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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| Date: Saturday, 14/Mar/2026 | |||||
| 7:30am - 5:00pm | Registration Location: Pacific Foyer - 2nd Floor | ||||
| 7:45am - 5:00pm | Exhibitors Location: 2nd Floor | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:45am | Corporate Investment and Financing Location: Adriatic Session Chair: Vijay Yerramilli, University of Houston | ||||
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Boards as Contracting Intermediaries: Evidence from Board-Interlocking Firms in the Credit Market Tulane University
Internal Capital Markets and Production Disruptions 1: Indiana University; 2: University of Pittsburgh; 3: Wayne State University
Impact of Risk Management on Product Offerings: Evidence from the Insurance Industry 1: University of Iowa; 2: Indiana University; 3: Southern Methodist University; 4: University of North Texas
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Measuring Behavior with AI Location: Aegean Session Chair: Pablo Azar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | ||||
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The Market's Mirror: Revealing Investor Disagreement with LLMs 1: George Washington University; 2: University of Colorado, Boulder; 3: Indiana University
Awkward Silence: Is Manager Hesitation Informative? University of Texas at Dallas
Just Look: Knowing Peers with Image Representation 1: University of Missouri; 2: Poznan University
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Climate and Pricing Location: Baltic Session Chair: Ai He, University of South Carolina | ||||
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The Effect of Rising Insurance Premiums on Mortgage Delinquency and Household Relocation 1: New York University; 2: Rice University; 3: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Biodiversity Protection and Housing Markets: Supply, Demand, and Speculation University of Texas at Austin
Understanding the Pricing of Carbon Emissions: New Evidence from the Stock Market 1: Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 2: Federal Reserve Board of Governors; 3: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Consumer Financial Behavior and Education Location: Bering Session Chair: Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas | ||||
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Banking Local: Media Slant, Erosion of Trust, and Financial Decisions 1: University of Houston; 2: University of Houston; 3: Peking University
The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Financial Literacy and Financial Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach 1: University of Virginia; 2: University of Arkansas
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Startup and Innovations Location: Caribbean Session Chair: Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University | ||||
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Nature Dependence, Economic Value, and Extinction Risk: Evidence from Biotech Innovations 1: University of Pittsburgh; 2: Imperial College London; 3: Erasmus University Rotterdam
How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation? 1: Columbia University; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 3: University of Iowa; 4: University of Connecticut
When Innovation Meets Politics: Patent Examiner Partisanship and Green Technology 1: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: University of Delaware; 3: Colorado State University
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Commercial Real Estate Location: Caspian Session Chair: Yuliya Demyanyk, University of Illinois Chicago | ||||
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Does Mortgage Rate Lock-in Dampen Commercial Real Estate Busts? 1: Cornell University; 2: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
The Long-Run Effects of Remote Work on U.S. Office Markets 1: University at Buffalo; 2: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 3: University of California, San Diego
Too-Many-to-Ignore: Regional Banks and CRE Risks 1: Dartmouth College; 2: Columbia University
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Asset Prices Location: Pacific 1 Session Chair: Ram Yamarthy, Federal Reserve Board of Governors | ||||
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Culling the Factor Zoo 1: Temple University; 2: Yale University; 3: Old Dominion University
Currency Basket Co-movements 1: Columbia University; 2: Fordham University
Dissecting Demand in the MBS Market Boston University
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Corporate Investment: New Perspectives Location: Pacific 2 Session Chair: Michael Wittry, Ohio State University | ||||
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(In-)Visible Risks of Blockchain-Based Financing for Capital Allocation Efficiency 1: City University of Hong Kong.; 2: University of Calgary; 3: Sungkyunkwan University
When Trade Dries Up: Infrastructure Constraints and Firm Performance University of Toronto
Automation Under Constraints: Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and Firm Investment 1: George Washington University; 2: University of Maryland
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| 8:00am - 9:45am | Policy Design Location: Pacific 3 Session Chair: Amrita Nain, University of Iowa | ||||
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When Diversity Rules 1: University of Rochester; 2: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 3: Columbia University
When Privacy Protects but Excludes: The Costs and Benefits of Banning Alternative Data in Digital Lending 1: National University of Singapore; 2: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 3: University of California, Los Angeles; 4: Washington University in St. Louis
