The 17th Annual Conference in Financial Economics Research by Eagle Labs


June 1st - 3rd, 2020

 

Conference Program:

 

 

Day 1 : Banking and Credit


Monday, June 1st, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT

 

 

Session 1 - 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending >>

Will Dobbie, Harvard Kennedy School

Andres Liberman, Stern School of Business, New York University

Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics

Vikram Pathania, University of Sussex

Discussant: Bronson Argyle Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University

 

Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets >>

Hui Chen, MIT Sloan School of Management

Zhuo Chen, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
Zhiguo He, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Jinyu Liu, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University

Rengming Xie, CITIC Securities Beijing China

Discussant: Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

 

Session 2 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Debt Financing and Risk Management >>

Ilona Babenko, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Yuri Tserlukevich, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Discussant: Francesca Zucchi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 

Banks' Reaching for Yield and the Safe Asset Class >>

Ramona Dagostino, Simon Business School, University of Rochester

Discussant: Norman Schurhoff, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne


Day 2 : Technology, Information and Investor Behavior

 

Tuesday, June 2nd, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT

 

Session 1 - 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms >>

Theresa Kuchler, Stern School of Business, New York University

Yan Li, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Lin Peng, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Johannes Stroebel, Stern School of Business, New York University
Dexin Zhou, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Discussant: Marina Niessner, AQR Capital Management

 

A Theory of Financial Media >>

Eitan Goldman, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Jordan Martel, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Jan Schneemeier, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Discussant: Diego Garcia, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

 

Session 2 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment >>

Martin Oehmke, London School of Economics

Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics

Discussant: Lukasz Pomorski, AQR Capital Management

 

When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows >>

Christine Parlour, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Uday Rajan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Haoxiang Zhu, MIT Sloan School of Management

Discussant: Igor Makarov, London School of Economics

 


Day 3 : Asset Pricing


Wednesday, June 3rd, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT

 

Session 1 - 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds >>

Dunhong Jin, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Marcin Kacperzyk, Imperial College London

Bige Kahraman, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Felix Suntheim, International Monetary Fund

Discussant: Susan Christoffersen, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto


OTC Intermediaries >>

Andrea Eisfeldt, Anderson School of Management, University of California

Bernard Herskovic, Anderson School of Management, University of California

Sriram Rajan, Office of financial research, United States Department of the Treasury

Emil Siriwardane, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Discussant: Michael Gofman, Simon Business School, University of Rochester

 

 

Session 2 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Dark Knights: The Rise in Firm Intervention by CDS Investors >>

Andras Danis, Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business

Andrea Gamba, Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick

Discussant: Martin Oehmke, London School of Economics


Learning from Interest Rates: Implications for Stock-Market Efficiency >>

Matthijs Breugem, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Adrian Buss, INSEAD & CEPR

Joel Peress, INSEAD & CEPR

Discussant: Savitar Sundaresan, Imperial College London