2023 Program

11:30-12:30 p.m.

Lunch and pick up conference materials (Shillman Hall 215-220)

12:30-12:40 p.m.

Opening remarks: Nicole Boyson (Finance Group Chair) & Emery Trahan (Dean)

Session 1

Session Chair: Weiling Liu

12:40-1:30 p.m.

“Americans Vote with their Pocketbooks: Evidence from Adjustable-Rate Mortgages”
Authors: Haoyang Liu, Xiaohan Zhang (FRB-Dallas); Ben McCartney (Univ. of Virginia); Rodney
Ramcharan (Univ. of Southern California); Calvin Zhang (FRB-Philadelphia)
Discussant: Simcha Barkai (Boston College)

1:30-2:20 p.m.

“Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending”
Authors: Siyi Chen, Sijie Wang (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong); Xiang Zheng (Univ. of Connecticut)
Discussant: Senay Agca (George Washington Univ.)

2:20-2:40 p.m.

Coffee break

Session 2

Session Chairs: Fabricius Somogyi and Andres Shahidinejad

2:40-3:30 p.m.

“LTCM Redux? Hedge Fund Treasury Trading and Funding Fragility”
Authors: Mathias Kruttli (Indiana Univ.), Phillip J. Monin; Lubomir Petrasek (The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); Sumudu Watugala; (Indiana Univ.)
Discussant: Nicolas Bollen (Vanderbilt Univ.)

3:30-4:20 p.m.

“Defining Greenwashing”
Authors: Ariadna Dumitrescu (Barcelona School of Mgmt.); Javier Gil-Bazo, Feng Zhou (Pompeu Fabra Univ.)
Discussant: Pedro Matos (Univ. of Virginia – Darden)

4:20-4:40 p.m.

Coffee break

4:40-5:30 p.m.

“Did Western CEO Incentives Contribute to China's Technological Rise?”
Authors: Bo Bian (Univ. of British Columbia); Jean-Marie Meier; (UT Dallas)
Discussant: Liu Yang (Univ. of Maryland)

5:30-8:30 p.m.

Reception: Alumni Center

8:15-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast at Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan Hall)

Session 3

Session Chairs: Ali Sharifkhani and Saptarshi Mukherjee

9:00-9:50 a.m.

“The Incentives of SPAC Sponsors”
Authors: Felix Feng (Univ. of Washington); Tom Nohel (Loyola Univ. – Chicago); Xuan Tian (Tsinghua Univ.); Wenyu Wang (Indiana Univ.); Yufeng Wu (UIUC)
Discussant: Tong Liu (MIT)

9:50-10:40 a.m.

“The Role of Family Networks in First-Credit Access”
Authors: Miguel Angel Carpio (Univ. de Piura); Lorena Keller (Wharton); Alessandro Tomarchio (Central Bank of Peru)
Discussant: Anthony Cookson (Univ. Colorado – Boulder)

10:40-11:00 a.m.

Coffee break

11:00-11:50 a.m.

“Lead Inventor Gender and Patent Citations: Evidence from Causal BERT Estimation”
Authors: Yael Hochberg, Kunal Sachdeva (Rice Univ.); Ali Kakhbod, Peiyao Li (UC – Berkeley)
Discussant: Daniel Bergstresser (Brandeis Univ.)

11:50-12:00 p.m.

Closing remarks and adjourn for lunch

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch