American Finance Association Annual Meeting

Chicago, Illinois

 

Summary of All Sessions

Date/TimeLocationTitlePapers
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Panel: Capital Constraints, Public Policy and Minority Entrepreneurship
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Affiliation and Delegated Portfolios3
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Analysts3
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Credit Risk4
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Debt and Crises3
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Executive Compensation4
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Liquidity and Trading in Bond and Derivatives Markets I3
January 6, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Media and Finance 4
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Panel: Public Pension Funds0
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Bank Supervision, Support and Resolution Policies3
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Biases3
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Credit Ratings3
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Dividend and Payout Policy4
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Financial Institution Risk Management3
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Information and Trading: New Approaches to Classical Problems3
January 6, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII International Finance and Exchange Rates4
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Panel: The New Financial Regulatory Environment and its Implications for Financial Markets0
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Behavioral Corporate Finance4
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX CEOs3
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Derivatives3
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI High Frequency Trading4
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Macroeconomic Models of the Equity Premium4
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Private Equity4
January 6, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III R&D, Patents and Innovation4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Panel: How Much Finance Does the Economy Need?0
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Corporate Culture4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Financial Crises and the Transmission of Shocks3
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV High Sharpe Ratios3
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Household Finance4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Housing Returns and Speculation4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Information Disclosure and Stock Returns4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Sustainable Investments4
January 7, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mayfair (Level 2) Tax Shelters and Corporate Inversions4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Panel: Low Interest Rates and Financial Markets0
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Behavioral Finance I4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Debt Structure3
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Government and Regulatory Issues4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Insurance4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Investment Behavior4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Market Mispricing4
January 7, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Securities Markets and Macroeconomic Outcomes3
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V AFA Lecture: Machine Learning and Prediction in Economics and Finance0
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Bankruptcy and Financial Distress4
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Entrepreneurial Finance3
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Information Transmission and Trading3
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Labor and Finance3
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Market Risk Factors4
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Real Estate Finance4
January 7, 2017
14:30-16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Regulation and Trust in Financial Stability4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Banks and Central Banks4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI Boards4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Finance and the Product Market3
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Financial Intermediaries and Asset Prices4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Liquidity and Trading in Bond and Derivatives Markets II4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Mergers and Acquisitions4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Mutual Fund Management4
January 8, 2017
8:00-10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V Stock Returns: Characteristics and Factors3
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Bank Lending Behavior4
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV Behavioral Finance II4
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Capital Structure4
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Corporate Governance3
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Dynamic and Quantitative Models of Banking3
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Monetary Policy and Asset Prices3
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI New Methodology for Mutual Fund Performance3
January 8, 2017
10:15-12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V Volatility4
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri (Level 2) Asset Allocation 3
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III Bond Risk Premia3
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX Finance and Development3
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Colorado (Level 2) Financing Frictions and the Real Economy3
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X Liquidity, Frictions and Limits to Arbitrage4
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII Market Structure and Market Design4
January 8, 2017
13:00-15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II Shareholders and Governance3
 

72 sessions, 235 papers, and 19 presentations with no associated papers


 

American Finance Association Annual Meeting

Detailed List of Sessions

 
Session: AFA Panel: Capital Constraints, Public Policy and Minority Entrepreneurship
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Josh Lerner, Harvard University
 

Presented by:
   Stuart A. Taylor II, CEO, The Taylor Group
 

Presented by:
   Karen Mills, Harvard University and former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
 

Presented by:
   Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz
 

Presented by:
   Euler Bropleh, Founder and Managing Director, VestedWorld
 
Session: Affiliation and Delegated Portfolios
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Veronika Pool, Indiana University
 

Asset Management Within Commercial Banking Groups: International Evidence
By Miguel Ferreira; Nova School of Business and Economics
Pedro Matos; University of Virginia
Pedro Pires; Nova School of Business and Economics
   presented by: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia
   Discussant:   Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School
 

Financial Conglomerate Affiliation and Hedge Funds’ Countercyclical Risk Taking
By Francesco Franzoni; University of Lugano (USI), Swiss Finance Institute
Mariassunta Giannetti; Stockholm School of Economics
   presented by: Francesco Franzoni, University of Lugano (USI), Swiss Finance Institute
   Discussant:   Wei Jiang, Columbia University
 

Interfund Lending in Mutual Fund Families: Role of Internal Capital Markets
By Vikas Agarwal; Georgia State University
Haibei Zhao; Lehigh University
   presented by: Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
   Discussant:   Scott Yonker, Cornell University
 
Session: Analysts
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Ing-Haw Cheng, Dartmouth College
 

Career Concerns and Strategic Effort Allocation by Analysts
By Jarrad Harford; University of Washington
Feng Jiang; University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Rong Wang; Singapore Management University
Fei Xie; University of Delaware
   presented by: Rong Wang, Singapore Management University
   Discussant:   Devin Shanthikumar, University of California, Irvine
 

The Job Rating Game: The E ffects of Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentives
By Elisabeth Kempf; Tilburg University
   presented by: Elisabeth Kempf, Tilburg University
   Discussant:   Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford
 

Speed and Expertise in Stock Picking: Older, Slower, and Wiser?
By Romain Boulland; ESSEC Business School
Chayawat Ornthanalai; University of Toronto
Kent Womack; University of Toronto
   presented by: Romain Boulland, ESSEC Business School
   Discussant:   Lily Fang, INSEAD
 
Session: Credit Risk
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University
 

Unemployment and Credit Risk
By Hang Bai; University of Connecticut
   presented by: Hang Bai, University of Connecticut
   Discussant:   Lukas Schmid, Duke University
 

Economic Uncertainty, Aggregate Debt, and the Real Effects of Corporate Finance
By Timothy Johnson; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Timothy Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
   Discussant:   Adriano Rampini, Duke University
 

Sovereign CDS Spreads with Credit Rating
By Haitao Li; Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Tao Li; City University of Hong Kong
Xuewei Yang; Nanjing University
   presented by: Tao Li, City University of Hong Kong
   Discussant:   David Lando, Copenhagen Business School
 

The Impact of Sovereign Shocks
By Gerardo Manzo; University of Chicago
Antonio Picca; University of Chicago
   presented by: Gerardo Manzo, Two Sigma Investments
   Discussant:   Timothy McQuade, Stanford University
 
Session: Debt and Crises
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
 

Credit Spreads and the Severity of Financial Crises
By Arvind Krishnamurthy; Stanford University
Tyler Muir; University of California, Los Angeles
   presented by: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University
   Discussant:   Egon Zakrajsek, Federal Reserve Board
 

Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?
By Rudiger Fahlenbrach; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Robert Prilmeier; Tulane University
Rene Stulz; Ohio State University
   presented by: Rudiger Fahlenbrach, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
   Discussant:   Samuel Hanson, Harvard Business School
 

The Private Costs of Highly Levered Banks
By Juliane Begenau; Harvard Business School
Erik Stafford; Harvard University
   presented by: Juliane Begenau, Harvard Business School
   Discussant:   Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
 
Session: Executive Compensation
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Kelly Shue, University of Chicago
 

Relative Pay for Non-Relative Performance: Keeping up with the Joneses with Optimal Contracts
By Peter DeMarzo; Stanford University
Ron Kaniel; University of Rochester
   presented by: Ron Kaniel, University of Rochester
   Discussant:   Florian Ederer, Yale University
 

