Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Date: Thursday, 22/Aug/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
CF 01: Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Maria-Teresa Marchica, Alliance Manchester Business School
 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Alex Edmans1, Caroline Flammer2, Simon Glossner3

1: London Business School, CEPR, and ECGI; 2: Columbia University, NBER, and ECGI; 3: Federal Reserve Board



Credentials Matter, but Only for Men: Evidence from the S&P 500

Peter Cziraki1, Adriana Robertson2,3

1: Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2: University of Chicago, United States of America; 3: European Corporate Governance Institute



A Diverse View on Board Diversity

Vyacheslav Fos1, Wei Jiang2, Huasheng Nie3

1: Carroll School of Management, Boston College; 2: Goizueta Business School, Emory University; 3: UCLA Anderson School of Management

11:00am
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12:30pm
CF 03: Corporate voting
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College, CEPR, ECGI, and NBER
 

Voting Choice

Andrey Malenko, Nadya Malenko

Boston College, United States of America



Dynamic Incentive Effects of Dual-Class Shares: Theory and Evidence

Hyunseob Kim1, Doron Levit2, Roni Michaely3

1: Federal Reserrve Bank of Chicago, United States of America; 2: University of Washington; 3: University of Hong Kong



Riding off into the Sunset: Dual-Class Structure in the Age of Unicorns Going Public

Hao Liang1, Junho Park2, Wei Zhang1

1: Singapore Management University, Singapore; 2: Myongji University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

2:00pm
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3:30pm
CF 05: Talent flows and firm heterogeneity
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Rui Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics
 

Polarizing Corporations: Does Talent Flow to "Good" Firms?

Emanuele Colonnelli1, Timothy McQuade2, Gabriel Ramos3, Thomas Rauter1, Olivia Xiong1

1: University of Chicago Booth School of Business; 2: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business; 3: Imperial College London



Directing the Labor Market: The Impact of Shared Board Members on Employee Flows

Daniel Weagley1, Taylor Begley2, Peter Haslag3

1: University of Tennessee; 2: University of Kentucky; 3: Vanderbilt University



External Labor Market Punishment in Finance

Ankit Kalda

Indiana University, United States of America

4:00pm
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5:30pm
CF 07: Market structure and market power
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Laurent Fresard, USI Lugano
 

Commitment in Debt Financing: The Role of Creditor Dispersion

Yongseok Kim

Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America



Data Sales and Data Dilution

Ernest Liu3, Song Ma2, Laura Veldkamp1

1: Columbia Business School, United States of America; 2: Yale; 3: Princeton



Is there information in corporate acquisition plans?

Sinan Gokkaya1, Xi Liu2, René Stulz3,4,5

1: Ohio University, United States of America; 2: Miami University, United States of America; 3: The Ohio State University, United States of America; 4: NBER; 5: ECGI

Date: Friday, 23/Aug/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

11:00am
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12:30pm
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

2:00pm
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3:30pm
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

Date: Saturday, 24/Aug/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
CF 15: Finance and competition
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Carola Schenone, University of Virginia
 

Board Connections, Firm Profitability, and Product Market Actions

Radhakrishnan Gopalan1, Renping Li1, Alminas Zaldokas2

1: Washington University in St. Louis, United States; 2: National University of Singapore, Singapore



Beyond Peers: Cross-Industry Competition and Strategic Financing

Boris Nikolov1, Norman Schürhoff2, Zepeng Wang3

1: University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, ECGI; 2: University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, CEPR; 3: University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute



Uncertainty Creates Zombie Firms: Implications for Industry Dynamics and Creative Destruction

Kevin Aretz1, Murillo Campello2, Gaurav Kankanhalli3, Kevin Schneider4

1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: Cornell University & NBER, United States; 3: University of Pittsburgh, United States; 4: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

11:00am
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12:30pm
CF 18: Politics and finance
Location: Radisson | Symphony
Chair: Katya Neretina, Bocconi University
 

Mega-Donors and Representation of the Wealthy in the Wake of Citizens United

Ilona Babenko1, Viktar Fedaseyeu2, Guosong Xu3

1: Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business; 2: China Europe International Business School (CEIBS); 3: Erasmus University Rotterdam



How Do Firms Withstand A Global Economic Shock: Evidence From Within-Firm Responses

Xiao Cen2, Vyacheslav Fos1, Wei Jiang3

1: Boston College, United States of America; 2: Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, United States of America; 3: Goizueta Business School, Emory University, United States of America



Kamikazes in Public Procurement

Dimas Fazio, Alminas Zaldokas

National University of Singapore, Singapore


 
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