Conference Agenda

Session

Corporate Financing and Hedging

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Fotis Grigoris, University of Iowa

Location: Caribbean

Presentations

Public Debt and Private Investment: The Role of Firm Leverage

Alex Hsu¹, Altan Pazarbaşı², Andrea Tamoni³

¹Georgia Institute of Technology; ²University of Iowa; ³University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Michele Andreolli (Boston College)

Financing and the Green Paradox

Rui Albuquerque¹, Mathias Kruttli², Yiding Ma³, Sumudu Watugala²

¹Boston College; ²Indiana University; ³Technical University of Denmark

Discussant: Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia)

The Economics of Financial and Operational Hedging: Insights from U.S. Power Plants

Alvin Chen¹, Ran Guo², Haohang Wu¹, Dong Yan²

¹Stockholm School of Economics; ²Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Discussant: Ioannis Branikas (University of Oregon)