Insider Purchases after Short Interest Spikes: a False Signaling Device?
By Chattrin Laksanabunsong; Zacks Investment Management
Wei Wu; Texas A&M University
   presented by: Wei Wu, Texas A&M University
   Discussant:   Karl Diether, Brigham Young University
 

Performance-Vesting Provisions in Executive Compensation
By Carr Bettis; Arizona State University
John Bizjak; Texas Christian University
Jeffrey Coles; University of Utah
Swaminathan Kalpathy; Texas Christian University
   presented by: Swaminathan Kalpathy, Texas Christian University
   Discussant:   Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College
 

The Value of Information for Contracting
By Pierre Chaigneau; Queen's University Smith School of Business
Alex Edmans; London Business School
Daniel Gottlieb; Washington University in St Louis
   presented by: Alex Edmans, London Business School
   Discussant:   Dmitry Orlov, University of Rochester
 
Session: Liquidity and Trading in Bond and Derivatives Markets I
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Francis Longstaff, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Financial Markets
By Nina Boyarchenko; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Lucca; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Laura Veldkamp; New York University
   presented by: David Lucca, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   Discussant:   Kjell Nyborg, University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute
 

Institutional Herding and Its Price Impact: Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market
By Fang Cai; Federal Reserve Board
Song Han; Federal Reserve Board
Dan Li; Federal Reserve Board
Yi Li; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Yi Li, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Kelsey Wei, University of Texas-Dallas
 

The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times
By Marco Di Maggio; Harvard Business School & NBER
Amir Kermani; University of California, Berkeley
Zhaogang Song; Johns Hopkins University
   presented by: Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School & NBER
   Discussant:   Ana Babus, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 
Session: Media and Finance
January 6, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
 

Anomalies and News
By Joseph Engelberg; University of California, San Diego
David McLean; Driehaus College of Business
Jeffrey Pontiff; Boston College
   presented by: David McLean, Driehaus College of Business
   Discussant:   David Solomon, University of Southern California
 

Stock Market Coverage
By Briana Chang; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harrison Hong; Princeton University
   presented by: Harrison Hong, Princeton University
   Discussant:   Diego Garcia, University of Colorado
 

The Momentum of News
By Ying Wang; Nanyang Technological University
Bohui Zhang; University of New South Wales
Xiaoneng Zhu; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
   presented by: Xiaoneng Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
   Discussant:   Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
 

It Depends on Where You Search: A Comparison of Institutional and Retail Attention
By Azi Ben-Rephael; Indiana University
Zhi Da; University of Notre Dame
Ryan Israelsen; Indiana University
   presented by: Ryan Israelsen, Indiana University
   Discussant:   Denis Sosyura, University of Michigan
 
Session: AFA Panel: Public Pension Funds
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Luis Viceira, Harvard Business School
 

Presented by:
   Edwin Cass, Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board
 

Presented by:
   James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Presented by:
   Joshua Rauh, Stanford University
 

Presented by:
   Theresa Whitmarsh, Washington State Investment Board
 
Session: Bank Supervision, Support and Resolution Policies
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago
 

Parsing the Content of Bank Supervision
By Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Beverly Hirtle; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Lucca; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   presented by: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   Discussant:   Amit Seru, University of Chicago
 

Does a Larger Menu Increase Appetite? Collateral Eligibility and Bank Risk-Taking
By Sjoerd van Bekkum; Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marc Gabarro; Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rustom Irani; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Sjoerd van Bekkum, Erasmus University Rotterdam
   Discussant:   Philipp Schnabl, New York University
 

Bank Resolution and the Structure of Global Banks
By Patrick Bolton; Columbia University
Martin Oehmke; Columbia University
   presented by: Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
   Discussant:   Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago
 
Session: Biases
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Renee Adams, University of New South Wales
 

In-Group Bias in Financial Markets
By Sima Jannati; University of Miami
Alok Kumar; University of Miami
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi; University of Mannheim
Justin Wolfers; University of Michigan
   presented by: Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, University of Mannheim
   Discussant:   Harrison Hong, Princeton University
 

Are CEOs Different? Characteristics of Top Managers
By Steven Kaplan; University of Chicago
Morten Sorensen; Columbia University
   presented by: Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin
 

Experimenting with Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Job-Protected Leave
By Joshua Gottlieb; University of British Columbia
Richard Townsend; Dartmouth College
Ting Xu; University of British Columbia
   presented by: Ting Xu, University of British Columbia
   Discussant:   Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: Credit Ratings
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin
 

Where the Heart Is: Information Production and the Home Bias
By Jess Cornaggia; Georgetown University
Kimberly Cornaggia; Pennsylvania State University
Ryan Israelsen; Indiana University
   presented by: Kimberly Cornaggia, Pennsylvania State University
   Discussant:   Miguel Ferreira, Nova School of Business and Economics
 

Non-rating Revenue and Conflicts of Interest
By Ramin Baghai; Stockholm School of Economics
Bo Becker; Stockholm School of Economics
   presented by: Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics
   Discussant:   Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin
 

The Disciplining Effect of Credit Ratings: Evidence from Corporate Asset Sales
By Dion Bongaerts; Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frederik-Paul Schlingemann; University of Pittsburgh
   presented by: Frederik-Paul Schlingemann, University of Pittsburgh
   Discussant:   Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
 
Session: Dividend and Payout Policy
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Gustavo Grullon, Rice University
 

The Effect of Option-based Compensation on Payout Policy: Evidence from FAS 123R
By Fabrizio Ferri; Columbia University
Nan Li; Columbia University
   presented by: Fabrizio Ferri, Columbia University
   Discussant:   David De Angelis, Rice University
 

What's Behind the Smooth Dividends? Evidence from Structural Estimation
By Yufeng Wu; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Yufeng Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Discussant:   Oliver Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Shareholder-Creditor Conflict and Payout Policy: Evidence from Mergers between Lenders and Shareholders
By Yongqiang Chu; University of South Carolina
   presented by: Yongqiang Chu, University of South Carolina
   Discussant:   Alan Crane, Rice University
 

Financing Payouts
By Joan Farre-Mensa; Harvard Business School
Roni Michaely; Cornell Tech
Martin Schmalz; University of Michigan
   presented by: Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard Business School
   Discussant:   Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
 
Session: Financial Institution Risk Management
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland
 

Bank Complexity and Risk Management: Evidence from Operational Risk Events in U.S. Bank Holding Companies
By Anna Chernobai; Syracuse University
Ali Ozdagli; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Jianlin Wang; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
   presented by: Anna Chernobai, Syracuse University
   Discussant:   Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
 

Risk Management in Financial Institutions
By Adriano Rampini; Duke University
S. Viswanathan; Duke University
Guillaume Vuillemey; HEC Paris
   presented by: Guillaume Vuillemey, HEC Paris
   Discussant:   Mark Flannery, Securities and Exchange Commission
 

Do Bank Boards Focus Adequately On Risk?
By Samanvaya Agarwal; Indian School of Business
Saipriya Kamath; Indian School of Business
Krishnamurthy Subramanian; Indian School of Business and Northwestern University
Prasanna Tantri; Indian School of Business
   presented by: Saipriya Kamath, Indian School of Business
   Discussant:   Miriam Schwartz-Ziv, Michigan State University
 
Session: Information and Trading: New Approaches to Classical Problems
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Multiple Equilibria in Noisy Rational Expectations Economies
By Domotor Palvolgyi; University of Cambridge
Gyuri Venter; Copenhagen Business School
   presented by: Gyuri Venter, Copenhagen Business School
   Discussant:   Liyan Yang, University of Toronto
 