Are Crypto Anti-Money Laundering Policies Effective? University of Texas at Austin
Barriers to Consumer Negotiation and the Limits of Policy: Evidence from the NAR Settlement Rice University
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| 9:45am - 10:00am | Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor | ||||
| 10:00am - 11:45am | Information Intermediaries in Financial Markets Location: Adriatic Session Chair: Alessio Piccolo, Indiana University | ||||
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Shareholder Democracy and the Market for Voting Advice 1: University of Southern California; 2: University of Utah
The Gatekeeping Expert's Dilemma Columbia University
Information Externalities in Opaque Credit Markets 1: Baylor University; 2: McGill University
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Secondary Markets Location: Aegean Session Chair: Jack Bao, University of Delaware | ||||
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Mixology: Order Flow Segmentation Design Northwestern University
The Secondary Market for Syndicated Loans 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; 2: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Splitting and Shuffling: Institutional Trading Motives and Order Submissions Across Brokers 1: Texas Tech University; 2: Wilfrid Laurier University; 3: University of Texas at Dallas
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Law, Information and Finance Location: Baltic Session Chair: Stefan Zeume, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | ||||
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Insider Trading Reforms and Corporate Transparency: Evidence from the STOCK Act 1: Tulane University; 2: Xiamen University
Cracking Down, Pricing In: How AML Regulation Shapes Stock Price Responses University of Graz, Austria
When Speaking Freely Pays: Anti-SLAPP Laws and Firms' Cost of Equity 1: University of Tennessee; 2: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Housing Markets and Mortgage Dynamics Location: Bering Session Chair: Marco Giacoletti, University of Notre Dame | ||||
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Aging and Housing Returns 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; 2: Boston College; 3: University of Delaware
Gaining Market Expertise: The Geographic Specialization of Labor in Mortgage Lenders 1: University of California, Los Angeles; 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; 3: City University of Hong Kong
A Danish Fix for U.S. Mortgage Lock-in? 1: Baruch College; 2: Duke University; 3: Copenhagen Business School
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Bond, Stock, and Bond Mutual Fund Performance Location: Caribbean Session Chair: Brian Henderson, George Washington University | ||||
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Private Investments of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds 1: Seoul National University; 2: Northern Illinois University; 3: National University of Singapore
Bond Factor Momentum and Its Predictability for Stock Returns Auburn University
Winning At the Starting Line: Underwriter Connections and Municipal Bond Fund Performance 1: University of Nebraska-Lincoln; 2: University of Maryland; 3: University of Tennessee
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Seniority, Collateral, and Adverse Selection in Lending Markets Location: Caspian Session Chair: Gunjan Seth, University of Southern California | ||||
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Screening in Loan Guarantee Programs: Combining Contract Menus with Information Collection Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Where Collateral Sleeps 1: Yale University; 2: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Competing for Loan Informal Seniority: Theory and Evidence 1: Central Bank of Brazil; 2: Insper; 3: Duke University
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Capital Structure Location: Pacific 1 Session Chair: Hyunseob Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | ||||
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Firm Innovation Outcomes and Trade Credit Financing 1: Florida State University; 2: Tulane University; 3: University of Michigan
Echoes of Inflation: CEO Early-life Inflation Experiences, Inflation Attention, and Corporate Decisions 1: University of Colorado Boulder; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: California State University, Northridge
Financing Source Granularity and Cash Holdings 1: University of Texas at San Antonio; 2: Loyola Marymount University
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Household Finance Location: Pacific 2 Session Chair: Shashwat Alok, Indian School of Business | ||||
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Borrowers in the Shadows: The Promise and Pitfalls of Alternative Credit Data 1: University of Utah; 2: University of Texas at Austin; 3: Emory University; 4: Ohio State University
Fintech to the (Worker) Rescue: Earned Wage Access, Financial Health and Employee Retention 1: Primero AI; 2: INSEAD; 3: Yale University
Home Is Where Your FinTech Loan Is Indian School of Business
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| 10:00am - 11:45am | Trading Location: Pacific 3 Session Chair: Mirela Sandulescu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||||
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The Rise of Derivatives and Off-Exchange Trading and Its Impact on Price Discovery and Volatility 1: University of Memphis; 2: Syracuse University; 3: Washington University in St. Louis
