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The Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference was most recently held on May 12th & 13th, 2022 at the Carlson School of Management.

Thursday, May 12th

11:30 AM

Conference Lunch

12:30 PM

Anthony Lee Zhang (Chicago) “Data and Welfare in Credit Markets” (with Mark Jansen, Fabian Nagel, and Constantine Yannelis)
Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota)

1:30 PM

Sylvain Catherine (Wharton) “Robustness Checks in Structural Analysis” (with Mehran Ebrahimian, David Sraer, and David Thesmar)
Discussant: Daniel Green (HBS)

2:30 PM

Coffee Break

2:45 PM

Colin Ward (Minnesota) “Appropriated Growth” (with Yuchen Chen, Xuelin Li, and Richard T. Thakor)
Discussant: Mindy Xiaolan (Texas)

3:45 PM

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)

4:45 PM

Coffee Break

5:00 PM

Julia Fonseca (Illinois) “The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil” (with Adrien Matray)
Discussant: Tracy Wang (Minnesota) 

Friday, May 13th

8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM

Mark Egan (Harvard) “What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Evidence from Retirement Plans” (with Alexander MacKay and Hanbin Yang)
Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)

9:30 AM

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)

10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM

Andrew Winton (Minnesota) “Loans and Lies: Does Bank Monitoring Reduce Corporate Misreporting?” (with Minwen Li and Tanakorn Makaew)
Discussant: David Schoenherr (Princeton)

11:45 AM

Vikrant Vig (Northwestern) “Decomposing Fire Sale Discounts” (with Julian Franks, Gunjan Seth, Oren Sussman)
Discussant: Juliana Salomao (Minnesota)

12:45 PM

Lunch

Speakers

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Sylvain Catherine

Assistant Professor - The Wharton School

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Mark Egan

Assistant Professor - Harvard University

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Julia Fonseca

Assistant Professor - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Yiming Ma

Assistant Professor of Finance - Columbia University

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Gordon Phillips

Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration - Dartmouth College

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Vikrant Vig

Henry D. Bullock Chaired Professor of Finance - Northwestern University

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Anthony Le Zhang

Assistant Professor - University of Chicago

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Colin Ward

Colin Ward

Assistant Professor - University of Minnesota

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Andrew Winton

Andrew Winton

Professor and Minnesota Banking Industry Endowed Chair - University of Minnesota

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Guest Discussants

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Daniel Green

Assistant Professor of Business Administration - Harvard Business School

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David Shoenherr

Assistant Professor of Economics - Princeton University

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Russ Wermer is pictured from the collarbones up. He is wearing glasses and smiling at the camera. He is also wearing a blue and white pinstripe collared shirt, black suit jacket, and yellow tie.yell

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

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Mindy Xiaolan

Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Texas at Austin

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