Estimating Information Asymmetry in Securities Markets
By Kerry Back; Rice University
Kevin Crotty; Rice University
Tao Li; City University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Kevin Crotty, Rice University
   Discussant:   Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College
 

Intraday Trading Invariance in the E-mini S&P 500 Futures Market
By Torben Andersen; Northwestern University
Oleg Bondarenko; University of Illinois at Chicago
Albert Kyle; University of Maryland
Anna Obizhaeva; New Economic School
   presented by: Torben Andersen, Northwestern University
   Discussant:   Bryan Kelly, University of Chicago
 
Session: International Finance and Exchange Rates
January 6, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Hanno Lustig, Stanford University
 

The Term Structure of Implied Volatility and Volatility Risk Premia in the FX Market
By Pasquale Della Corte; Imperial College London
Roman Kozhan; University of Warwick
Anthony Neuberger; Cass Business School
   presented by: Roman Kozhan, University of Warwick
   Discussant:   Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago
 

Real Exchange Rates and Currency Risk Premia
By Pierluigi Balduzzi; Boston College
I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang; University of North Carolina at Charlotte
   presented by: Pierluigi Balduzzi, Boston College
   Discussant:   Carolin Pfleuger, University of British Columbia
 

Uncertainty, the Exchange Rate and International Capital Flows
By Robert Kollmann; ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles & CEPR
   presented by: Robert Kollmann, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles & CEPR
   Discussant:   Riccardo Colacito, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
 

Entangled Risks in Incomplete FX Markets
By Thomas Maurer; Washington University in St. Louis
Ngoc-Khanh Tran; Washington University in St. Louis
   presented by: Thomas Maurer, Washington University in St. Louis
   Discussant:   Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University
 
Session: AFA Panel: The New Financial Regulatory Environment and its Implications for Financial Markets
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Deborah Lucas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Presented by:
   Tobias Adrian, International Monetary Fund
 

Presented by:
   Stephen Berger, Citadel
 

Presented by:
   Darrell Duffie, Stanford University
 

Presented by:
   Deborah Lucas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: Behavioral Corporate Finance
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
 

Do Personal Ethics Influence Corporate Ethics?
By John Griffin; University of Texas at Austin
Samuel Kruger; University of Texas at Austin
Gonzalo Maturana; Emory University
   presented by: Samuel Kruger, University of Texas at Austin
   Discussant:   Ivo Welch, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Afraid of your Workers - CEOs, strikes and financing decisions
By Daniel Bias; Technische Universität München
Thomas Schmid; University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Daniel Bias, Technische Universität München
   Discussant:   Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
 

The Face of Risk: CEO Testosterone and Risk Taking Behavior
By Shinichi Kamiya; Nanyang Technological University
Y.Han (Andy) Kim; Sungkyunkwan University
Jungwon Suh; Sungkyunkwan University
   presented by: Y.Han (Andy) Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
   Discussant:   Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis
 

Anchoring and Acquisitions
By Qingzhong Ma; California State University, Chico
David Whidbee; Washington State University
Wei Zhang; California State University, Chico
   presented by: David Whidbee, Washington State University
   Discussant:   Malcolm Baker, Harvard Business School
 
Session: CEOs
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Charles Hadlock, Michigan State University
 

Good and Bad CEOs
By Dirk Jenter; London School of Economics
Egor Matveyev; University of Alberta
Lukas Roth; University of Alberta
   presented by: Egor Matveyev, University of Alberta
   Discussant:   Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

Compensation Goals and Firm Performance
By Ben Bennett; Air Force Institute of Technology
Carr Bettis; Arizona State University
Radhakrishnan Gopalan; Washington University in St. Louis
Todd Milbourn; Washington University in St. Louis
   presented by: Carr Bettis, Arizona State University
   Discussant:   Daniel Bergstresser, Brandeis University
 

Executive Job Matching: Estimates from a Dynamic Model
By Ruoyan Huang; University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Ruoyan Huang, University of Hong Kong
   Discussant:   Jordan Nickerson, Boston College
 
Session: Derivatives
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Jun Pan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Generalized Recovery
By Christian Skov Jensen; Copenhagen Business School
David Lando; Copenhagen Business School
Lasse Pedersen; Copenhagen Business School, New York University, and AQR
   presented by: Christian Skov Jensen, Copenhagen Business School
   Discussant:   Stephen Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Informed Trading and Option Prices: Evidence from Activist Trading
By Pierre Collin-Dufresne; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Vyacheslav Fos; Boston College
Dmitriy Muravyev; Boston College
   presented by: Dmitriy Muravyev, Boston College
   Discussant:   Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
 

Option-Based Credit Spreads
By Christopher Culp; Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics
Yoshio Nozawa; Federal Reserve Board
Pietro Veronesi; University of Chicago
   presented by: Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: High Frequency Trading
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Mao Ye, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

Do High Frequency Traders Need to be Regulated? Evidence from Trading on Macroeconomic Announcements
By Tarun Chordia; Emory University
Clifton Green; Emory University
Badrinath Kottimukkalur; Emory University
   presented by: Badrinath Kottimukkalur, Emory University
   Discussant:   Jonathan Brogaard, University of Washington
 

Data Abundance and Asset Price Informativeness
By Jérôme Dugast; Banque de France
Thierry Foucault; HEC Paris
   presented by: Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris
   Discussant:   Laura Veldkamp, New York University
 

Correlated High-Frequency Trading
By Ekkehart Boehmer; Singapore Management University
Dan Li; Hong Kong University
Gideon Saar; Cornell University
   presented by: Gideon Saar, Cornell University
   Discussant:   Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago
 

Fast Traders Make a Quick Buck: The Role of Speed in Liquidity Provision
By Markus Baldauf; University of British Columbia
Joshua Mollner; Microsoft Research
   presented by: Markus Baldauf, University of British Columbia
   Discussant:   Ioanid Rosu, HEC Paris
 
Session: Macroeconomic Models of the Equity Premium
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Sydney Ludvigson, New York University
 

Macro Announcement Premium and Risk Preferences
By Hengjie Ai; University of Minnesota
Ravi Bansal; Duke University
   presented by: Hengjie Ai, University of Minnesota
   Discussant:   Anisha Ghosh, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Dividend Dynamics, Learning, and Expected Stock Index Returns
By Ravi Jagannathan; Northwestern University
Binying Liu; Northwestern University
   presented by: Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University
   Discussant:   Lars Lochstoer, Columbia University
 

The Equity Premium and the One Percent
By Alexis Akira Toda; University of California, San Diego
Kieran Walsh; University of Virginia
   presented by: Alexis Akira Toda, University of California, San Diego
   Discussant:   Daniel Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Equity Premium
By Efstathios Avdis; University of Alberta
Jessica Wachter; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Ralph Koijen, New York University
 
Session: Private Equity
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Ayako Yasuda, University of California, Davis
 

Private Equity’s Unintended Dark Side: On the Economic Consequences of Excessive Delistings
By Alexander Ljungqvist; New York University
Lars Persson; Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Joacim Tåg; Research Institute of Industrial Economics
   presented by: Joacim Tåg, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
   Discussant:   Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics
 

Financial Intermediation in Private Equity: How Well do Funds of Funds Perform?
By Robert Harris; University of Virginia
Tim Jenkinson; Oxford University
Steven Kaplan; University of Chicago
Rüdiger Stucke; University of Oxford
   presented by: Tim Jenkinson, Oxford University
   Discussant:   Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
 

