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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 12/Sept/2024 | ||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration & coffee |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
1A: Labor & finance Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Prof. Swarnodeep Homroy, University of Groningen Firms’ Risk Adjustments to Minimum Wage: Financial Leverage and Labor Share Trade-off 9:30am - 10:00am Is the gig up? The impact of worker-status reclassification regulation on shareholder value 10:00am - 10:30am On the Interaction between Bank Credit and Labor: the Role of Capital-Labor Substitution |
1B: Lending Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Prof. Hans Degryse, KU Leuven Collateralization, Monitoring, and Credit Reallocation 9:30am - 10:00am The effect of corporate quantitative easing on syndicated lending 10:00am - 10:30am Banking on Deposit Relationships: Implications for Hold-Up Problems in the Loan Market |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
2A: Payout policy Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Prof. Marc Deloof, University of Antwerp Dividend Restrictions and Asymmetric Information 11:30am - 12:00pm The behavior of stock prices around the ex-day during a dividend shortage 12:00pm - 12:30pm Does the (daily) reporting frequency of share buybacks matter? |
2B: Sustainable finance I Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Dr. Naciye Sekerci, KU Leuven Environmental Disclosure Incentives and Externalities 11:30am - 12:00pm Signaling sustainability through green bonds: Evaluating its impact on stock returns 12:00pm - 12:30pm Picking Up the PACE: Nudges for Residential Climate-Proofing |
| 12:30pm - 1:45pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:45pm - 3:15pm |
3A: Risk Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Prof. Florian Hoffmann, KU Leuven Overconfident Bank CEOs: Risk Amplification Amid Economic Policy Uncertainty? 2:15pm - 2:45pm Banks' Foreign Homes 2:45pm - 3:15pm Political Polarization and Corporate Political Advocacy |
3B: Capital structure Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Prof. Klaas Mulier, UGent Cross-border Patenting and Corporate Debt Capacity 2:15pm - 2:45pm Inequality and capital structure 2:45pm - 3:15pm Shared Board Directors and the Cost of Bank Debt |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:45pm - 5:15pm |
4A: Corporate governance I Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Prof. Niels Hermes, University of Groningen Do Customers Play a Corporate Governance Role? 4:15pm - 4:45pm Somebody Stop Me: The Asset Pricing Implications of Principal-Agent Conflicts 4:45pm - 5:15pm The Composition of Human Capital Within Firms |
4B: Sustainable finance II Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Prof. Kenneth De Beckker, Open Universiteit & KU Leuven The Effects of ESG Ratings on Firms' Financial Decisions 4:15pm - 4:45pm Do Voluntary Pledges Make Loans Greener? 4:45pm - 5:15pm Biodiversity Risk, Firm Performance, and Market Mispricing |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Keynote Prof. Kose John (NYU) Location: HOGC 02.28 |
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| Date: Friday, 13/Sept/2024 | ||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration & coffee |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
5A: Ownership structure Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Prof. Piet Sercu, piet.sercu@kuleuven.be LARGE SHAREHOLDER DIVERSIFICATION AND CORPORATE CASH HOLDING 9:30am - 10:00am Naming and shaming inequality in voting rights: Evidence from Belgian dual-class shares (1924 – 1936) 10:00am - 10:30am Minority Shareholder Empowerment and Board Gender Diversity |
5B: Financial markets Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Prof. Nico Dewaelheyns, KU Leuven Efficiency Implications of Knowledge Generation: Private versus Public Firms 9:30am - 10:00am Market Reactions to Gendered Speech Patterns 10:00am - 10:30am Investment Efficiency of Private and Public Firms |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
6A: M&A Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Dr. Alain Praet, KU Leuven Insiders’ trading on non-private information: Evidence from their trading on their economically linked firms’ M&A events 11:30am - 12:00pm Frozen IPOs and Fueled M&As 12:00pm - 12:30pm Do Firms Use Charitable Giving When Making Investment Decisions? Establishment-Level Evidence from M&As |
6B: Entrepreneurial finance Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Prof. Virginie Mataigne, Ghent University On the Importance of Accounting Information in Early-Stage Financing 11:30am - 12:00pm Growth Equity Investment Patterns and Performance 12:00pm - 12:30pm A Sensible Cost of Capital for Small Businesses |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Keynote Prof. Nickolay Gantchev (University of Warwick) Location: HOGC 02.28 |
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| 2:30pm - 2:45pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 2:45pm - 4:15pm |
7A: Corporate Governance II Location: HOGM 00.85 Chair: Dr. Jeremie BERTRAND, IESEG School of Management An American in Paris: US Directors’ Foreign Board Experience and Corporate Internationalization Policy 3:15pm - 3:45pm Enforcing Shareholder Voice Creates Value: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design 3:45pm - 4:15pm The Sensitivity of CEO Pay to ESG Performance |
7B: ESG investing Location: HOGM 01.85 Chair: Dr. Frederiek Schoubben, KU Leuven Climate Transition Beliefs 3:15pm - 3:45pm ESG Mutual Fund Competition 3:45pm - 4:15pm ESG Skill of Mutual Fund Managers |