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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 22/May/2025
8:00am
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3:00pm
Registration & Breakfast
Location: Babbio Center Atrium
8:30am
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9:15am
Track TH1-1: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Courtney Wiegand, NYU Stern
 

The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Financial Institutions, Asset Prices, and Household Behavior

Federico Mainardi

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Track TH2-1: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Andrey Golubov, University of Toronto
 

The (Missing) Relation Between Acquisition Announcement Returns and Value Creation

Itzhak Ben-David1,5, Utpal Bhattacharya2, Ruidi Huang3, Stacey Jacobsen4

1: Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University; 2: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 3: Southern Methodist University; 4: Southern Methodist University; 5: NBER

Track TH3-1: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Natalija Kostic, Vienna University of Economics and Business
 

A Theory of Blockholder Ownership and Corporate Policies

Simon Mayer1, Erwan Morellec2, Sebastian Gryglewicz3

1: CMU; 2: EPFL; 3: Erasmus

Track TH4-1: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: Susan Cherry, Stanford University
 

Rate Cap Laws and Consumer Welfare

Anand Goel

Stevens Institute of Technology

Track TH5-1: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: Lu Liu, University of Pennsylvania
 

Rent Guarantee Insurance

Boaz Abramson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Columbia Business School

Track TH6-1: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Pierre de Leo, University of Maryland
 

Foreign Exchange Interventions and Intermediary Constraints

Alex Ferreira1, Rory Mullen2, Giovanni Ricco3, Ganesh Viswanath Natraj2, Zijie Wang2

1: University of Sao Paolo; 2: University of Warwick; 3: Ecole Polytechnique, CREST

Track TH7-1: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Stephen Lenkey, Penn State
 

Trade-Off? What Trade-Off: Informative Prices without Illiquidity

Thierry Foucault2, Kostas Koufopoulos3, Roman Kozhan1

1: University of Warwick; 2: HEC Paris; 3: University of Sussex

Track TH8-1: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Dejanir Silva, Purdue University
 

Growth-Indexed Securities

Stavros Panageas

UCLA

9:15am
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9:30am
Break
9:30am
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10:15am
Track TH1-2: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University
 

Optimizing Return Forecasts: A Bayesian Intermediary Asset Pricing Approach

Ming Gao, Cong Zhang

University of Chicago

Track TH2-2: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Richard Thakor, University of Minnesota
 

Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets

Luise Eisfeld1,2

1: University of Lausanne; 2: Swiss Finance Institute

Track TH3-2: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
 

Ownership and Competition

Alessio Piccolo1, Jan Schneemeier2

1: Indiana University; 2: Michigan State University

Track TH4-2: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: Kyle Dempsey, The Ohio State University
 

Credit Card Banking

Itamar Drechsler1, Hyeyoon Jung2, Weiyu Peng1, Dominik Supera3, Guanyu Zhou1

1: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; 2: Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 3: Columbia Business School

Track TH5-2: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: David Zhang, Rice University
 

Understanding Excess Prepayment

Jack Liebersohn, Vikram Jambulapati, Michael Fitzpatrick

University of California Irvine

Track TH6-2: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Zhiyu Fu, Washington University St. Louis
 

Intermediated Dollar Lending of Last Resort: from Dollar Safety to Treasury Fragility

Ding Ding, Karen Lewis, Yao Zeng

University of Pennsylvania

Track TH7-2: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Mina Lee, Federal Reserve Board
 

Kyle Meets Friedman: Informed Trading When Anticipating Future Information

Hongjun Yan1, Liyan Yang2, Xueyong Zhang3, Deqing Zhou3

1: DePaul University; 2: University of Toronto; 3: Central University of Finance and Economics

Track TH8-2: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University
 

Leverage Dynamics and Learning about Economic Crises

Harjoat Singh Bhamra1, Lars Kuehn2, Artur Anschukov1

1: Imperial College Business School; 2: Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon

10:15am
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10:30am
Break
10:30am
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11:15am
Track TH1-3: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Sean Wu, Harvard University
 

Mental Models and Financial Forecasts

Francesca Bastianello1, Paul Decaire2, Marius Guenzel3

1: Chicago Booth; 2: Arizona State University; 3: Wharton

Track TH2-3: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Michael Woeppel, Indiana University
 

From Fragility to Flexibility: How do Firms Respond to Upstream Technology Vulnerability?

