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Friday, May 10, 2024
11:30 - 12:30 PM | Lunch and pick up conference materials [Shillman Hall Rooms 215-220] |
12:30 - 12:40 PM | Opening Remarks: Nicole Boyson & Dunton Family Dean David De Cremer |
Session 1 | Session Chair: Fabricius Somogyi |
12:45 - 1:30 PM | “On the Use of Currency Forwards-Evidence from International Equity Mutual Funds” Authors: Wei Opie (Deakin Univ.); Steven Riddiough (Univ. of Toronto) Discussant: Andrea Vedolin (Boston Univ.) |
1:30 - 2:15 PM | “Steering Labor Mobility through Innovation” Authors: Song Ma (Yale Univ.); Wenyu Wang (Indiana Univ.); Yufeng Wu (Ohio State Univ.) Discussant: Rui Albuquerque (Boston College) |
2:15 - 2:40 PM | Coffee Break |
Session 2 | Session Chairs: Weiling Liu & Kandarp Srinivasan |
2:40 - 3:25 PM | “Does Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns?” Authors: Andrew Y. Chen (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); Alejandro Lopez-Lira (Univ. of Florida); Tom Zimmermann (Univ. of Cologne) Discussant: Jeff Pontiff (Boston College.) |
3:25 - 4:10 PM | “Who Is Minding the Store – Order Routing and Competition in Retail Trade Execution” Authors: Xing Huang (Washington Univ.); Philippe Jorion, Christopher Schwarz (UC Irvine); Jeongmin Lee (FRB- Washington DC) Discussant: Dermot Murphy (Univ. of Illinois – Chicago) |
4:10 - 4:35 PM | Coffee Break |
4:35 - 5:20 PM | “Directing the Labor Market – The Impact of Shared Board Members of Employee Flows” Authors: Taylor Begley (Univ. of Kentucky); Peter Haslag (Vanderbilt Univ.); Daniel Weagley (Georgia Inst. of Technology) Discussant: Hong Ru (MIT) |
5:30 - 8:30 PM | Reception [East Village 17th Floor] |
Saturday, May 11, 2024
8:30 - 9:15 AM | Breakfast [Raytheon Amphitheater – 240 Egan Hall] |
Session 3 | Session Chair: Saptarshi Mukherjee & Ali Sharifkhani |
9:15 - 10:00 AM | “The Efficiency of Patent Litigation” Authors: Samuel Antill (HBS); Murat Alp Celik (Univ. of Toronto); Xu Tian (Univ. of Georgia); Toni M. Whited (Univ. of Michigan) Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern Univ.) |
10:00 - 10:45 AM | “Algorithmic Underwriting in High-Risk Mortgage Markets” Authors: Janet Gao (Georgetown Univ.); Livia Yi (Boston College); David Zhang (Rice Univ.) Discussant: Tong Liu (MIT) |
10:45 - 11:10 AM | Coffee Break |
11:10 - 11:55 AM | “Hedging Climate Change Risk – A Real-time Market Response Approach” Authors: Yang Cao, Miao Liu (Boston College); Rachel Xi Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore) Discussant: Daniel Green (HBS) |
11:55 - 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks & Adjourn for Lunch |
12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch [Raytheon Amphitheater – 240 Egan Hall] |
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The conference program committee includes Huang Da, Weiling Liu, Saptarshi Mukherjee, Fabricius Somogyi, Andres Shahidinejad, Ali Sharifkhani, and Kandarp Srinivasan. Please direct queries about the conference to the organizers: John Bai, Tiantian Gu, and Anand Venkateswaran.
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