
Corporate Finance Conference
The Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference was most recently held on May 12th & 13th, 2022 at the Carlson School of Management.
Thursday, May 12th
Conference Lunch
Anthony Lee Zhang (Chicago) “Data and Welfare in Credit Markets” (with Mark Jansen, Fabian Nagel, and Constantine Yannelis)
Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota)
Sylvain Catherine (Wharton) “Robustness Checks in Structural Analysis” (with Mehran Ebrahimian, David Sraer, and David Thesmar)
Discussant: Daniel Green (HBS)
Coffee Break
Colin Ward (Minnesota) “Appropriated Growth” (with Yuchen Chen, Xuelin Li, and Richard T. Thakor)
Discussant: Mindy Xiaolan (Texas)
Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth) “Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning” (with Utku U. Acikalin, Tolga Caskurlu, and Gerard Hoberg)
Discussant: Richard T. Thakor (Minnesota)
Coffee Break
Julia Fonseca (Illinois) “The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil” (with Adrien Matray)
Discussant: Tracy Wang (Minnesota)
Friday, May 13th
Continental Breakfast
Mark Egan (Harvard) “What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Evidence from Retirement Plans” (with Alexander MacKay and Hanbin Yang)
Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)
Yiming Ma (Columbia) “Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds” (with Naz Koont, Lubos Pastor, and Yao Zeng)
Discussant: Russ Wermers (Maryland)
Coffee Break
Andrew Winton (Minnesota) “Loans and Lies: Does Bank Monitoring Reduce Corporate Misreporting?” (with Minwen Li and Tanakorn Makaew)
Discussant: David Schoenherr (Princeton)
Vikrant Vig (Northwestern) “Decomposing Fire Sale Discounts” (with Julian Franks, Gunjan Seth, Oren Sussman)
Discussant: Juliana Salomao (Minnesota)
Lunch
Speakers
Sylvain Catherine
Assistant Professor - The Wharton School
Mark Egan
Assistant Professor - Harvard University
Julia Fonseca
Assistant Professor - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yiming Ma
Assistant Professor of Finance - Columbia University
Gordon Phillips
Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration - Dartmouth College
Vikrant Vig
Henry D. Bullock Chaired Professor of Finance - Northwestern University
Anthony Le Zhang
Assistant Professor - University of Chicago
Colin Ward
Assistant Professor - University of Minnesota
Andrew Winton
Professor and Minnesota Banking Industry Endowed Chair - University of Minnesota
Guest Discussants
Daniel Green
Assistant Professor of Business Administration - Harvard Business School
David Shoenherr
Assistant Professor of Economics - Princeton University
Russ Wermers
Paul J. Cinquegrana ’63 Endowed Chair in Finance and Director, Center for Financial Policy at the Smith School of Business - University of Maryland
Mindy Xiaolan
Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Texas at Austin