SFS Cavalcade North America 2025

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

May 19-22, 2025

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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Gateway North 213

Date: Tuesday, 20/May/2025
8:30am - 9:15am	Track T8-1: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Laura Lindsey, ASU How do Venture Capitalists become Influential? Marta Zava Bocconi University & Goethe University
9:30am - 10:15am	Track T8-2: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa Tyranny of the Personal Network: The Limits of Arm’s Length Fundraising in Venture Capital Sabrina Howell¹, Dean Parker², Ting Xu³ 1: NYU Stern; 2: NYU Stern; 3: Toronto Rotman
10:30am - 11:15am	Track T8-3: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Jingxuan Zhang, University of Alberta Financial Intermediary Relationships and Public Market Access Alexander Blaine Eli Tuft¹, Emmanuel Yimfor² 1: University of Wyoming; 2: Columbia Business School, Columbia University
11:30am - 12:15pm	Track T8-4: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Daisy Wang, University of Southern California From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech Manju Puri¹, Yiming Qian², Xiang Zheng² 1: Duke University; 2: University of Connecticut
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Track T8-5: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Wei Winston Dou, The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania Innovation, Industry Equilibrium, and Discount Rates Maria Cecilia Bustamante¹, Francesca Zucchi² 1: University of Maryland; 2: ECB
2:45pm - 3:30pm	Track T8-6: Venture Capital and Innovation Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: William Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Yabo Zhao, Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen AI and Operational Losses: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies Atanas Mihov¹, Ping McLemore² 1: University of Kansas; 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Date: Wednesday, 21/May/2025
8:30am - 9:15am	Track W8-1: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Fabrizio Core, LUISS Venture Capital Cycles and the Startup Labor Market Jessica Bai Harvard University
9:30am - 10:15am	Track W8-2: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Vrinda Mittal, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill Do Development Financial Institutions Create Impact through Venture Capital Investments? Aleksandar Andonov^1,2, Andy Li¹, Paul Smeets¹ 1: University of Amsterdam; 2: CEPR
10:30am - 11:15am	Track W8-3: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Ting Xu, University of Toronto Financing The Next VC-Backed Startup: The Role of Gender Emmanuel Azange Yimfor¹, Heather Tookes², Camille Hebert³ 1: Columbia University; 2: Yale University; 3: University of Toronto
11:30am - 12:15pm	Track W8-4: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University Small-Scale Mentoring, Large-Scale Innovation: Evidence from a Superstar Firm Colleen Chien¹, Jillian Grennan², Jason James Sandvik³ 1: University of California Berkeley School of Law; 2: Emory University; 3: University of Arizona
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Track W8-5: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Female Representation and Talent Allocation in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Early Exposure to Entrepreneurs Mikkel Mertz¹, Maddalena Ronchi², Viola Salvestrini³ 1: The ROCKWOOL Foundation; 2: Northwestern University; 3: Bocconi University
2:45pm - 3:30pm	Track W8-6: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Location: Gateway North 213 Chair: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California Discussant: Kelly Posenau, Cornell Johnson Venture Capital Response to Government-Funded Basic Science Roham Rezaei, Yufeng Yao UNSW

Date: Thursday, 22/May/2025
8:30am - 9:15am	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
9:30am - 10:15am	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
10:30am - 11:15am	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
11:30am - 12:15pm	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
1:45pm - 2:30pm	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
2:45pm - 3:30pm	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

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