Pay Now or Pay Later?: The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership
By Victoria Ivashina; Harvard Business School
Josh Lerner; Harvard University
   presented by: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
   Discussant:   Elena Simintzi, University of British Columbia
 

Pension Fund Board Composition and Investment Performance: Evidence from Private Equity
By Aleksandar Andonov; Erasmus University Rotterdam
Yael Hochberg; Rice University
Joshua Rauh; Stanford University
   presented by: Yael Hochberg, Rice University
   Discussant:   Denis Sosyura, University of Michigan
 
Session: R&D, Patents and Innovation
January 6, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: David Robinson, Duke University
 

Innovation Waves, Investor Sentiment, and Mergers
By David Dicks; University of North Carolina
Paolo Fulghieri; University of North Carolina
   presented by: David Dicks, University of North Carolina
   Discussant:   Ramana Nanda, Harvard University
 

Patents as Substitutes for Relationships
By Farzad Saidi; Stockholm School of Economics
Alminas Zaldokas; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
   presented by: Farzad Saidi, Stockholm School of Economics
   Discussant:   Xuan Tian, Indiana University
 

Optimal Financing for R&D-intensive Firms
By Richard Thakor; University of Minnesota
Andrew Lo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   presented by: Richard Thakor, University of Minnesota
   Discussant:   Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
 

Learning across Peer Firms and Innovation Waves
By Merih Sevilir; Indiana University
   presented by: Merih Sevilir, Indiana University
   Discussant:   Richmond Mathews, University of Maryland
 
Session: AFA Panel: How Much Finance Does the Economy Need?
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Guy Rolnik, University of Chicago
 

Presented by:
   Anat Admati, Stanford University
 

Presented by:
   Catherine Mann, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
 

Presented by:
   Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, IMF and World Bank
 

Presented by:
   Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: Corporate Culture
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Christopher Parsons, University of California, San Diego
 

Bank Culture
By Fenghua Song; Pennsylvania State University
Anjan Thakor; Washington University in St. Louis
   presented by: Fenghua Song, Pennsylvania State University
   Discussant:   Adi Sunderam, Harvard Business School
 

Integrity Culture and Analyst Forecast Quality
By Joseph Pacelli; Indiana University
   presented by: Joseph Pacelli, Indiana University
   Discussant:   William Mayew, Duke University
 

A Clash of Cultures: The Governance and Valuation Effects of Multiple Corporate Cultures
By Stephen Ferris; University of Missouri
Narayanan Jayaraman; Georgia Institute of Technology
Teng Zhang; Georgia Institute of Technology
   presented by: Narayanan Jayaraman, Georgia Institute of Technology
   Discussant:   Paul Smeets, Maastricht University
 

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
By John Graham; Duke University
Campbell Harvey; Duke University
Jillian Popadak; Duke University
Shivaram Rajgopal; Columbia University
   presented by: Jillian Popadak, Duke University
   Discussant:   Kelly Shue, University of Chicago
 
Session: Financial Crises and the Transmission of Shocks
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Stacey Schreft, U.S. Office of Financial Research
 

Wholesale Funding Runs
By Christophe Perignon; HEC Paris
David Thesmar; Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR
Guillaume Vuillemey; HEC Paris
   presented by: Guillaume Vuillemey, HEC Paris
   Discussant:   Adam Copeland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 

Competition, Reach for Yield, and Money Market Funds
By Gabriele La Spada; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   presented by: Gabriele La Spada, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   Discussant:   Benjamin Munyan, Vanderbilt University
 

Asset Encumbrance, Bank Funding, and Financial Fragility
By Toni Ahnert; Bank of Canada
Kartik Anand; Deutsche Bundesbank
Prasanna Gai; University of Auckland
James Chapman; Bank of Canada
   presented by: Toni Ahnert, Bank of Canada
   Discussant:   Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania
 
Session: High Sharpe Ratios
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Alexi Savov, New York University
 

How should investors respond to increases in volatility?
By Alan Moreira; Yale University
Tyler Muir; University of California, Los Angeles
   presented by: Alan Moreira, Yale University
   Discussant:   John Campbell, Harvard University
 

Cross-Currency Basis
By Wenxin Du; Federal Reserve Board
Alexander Tepper; Columbia University
Adrien Verdelhan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   presented by: Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
 

A First Glimpse into the Short Side of Hedge Funds
By Jaewon Choi; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Neil Pearson; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shastri Sandy; Brattle Group
   presented by: Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Discussant:   Itamar Drechsler, New York University
 
Session: Household Finance
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Johannes Stroebel, New York University
 

Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards
By Benjamin Keys; University of Chicago
Jialan Wang; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Benjamin Keys, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Andres Liberman, New York University
 

Access to Credit and Stock Market Participation
By Serhiy Kozak; University of Michigan
Denis Sosyura; University of Michigan
   presented by: Denis Sosyura, University of Michigan
   Discussant:   Andrew Hertzberg, Columbia University
 

The Liquid Hand-to-Mouth: Evidence from Personal Finance Management Software
By Arna Olafsson; Copenhagen Business School
Michaela Pagel; Columbia University
   presented by: Michaela Pagel, Columbia University
   Discussant:   Scott Baker, Northwestern University
 

The Misguided Beliefs of Financial Advisors
By Juhani Linnainmaa; University of Chicago
Brian Melzer; Northwestern University
Alessandro Previtero; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: Brian Melzer, Northwestern University
   Discussant:   Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago
 
Session: Housing Returns and Speculation
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Residential Real Estate Traders: Returns, Risk and Strategies
By Marco Giacoletti; Stanford University
Victor Westrupp; Stanford University
   presented by: Marco Giacoletti, Stanford University
   Discussant:   Richard Stanton, University of California, Berkeley
 

Economic Consequences of Housing Speculation
By Zhenyu Gao; Chinese University of Hong Kong
Michael Sockin; University of Texas at Austin
Wei Xiong; Princeton University
   presented by: Zhenyu Gao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
   Discussant:   Barney Hartman-Glaser, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Excessive Credit Supply and the Housing Boom in the US
By Vahid Saadi; University of Frankfurt
   presented by: Vahid Saadi, University of Frankfurt
   Discussant:   Manuel Adelino, Duke University
 

Recourse Mortgage Law and Housing Speculation
By Tong-yob Nam; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Seungjoon Oh; Peking University
   presented by: Seungjoon Oh, Peking University
   Discussant:   Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado at Boulder
 
Session: Information Disclosure and Stock Returns
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Dong Lou, London School of Economics
 

Good News in Numbers
By Dexin Zhou; Baruch College
   presented by: Dexin Zhou, Baruch College
   Discussant:   Huaizhi Chen, London School of Economics
 

In No (Un-)Certain Terms: Managerial Style in Communicating Earnings News
By Michał Dzieliński; Stockholm University
Alexander Wagner; University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute
Richard Zeckhauser; Harvard University
   presented by: Michał Dzieliński, Stockholm University
   Discussant:   David Solomon, University of Southern California
 

Complexity and Information Content of Financial Disclosures: Evidence from Evolution of Uncertainty Following 10-K Filings
By Frederico Belo; University of Minnesota and NBER
Jun Li; University of Texas-Dallas
Xiaoji Lin; Ohio State University
Xiaofei Zhao; University of Texas-Dallas
   presented by: Xiaofei Zhao, University of Texas-Dallas
   Discussant:   Shiyang Huang, University of Hong Kong
 

