Corporate Finance Conference Past Events
Past Conference Participants
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
| Sylvain Catherine (Wharton) Robustness Checks in Structural Analysis | Daniel Green (HBS) |
| Mark Egan (Harvard) What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Evidence from Retirement Plans | Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) |
| Julia Fonseca (Illinois) The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil | Tracy Wang (Minnesota) |
| Yiming Ma (Columbia) Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds | Russ Wermers (Maryland) |
| Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth) Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning | Richard T. Thakor (Minnesota) |
| Vikrant Vig (Northwestern) Decomposing Fire Sale Discounts | Juliana Salomao (Minnesota) |
| Colin Ward (Minnesota) Appropriated Growth | Mindy Xiaolan (Texas) |
| Andrew Winton (Minnesota) Loans and Lies: Does Bank Monitoring Reduce Corporate Misreporting? | David Schoenherr (Princeton) |
| Anthony Lee Zhang (Chicago) Data and Welfare in Credit Markets | Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota) | Adrien Matray (Princeton University) |
Maryam Farboodi (MIT) | Erik Loualiche (University of Minnesota) |
Arpit Gupta (New York University) Urban Flight Seeded the Covid-19 Pandemic Across the United States | Murray Frank (University of Minnesota) |
Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan) Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment | Martin Szydlowski (University of Minnesota) |
Claudia Robles‐Garcia (Stanford University) | Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota) |
Luke Taylor (University of Pennsylvania) | Michael Ewens (Caltech) |
Richard Thakor (University of Minnesota) Paying off the Competition: Market Power and Innovation Incentives | Jan Bena (UBC) |
Vish Viswanathan (Duke University) | Yueran Ma (University of Chicago) |
Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia Business School) | Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Understanding the Credit Multiplier: The Working Capital Channel” (with Daniel Carvalho and Taehyun Kim). | Hengjie Ai (Minnesota) |
Ilona Babenko (Arizona State) “Management (of) Proposals” | Vivian Fang (Minnesota Accounting) |
Murray Frank (University of Minnesota) “Does Finance Flow to High Productivity Firms?” | Mark Leary (Washington University, St. Louis) |
Todd Gormley (Washington University, St. Louis) “The Rise of Common Ownership” | Murray Frank (Minnesota) |
Sabrina Howell (New York University) “When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education” | Richard Thakor (Minnesota) |
Gregor Matvos (University of Texas, Austin) “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct” | Tracy Wang (Minnesota) |
Chris Palmer (MIT) “The Capitalization of Consumer Financing into Durable Goods Prices” | Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (New York Fed) |
Adi Sunderam (Harvard University) “The Cross Section of Bank Value” | Andrew Winton (Minnesota) |
Richard Thakor (University of Minnesota) “Filling the Gap: R&D Investment Following Public Health Advisories" | Merih Sevilir (Indiana) |
Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota) “Skilled Labor Risk and Compensation Policies” | Qiping Xu (Notre Dame) |
Mindy Zhang (University of Texas, Austin) “Delegated Learning in Asset Management” | Colin Ward (Minnesota) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussants |
|---|---|
Eduardo Davila (NYU) “Optimal Deposit Insurance” | Hengjie Ai (Minnesota) |
Alex Edmans (LBS) “Governing Multiple Firms” | Vyacheslav Fos (BC) |
Mark Egan (Minnesota) “Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility” | Alex Gorbenko (USC) |
Xavier Giroud (MIT) "State Taxation and the Reallocation of Economic Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data" | Eric Zwick (Chicago) |
Christine Parlour (Berkeley) “Making Money: Commercial Banks, Money Creation and the Payment System” | Andrew Winton (Minnesota) |
Uday Rajan (Michigan) “Robust Security Design” | Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota) |
Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota) “Optimal Financing and Disclosure” | Andrey Malenko (MIT) |
David Thesmar (HEC) “Aggregate Effects of Collateral Constraints” | Colin Ward (Minnesota) |
Margarita Tsoutsoura (Chicago) “Do Director Elections Matter?” | Mark Egan (Minnesota) |
John Zhu (Wharton) “Refinance” | Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University) “Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?” | Ing-Haw Cheng (Dartmouth) |
Daniel Paravisini (London School of Economics) “The Incentive Effect of IT: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees” | Erik Giljie (Wharton) |
Gordon Phillips (University of Southern California) “The Advantages of Being Publicly Traded: External Financing and New Product Introductions” | Santiago Bazdresch (Minnesota) |
David Robinson (Duke University) “Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation” | Hengjie Ai (Minnesota) |
Amit Seru (University of Chicago) “Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation and Growth” | Frederico Belo (Minnesota) |
Kelly Shue (University of Chicago) “Growth through Rigidity: Understanding Recent Trends in Executive Compensation” | Rajesh Aggrawal (Minnesota) |
Tracy Wang (Minnesota) “Corporate Scandals and Household Stock Market Participation” | Vojislav Maksimovic (Maryland) |
Yuhai Xuan (Harvard Business School) “The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals” | Claudia Custodio (Arizona State) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
Jonathan Berk (Stanford University) "Measuring Economic Rents in the Mutual Fund Industry" | David Musto (Wharton) |
Rajkamal Iyer (MIT) "Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors Monitor Banks?" | Asaf Manela (WashU) |
Justin Murfin (Yale University) "Small Lending Big: The Real Effects of Trade Credit Demands on Constrained Supplier" | Santiago Bazdresch (Minnesota) |
José-Luis Peydró (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) "Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments" | Robert McDonald (Northwestern) |
Tano Santos (Columbia University) "Cream Skimming in Financial Markets" | Hengjie Ai (Duke) |
Philipp Schnabl (NYU) "How Safe are Money Market Funds?" | Gordon Alexander (Minnesota) |
Sheridan Titman (Texas) "Debt, Labor Markets and the Creation and Destruction of Firms" | Lucasz Drozd (Wharton) |
Tracy Wang (Minnesota) "First Year in Office: How Do New CEOs Create Value?" | Dirk Jenter (Stanford) |
| Speaker and Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|
Hui Chen (MIT) "Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang" | Santiago Bazdresch (University of Minnesota) |
Alex Edmans (Wharton) "Short-Term Termination Without Deterring Long-Term Investment: A Theory of Debt and Buyouts" | Raj Aggarwal (University of Minnesota) |
Mike Fishman (Northwestern) "Valuation and the Volatility of Investment" | Andy Winton (University of Minnesota) |
Murray Frank (University of Minnesota) "Credit Market Timing" | Lubomir Litov (Washington University at St. Louis and University of Arizona) |
Rick Green (Carnegie Mellon) "Financial Expertise as an Arms Race with Vincent Glode and Richard Lowery" | Bruce Carlin (UCLA) |
Michael Roberts (Wharton) "Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy? with Mark Leary" | Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota) |
Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton) "A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector" | V.V. Chari (Minnesota Economics) |
Raj Singh (University of Minnesota) "The Economics of Club Bidding in Private Equity with Robert Marquez" | David Rahman (University of Minnesota, Economics) |
Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford) "Empirical Corporate Finance in a Dynamic World with Arthur Korteweg" | Dmitry Livdan (Berkeley) |
Neng Wang (Columbia) "Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management with Patrick Bolton and Hui Chen" | Doriana Ruffino (University of Minnesota) |