SFS Cavalcade North America 2026
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
May 18-21, 2026
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Classroom 240 |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track T5-1: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University How do Barbarians Get to the Gates? Private Equity Careers, Styles, and Returns University of Florida |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track T5-2: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Jessica Bai, Georgetown University Educating Entrepreneurs on VC contracts University of Hong Kong |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track T5-3: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Yifei Mao, Santa Clara University Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists 1: Harvard Business School; 2: NBER; 3: Georgetown University |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track T5-4: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Simon Oh, Columbia Business School Overallocated Investors and Secondary Transactions 1: University of Virginia; 2: University of Amsterdam; 3: Harvard Business School |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track T5-5: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Reiner Braun, Technical University of Munich Retail Capital as a Stepping Stone in Venture Capital: Theory and Empirics 1: Stockholm University; 2: Columbia Business School |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track T5-6: Private Equity and Venture Capital Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Michael Ewens, Columbia University Discussant: Oleg Gredil, Tulane University Freeman School Cash or Stock? Agency Frictions in Venture Capital Distributions Cornell University |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track W5-1: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: Matthew Denes, Carnegie Mellon University Who Benefits from Remote Work? 1: UNC Kenan Flagler; 2: NYU Stern |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track W5-2: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: Christina Brinkmann, Boston University HUSTLING FROM HOME? WORK FROM HOME FLEXIBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTRY 1: Boston College; 2: Yale University; 3: Rice University |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track W5-3: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: Constantine Yanellis, Cambridge Sanctions Paradox: Do U.S. Export Restrictions Hurt Domestic Innovation? 1: Tsinghua University; 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3: Sun Yat-sen University |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track W5-4: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: David Robinson, Duke University How Big is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Government Support 1: US Census Bureau; 2: Carnegie Mellon; 3: Boston College; 4: University of Arkansas |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track W5-5: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: Neroli Austin, University of Michigan From Mainframes to Machine Learning: Skill Gaps over the Technology Life Cycle 1: London School of Economics; 2: University of Waterloo; 3: Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track W5-6: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Adoption Location: Classroom 240 Chair: David Robinson, Duke University Discussant: Richard Maxwell, UVA Darden Tradeoff between Entrepreneurship and Fertility: Evidence from China’s Nationwide Two-Child Policy 1: National Tsing Hua University; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 3: Peking University HSBC Business School |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track TH5-1: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: David Zhang, Rice University Do GSEs Subsidize Mortgage Lending? The Ohio State University |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track TH5-2: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: Leming Lin, University of Pittsburgh Taxes and Default Risk: Evidence From Establishment-Level Data 1: Fordham University; 2: Purdue University |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track TH5-3: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: Jan Bena, University of British Columbia The “Chilling” Effect of Climate Laws on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 1: Xiamen University; 2: The University of Hong Kong; 3: University of Delaware |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track TH5-4: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: Matthew Denes, Carnegie Mellon University Tax Incentives and Venture Capital Risk-Taking 1: University of Florida; 2: NBER |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track TH5-5: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: Jonathan Colmer, University of Virginia The Labor Market Effects of Carbon Pricing 1: EPFL & SFI; 2: Tilburg University; 3: Luiss; 4: Norges Bank |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track TH5-6: Policy Shocks and Regulation Location: Classroom 240 Chair: Paola Sapienza, Stanford Discussant: Andrea Lanteri, Duke University Credit Cycles and Creditor Rights 1: Bocconi University; 2: UCLA Anderson; 3: NUS Business School |