What do Measures of Real-time Corporate Sales Tell us about Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?
By Kenneth Froot; Harvard Business School
Namho Kang; University of Connecticut
Gideon Ozik; EDHEC Business School
Ronnie Sadka; Boston College
   presented by: Namho Kang, University of Connecticut
   Discussant:   Marina Niessner, Yale University
 
Session: Sustainable Investments
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Harrison Hong, Princeton University
 

Socially Responsible Investing: Good is Good, Bad is Bad
By Ravi Bansal; Duke University
Di (Andrew) Wu; University of Michigan
Amir Yaron; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Rossen Valkanov, University of California, San Diego
 

Impact Investing
By Brad Barber; University of California, Davis
Adair Morse; University of California, Berkeley
Ayako Yasuda; University of California, Davis
   presented by: Ayako Yasuda, University of California, Davis
   Discussant:   Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin
 

Do Institutional Investors Transplant Social Norms? International Evidence on Corporate Social Responsibility
By I. J. Alexander Dyck; University of Toronto
Karl Lins; University of Utah
Lukas Roth; University of Alberta
Hannes Wagner; Bocconi University
   presented by: Lukas Roth, University of Alberta
   Discussant:   Inessa Liskovich, University of Texas at Austin
 

Peer Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility
By Jie Cao; Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hao Liang; Singapore Management University
Xintong Zhan; Chinese University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Xintong Zhan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
   Discussant:   Ing-Haw Cheng, Dartmouth College
 
Session: Tax Shelters and Corporate Inversions
January 7, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mayfair (Level 2)
 
Session Chair: Kose John, New York University and Temple University
 

Corporate Inversions: A Case of Having the Cake and Eating it Too?
By Felipe Cortes; Northeastern University
Armando Gomes; Washington University in St. Louis
Radhakrishnan Gopalan; Washington University in St. Louis
   presented by: Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University in St. Louis
   Discussant:   Dalida Kadyrzhanova, Georgia State University
 

What Drives Corporate Inversions? International Evidence
By Burcin Col; Pace University
Rose Liao; Rutgers University
Stefan Zeume; University of Michigan
   presented by: Rose Liao, Rutgers University
   Discussant:   Kimberly Cornaggia, Pennsylvania State University
 

Debt, Bankruptcy Risk, and Corporate Tax Sheltering
By Akanksha Jalan; Indian Institute of Management
Jayant Kale; Northeastern University
Costanza Meneghetti; West Virginia University
   presented by: Costanza Meneghetti, West Virginia University
   Discussant:   S. Abraham Ravid, Yeshiva University
 

Are Corporate Inversions Good for Shareholders?
By Anton Babkin; University of Wisconsin
Brent Glover; Carnegie Mellon University
Oliver Levine; University of Wisconsin-Madison
   presented by: Brent Glover, Carnegie Mellon University
   Discussant:   Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland
 
Session: AFA Panel: Low Interest Rates and Financial Markets
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
 

Presented by:
   Kenneth Griffin, CEO and Founder, Citadel
 

Presented by:
   Jerome Powell, Governor, Federal Reserve System
 

Presented by:
   Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago
 
Session: Behavioral Finance I
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan
 

Information Asymmetry, Market Participation, and Asset Prices
By David Hirshleifer; University of California, Irvine
Chong Huang; University of California, Irvine
Siew Hong Teoh; University of California, Irvine
   presented by: Chong Huang, University of California, Irvine
   Discussant:   David Easley, Cornell University
 

A Tough Act to Follow: Contrast Effects in Financial Markets
By Samuel Hartzmark; University of Chicago
Kelly Shue; University of Chicago
   presented by: Kelly Shue, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   John Beshears, Harvard University
 

Financial Loss Aversion Illusion
By Christoph Merkle; University of Mannheim
   presented by: Christoph Merkle, University of Mannheim
   Discussant:   Cary Frydman, University of Southern California
 

Thinking About Prices Versus Thinking About Returns in Financial Markets
By Markus Glaser; Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich
Zwetelina Iliewa; Centre for European Economic Research
Martin Weber; University of Mannheim
   presented by: Martin Weber, University of Mannheim
   Discussant:   Markku Kaustia, Aalto University
 
Session: Debt Structure
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Justin Murfin, Yale University
 

The Role of Hard Information in Debt Contracting: Evidence from Fair Value Adoption
By Aytekin Ertan; London Business School
Stephen Karolyi; Carnegie Mellon University
   presented by: Stephen Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   Discussant:   Jose Liberti, Northwestern University and DePaul University
 

Still Learning After All These Years: Dynamic Information Acquisition in Banking
By Matthew Botsch; Bowdoin College
Victoria Vanasco; Stanford University
   presented by: Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College
   Discussant:   Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
 

Bank Monitoring: Evidence from Syndicated Loans
By Matthew Gustafson; Pennsylvania State University
Ivan Ivanov; Federal Reserve Board
Ralf Meisenzahl; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Ivan Ivanov, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Taylor Begley, London Business School
 
Session: Government and Regulatory Issues
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Mara Faccio, Purdue University
 

The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments
By Christophe Perignon; HEC Paris
Boris Vallee; Harvard Business School
   presented by: Christophe Perignon, HEC Paris
   Discussant:   Larry Fauver, University of Tennessee
 

Political Information, Firm Value and Information Networks: Evidence from the Chinese National Social Security Fund
By Yong Li; University of Queensland
Karen Benson; University of Queensland
Robert Faff; University of Queensland
   presented by: Yong Li, University of Queensland
   Discussant:   Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame
 

Political Influence and Government Investment: Evidence from Contract-Level Data
By Jonathan Brogaard; University of Washington
Matthew Denes; University of Washington
Ran Duchin; University of Washington
   presented by: Jonathan Brogaard, University of Washington
   Discussant:   Stefano Rossi, Purdue University
 

Policy Uncertainty, Political Capital, and Firm Risk-Taking
By Pat Akey; University of Toronto
Stefan Lewellen; London Business School
   presented by: Stefan Lewellen, London Business School
   Discussant:   Alexei Ovtchinnikov, HEC Paris
 
Session: Insurance
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University
 

Asset Insulators
By Gabriel Chodorow-Reich; Harvard University
Andra Ghent; University of Wisconsin
Valentin Haddad; Princeton University
   presented by: Valentin Haddad, Princeton University
   Discussant:   Andrew Ellul, Indiana University, CEPR, CSEF, and ECGI
 

Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry
By Mila Getmansky Sherman; University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Giulio Girardi; Securities and Exchange Commission
Kathleen Hanley; Lehigh University
Stanislava Nikolova; University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Loriana Pelizzon; SAFE - Goethe University
   presented by: Giulio Girardi, Securities and Exchange Commission
   Discussant:   Ralph Koijen, New York University
 

Securities Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
By Nathan Foley-Fisher; Federal Reserve Board
Borghan Narajabad; Federal Reserve Board
Stephane Verani; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Stephane Verani, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Robert McDonald, Northwestern University
 

Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes
By Ishita Sen; London Business School
David Humphry; Bank of England
   presented by: Ishita Sen, London Business School
   Discussant:   Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago
 
Session: Investment Behavior
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: David Sraer, UC Berkeley
 

