Finance Department Junior Conference Past Events
Previous Events
Friday, October 25th
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Daniel Neuhann (UT Austin) – “A Dynamic Theory of Collateral Quality and Long term Interventions” (joint with Michael Junho Lee) |
| 1:45 PM | 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 PM | Winston Dou (Wharton) – “Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions” (joint with Lucian A. Taylor, Wei Wang, and Wenyu Wang) |
| 3:15 PM | Coffee Break with Finance Department Faculty |
| 4:00 PM | Jill Grennan (Duke) – “Common Ownership and Startup Growth” (joint with Ofer Eldar and Katherine Waldock) |
| 4:45 PM | Anton Tsoy (Toronto) – “Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty” (joint with Andrey Malenko) |
Saturday, October 26th
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Tania Babina (Columbia) – “Crisis Innovation” (joint with Asaf Bernstein and Filippo Mezzanotti) |
| 9:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 AM | Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) – "Firm Financial Networks" |
| 11:00 AM | Mian Ben Zhang (USC) |
The Finance Department is pleased to announce the annual Junior Conference, to be held October 26-27th, 2018 in Hanson Hall 1-103.
Scheduled Speakers Include:
Rosen Valchev Boston College
Filippo Mezzanotti Northwestern
John Mondragon Northwestern
Emil Siriwardane Harvard Business School
Serhiy Kozak University of Michigan
Aislinn Bohren Carnegie Mellon
Check this page for further updates, including schedules and presentations.
The Finance Department is pleased to announce the annual Junior Conference, to be held November 17-18th, 2017 in Hanson Hall 1-108.
Friday, November 17
12:00-1:00pm:
Conference Lunch
1:00-2:00pm:
Will Cong (Chicago), "Up-Cascaded Wisdom of the Crowd," with Yizhou Xiao
Paper (1.17 MB)
2:00-3:00pm:
Oliver Levine (Wisconsin-Madison), "Worldwide Taxes, Agency Conflict, and Investment", with James F. Albertus and Brent Glover
Paper (449.3 KB)
3:00-3:45pm:
Coffee Break with Finance Department Faculty
3:30-4:30pm:
Richard Thakor (Minnesota), “Trust in Lending” with Robert C. Merton
Paper (653.08 KB)
4:30-5:30pm:
Matthew Plosser (NY Fed), "The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending" with Andreas Fuster, Philipp Schnabl, and James Vickery
Saturday, November 18
8:30-9:00am:
Breakfast
9:00-10:00am:
Erik Loualiche (Minnesota), “Firm Networks in the Great Depression” with Nicolas L. Ziebarth and Chris Vickers
Paper (921.34 KB)
10:00-10:30am:
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30am:
Felipe Varas (Duke), “Random Inspections and Periodic Reviews: Optimal Dynamic Monitoring” with Ivan Marinovic and Andrzej Skrzypacz
Paper (709.42 KB)
11:30-12:30pm:
Michaela Pagel (Columbia), “The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: New Evidence on Individual Spending and Financial Structure” with Arna Olafsson
Paper (955.48 KB)
12:30pm:
Conference Lunch
REGISTRATION: If you wish to attend and register for the conference please fill out the form: https://goo.gl/forms/IkBlfJ3runNIFQtF3
The Finance Department Junior Conference will be held in Hanson Hall Room 1-111
Friday, November 18th
1:00pm-2:00pm: WIlliam Mann, UCLA
Presentation: "Collateral Constraints, Wealth Effects, and Volatility: Evidence from Real Estate Markets"
2:00pm-3:00pm: Bradyn Breon-Drish, Stanford
Presentation: "Dynamic Information Acquisition and Strategic Trading"
3:30pm-4:30pm: Adrien Matray, Princeton
Presentation: "Bank Branch Supply and the Unbanked Phenomenon"
4:30pm-5:30pm: Martin Szydlowski, Minnesota
Presentation: "The Market for Conflicted Advice"
Saturday, November 19th
9:00am-10:00am: Mao Ye, University of Illinois
Presentation: "Marrying for Money: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850"
10:30am-11:30am: Bernardino Palazzo, Boston University
Presentation: "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings"
11:30am-12:30am: Juliana Salomao, Minnesota
Presentation: "Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics"
Friday, November 13th
Marco Di Maggio, Columbia Business School
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Title: Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Allocation of Credit
Andrea Lanteri, Duke University
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Title: The market for Used Capital: Endogenous Irreversibility and Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Emilio Osambela, Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business
Time: 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Title: TBD
Batchimeg Sambalaibat, Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma
Time: 4:45pm - 5:45pm
Title: Endogenous Specialization and Dealer Networks
Saturday, Nov 14
Peter Koudijs, Stanford
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Title: Marrying for Money: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850
Cecilia Bustamante, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Time: 10:30am - 11:30pm
Title: TBD
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Conference Lunch (Hanson Hall 1-105) |
| 1:30 - 2:15 p.m. | Martin Szydlowski (Carlson School): |
| 2:15 - 3:00 p.m. | Ivan Shaliastovich (Wharton School), with Gill Segal and Amir Yaron. |
| 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break with Carlson School Finance Department Faculty |
| 3:45 - 4:30 p.m. | Barney Hartman-Glaser (Anderson School), "Dynamic Agency and Realy Options," with Sebastian Gyrglewicz |
| 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. | Liyan Yang (Rotman Shool), "Loss Averson, Survival and Asset Prices," with David Easley |
| 6:30 p.m. | Conference Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Conference Breakfast (Hanson Hall 1-107) |
| 9:30 - 10:15 a.m. | Richard Lowery (McCombs School), with Ari Kang and Malcolm Wardlaw |
| 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. | Boris Nikolov (Simon School), |
| 11:00 - 11:15 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:00 p.m. | Santiago Bazdresch (Carlson School), "Empirical Policy Function Benchmarks for Evaluation and Estimation of Capital Structure Models," with Tony Whited |
| 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. | Conference Lunch and Conclusion |
Conference program schedule:
Conference Participants:
Frederico Belo (University of Minnesota)
“Technological Diversification and Asset Prices” (Coauthors Vasco Carvalho and Sergiy Dubynskiy)
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)