Theory Conference Past Events

Theory Conference 2015

Moderator for Friday:  Gaoqing Zhang

TimeEvent
11:00 a.m.Shuttle Service from Radisson BLU Hotel to Carlson School of Management
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Lunch (held in Carlson School Private Dining Room) Lower Level 1-150
12:45 p.m.

Welcome Guests

  • Chandra Kanodia, Accounting Department
12:50 – 1:50 p.m.Barton Lipman, Boston University
Co-Authors: Eichanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel
1:50 – 2:00 p.m.Break
2:00 –3:00 p.m.Laura Veldkamp, New York University, Stern
Co-Authors:  Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London and NBER
and Stijin Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University, Stern
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.Break
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.Stephen Terry, Boston University
4:30 – 4:40 p.m.Break
4:40 – 5:40 p.m.Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Board of Chicago
Paper: Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion 
Co-Author:  Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
5:45 p.m.Shuttle to Radisson BLU Minneapolis Hotel (free time at hotel)
6:25 p.m.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Walk to SEVEN (remember to wear your name badges to dinner)
Reception and Dinner
700 Hennepin Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Moderator: Paul Ma

TimeEvent
7:30 a.m.Shuttle Service from Radisson BLU Hotel to Hanson Hall
Classroom 1-102
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.Continental Breakfast
8:30–9:30 a.m.Syvlain Chassang, Princeton University
Co-Author: Gerald Padro i Miquel, London School of Economics
9:30 – 9:40 a.m.Break
9:40 –10:40 a.m.Daniel Martin, Northwestern University
Co-Authors: Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and Michael Luca, Harvard University
10:40 - 10:50 a.m.Break
10:50 - 11:50 a.m.Gaoqing Zhang, University of Minnesota
Paper:  "Disagreement and Discretionary Monetary Policy"
Co-Authors:  Marvin Goodfriend and Pierre Liang (Carnegie Mellon University)
 
11:50 a.m.Lunch (box lunches)
  • Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Board of Chicago
  • Syvlain Chassang, Princeton University
  • Daniel Martin, Northwestern University
  • Barton Lipman, Boston University
  • Stephen Terry, Boston University
  • Laura Veldkamp, New York University Stern
  • Gaoqing Zhang, University of Minnesota
  • Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa
  • Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
  • Jeremy Bertomeau, Baruch College
  • Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
  • Judson Caskey, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Qi Chen, Duke University
  • Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
  • Davide Cianciaruso, Northwestern University
  • Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Kai Du, Pennsylvania State University
  • Sunil Dutta, University of California, Berkeley
  • Paul Fischer, University of Pennsylvania
  • Henry Friedman, University of California
  • Gao Pingyang, University of Chicago Booth
  • Jonathan Glover, Columbia University
  • Ilan Guttman, New York University
  • Steven Huddart, Pennsylvania State University
  • Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago Booth
  • Bart Lambrecht, University of Cambridge
  • Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin
  • Pierre Jinghong Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Tong Lu, University of Houston
  • Radhika Lunawat, University of California - Irvine
  • Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University
  • Xiaojing Meng, New York University
  • Beatrice Michaeli, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Venky Nagar, University of Michigan
  • Alexander Nezlobin, University of California - Berkeley
  • Mark Penno, University of Iowa
  • Hong Qu, Pennsylvania State University
  • Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Haresh Sapra, Univ. of Chicago-Booth
  • Timothy Shields, Chapman University
  • Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
  • Sri Sridharan, Northwestern University
  • Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Phil Stocken, Dartmouth College
  • Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Anne Torrance, Stanford University
  • Raghu Venugopalan, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Baohua Xin, University of Toronto
  • Hao Xue, New York University

Carlson Faculty

  • Aiyesha Dey
  • Gordon Duke
  • Vivian Fang
  • Frank Gigler
  • Michael Iselin
  • Chandra Kanodia
  • Mozaffar Khan
  • Paul Ma
  • Joshua Madsen
  • Judy Rayburn
  • Pervin Shroff
  • Gaoqing Zhang
  • Ivy Zhang

Carlson PhD Students

  • Aysa Dordzhieva
  • Andrew Fluharty
  • Xiaoli Guo
  • Hui Liang
  • Yuanyuan Ma
  • Brandon Manier
  • Jonathan Nam
  • Jacob Raleigh
  • Iman Sheilbany
  • Chao Tang
  • Rachel Thompson
  • Yulin Xu

Theory Conference 2013

Moderator: Frank Gigler

12:00 - 12:30Shuttle from Aloft Hotel to Hanson Hall
1:00 p.m.Welcome
1:05 - 2:25 p.m.Brett Trueman, University of California
Paper: Expectations Management
2:45 - 4:05 p.m.Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Effects of Corporate Governance and Managerial Optimism on Accounting Conservatism and Manipulation
4:25 - 5:45 p.m.Xu Jiang, Duke University
Paper: Properties of Optimal Accounting Rules in a Signaling Game
5:45 - 6:15 p.m.