Intangible Capital and the Investment-q Relation
By Ryan Peters; University of Pennsylvania
Lucian Taylor; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Ryan Peters, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Lukas Schmid, Duke University
 

Financing Durable Assets
By Adriano Rampini; Duke University
   presented by: Adriano Rampini, Duke University
   Discussant:   Cecilia Parlatore, New York University
 

The Speculation Channel and Crowding Out Channel: Real Estate Shocks and Corporate Investment in China
By Ting Chen; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Laura Xiaolei Liu; Peking University
Wei Xiong; Princeton University
Li-an Zhou; Peking University
   presented by: Laura Xiaolei Liu, Peking University
   Discussant:   Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University
 

Ripple Effects of Noise on Corporate Investment
By Olivier Dessaint; University of Toronto
Thierry Foucault; HEC Paris
Laurent Fresard; University of Maryland
Adrien Matray; Princeton University
   presented by: Laurent Fresard, University of Maryland
   Discussant:   Adi Sunderam, Harvard Business School
 
Session: Market Mispricing
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Christopher Polk, London School of Economocs
 

Lazy Prices
By Lauren Cohen; Harvard Business School
Christopher Malloy; Harvard Business School
Quoc Nguyen; University of Illinois at Chicago
   presented by: Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School
   Discussant:   Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
 

Real Anomalies: Are Financial Markets a Sideshow?
By Jules van Binsbergen; University of Pennsylvania
Christian Opp; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Jules van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Malcolm Baker, Harvard Business School
 

Betting Against Winners
By Kent Daniel; Columbia University
Alexander Klos; Universität Kiel
Simon Rottke; University of Münster
   presented by: Kent Daniel, Columbia University
   Discussant:   Dong Lou, London School of Economics
 

Are Stocks Real Assets? Sticky Discount Rates in Stock Markets
By Michael Katz; AQR Capital Management, LLC
Hanno Lustig; Stanford University
Lars Nielsen; AQR Capital Management, LLC
   presented by: Hanno Lustig, Stanford University
   Discussant:   Luis Viceira, Harvard Business School
 
Session: Securities Markets and Macroeconomic Outcomes
January 7, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Philipp Schnabl, New York University
 

The Securities Lending Market and the Collateral Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission
By Reena Aggarwal; Georgetown University
Jennie Bai; Georgetown University
Luc Laeven; European Central Bank
   presented by: Jennie Bai, Georgetown University
   Discussant:   Rustom Irani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

Macroeconomic Effects of Secondary Market Trading
By Daniel Neuhann; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: Daniel Neuhann, University of Texas at Austin
   Discussant:   Guillaume Plantin, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Risk Taking and Low Longer-term Interest Rates: Evidence from the U.S. Syndicated Loan Market
By Sirio Aramonte; Federal Reserve Board
Seung Jung Lee; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Viktors Stebunovs; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
   presented by: Sirio Aramonte, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Steven Ongena, University of Zurich
 
Session: AFA Lecture: Machine Learning and Prediction in Economics and Finance
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University
 
Session: Bankruptcy and Financial Distress
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Edith Hotchkiss, Boston Colleage
 

Bankruptcy and the Cost of Organized Labor
By Murillo Campello; Cornell University and NBER
Janet Gao; Indiana University
Jiaping Qiu; McMaster University
Yue Zhang; UC Louvain and McMaster University
   presented by: Murillo Campello, Cornell University and NBER
   Discussant:   David Matsa, Northwestern University
 

The Privatization of Bankruptcy: Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
By Julian Franks; London Business School
Oren Sussman; University of Oxford
Vikrant Vig; London Business School
   presented by: Oren Sussman, University of Oxford
   Discussant:   Sreedhar Bharath, Arizona State University
 

Bankruptcy Law, Private Benefits, and Risk-Taking
By David Schoenherr; London Business School
   presented by: David Schoenherr, London Business School
   Discussant:   Sergei Davydenko, University of Toronto
 

Corporate Leverage and Employees’ Rights in Bankruptcy
By Andrew Ellul; Indiana University, CEPR, CSEF, and ECGI
Marco Pagano; University of Naples Federico II
   presented by: Andrew Ellul, Indiana University, CEPR, CSEF, and ECGI
   Discussant:   Nittai Bergman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: Entrepreneurial Finance
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Yael Hochberg, Rice University
 

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
By Paul Gompers; Harvard University
Will Gornall; University of British Columbia
Steven Kaplan; University of Chicago
Ilya Strebulaev; Stanford University
   presented by: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University
   Discussant:   David Robinson, Duke University
 

Going Entrepreneurial? IPOs and New Firm Creation
By Tania Babina; Columbia University
Paige Ouimet; University of North Carolina
Rebecca Zarutskie; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Tania Babina, Columbia University
   Discussant:   Shai Bernstein, Stanford University
 

The Life Cycle of Corporate Venture Capital
By Song Ma; Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
   presented by: Song Ma, Yale University
   Discussant:   Josh Lerner, Harvard University
 
Session: Information Transmission and Trading
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Gideon Saar, Cornell University
 

Trading Costs and Informational Efficiency
By Eduardo Davila; New York University
Cecilia Parlatore; New York University
   presented by: Cecilia Parlatore, New York University
   Discussant:   Kerry Back, Rice University
 

Market Fragmentation, Dissimulation, and the Disclosure of Insider Trades
By Giovanni Cespa; City University London
Paolo Colla; Bocconi University
   presented by: Giovanni Cespa, City University London
   Discussant:   Lawrence Glosten, Columbia University
 

Rational Quantitative Trading in Efficient Markets
By Stefano Rossi; Purdue University
Katrin Tinn; Imperial College London
   presented by: Katrin Tinn, Imperial College London
   Discussant:   Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania
 
Session: Labor and Finance
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics
 

Collateral Values and Corporate Employment
By Nuri Ersahin; University of Illinois
Rustom Irani; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Nuri Ersahin, University of Illinois
   Discussant:   Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
 

Will I Get Paid? Employee Stock Options and Mergers and Acquisitions
By Ilona Babenko; Arizona State University
Fangfang Du; Arizona State University
Yuri Tserlukevich; Arizona State University
   presented by: Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University
   Discussant:   Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
 

Firing the Wrong Workers: Financing Constraints and Labor Misallocation
By Andrea Caggese; Pompeu Fabra University
Vicente Cunat; London School of Economics
Daniel Metzger; Stockholm School of Economics
   presented by: Andrea Caggese, Pompeu Fabra University
   Discussant:   Xavier Giroud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Session: Market Risk Factors
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Ralph Koijen, New York University
 

Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk
By Cliff Asness; AQR Capital Management, LLC
Andrea Frazzini; AQR Capital Management, LLC
Ronen Israel; AQR Capital Management, LLC
Tobias Moskowitz; Yale University
Lasse Pedersen; Copenhagen Business School, New York University, and AQR
   presented by: Tobias Moskowitz, Yale University
   Discussant:   Kent Daniel, Columbia University
 

Dividend Risk Premia
By Georg Cejnek; WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Otto Randl; WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
   presented by: Otto Randl, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
   Discussant:   Jules van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania
 

Low Risk Anomalies?
By Paul Schneider; University of Lugano (USI), Swiss Finance Institute
Christian Wagner; Copenhagen Business School
Josef Zechner; WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
   presented by: Paul Schneider, University of Lugano (USI), Swiss Finance Institute
   Discussant:   Yoshio Nozawa, Federal Reserve Board
 

