Finance Department Junior Conference Past Events
Previous Events
| Speaker and Paper |
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| Dhruva Bhaskar (City University of New York) Regulation Design in Insurance Markets |
| Yasser Boualam (University of North Carolina) The Flow Approach to Credit Markets: Methodology, Measurements, and Macro Perspectives |
| Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota) Strategically Staying Small: Consequences of Regulatory Avoidance |
| Matthieu Gomez (Columbia) Asset-Price Redistribution |
| Ankit Kalda (Indiana University) Slap on the wrist? External Labor Market Punishment in Finance |
| Richard Thakor (Minnesota) "Do Public Firms Learn from their Private Peers?" |
| Emily Williams (Harvard) Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Effects on Spending Patterns |
| Speaker and Paper |
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| Tania Babina (Columbia) “Crisis Innovation” |
| Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota) “More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms” |
| Winston Dou (Wharton) “Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions” |
| Jill Grennan (Duke) “Common Ownership and Startup Growth” |
| Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) "Firm Financial Networks" |
| Daniel Neuhann (UT Austin) “A Dynamic Theory of Collateral Quality and Long term Interventions” |
| Anton Tsoy (Toronto) “Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty” |
| Mian Ben Zhang (USC) |
| Speaker and Paper |
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| Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania) “Peer Monitoring with Partial Commitment" |
| Serhiy Kozak (Michigan) "The Economics of Factor Timing" |
| Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern) "Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920" |
| John Mondragon (Northwestern) "No Job, No Money, No Refi: Frictions to Refinancing in a Recession" |
| Emil Siriwardane (Harvard) "A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy" |
| Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota) "Monitor Reputation and Transparency" |
| Rosen Valchev (Boston College) "Beyond Home Bias: Portfolio Holdings and Information Heterogeneity" |
| Colin Ward (Minnesota) “Agency in Intangibles” |
| Speaker and Paper |
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| Will Cong (Chicago) "Up-Cascaded Wisdom of the Crowd" |
| Oliver Levine (Wisconsin-Madison) "Worldwide taxes, agency conflicts, and investment?" |
| Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) “Firm Networks in the Great Depression” |
| Michaela Pagel (Columbia) “The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: New Evidence on Individual Spending and Financial Structure” |
| Matthew Plosser (NY Fed) "The Role of Technology in Mortgage" |
| Richard Thakor (Minnesota) “Trust in Lending” |
| Felipe Varas (Duke) “Random Inspections and Periodic Reviews: Optimal Dynamic Monitoring” |
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| Bradyn Breon-Drish (Stanford) "Dynamic Information Acquisition and Strategic Trading" |
| WIlliam Mann (UCLA) "Collateral Constraints, Wealth Effects, and Volatility: Evidence from Real Estate Markets" |
| Adrien Matray (Princeton) "Bank Branch Supply and the Unbanked Phenomenon" |
| Bernardino Palazzo (Boston University) Presentation: "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings" |
| Juliana Salomao (Minnesota) "Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics" |
| Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota) "The Market for Conflicted Advice" |
| Mao Ye (University of Illinois) |
| Speaker and Paper |
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Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland) |
Marco Di Maggio (Columbia Business School) |
| Peter Koudijs (Stanford) “Marrying for Money: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850” |
Andrea Lanteri (Duke University) |
| Emilio Osambela (Carnegie Mellon) |
| Batchimeg Sambalaibat (University of Oklahoma) “Endogenous Specialization and Dealer Networks” |
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| Santiago Bazdresch (Carlson School) "Empirical Policy Function Benchmarks for Evaluation and Estimation of Capital Structure Models" |
| Barney Hartman-Glaser (Anderson School) "Dynamic Agency and Realy Options" |
| Richard Lowery (McCombs School) "The Costs of Closing Failed Banks: A Structural Estimation of Regulatory Incentives" |
| Boris Nikolov (Simon School) "Agency Conflicts around the World" |
| Ivan Shaliastovich (Wharton School) "Good and Bad Uncertainty: Macroeconomic and Financial Market Implications" |
| Martin Szydlowski (Carlson School) "Ambiguity in Dynamic Contracts" |
| Liyan Yang (Rotman Shool) "Loss Averson, Survival and Asset Prices" |
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| Frederico Belo (University of Minnesota) “Technological Diversification and Asset Prices” |
| Andrea Buffa (Boston University) “Strategic Risk Taking with Systematic Externalities" |
| Anna Cieslak (Northwestern University) “Expecting the Fed” (Coauthor Pavol Povala) |
| Andres Donangelo (University of Texas at Austin) “Product Market Competition and Industry Returns (Coauthor Maria Cecilia Bustamante) |
| Paul Gao (University of Notre Dame) “Political Uncertainty and Public Financing Costs: Evidence from U.S. Municipal Bond Markets” |
| Jeremy Graveline (University of Minnesota) “Which Reduced-Form Pricing Kernels are Robust to a Change of Numeraire?” |
| Nikolai Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania) “Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade: A Tale of Two Countries” (Coauthors Robert Ready and Colin Ward) |