Shuttle to the Aloft Hotel from Hanson Hall

Visiting guests will walk from Aloft Hotel to Sea Change Restaurant in the Guthrie
Check out the Guthrie: http://www.guthrietheater.org/

806 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415

(Please remember to wear your name badge to dinner)

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.Reception
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.Dinner
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.Shuttle from Aloft Hotel to Hanson Hall
8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.Breakfast
9:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Anne Beyer, Stanford University
Paper: Earnings Management and Earnings Quality: Theory and Evidence
11:15 a.m. - 12:35 a.m.Jeremy Bertomeu, Baruch College
Paper: Truthful Communication Prior to a Sale
12:45 p.m.Box Lunch
  • Jeremy Bertomeu, Baruch College
  • Anne Beyer, Stanford University
  • Xu Jiang, Duke University
  • Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin
  • Brett Trueman, University of California - Los Angeles

Carlson Faculty

  • Aiyesha Dey
  • Gordon Duke
  • Vivian Fang
  • Yu Gao
  • Frank Gigler
  • Chandra Kanodia
  • Mozaffar Khan
  • Paul Ma
  • Joshua Madsen
  • Pervin Shroff
  • Ivy Zhang

Carlson PhD Students

  • Wen Chen
  • Xin Dai
  • Aysa Dordzhieva
  • Andrew Fluharty
  • Xiaoli Guo
  • Rachel Henderson
  • Sumi Jung
  • Yuanyuan Ma
  • Jonathan Nam
  • Iman Sheilbany
  • Chao Tang

Theory Conference 2011

Moderator: Frank Gigler

 
TimeEvent
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.Shuttle from Aloft Hotel to Hanson Hall
1:00 p.m.Welcome
1:05 - 2:25 p.m.Philip Bond, University of Minnesota: "Investment Banking Careers: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs" co-author Ulf Axelson (London School of Economics and SIFR)
2:45 - 4:05 p.m.Raghu Venogopalan, University of Illinois: "Debt Covenants and the Incentive for Asset Substitution", co-authors Tong Lu (University of Houston), and Haresh Sapra (University of Chicago)
4:25 - 5:45 p.m.Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University: "Disclosure of Hard Versus Soft Information" co-author Jeremy Bertomeu (Baruch College)
5:45 - 6:15 p.m.

Shuttle to the Aloft Hotel from Hanson Hall

Visiting guests will walk from Aloft Hotel to Sea Change Restaurant in the Guthrie

Check out the Guthrie: http://www.guthrietheater.org/

806 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415

(Please remember to wear your name badge to dinner)

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.Reception
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.Dinner
 
TimeEvent
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.Breakfast will be available at the Aloft Hotel
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.Shuttle from Aloft Hotel to Hanson Hall
9:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Thomas Hemmer, Rice University: "Optimal Pay-Performance-Sensitivity in the Presence of Exogenous Risk" (will not be linked but paper copies available at the conference)
11:15 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.Hans Frimor, Aarhus University: "Options in Compensation, Promises and Pitfalls", co-authors Christian Riis Flor (University of Southern Denmark) and Claus Munk (Aarhus University)
12:45 p.m.Box Lunch

 

  • Philip Bond, University of Minnesota
  • Hans Frimor, Aarhus University
  • Thomas Hemmer, Rice University
  • Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University
  • Raghunathan Venugopalan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Regina Anctil, University of St. Thomas
  • Tim Baldenius, New York University
  • Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
  • Jeremy Bertomeu, Baruch College
  • Anne Beyer, Stanford University
  • Qi Chen, Duke University
  • Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
  • Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Sunil Dutta, University of California at Berkeley
  • Ilan Guttman, Stanford University
  • Xu Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
  • Jing Li, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Meng Li, University of Chicago
  • Tong Lu, University of Houston
  • Xiaojing Meng, New York University
  • Lin Nan, Carnegie Mellon University
  • N.V. Ramanan, University of California - Davis
  • Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, University of Houston
  • Baohua Xin, University of Toronto
  • Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
  • Yun Zhang, George Washington University

Carlson Faculty

  • Ming Deng
  • Gordon Duke
  • Clayton Forester
  • Yu Gao
  • Frank Gigler
  • Zhaoyang Gu
  • Chandra Kanodia
  • Mozaffar Khan
  • Pervin Shroff
  • Raj Singh
  • Dushyang Vyas
  • Andrew Winton
  • Ivy Zhang

Carlson Phd Students

  • Wen Chen
  • Xin Dai
  • Aysa Dordzhieva
  • Feng Guo
  • Rachel Henderson
  • Sumi Jung
  • Yuanyuan Ma
  • Jonathan Nam
  • Xiaoxia Peng
  • Nathanial Wolfe
  • Hongda Zhong