Gone Factors: Assessment of Asset Pricing Models Using a Myriad of Factors
By Guanhao Feng; University of Chicago
Stefano Giglio; University of Chicago
Dacheng Xiu; University of Chicago
   presented by: Guanhao Feng, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Svetlana Bryzgalova, Stanford University
 
Session: Real Estate Finance
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Itzhak Ben-David, Ohio State University and NBER
 

Are Lemons Sold First? Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market
By Manuel Adelino; Duke University
Kristopher Gerardi; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Barney Hartman-Glaser; University of California, Los Angeles
   presented by: Manuel Adelino, Duke University
   Discussant:   Christopher Palmer, University of California, Berkeley
 

Sustainable Housing Policy
By Itay Goldstein; University of Pennsylvania
Deeksha Gupta; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Deeksha Gupta, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University
 

The Impact of Positive Payment Shocks on Mortgage Credit Risk – a Natural Experiment from Home Equity Lines of Credit at End of Draw
By Min Qi; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Harald Scheule; University of Technology, Sydney
   presented by: Min Qi, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
   Discussant:   Taylor Nadauld, Brigham Young University
 

Real Estate Holdings of Public Firms and Collateral Discount
By Irem Demirci; University of Mannheim
Umit Gurun; University of Texas-Dallas
Erkan Yonder; Ozyegin University
   presented by: Irem Demirci, University of Mannheim
   Discussant:   Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania
 
Session: Regulation and Trust in Financial Stability
January 7, 2017 14:30 to 16:30
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: David Thesmar, MIT Sloan
 

Information Sharing and Rating Manipulation
By Mariassunta Giannetti; Stockholm School of Economics
Jose Liberti; Northwestern University and DePaul University
Jason Sturgess; Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
   presented by: Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
   Discussant:   Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics
 

Which Swiss Gnomes Attract Money? Efficiency and Reputation as Performance Drivers of Wealth Management Banks
By Urs Birchler; University of Zurich
Rene Hegglin; University of Zurich
Michael Reichenecker; UBS Switzerland AG
Alexander Wagner; University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute
   presented by: Alexander Wagner, University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute
   Discussant:   Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
 

The Invisible Hand of the Government: ”Moral Suasion” during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
By Steven Ongena; University of Zurich
Alex Popov; European Central Bank
Neeltje van Horen; Bank of England
   presented by: Neeltje van Horen, Bank of England
   Discussant:   Stijn Claessens, Federal Reserve Board
 

Equity is Cheap for Large Financial Institutions: The International Evidence
By Priyank Gandhi; University of Notre Dame
Hanno Lustig; Stanford University
Alberto Plazzi; University of Lugano (USI), Swiss Finance Institute
   presented by: Priyank Gandhi, University of Notre Dame
   Discussant:   Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University
 
Session: Banks and Central Banks
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University
 

The Effect of Monetary Policy on Bank Wholesale Funding
By Dong Beom Choi; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hyun-Soo Choi; Singapore Management University
   presented by: Dong Beom Choi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
   Discussant:   Alexi Savov, New York University
 

The Effect of Central Bank Liquidity Injections on Bank Credit Supply
By Luisa Carpinelli; Bank of Italy
Matteo Crosignani; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Matteo Crosignani, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School & NBER
 

Lender of Last Resort versus Buyer of Last Resort – Evidence from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
By Viral Acharya; New York University, CEPR, and NBER
Diane Pierret; University of Lausanne
Sascha Steffen; University of Mannheim
   presented by: Diane Pierret, HEC Lausanne
   Discussant:   Jennie Bai, Georgetown University
 

Monetary Policy and Global Banking
By Falk Brauning; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Victoria Ivashina; Harvard Business School
   presented by: Falk Brauning, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
   Discussant:   Nicola Cetorelli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 
Session: Boards
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Cesare Fracassi, University of Texas at Austin
 

Independent Directors and Corporate Litigation
By James Malm; College of Charleston
Shawn Mobbs; University of Alabama
   presented by: James Malm, College of Charleston
   Discussant:   John Core, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Performance-Based Turnover on Corporate Boards
By Thomas Bates; Arizona State University
David Becher; Drexel University
Jared Wilson; Indiana University
   presented by: Jared Wilson, Indiana University
   Discussant:   David Yermack, New York University
 

Death by Committee? An Analysis of Delegation in Corporate Boards
By Renee Adams; University of New South Wales
Vanitha Ragunathan; University of Queensland
Robert Tumarkin; University of New South Wales
   presented by: Vanitha Ragunathan, University of Queensland
   Discussant:   Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame
 

Board Diversity and Director Dissent in Corporate Boards
By Seil Kim; Baruch College
Seungjoon Oh; Peking University
   presented by: Seil Kim, Baruch College
   Discussant:   Seoyoung Kim, Santa Clara University
 
Session: Finance and the Product Market
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago
 

Risk Management with Supply Contracts
By Heitor Almeida; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kristine Hankins; University of Kentucky
Ryan Williams; University of Arizona
   presented by: Ryan Williams, University of Arizona
   Discussant:   Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland
 

Product Market Competition in a World of Cross-Ownership: Evidence from Institutional Blockholdings
By Jie He; University of Georgia
Jiekun Huang; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   presented by: Jie He, University of Georgia
   Discussant:   Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan
 

Financial Condition and Product Quality: The Case of Nonprofit Hospitals
By Manuel Adelino; Duke University
Katharina Lewellen; Dartmouth College
William McCartney; Duke University
   presented by: Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College
   Discussant:   David Matsa, Northwestern University
 
Session: Financial Intermediaries and Asset Prices
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Tyler Muir, UCLA
 

A Macroeconomic Model with Financially Constrained Producers and Intermediaries
By Vadim Elenev; New York University
Tim Landvoigt; University of Texas at Austin
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh; New York University
   presented by: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University
   Discussant:   Frederico Belo, University of Minnesota
 

An Equilibrium Model of Institutional Demand and Asset Prices
By Ralph Koijen; New York University
Motohiro Yogo; Princeton University
   presented by: Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University
   Discussant:   Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago
 

Intermediary Asset Pricing: New Evidence from Many Asset Classes
By Zhiguo He; University of Chicago
Bryan Kelly; University of Chicago
Asaf Manela; Washington University in St. Louis
   presented by: Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis
   Discussant:   Robert Richmond, New York University
 

The Banking View of Bond Risk Premia
By Valentin Haddad; Princeton University
David Sraer; University of California, Berkeley
   presented by: Valentin Haddad, Princeton University
   Discussant:   Anna Cieslak, Duke University
 
Session: Liquidity and Trading in Bond and Derivatives Markets II
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Samuel Hanson, Harvard Business School
 

Funding Value Adjustments
By Leif Andersen; Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Darrell Duffie; Stanford University
Yang Song; Stanford University
   presented by: Darrell Duffie, Stanford University
   Discussant:   Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
 

Trading Frictions in the Interbank Market, and the Central Bank
By Jean-Edouard Colliard; HEC Paris
Thierry Foucault; HEC Paris
Peter Hoffmann; European Central Bank
   presented by: Peter Hoffmann, European Central Bank
   Discussant:   Ana Babus, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 

Liquidity and Price Pressure in the Corporate Bond Market: Evidence from Mega-bonds
By Jean Helwege; University of California, Riverside
Liying Wang; University of Nebraska-Lincoln
   presented by: Liying Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
   Discussant:   Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina
 

