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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

WED2-02: Corporate Finance: ESG, Value Creation, Convertables and IPOs

Time:

Wednesday, 15/July/2026:

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Session Chair: Carlos Pinheiro, Universidade Europeia, Portugal, Portugal

Presentations

Pricing Convertibles: A Two-Dimensional Binomial Heuristic with Pull-to-Par

Andrey Ukhov¹, Michael Tomas²

¹Grosman School of Business, United States of America; ²Grosman School of Business, United States of America

Beyond the Damage: Natural Disasters, Corporate ESG Performance, and the Path to Resilience

Xuejing Yu¹, Haochi Chen², Julie Byrne³

¹Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin; ²School of Economics, University College Dublin; ³DCU Business School, Dublin City University

Can Large Language Models Predict IPO First-Day Returns? Extracting Predictive Signals from Prospectuses

Maximilian Uhle

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany

Does Private Equity Create Value? Fifteen Years of Evidence from Portugal

João Miguel Caldeira¹, Carlos Manuel Pinheiro^1,2,3,4

¹Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa, Portugal; ²Universidade Europeia; ³Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal; ⁴Center for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), Portugal

Comparing Expected Shortfall Backtesting Methods: Implications for Capital Requirements

Carlos Pinheiro^1,2,4,5, Paulo Viegas de Carvalho^2,3,4, Luis Laureano^2,3, Szabolcs Sebestyén³, João Catarino³

¹Universidade Europeia, Portugal; ²Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Business Research Unit (BRU-Iscte); ³Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); ⁴Lisbon Accounting and Business School; ⁵Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD)