Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 23/Aug/2024
8:00am
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6:00pm
Registration Desk
Location: Radisson & Reduta
9:00am
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10:30am
AP 11: Asset prices and the business cycle
Location: Reduta | Columned Hall (floor 1)
Chair: Mete Kilic, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
 

Leverage Dynamics and Learning about Economic Crises

Artur Anschukov2, Harjoat Bhamra2, Lars-Alexander Kuehn1

1: Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America; 2: Imperial College Business School



Misallocation and Asset Prices

Winston Dou1, Yan Ji2, Di Tian2, Pengfei Wang3

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 3: Peking University



Asset Pricing with the Awareness of New Priced Risks

Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen1, Philipp Illeditsch2, Petra Sinagl3

1: BI Norwegian Business School; 2: Texas A&M; 3: University of Iowa, United States of America

AP 12: Inflation and asset prices
Location: Reduta | Large Concert Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London
 

The Long-term Effects of Inflation on Inflation Expectations

Fabio Braggion1, Felix von Meyerinck2, Nic Schaub3, Michael Weber4

1: University of Tillburg, the Netherlands; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: WHU -- Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany; 4: University of Chicago Booth, U.S.A.



TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T ALREADY KNOW: LEARNING IN LOW AND HIGH-INFLATION SETTINGS

Michael Weber

University of Chicago, United States of America



Inflation Forecasting From Cross-Sectional Stocks

Claire Yurong Hong1, Jun Liu2, Jun PAN3, Shiwen Tian4

1: SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 2: UC San Diego; 3: SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University CAFR; 4: Central University of Finance and Economics

AP 13: Beliefs and asset prices
Location: Reduta | Small Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Cameron Peng, London School of Economics
 

Crash Narratives

Dasol Kim1, William Goetzmann2, Robert Shiller2

1: Office of Financial Research, United States of America; 2: Yale University



Eliciting Expectations

Samuel Hartzmark1, Abigail Sussman2

1: Boston College; 2: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States of America



Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns

Hongye Guo

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

FI 09: Real estate markets
Location: Reduta | Chamber Studio (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Lu Liu, University of Pennsylvania
 

Understanding Rationality and Disagreement in House Price Expectations

Zigang Li1, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh2, Renxuan Wang3

1: University of Toronto Rotman School of Business, Canada; 2: Columbia University Graduate School of Business, United States of America; 3: CEIBS Shanghai, China



In Search of the Matching Function in the Housing Market

Cristian Badarinza1, Vimal Balasubramaniam2, Tarun Ramadorai3

1: National University of Singapore; 2: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 3: Imperial College London



Unintended Consequences of QE: Real Estate Prices and Financial Stability

Tobias Berg1, Rainer Haselmann1, Thomas Kick2, Sebastian Schreiber1

1: Goethe University, Germany; 2: Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany

FI 10: Access to bank credit
Location: Reduta | Choir Room (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Evren ORS, HEC Paris
 

Blended Finance and Female Entrepreneurship

Halil Aydin5, Cagatay Bircan1,3, Ralph De Haas1,2,4

1: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United Kingdom; 2: KU Leuven; 3: University College London; 4: CEPR; 5: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey



The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit

Agustin Hurtado1, Jung Sakong2

1: University of Maryland Smith School of Business; 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, United States of America



The Role of Family Networks in First-Credit Access

Lorena Keller1, Miguel Angel Carpio2, Alessandro Tomarchio3

1: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: Universidad de Piura; 3: Central Bank of Peru

CF 09: VCs and entrepreneurs
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Isil Erel, The Ohio State University
 

Irreplaceable Venture Capitalists

Michael Ewens2, Denis Sosyura1

1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Columbia University



Implicit Discrimination in the Financial Market: Experimental Evidence From the Venture Capital Industry

Ye Zhang

Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden



Contract Completeness of Company Bylaws and Entrepreneurial Success

Paul Beaumont1, Johan Hombert2, Adrien Matray3

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: HEC Paris, France; 3: Stanford GSB, USA

CF 10: Corporate innovation
Location: Radisson | Melody
Chair: Jiri Knesl, University of Oxford, Said Business School
 

CEO Experience and Value Creation: Evidence from Green Lab Locations

Leo Liu2, Elvira Sojli1, Wing Wah Tham1

1: University of New South Wales, Australia; 2: University of Technology Sydney



Technology Sectoral Disruptions

Tolga Caskurlu1, Gerard Hoberg2, Gordon M. Phillips3

1: Amsterdam Business School; 2: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business; 3: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College



Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs

Jing Xue

Georgia State University, United States of America

CL 05: ESG investing
Location: Radisson | Rhapsody
Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia
 

