Finance Department Junior Conference

The speakers and papers presented were as follows

Friday, October 25th

1:00 p.m.

Daniel Neuhann (UT Austin) – “A Dynamic Theory of Collateral Quality and Long term Interventions” (joint with Michael Junho Lee)

1:45 p.m.

Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota) – “More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms” (joint with Xing Huang and Carlos Parra)

2:30 p.m.

Winston Dou (Wharton) – “Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions” (joint with Lucian A. Taylor, Wei Wang, and Wenyu Wang)

3:15 p.m.

Coffee Break with Finance Department Faculty

4:00 p.m.

Jill Grennan (Duke) – “Common Ownership and Startup Growth” (joint with Ofer Eldar and Katherine Waldock)

4:45 p.m.

Anton Tsoy (Toronto) – “Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty” (joint with Andrey Malenko)

9:00 a.m.

Tania Babina (Columbia) – “Crisis Innovation” (joint with Asaf Bernstein and Filippo Mezzanotti)

9:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:15 a.m.

Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) – "Firm Financial Networks"

11:00 a.m.

Mian Ben Zhang (USC)