Yuchan Lyu, Xuan Tian, Che Zhang

Tsinghua University

Track TH3-3: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Laurent Bouton, Georgetown
 

Decoupling Voting and Cash Flow Rights

Andre Speit3, Paul Voss2, Andras Danis1

1: Central European University; 2: HEC Paris; 3: Private Sector

Track TH4-3: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: Fernando Cirelli, Columbia University
 

Tracing the Impact of Payment Convenience on Deposits: Evidence from Depositor Activeness

Xu Lu1, Yang Song2, Yao Zeng3

1: University of Washington; 2: University of Washington, United States of America; 3: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Track TH5-3: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: Jonathan Reuter, Boston College
 

How Much Do Public Employees Value Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Retirement Benefits?

Oliver Giesecke1, Joshua Rauh2

1: Stanford University; 2: Stanford University

Track TH6-3: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Santiago Camara, McGill University
 

Monetary Policy Transmission through the Exchange Rate Factor Structure

Erik Loualiche2, Alex Pecora3, Fabricius Somogyi1, Colin Ward4

1: Northeastern University; 2: University of Minnesota; 3: Virginia Tech; 4: University of Alberta

Track TH7-3: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Chaojun Wang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 

Mixology: Order flow segmentation design

Joshua Mollner

Northwestern University

Track TH8-3: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Nina Boyarchenko, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 

Time-Varying Risk Premia and Heterogeneous Labor Market Dynamics

Maarten Meeuwis1, Dimitris Papanikolaou2, Jonathan Rothbaum3, Lawrence Schmidt4

1: Washington University in St. Louis; 2: Kellogg; 3: Census Bureau; 4: MIT Sloan

11:15am
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11:30am
Break
11:30am
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12:15pm
Track TH1-4: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School
 

Categorical Thinking about Interest Rates

Kelly Shue1, Richard Townsend2, Chen Wang3

1: Yale University; 2: UCSD; 3: University of Notre Dame

Track TH2-4: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Jiekun Huang, University of Illinois
 

All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal

Davidson Heath1, Da Huang2, Chong Shu1

1: University of Utah; 2: Northeastern University

Track TH3-4: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Anand Goel, Stevens Institute of Technology
 

Dynamic Contracting with Many Agents

Bruno Biais, Jean Charles Rochet, stephane Villeneuve, Hans gersbach, elu von thadden

HEC

Track TH4-4: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: William Matcham, Royal Holloway University of London
 

Revolving Credit to SMEs: The Role of Business Credit Cards

Matteo Benetton1, Greg Buchak2

1: Berkeley Haas; 2: Stanford GSB

Track TH5-4: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: Franklin Qian, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
 

Diversifying the Suburbs: Rental Supply and Spatial Inequality

Konhee Chang

University of California, Berkeley

Track TH6-4: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Aleksei Oskolkov, Yale University
 

Unbalanced Financial Globalization

Damien Capelle1, Bruno Pellegrino2

1: International Monetary Fund; 2: Columbia Business School

Track TH7-4: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Alexander Chinco, Baruch
 

The Flattening Demand Curves

Alireza Aghaee Shahrbabaki

Bocconi University

Track TH8-4: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Michael Blank, Stanford University
 

Rising Income Risk at the Top and Falling Interest Rates: Evidence from 50 Years of Tax Returns

J Carter Braxton2, Kyle Herkenhoff3, Michael Nattinger2, Jonathan Rothbaum4, Lawrence Schmidt1

1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2: University of Wisconsin; 3: University of Minnesota; 4: US Census Bureau

12:15pm
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1:45pm
Lunch
Location: University Complex Center (UCC)
1:45pm
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2:30pm
Track TH1-5: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Sean Myers, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 

A Model-Free Assessment of the Importance of Subjective Beliefs for Asset Pricing

Paymon Khorrami

Duke University

Track TH2-5: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Sean Flynn, Cornell University
 

Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

Alan Kwan1, Ben Matthies2, Richard Townsend3, Ting Xu4

1: University of Hong Kong; 2: University of Notre Dame; 3: University of California San Diego; 4: University of Toronto

Track TH3-5: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Berardino Palazzo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
 

Can Corporate AI Adoption Backfire?