ESG Skill of Mutual Fund Managers

Marco Ceccarelli1, Richard Evans2, Simon Glossner3, Mikael Homanen4, Ellie Luu5

1: VU Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics; 2: University of Virginia, Darden School of Business; 3: Federal Reserve Board; 4: PRI Organisation; 5: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom



The Sustainability Preferences of Individual and Institutional Investors

Moqi Groen-Xu1, Malgorzata Ryduchowska2

1: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 2: BI, Oslo



Regulating ESG Disclosure

Marina Emiris1, Joanna Harris2, Francois Koulischer3

1: National Bank of Belgium; 2: University of Chicago; 3: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

MM 03: Retail order flow
Location: Radisson | Carlton Hall
Chair: Ingrid M Werner, The Ohio State University
 

Retail Trading Mechanisms and Execution Quality

Fatemeh Aramian, Carole Comerton-Forde

University of Melbourne, Australia



What is the value of retail order flow?

Peter Hoffmann1, Stephan Jank2

1: European Central Bank, Germany; 2: Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany



What Does Best Execution Look Like?

Thomas Ernst1, Andrey Malenko2, Chester Spatt3, Jian Sun4

1: University of Maryland; 2: Boston College; 3: Carnegie Mellon University; 4: Singapore Management University

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am
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12:30pm
NBS: Machine learning methods in finance
Location: Reduta | Columned Hall (floor 1)
Chair: Reiner Martin, National Bank of Slovakia
 

Expected Returns and Large Language Models

Dacheng Xiu3, Yifei Chen1, Bryan Kelly2

1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America; 3: University of Chicago, United States of America



The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models

Leland Bybee

Yale, United States of America



From Transcripts to Insights: Uncovering Corporate Risks Using Generative AI

Alex Kim, Maximilian Muhn, Valeri Nikolaev

Chicago Booth, United States of America

AP 14: Derivatives
Location: Reduta | Large Concert Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Grigory Vilkov, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH
 

A New Option Momentum: Compensation for Risk

Heiner Beckmeyer1, Ilias Filippou2, Guofu Zhou3

1: University of Münster; 2: Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis; 3: Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis



The Hairy Premium

Pasquale Della Corte1, Ljubica Georgievska2, Anthony Saunders3, Zhaneta Krasimirova Tancheva2

1: Imperial College Business School; 2: BI Norwegian Business School; 3: NYU Stern School of Business



The Monthly Cycle of Option Prices

Chao Gao1, Jia He2, Grace Xing Hu3

1: College of Business and Economics, Australian National University; 2: School of Public Finance and Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics; 3: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University

AP 15: Demand-based asset pricing
Location: Reduta | Small Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Sebastien Betermier, McGill University
 

Corporate Bond Multipliers: Substitutes Matter

Jian Li1, Manav Chaudhary2, Zhiyu Fu2

1: Columbia University, United States of America; 2: University of Chicago, Booth School of Business



The Market for Inflation Risk

Saleem Bahaj1,2, Robert Czech2, Sitong Ding3, Ricardo Reis3

1: University College London; 2: Bank of England; 3: London School of Economics and Political Science



On the Estimation of Demand-Based Asset Pricing Models

Philippe van der Beck

Harvard Business School, United States of America

FI 11: Modern banking: Theory and empirics
Location: Reduta | Chamber Studio (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Sascha Steffen, Frankfurt School
 

Banking Without Branches

Niklas Amberg2, Bo Becker1,3,4,5

1: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; 2: Sveriges Riksbank; 3: CEPR; 4: ECGI; 5: Swedish House of Finance



Internal and External Capital Markets of Large Banks

Lina Lu1, Marco Macchiavelli2, Jonathan Wallen3

1: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; 2: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America; 3: Harvard Business School



The Making of (Modern) Banks

Zhao Li1, Kebin Ma2, Lucy White3

1: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China; 2: University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 3: Boston University, USA

FI 12: Fixed income funds
Location: Reduta | Choir Room (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Jaewon Choi, Seoul National University
 

Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, Bond Mutual Funds’ Strategies, and Bond Returns

Mariassunta Giannetti1, Chotibhak Jotikasthira2, Andreas Rapp3, Martin Waibel1

1: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; 2: Southern Methodist University; 3: Federal Reserve Board



ETFs, Illiquid Assets, and Fire Sales

Karamfil Todorov1, John Shim2

1: BIS (Bank for International Settlements); 2: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business



Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds

Michael Weisbach, Thomas Flanagan, Isil Erel

Ohio State University, United States of America

CF 11: R&D, innovation, and value
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Jana Fidrmuc, Warwick Business School
 

Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment

Filippo Mezzanotti1, Tim Simcoe2

1: Kellogg School of Management, United States of America; 2: Boston University



Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Innovation

Francesco D’Acunto1, Hengyi Huang2, Michael Weber3, Jin Xie4, Liu Yang5

1: McDonough School of Business Georgetown University; 2: Department of Finance Tilburg University; 3: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, NBER; 4: Peking University HSBC Business School; 5: R.H.Smith School of Business University of Maryland



Producing AI Innovation and Its Value Implications

Ali Ahmadi1, Ambrus Kecskes1, Roni Michaely2, Phuong-Anh Nguyen3

1: Schulich School of Business at York University; 2: HKU Business School; 3: School of Administrative Studies at York University

CF 12: Executives and their incentives
Location: Radisson | Melody
Chair: Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge
 

Growth-promoting Bonuses and Mergers and Acquisitions

Tor-Erik Bakke1, Mathias Kronlund2, Hamed Mahmudi3, Aazam Virani4

1: University of Illinois - Chicago; 2: Tulane University; 3: University of Delaware; 4: University of Arizona



The Political Polarization of Corporate America

Vyacheslav Fos1, Elisabeth Kempf2, Margarita Tsoutsoura3

1: Boston College, United States of America; 2: Harvard Business School, United States of America; 3: Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America



On a Spending Spree: The Real Effects of Heuristics in Managerial Budgets

Paul Decaire, Denis Sosyura

Arizona State University, United States of America

CL 06: Climate risk
Location: Radisson | Rhapsody
Chair: Emirhan Ilhan, National University of Singapore
 

The Benchmark Greenium

Stefania D'Amico1, Johannes Klausmann2, N. Aaron Pancost3

1: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; 2: University of Virginia at Darden School of Business; 3: University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business



Carbon Offsets: Decarbonization or Transition-Washing?

Sehoon Kim, Tao Li, Yanbin Wu

University of Florida, United States of America



Climate Transition Risks of Banks

Felix Martini1, Zacharias Sautner2, Sascha Steffen1, Theunisz Carola1

1: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany; 2: University of Zurich

HF 03: Information in consumer credit markets
Location: Radisson | Carlton Hall
Chair: Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
 

Information Design in Consumer Credit Markets

Laura Blattner2, Jacob Hartwig1, Scott Nelson1

1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: Stanford University, United States of America



Searching with Inaccurate Priors in Consumer Credit Markets

Erik Berwart3, Sean Higgins1, Sheisha Kulkarni2, Santiago Truffa4

1: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; 2: University of Virginia, United States of America; 3: Comisión para el Mercado Financiero.; 4: ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes



Relationship Banking and Credit Scores: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Maya Shaton1, Nimrod Segev2, Tali Bank2

1: Ben-Gurion Unversity; 2: Bank of Israel

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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3:30pm
NBIM: Understanding the long-run drivers of asset prices
Location: Reduta | Columned Hall (floor 1)
Chair: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, BI Norwegian Business School
 

Stagflationary Stock Returns

Benjamin Knox, Yannick Timmer

Federal Reserve Board, United States of America



Innovation-Driven Contractions: A Key to Unravel Asset Pricing Puzzles

Gill Segal1, Chao Ying2

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong



More factors matter and factors matter more than you might think: The role of time variation in factor premia

Hendrik Bessembinder1, Aaron Burt2, Christopher Hrdlicka3

1: Arizona State University; 2: Oklahoma State University; 3: University of Washington

AP 16: Subjective expectations
Location: Reduta | Large Concert Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago
 

The Subjective Risk and Return Expectations of Institutional Investors

Spencer Couts1, Andrei Goncalves2, Johnathan Loudis3

1: Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California; 2: Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University; 3: Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame



The Cross-section of Subjective Expectations: Understanding Prices and Anomalies

Ricardo De la O1, Xiao Han2, Sean Myers3

1: USC Marshall Business School; 2: Bayes Business School, United Kingdom; 3: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania



Subjective Risk and Return

Theis Jensen

Yale University, United States of America

AP 17: Cross-section of average returns
Location: Reduta | Small Hall (floor 2)
Chair: Michela Verardo, London School of Economics and Political Science
 

Disagreement of Disagreement

Christian Goulding1, Campbell Harvey2,3, Hrvoje Kurtović4

1: Auburn University; 2: Duke University; 3: NBER; 4: HEC Lausanne



Intangibles Investment and Asset Quality

Ravi Jagannathan, Robert A. Korajczyk, Kai Wang

Northwestern University, United States of America



Analysts Are Good at Ranking Stocks

Adam Farago, Erik Hjalmarsson, Ming Zeng

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

FI 13: Monitoring and screening in lending
Location: Reduta | Chamber Studio (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Marco Pagano, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
 

