The 16th Annual Conference in Financial Economics Research by Eagle Labs


June 2-3, 2019

Conference Co-Organizers

 

Jacob Boudoukh
Arison School of Business, Reichman University

Yaniv Grinstein
Arison School of Business, Reichman University
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Shimon Kogan
Arison School of Business, Reichman University
Sloan School of Management, Institute of Technology (MIT).

 

 

 

Conference Program:

Sunday, June 2, 2019

 

Location: Mina Rokeach Auditorium (SL103), Radzyner-Sustainability Building, IDC Herzliya Campus

08:30 Registration
09:00 Greetings
09:15

​Day 1- Session 1
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Session chair: Murillo Campello, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University

"Competiton, Risk-taking, and the Demise of Old-School Banking"

Emilio Bisetti, The Hong Kong University of Science and Thechnology
Stephen Karolyi, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Lewellen, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant: Stephan Luck, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

"How Risky is the U.S Corporate Sector?"

 

Tetiana Davydiuk, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Richard, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Ivan Shaliastovich, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amir Yaron, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Asaf Manela, Olin Business School, Washington University in St.Louis
10:45 ​Coffee Break
11:15

​Day 1 - Session 2
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​​Session chair: Avner Kalay, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University

 

"Court Efficiency and Economic Fragility"

 

Dimas Fazio, London Business School
Thiago Silva, Central Bank of Brazil
Janis Skrastins, Olin Business School, Washington University in St.Louis

Discussant: Janet Gao, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

 

"Globally Consistent Creditor Protection, Reallocation, and Productivity”

 

Bo Bian, London Business School

Discussant: David De Angelis, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
12:45 Lunch
13:45


​Day 1 - Session 3
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​Session chair: Doron Avramov, Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya

 

"Are Tokens Securities? An Anatomy of Initial Coin Offerings"

 

Evgeny Lyandress, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Berardino Palzaao, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC
Daniel Rabetti, London School of Economics

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

 

"Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes"

 

Li An, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
Jiangze Bian, University of International Business and Economics
Dong Lou, London School of Economics
Donghui Shi, Shanghai Stock Exchange

Discussant: Samuli Knupfer, BI Norwegian Business School
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19:30 Dinner

 

​Sunday, June 3, 2019 ​

 

Location: Mina Rokeach Auditorium (SL103), Radzyner-Sustainability Building, IDC Herzliya Campus

 

​ 08:30 Coffee
​ 09:00

​Day 2 - Session 1
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​Session chair: Yelena Larkin, Sculich School of Business, York University

 

"Beyond the Bound: Pricing Assets with Misspecified Stochastic Discount Factors"

 

Raman Uppal, EDHEC Business school
Paolo Zaffaroni, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
Irina Zviadaze, Stockholm School of Economics

Discussant: Christian Julliard, London School of Economics

 

"Drug Money and Firms: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering Policies"

 

Pablo Sluzky, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Mauricio Villammizar, Central Bank of Colombia
Tomas Williams, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University


Discussant: Victor Lyonnet, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00

Day 2 - Session 2
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​Session chair: Yael Eisenthal-Berkovitz, Eagle Investment Solutions & Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya

 

"Foreseen Risks"

 

Joao Gomes, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Marco Grotteria, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Wachter, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Andrea Ferrero, Department of Economics, University of Oxford

 

"Post-FOMC Announcement Drift in U.S. Bond Markets"

 

Jordan Brooks, AQR Capital Management
Michael Katz, AQR Capital Management
Hanno Lustig, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Discussant: Gregg Duffee, John Hopkins University
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12:30 Lunch
15:00

Day 2 - Session 3


​ Session chair: Ron Kaniel, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester

 

"Dominant Currency Debt"

 

Egemen Eren, Bank of International Settlements
Semyon Malamud, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Discussant: Lukas Schmid, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

 

"Entrepreneurship and Regional Windfall Gains: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery"

 

Vicente Bermejo, EDADE
Miguel Ferreira, Nova School of Business and Economics
Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia Business and Economics
Rafael Zambrana, Nova School of Business and Economics

Discussant: Will Mullins, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
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15:00

​Closing Ceremony

​ ​Best Paper Award

Best Discussant Award
16:30-20:00 ​Annual Quantitative Trading Symposium

 

 

 

 

Paper Selection Committee Members:


Patrick Agustin (McGill University), Itzhak Ben David (The Ohio State University), Effi Benmelech (Northwestern University), Nittai Bergman (Tel Aviv University), Alon Brav (Duke University), Bradyn Breon Drish (University of California, San Diego),Mikhail Chernov (University of California, Los Angeles), David De Angelis (Rice University), François Derrien (HEC Paris), Ran Duchin (University of Washington), Joseph Engelberg (University of California, San Diego), Ekiezer Fich (Drexel University), Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos (Boston College), Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano), Diego Garcia (University of Colorado), Simon Gervais (Duke University), Xavier Giroud (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania), Vidhan Goyal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Denis Gromb (HEC Paris), Jarrad Harford (University of Washington), Yael Hochberg (Rice University), Burton Hollifield (Carnegie Mellon University), Johan Hombert (HEC Paris), Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London), Ohad Kadan (Washington University in St. Louis), Dalida Kadyrzhanova (Georgia State University), Bige Kahraman (Oxford University), Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester), Hyunseob Kim (Cornell University), Yelena Larkin (York University Canada), Anh Le (Pennsylvania State University), Juhani Linnainmaa (USC Marshall School of Business), Roger Loh (Singapore Management University), Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University), Semyon Malamud (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Asaf Manela (Washington University in St. Louis), David Matsa (Northwestern University), Alan Moreir (University of Rochester), Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), Adriano Rampini (Duke University),Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania), Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University), Amir Rubin (IDC Herzliya/Simon Fraser University), Jacob Sagi (UNC at Chapel Hill), Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford), Luke Schmid (Duke University), Christoph Schneider (University of Mannheim), Kelly Shue (Yale University), Elena Simintzi (University of British Columbia), Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University), David Sraer (Berkeley University), Neal Stoughton (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Luke Taylor (University of Pennsylvania), Margarita Tsoutsoura (University of Chicago), Michela Verardo (London School of Economics), Avi Wohl (Tel Aviv University), Joseph Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Jaime Zender (University of Colorado).