Attention on Insider Trading: EDGAR Visits, Investor Sophistication, and Informational Advantage University of Toledo
Animal Spirits on Steroids: Evidence From Retail Options Trading in India 1: Johns Hopkins University; 2: Lehigh University; 3: Georgia State University; 4: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Luncheon Location: Atlantic E - 1st Floor Meals are by advance ticket purchase only and must be purchased online during conference registration. | ||||
| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Liquidity, Fragility, and Incentives in Financial Markets Location: Adriatic Session Chair: Stefano Pegoraro, University of Notre Dame | ||||
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Fire Sales and Liquidity Requirements 1: Bank of Canada; 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
The Optimal Schedules of Incentives and Cash Flows 1: University of Georgia; 2: University of Washington
Do ‘MEASURES’ of Bank Diversification Measure Up? 1: Rutgers University; 2: The College of New Jersey
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | FinTech in Household and Small Business Finance Location: Aegean Session Chair: Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University | ||||
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Data as Collateral: Open Banking for Small Business Lending Tsinghua University
Interoperable Payment Infrastructure and Retail Investment 1: George Washington University; 2: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 3: Centre For Advanced Financial Research And Learning
Fintech Access and Consumption Smoothing 1: Columbia University; 2: University of Cambridge; 3: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; 4: Luohan Academy
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Bond Pricing and Returns Location: Baltic Session Chair: Brian Henderson, George Washington University | ||||
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Breaking the Tension: Almost Affine Term Structure Models with Stochastic Volatility 1: Pennsylvania State University; 2: University of Southern California
Opaque Markets, Visible Jobs: Real-Time Labor Demand and Municipal Finance 1: Tulane University; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Iowa
Pricing of Corporate Bonds: Evidence From a Century-Long Cross-Section 1: University of Kansas; 2: University of Pennsylvania; 3: University of Wisconsin–Madison
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Market Design Across Financial Products Location: Bering Session Chair: Lulu Wang, Northwestern University | ||||
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Deposit Competition Beyond Rates 1: University of California, Berkeley; 2: Stanford University; 3: University of California, Berkeley
Labor Market Polarization and Student Debt 1: University of Virginia; 2: University of Cambridge
Selection through Lapsation in Life Insurance Markets 1: University of Iowa; 2: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Congressional Stock Trading and Politicized Lending Location: Caribbean Session Chair: Amanda Heitz, Tulane University | ||||
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When Supervision Meets Politics: Bailouts, Lending and Investment Yale University
Should The Public Be Concerned About Congressional Stock Trading? 1: Carnegie Mellon University; 2: Rice University
Legislative Trades 1: University of California, Irvine; 2: Boston College
Political Shifts, Mortgage Drifts: Evidence from U.S. Special Elections University of Southern California
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Mortgage and Housing Supply Location: Caspian Session Chair: Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | ||||
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Incomplete Pass-Through in Mortgage Markets 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; 2: Mortgage Bankers Association
The Distributional Effects of GSE Pricing on Home Purchases 1: Federal Reserve Board of Governors; 2: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; 3: Rice University
How Housing Supply Expansions Reshape Cities 1: University of Notre Dame; 2: Erasmus School of Economics; 3: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Modern Banking Issues Location: Pacific 1 Session Chair: Edward Kim, University of Michigan | ||||
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Banks’ Images: Evidence from Advertising Videos 1: Yale University; 2: University of British Columbia
Par for the Course: Did the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) Support Credit Intermediation? 1: University of South Carolina; 2: George Mason University; 3: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Cyber Risk in Banking: Measuring and Predicting Vulnerability Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Insurance Markets Location: Pacific 2 Session Chair: Irina Stefanescu, Federal Reserve Board of Governors | ||||
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Beyond the Storm: Climate Risk and Insurers of Last Resort 1: Indiana University; 2: University of South Florida
From Long to Short: How Interest Rates Shape Life Insurance Markets 1: Indiana University; 2: Imperial College London
The Evolution of Insurance Markets: Capital Regulation and Insurance Provision 1: INSEAD; 2: Harvard University; 3: Bank of England
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm | Politics and Finance Location: Pacific 3 Session Chair: Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan | ||||
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Politically Polarized Supply Chains 1: Indiana University; 2: University of Groningen