Bank Monitoring with On-Site Inspections

Amanda Rae Heitz1,2, Christopher Martin1, Alexander Ufier1

1: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, United States of America; 2: Tulane University



The Information Advantage of Banks: Evidence From Their Private Credit Assessments

Mehdi Beyhaghi1, Cooper Howes1, Gregory Weitzner2

1: Federal Reserve Board, United States of America; 2: McGill University, Canada



Screen More, Sell Later: Screening and Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market

Manuel Adelino1, Bin Wei2, Feng Zhao3

1: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; NBER; CEPR; 2: Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; 3: University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America

FI 14: Mutual fund performance
Location: Reduta | Choir Room (via courtyard, floor 2)
Chair: Aleksandra Rzeznik, York University
 

Displaced by Big Data: Evidence from Active Fund Managers

Maxime Bonelli1, Thierry Foucault2

1: London Business School (LBS); 2: HEC, Paris



(Not) Everybody's Working for the Weekend: A Study of Mutual Fund Manager Effort

Boone Bowles1, Rich Evans2

1: Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2: University of Virginia, Darden Business School



Nationalism, Subtle Bias, and Labor Outcomes: Evidence from Global Mutual Funds

Richard Evans1, Michael Young2

1: University of Virginia; 2: University of Missouri

CF 13: Firm restructuring and bankruptcy
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Nadya Malenko, Boston College
 

Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring

Jens Josephson1,2, Bo Becker3,4,5,6

1: Stockholm University, Sweden; 2: IFN; 3: Stockholm School of Economics; 4: CEPR; 5: ECGI; 6: Swedish House of Finance



Creditor Coalitions in Bankruptcy

Jing-Zhi Huang, Stefan Lewellen, Zhe Wang

Penn State University, United States of America



Geographic Overlap, Agglomeration Externalities and Post-Merger Restructuring

Jarrad Harford1, Samuel Piotrowski2, Yiming Qian3

1: University of Washington; 2: NHH Norwegian School of Economics; 3: University of Connecticut

CF 14: ESG and corporate investment
Location: Radisson | Melody
Chair: Laura Starks, The University of Texas at Austin
 

Do Consumers Care About ESG? Evidence from Barcode-Level Sales Data

Jean-Marie Meier1, Henri Servaes2, Jiaying Wei3, Steven Xiao4

1: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; 2: London Business School; 3: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; 4: University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America



Social Preferences and Corporate Investment

Thomas Dangl2, Michael Halling1, Jin Yu3, Josef Zechner4

1: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2: Vienna University of Technology; 3: Monash University; 4: Vienna University of Business and Economics



Climate Innovation and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Supply Chain Networks

Ulrich Hege1, Kai Li2, Yifei Zhang2

1: Toulouse School of Economics; 2: Peking University, HSBC Business School

MM 04: Informed trading
Location: Radisson | Rhapsody
Chair: Albert Menkveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
 

Market Feedback: Who Learns What?

Itay Goldstein1, Jan Schneemeier2, Liyan Yang3

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: Michigan State University; 3: University of Toronto



Speculation and Liquidity in Stock and Corporate Bond Markets

Paolo Pasquariello, Mirela Sandulescu

University of Michigan, United States of America



Information Chasing or Adverse Selection: Evidence from Bank CDS Trades

Andrada Bilan1, Steven Ongena2, Cosimo Pancaro3

1: Swiss National Bank; 2: University of Zurich; 3: European Central Bank

HF 04: New developments in personal finance
Location: Radisson | Carlton Hall
Chair: Loriana Pelizzon, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
 

Who Invests in Crypto? Wealth, Financial Constraints, and Risk Attitudes

Darren Aiello1, Scott Baker2, Tetyana Balyuk3, Marco Di Maggio4, Mark Johnson1, Jason Kotter1

1: Brigham Young University, United States of America; 2: Northwestern University; 3: Emory University; 4: Havard Business School



Robo-Advice for Household Debt Repayment

Francesco D'Acunto1, Jonathan Reuter2, Alberto Rossi1

1: Georgetown University, United States of America; 2: Boston College



Trading in your Golden Years: The Effects of Early Pension Withdrawal on Individual Investments

Sumit Agarwal, Allaudeen Hameed, Yuanyuan Pan, Chek Ann Tan

National University of Singapore, Singapore

3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm
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5:40pm
GA: General Assembly - Prize Ceremony - Keynote Speech
Location: Reduta | Large Concert Hall (floor 2)

7:00pm
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11:00pm
Conference Dinner
Location: Bratislava Castle

 
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