Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Date: Thursday, 21/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
CF 01: Corporate Governance: Shareholders and Directors
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Muhammad Farooq Ahmad, SKEMA Business School
 

Investor Activism and the Green Transition

Sebastian Gryglewicz1, Simon Mayer2, Erwan Morellec3

1: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Carnegie Mellon University; 3: EPF Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, and CEPR



Shareholder Empowerment and Ownership Structure in a Free-Contracting Environment

Mike Burkart1, Salvatore Miglietta2, Charlotte Ostergaard3

1: London School of Economics, UK; 2: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; 3: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark



The Role of Mandatory Director Retirement Policies in Corporate Governance

Feng Guo1, Tingting Liu2, Mohammad Ali Nari Abyaneh1

1: Iowa State Univesity; 2: University of Tennessee

11:00am
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12:30pm
CF 03: Corporate Governance: Values & Actions
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Chiara De Amicis, SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
 

Custom Proxy Voting Advice

Edwin Hu1, Nadya Malenko2, Jonathon Zytnick3

1: University of Virginia; 2: Boston College; 3: Georgetown University



The Shared Cost of Pursuing Shareholder Value

Michele Fioretti1, Victor Saint-Jean2, Simon Smith3

1: Bocconi University, Italy; 2: ESSEC Business School, France; 3: Federal Reserve Board, USA



Corporate Actions as Moral Issues

Zwetelina Iliewa1, Elisabeth Kempf2, Oliver Spalt3

1: University of Bonn, Germany; 2: Harvard Business School; 3: University of Mannheim

2:00pm
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3:30pm
CF 05: CEO and Director Incentives
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Per J Strömberg, Stockholm School of Economics
 

Does Social Media Help Level the Playing Field in Labor Markets? Evidence from Corporate Directors on Twitter

Lixiong Guo1, Houston Shawn Mobbs2

1: University of Mississippi, United States of America; 2: University of Alabama, United States of America



Green Moral Hazard: Estimating the Financial and Non-financial Impacts of CEO Incentives

Kyle Jung

NYU Stern School of Business, United States of America



Beyond ESG: Executive Pay Metrics and Shareholder Support

Nickolay Gantchev1, Mariassunta Giannetti2, Marcus Hober3

1: University of Virginia - McIntire, CEPR, ECGI; 2: Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, ECGI; 3: Stockholm School of Economics

Date: Friday, 22/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
CF 06: Firm Financing
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, SKEMA Business School
 

Dynamic Debt Policy with and without Commitment

Jens Dick-Nielsen1, Kristian R. Miltersen1, Walter N. Torous2

1: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA



Debt and Taxes: Revisited in Dynamics

Jingxiong {Tony} Hu

University of Warwick, United Kingdom



Persuasion in optimal financing

Shiming Fu

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, People's Republic of

11:00am
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12:30pm
CF 08: Financial Technology
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Gilles Chemla, Imperial College Business School, CNRS, CEPR
 

Data as a Networked Asset

Bo Bian1, Qiushi Huang2, Ye Li3, Huan Tang4

1: University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business; 2: Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance; 3: University of Washington, Foster School of Business; 4: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America



Optimal Integration: Human, Machine, and Generative AI

Hongda Zhong

The University of Texas at Dallas and CEPR



Strategic Digitization in Money and Payment Competition

Lin William Cong1, Simon Mayer2

1: Cornell University, United States of America; 2: Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

2:00pm
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3:30pm
CF 10: Shareholder and Bondholder Actions
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Oliver Spalt, University of Mannheim
 

Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions

Reena Aggarwal3, Hoa Briscoe-Tran2, Isil Erel1, Laura Starks4

1: The Ohio State University, United States of America; 2: University of Alberta, Canada; 3: Georgetown University, United States of America; 4: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America



Poison Bonds

Shuo Xia1,2, Rex Wang Renjie3,4

1: Halle Institute for Economic Research; 2: Leipzig University; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 4: Tinbergen Institute



Production and Externalities: How Corporate Governance Shapes Social Costs

Alvin Chen1, Michael Wittry2

1: Stockholm School of Economics; 2: Ohio State University

Date: Saturday, 23/Aug/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
CF 12: Corporate Objective Mistatements
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
 

AI in Corporate Governance: Can Machines Recover Corporate Purpose?

Boris Nikolov, Norman Schürhoff, Sam Wagner

University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, Switzerland



The Politicization of Social Responsibility

Todd Gormley1, Manish Jha2, Meng Wang3

1: Washington University in St Louis; 2: Georgia State University, United States of America; 3: University of South Florida



AI Washing

Boyuan Li

University of Florida, United States of America

11:30am
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1:00pm
CF 14: Regulation Spillovers
Location: 2.002-2.003 (Floor 2)
Chair: Alberta Di Giuli, ESCP
 

Contagious Deregulation

Jakub Hajda1, Joseph Kalmenovitz2, Billy Xu2

1: HEC Montreal; 2: University of Rochester



Real Effects of Personal Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution

Noemie Bucourt

University of Toronto, Canada



Changing the Board Game: Horizontal Spillovers of Gender Quotas

Luigi Guiso1, Fabiano Schivardi1,2, Luana Zaccaria1,2

1: EIEF; 2: LUISS


 
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