Joanne Chen1, Brandon Han2

1: Boston University; 2: University of Maryland, United States

Track TH4-5: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: Kinda Hachem, FRBNY and UVA Darden
 

Bank Expertise and Structural Transformation

Gang Zhang1, Yu Yi2, Shengxing Zhang3

1: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; 2: Nankai University; 3: Carnegie Mellon University

Track TH5-5: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: Neil Bhutta, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Large Language Model Mortgage Underwriting

Donald Bowen1, McKay Price1, Luke Stein2, Ke Yang1

1: Lehigh University; 2: Babson College

Track TH6-5: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Hillary Stein, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
 

Exchange Rate Risk in Public Firms

Patrick Adams, Adrien Verdelhan

MIT Sloan

Track TH7-5: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University
 

Incentives to Lose: Disclosure of Cover Bids in OTC Markets

Andrey Ordin1, Ruslan Sverchkov2

1: University of Texas at Austin; 2: University of Warwick

Track TH8-5: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Colin Ward, University of Alberta
 

The Wealth of Stagnation: Falling Growth, Rising Valuations

James Douglas Paron

Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

2:30pm
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2:45pm
Break
2:45pm
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3:30pm
Track TH1-6: Asset Pricing
Location: Babbio Center Auditorium
Chair: Toomas Laarits, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Marianne Andries, University of Southern California
 

An Arrow-Pratt Theory of Preference for Early Resolution of Uncertainty

Hengjie Ai1, Ravi Bansal2, Hongye Guo3, Amir Yaron4

1: University of Wisconsin, Madison; 2: Duke University; 3: University of Hong Kong; 4: Bank of Israel and Wharton

Track TH2-6: Governance, Organization, and Ownership
Location: Gateway North 103
Chair: Daniel Ferreira, LSE
Discussant: Michael Wittry, Ohio State University
 

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

Taylor Begley1, Peter Haslag2, Daniel Weagley3

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

Track TH3-6: Corporate Finance and Contracts
Location: Gateway North 213
Chair: Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Kose John, NYU Stern School of Business
 

The Making of (Modern) Banks

Kebin Ma1, Lucy White2, Zhao Li3

1: University of Warwick; 2: Boston University; 3: Capital University of Economics and Business

Track TH4-6: Credit and Banking
Location: Gateway North 204
Chair: Olivier Wang, New York University
Discussant: Abhishek Bhardwaj, Tulane University
 

Shadow Banks on the Rise: Evidence Across Market Segments

Kim Cramer2, Pulak Ghosh3, Nirupama Kulkarni4, Nishant Vats1

1: Olin School fo Business, Washington University at St Louis; 2: London School of Economics; 3: IIM Bangalore; 4: CAFRAL

Track TH5-6: Housing and Household Consumption
Location: Gateway South 216
Chair: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University
Chair: Adair Morse, Berkeley Haas
Discussant: Pierre Mabille, INSEAD
 

Consumption Wedges: Measuring and Diagnosing Distortions

Sasha Indarte1, Raymond Kluender2, Ulrike Malmendier3, Michael Stepner4

1: Wharton; 2: Harvard; 3: Berkeley; 4: University of Toronto

Track TH6-6: International Finance
Location: Gateway South 122
Chair: Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: Hyeyoon Jung, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 

Do Funds Engage in Optimal FX Hedging?

Leonie Braeuer1,2, Harald Hau1,2,3

1: University of Geneva; 2: Swiss Finance Institute; 3: CEPR

Track TH7-6: Liquidity and Price Informativeness
Location: Babbio Center 104
Chair: Vincent Glode, Wharton
Discussant: Dmitriy Muravyev, University of Illinois
 

Navigating the Murky World of Hidden Liquidity

Robert Bartlett1, Maureen O'Hara2

1: Stanford University; 2: Cornell University

Track TH8-6: Macro-finance
Location: Babbio Center 203
Chair: Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant: Keshav Dogra, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 

Financial and TotalWealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates

Matteo Leombroni1, Hanno Lustig2, Dan Greenwald3, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh4

1: Boston College; 2: Stanford; 3: NYU Stern; 4: Columbia University


 
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