - 5:15pm
Alok Kumar
Session Chair: Alok Kumar, University of Miami

Bot-induced social media manipulation and stock market distortion

Daniel Bradley1, Jan Hanousek Jr.2, Jan Hanousek3, Dominic Svoboda2

1: University South Florida, United States of America; 2: University of Memphis; 3: Mendel University in Brno

Discussant: Zoran Ivkovich (Michigan State University)



Dissecting Retail Investor Trading Tendencies

Hee-Seo Han1, Xindi He2, Daniel Weagley3

1: University of California at Irvine; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology; 3: University of Tennessee

Discussant: Clifton Green (Emory University)



Risk-Taking Over Very Long Horizons: Investors’ Lifetime Returns and Exit from the Stock Market

Sina Ghavamabadi2, Neil Pearson1, Zhishu Yang3, Qi Zhang4

1: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: Aalto University; 3: Tsinghua University; 4: Shanghai Jiaotong University

Discussant: Chukwuma Dim (The George Washington University)