Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 13/Mar/2026 | |||||||||
| 8:00am - 9:45am |
Doctoral Symposium - Shock Transmission Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan Monetary Transmission in Equity Markets: Evidence from Financial Intermediaries Private Fund Capital Calls, Investor Portfolios, and Spillovers Tax Revenue Sensitivity and Bond Valuation |
Policy Risk and Asset Prices Location: Aegean Canaries in the Coal Mine: Firm Response to Biodiversity Policy Risk Uncertainty, Stock Prices, and Debt Structure Dirty Business: Transition Risk of Factor Portfolios |
Funds and Corporate Governance Location: Baltic All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal Fund Proliferation, Decentralization, and Shareholder Power Control Rights or Wrongs? Active versus Index Governance |
Cost of Credit: Transmission Mechanisms Location: Bering Chair: Camelia Minoiu The Transmission of Corporate Tax Cuts to Consumer Loans: Evidence from the TCJA The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes When Banks Fail: Depositor Attention and the Cost of Funding for Survivors |
Corporate Financing and Hedging Location: Caribbean Chair: Fotis Grigoris Public Debt and Private Investment: The Role of Firm Leverage Financing and the Green Paradox The Economics of Financial and Operational Hedging: Insights from U.S. Power Plants |
Networks, Knowledge, and M&A Outcomes Location: Caspian Chair: Liu Yang Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis Blockholder Networks, Information Exchange, and M&A Performance When Roll-up Breaks: Serial Private Equity Acquisitions in the Hospital Industry |
Entrepreneurship and labor market shocks Location: Pacific 1 Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines Aiming Low: Necessity Entrepreneurs and the Choice to Incorporate The "Great Reshuffling" and Entrepreneurship |
Banks and Monetary Policy Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Jincheng Tong Ample Reserves for Whom? The Role of Foreign Banks in U.S. Monetary Policy Implementation Banks and the State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy Indirect Credit Supply: How Bank Lending to Private Credit Shapes Monetary Policy Transmission |
Machine Learning, Expectations, and Information in Derivative Pricing Location: Pacific 3 Subjective Expectations for Variance and Skewness: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts Attention-based Graph Neural Networks in Firm CDS Prediction Unpacking Retail Trading Costs: the Role of Options Trading and Limit Order Usage |
| 10:00am - 11:45am |
Doctoral Symposium - Finance and Institutions Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan Returns to scale in passive management: Evidence from ETFs Reaching for Yield in Target Date Funds The Forgotten Channel: Long-Term Impacts of GFC-era Foreclosures |
Beliefs Location: Aegean Chair: Hongjun Yan Expectations and Experience Effects: New Facts From an Empirical Model Belief Distortions and Unemployment Fluctuations Does Climate Change Affect Retail Investors? Your Opinion Matters |
ESG and Strategic Firm Choices Location: Baltic Chair: Zoey Zhou Do Firms Become More Socially Responsible Reacting to School Shootings? Temperature, Adaptation, and Local Industry Concentration Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation and the Capital Channel: Evidence from Natural Disasters |
Financial Inclusion I Location: Bering Chair: Isaac Hacamo Shedding Light on Bias: Consumer Complaint Disclosure and Racial Equity in Financial Services Partisan Loan Officers and the Racial Gap in Mortgage Lending Information Regimes and Financial Inclusion |
Unintended Regulation Location: Caribbean Chair: James Weston The Road to False Positives: Indirect Effects of Reg SHO Commercial Eviction Moratoria, Liquidity Relief, and Business Closure Do Debt Collection Restrictions Hurt Hospitals? |
Financing and Oversight in M&A Location: Caspian Chair: Richard Thakor The Role of Credit Lines in Funding Takeovers Why Are Acquisitions of Unlisted Firms Better Deals? Evidence from OTC Markets Watchdog or Showdog? Spotlight Chasing in Antitrust Enforcement |
Regulation, Private Capital, and Banks Location: Pacific 1 The Private Equity Experiment of U.S. Banking Industry Institutional Investor Protection: Evidence from Conflict-of-Interest Regulation in Private Equity Banks on the Block: Branch Proximity and Small Business Performance |
QJF Special Session Location: Pacific 2 Triangular Pure Parity Deviations The US Treasury’s Biggest Short: Duration in the Shadows When Buys Move Markets More than Sells: How Institutions Boost Prices without Net Buying |
Measuring Behavior with AI Location: Pacific 3 The Market's Mirror: Revealing Investor Disagreement with LLMs Awkward Silence: Is Manager Hesitation Informative? Just Look: Knowing Peers with Image Representation |