A Dark Side to Experience? Firm Age and Policy Uncertainty 1: McGill University; 2: University of Maryland; 3: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Customer Concentration, Systematic Risk, and Equity Returns University of Houston
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| 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Coffee Break Location: Pacific Foyer - 2nd Floor | ||||
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Dollar Dominance, Spillovers, and the Structure of Global Financial Risk Location: Adriatic Session Chair: Craig Brown, Purdue University | ||||
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China's Overseas Lending in Global Finance Cycle Northwestern University
Geoeconomic Competition and Capital Reallocation in Global FX Funding 1: Johns Hopkins University; 2: University of Pennsylvania
Unconventional Monetary Policy Spillovers and the (In)convenience of Treasuries 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; 2: University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Multinationals' investment and financing Location: Aegean Session Chair: Nandini Gupta, Indiana University | ||||
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Climate Policy Abroad, Emissions at Home: Pollution Reshoring by U.S. Multinationals 1: Renmin University of China; 2: University of Maryland
Multinationals and Uncertainty: The Role of Internal Capital Markets Santa Clara University
Beyond the Fundamentals: Cross-Country Media Narrative Dispersion and Global Capital Flows 1: University of British Columbia; 2: Santa Clara University; 3: Cornell University
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Bond Market Fragility and Resilience Location: Baltic Session Chair: Yoshio Nozawa, University of Toronto | ||||
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Enhanced Resiliency in Corporate Bond Liquidity: A Tradeoff in OTC Markets Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lending at a Cost: Liquidity Fragility in Bond Mutual Funds 1: University of Virginia; 2: Bucknell University; 3: University of Texas at Dallas
Unintended Consequences of Rule 18f-4: Derivatives Constraints, Reaching for Yield, and Corporate Bond Market Fragility 1: Pennsylvania State University; 2: Middle Tennessee State University; 3: University at Albany - SUNY
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Social Finance Location: Bering Session Chair: Yessenia Tellez, Virginia Tech | ||||
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Social Interaction Intensity and Investor Behavior 1: University of Southern California; 2: University of Delaware; 3: Netanya Academic College
Mimicking Finance 1: Harvard University; 2: University of Pennsylvania; 3: DePaul University
Student Debt and the Cinderella Effect 1: Pennsylvania State University; 2: University of Calgary; 3: University of Texas at Dallas
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | The Dynamics of Bank Competition Location: Caribbean Session Chair: Priyank Gandhi, Rutgers University | ||||
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When Financial Ratios Mislead Evidence from Credit Unions Purchasing Banks Samford University
Does Local Competition Matter for Mortgages? Evidence from Fee Pass-Through 1: Duke University; 2: University of Pittsburgh
The Boundaries of the Farm and the Death of Small Banks Rice University
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Green Banking Location: Caspian Session Chair: Shaojun Zhang, Ohio State University | ||||
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Building Voice in Socially Responsible Investing University of Texas at Austin
Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation 1: University of Michigan; 2: London Business School
Banking through an Energy Transition 1: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; 2: George Mason University
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Payment Systems Location: Pacific 1 Session Chair: Thomas Flanagan, Ohio State University | ||||
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Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems 1: University of Minnesota; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 3: Insper
Integrating Fragmented Networks: Interoperability in Money and Payments 1: International Monetary Fund; 2: University of Pennsylvania
Who Pays for Payments? Consumer Sorting, Fee Heterogeneity, and Passthrough 1: Harvard University; 2: Northwestern University; 3: Stanford University; 4: Georgia State University
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Macroeconomic Factors and Cross-Market Asset Pricing Location: Pacific 2 Session Chair: Sang Byung Seo, University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||||
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The Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks on Asset Prices University of Pennsylvania
Good Inflation, Bad Inflation, and the Dynamics of Credit Risk 1: Banco de España; 2: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Integrating Credit and Equity Markets: A Novel Benefit of Convertible Bonds Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Trading Corporate Debt Location: Pacific 3 Session Chair: Pankaj Jain, University of Memphis | ||||
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Bond Valuation Dispersion and ETF Arbitrage 1: Southern Methodist University; 2: University of Maryland; 3: University of Waterloo
Cross Trading in the Corporate Bond Market 1: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2: Southern Methodist University; 3: Vanderbilt University
Beyond Performance: Mutual Funds, Non-Alpha Services, and the Value of Financial Advisors 1: Indiana University; 2: Stockholm University
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