| 1:30pm - 3:15pm |
Doctoral Symposium - Corporate Finance Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan Bridging Markets: Equity Investors' Dual Roles in Corporate Debt Financing Corporate Finance in the Subscription Ecoonmy Financing Risk and Startup Growth |
Investor Behavior Location: Aegean Chair: Dexin Zhou Pass-through Mutual Funds, Flow of Funds, and Low-Risk Anomaly When Retail Meets Informed: How News Days Drive Retail Losses Shadow of Loss: Mutual Fund Tail Behavior and Investor Flows |
ESG: Incentives in the Public and Private Sectors Location: Baltic Chair: Aymeric Bellon The Unintended Consequences of Carbon Markets The Green Value of BigTech Credit Green Waste: Misallocation of Green Investment Subsidies |
Financial inclusion II Location: Bering The costs of financial fraud victimization Economic Opportunity Costs: Banking Access and Educational (Dis)Investment Immigration and Credit in America |
Information and Markets Location: Caribbean Chair: Russell Jame AI Washing Organized Crime, Public Procurement, and Firms Salient Signals of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Era |
Intermediation Location: Caspian Chair: Veronika Pool The Hidden Costs of Financial Services: Consumer Complaints and Financial Restitution Securities losses, Interbank Markets, and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from the Eurozone Rebalancing of Currency Hedging and the Impact on Exchange Rates Relationship Lending in Bond Markets? |
Imperfect Competition and Price Efficiency Location: Pacific 1 Chair: Michael Sockin When Silicon Valley Meets Wall Street: A Theory of Financial Overengineering Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency Riding or Attacking the Bubble? Equity Bubbles and Capital Structure Arbitrage |
Beliefs, and Macroeconomic Risk Transmission Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Altan Pazarbaşı Learning and subjective beliefs about good and bad inflation ranges Safe Haven Status of the U.S. Dollar, Dollar Index Options, and Quantitative Implications for Dynamic Currency Models The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Traded Event Contracts |
Forecasting with Machine Learning Location: Pacific 3 Market Risk Premium: A Single Optimal Predictive Factor in High Dimension Improving Hedge Fund Return Prediction: Dealing with Missing Data via Deep Learning Will AI Replace or Enhance Human Intelligence in Asset Management? |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
Speculation, Hedging, and Rollover Risk in International Financial Markets Location: Adriatic Chair: Fabricius Somogyi Who Carries? Speculation, Forward Exchange Demand, and CIP Deviations in Emerging Economies Local Currency Debt and Sovereign Rollover Risk |
Volatility, Risk, and Returns Location: Aegean Optimal Sharpe Ratio Timing with Stop Loss A Century of Market Reversals: Resurrecting Volatility Local Estimation for Option Pricing: Improving Forecasts with Market State Information |
Attention to ESG and the Consequent Effects Location: Baltic Can US equity funds time ESG score updates? Carbon in the Cloud Climate Risk, Credit, and Food Security |
Emerging Markets Location: Bering Chair: Meghana Ayyagari Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid Behind Dollar Savings in Mutual Funds: Are Shifting Sands Threatening Financial Stability? Crowding Out and Banking Crises |
Access to Finance Location: Caribbean Chair: Paul Beaumont Firm-Level and Aggregate Effects of Cheaper Liquidity: Evidence from Factoring Group Decision Making Under Real World Uncertainty: Evidence From the Internal Investment Process of a Venture Capital (VC)-Backed Startup Accelerator Female Skin in the Game: Bridging the Gender Financing Gap |
The Real Effects of Polarization and Partisanship Location: Caspian Chair: Runjing Lu Partisan Borders: Political Ideology and Frictions in Interstate Job-to-Job Flows Fiscal Risk Perception: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts Political Polarization and Corporate Investment |
Information Acquisition and Mutual Fund Trading Location: Pacific 1 Familiarity in International Fund Allocation and Performance: Information or Bias Complementarities in Information Acquisition: Evidence from Mandatory Portfolio Disclosures The complex materiality of proprietary ESG information: Evidence from actively managed funds |
Expectations and Banking Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Dejanir Silva Granular Markups and Inflation Surge: the role of managerial incentives Global Banks’ Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Supply Banking on Inattention |
Blockchain & GenAI Location: Pacific 3 Harnessing Generative AI for Economic Insights Irreversibility and Hysteresis in Blockchain Validation Markets Systemic Risk by Design? Causal Evidence on Endogenous Blockchain Security |