The Cost of Immediacy for Corporate Bonds
By Jens Dick-Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School
Marco Rossi; Texas A&M University
   presented by: Jens Dick-Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
   Discussant:   Jack Bao, Federal Reserve Board
 
Session: Mergers and Acquisitions
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Isil Erel, Ohio State University
 

Vote Avoidance and Shareholder Voting in Mergers & Acquisitions
By Kai Li; University of British Columbia
Tingting Liu; Creighton University
Julie Wu; University of Nebraska-Lincoln
   presented by: Julie Wu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
   Discussant:   Andrey Malenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Predicting Merger Targets and Acquirers from Text
By Bryan Routledge; Carnegie Mellon University
Stefano Sacchetto; University of Navarra
Noah Smith; University of Washington
   presented by: Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University
   Discussant:   Di (Andrew) Wu, University of Michigan
 

Price and Probability: Decomposing the Takeover Effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions
By Vicente Cunat; London School of Economics
Mireia Gine; University of Navarra & Wharton WRDS
Maria Guadalupe; INSEAD
   presented by: Vicente Cunat, London School of Economics
   Discussant:   Rob Schonlau, Brigham Young University
 

Product Integration and Merger Success
By Gerard Hoberg; University of Southern California
Gordon Phillips; Dartmouth College
   presented by: Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
   Discussant:   Sergey Chernenko, Ohio State University
 
Session: Mutual Fund Management
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
 

Using Managerial Attributes to Identify Market Feedback Effects: The Case of Mutual Fund Fire Sales
By Suman Banerjee; Stevens Institute of Technology
Vikram Nanda; University of Texas-Dallas
Steven Chong Xiao; University of Texas-Dallas
   presented by: Suman Banerjee, Stevens Institute of Technology
   Discussant:   Alex Edmans, London Business School
 

Mutual Fund Flight-to-Liquidity
By Aleksandra Rzeznik; Copenhagen Business School
   presented by: Aleksandra Rzeznik, Copenhagen Business School
   Discussant:   Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
 

Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F
By Susan Christoffersen; University of Toronto
Erfan Danesh; Federal Reserve Board of Governors
David Musto; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Erfan Danesh, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
   Discussant:   Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School
 

A Dynamic Theory of Mutual Fund Runs and Liquidity Management
By Yao Zeng; University of Washington
   presented by: Yao Zeng, University of Washington
   Discussant:   Wei Jiang, Columbia University
 
Session: Stock Returns: Characteristics and Factors
January 8, 2017 8:00 to 10:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Jonathan Lewellen, Dartmouth College
 

Linking Cross-Sectional and Aggregate Expected Returns
By Serhiy Kozak; University of Michigan
Shrihari Santosh; University of Maryland
   presented by: Serhiy Kozak, University of Michigan
   Discussant:   Christopher Polk, London School of Economocs
 

Mispricing Factors
By Robert Stambaugh; University of Pennsylvania
Yu Yuan; Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
   presented by: Yu Yuan, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
   Discussant:   Tobias Moskowitz, Yale University
 

The History of the Cross Section of Stock Returns
By Juhani Linnainmaa; University of Chicago
Michael Roberts; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Southern California
   Discussant:   Christopher Hrdlicka, University of Washington
 
Session: Bank Lending Behavior
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
 

Sequential Credit Markets
By Ulf Axelson; London School of Economics
Igor Makarov; London School of Economics
   presented by: Igor Makarov, London School of Economics
   Discussant:   Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis
 

The Economic Consequences of Borrower Information Sharing: Relationship Dynamics and Investment
By Andrew Sutherland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   presented by: Andrew Sutherland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Discussant:   Justin Murfin, Yale University
 

Loan Terms and Collateral: Evidence from the Bilateral Repo Market
By Jun Kyung Auh; Georgetown University
Mattia Landoni; Southern Methodist University
   presented by: Mattia Landoni, Southern Methodist University
   Discussant:   Erik Gilje, University of Pennsylvania
 

CDS and Credit: Testing the Small Bang Theory of the Financial Universe with Micro Data
By Yalin Gunduz; Deutsche Bundesbank
Steven Ongena; University of Zurich
Gunseli Tumer-Alkan; VU University Amsterdam
Yuejuan Yu; Shandong University
   presented by: Gunseli Tumer-Alkan, VU University Amsterdam
   Discussant:   Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
 
Session: Behavioral Finance II
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV
 
Session Chair: David Solomon, University of Southern California
 

Differences of Opinion and Stock Prices: Evidence from Spin-Offs and Mergers
By Tara Bhandari; Securities and Exchange Commission
   presented by: Tara Bhandari, Securities and Exchange Commission
   Discussant:   Karl Diether, Brigham Young University
 

Do Individual Behavioral Biases Affect Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy?
By Harjoat Bhamra; Imperial College London
Raman Uppal; EDHEC Business School
   presented by: Harjoat Bhamra, Imperial College London
   Discussant:   Aydoğan Alti, University of Texas at Austin
 

Why Don't We Agree? Evidence from a Social Network of Investors
By J. Anthony Cookson; University of Colorado
Marina Niessner; Yale University
   presented by: J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado
   Discussant:   Joseph Engelberg, University of California, San Diego
 

The Speed of Communication
By Shiyang Huang; University of Hong Kong
Byoung-Hwoun Hwang; Cornell University
Dong Lou; London School of Economics
   presented by: Dong Lou, London School of Economics
   Discussant:   Matti Keloharju, Aalto University
 
Session: Capital Structure
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Mark Leary, Washington University in St. Louis
 

The Misallocation of Finance
By Toni Whited; University of Michigan
Jake Zhao; Stony Brook University
   presented by: Toni Whited, University of Michigan
   Discussant:   Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
 

Corporate Capital Structure Actions
By Murray Frank; University of Minnesota and SAIF
Tao Shen; Tsinghua University
   presented by: Tao Shen, Tsinghua University
   Discussant:   Armen Hovakimian, Baruch College
 

Financing Intangible Capital
By Qi Sun; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Mindy X. Zhang; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: Mindy X. Zhang, University of Texas at Austin
   Discussant:   Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
 

Understanding Precautionary Cash at Home and Abroad
By Michael Faulkender; University of Maryland
Kristine Hankins; University of Kentucky
Mitchell Petersen; Northwestern University
   presented by: Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
   Discussant:   Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
 
Session: Corporate Governance
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania
 

Older and Wiser, or Too Old to Govern?
By Ronald Masulis; University of New South Wales
Cong Wang; Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fei Xie; University of Delaware
Shuran Zhang; Chinese University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Shuran Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
   Discussant:   Dirk Jenter, London School of Economics
 

Is Skin in the Game a Game Changer? Evidence from Mandatory Changes of D&O Insurance Policies
By Chen Lin; University of Hong Kong
Micah Officer; Loyola Marymount University
Thomas Schmid; University of Hong Kong
Hong Zou; University of Hong Kong
   presented by: Micah Officer, Loyola Marymount University
   Discussant:   Ian Appel, Boston College
 

Contrasts in Governance: Newly Public Firms Versus Mature Firms
By Laura Field; University of Delaware
Michelle Lowry; Drexel University
   presented by: Laura Field, University of Delaware
   Discussant:   Jeffrey Coles, University of Utah
 
Session: Dynamic and Quantitative Models of Banking
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Adriano Rampini, Duke University
 

Intervention Policy in a Dynamic Environment: Coordination and Learning
By Lin Cong; University of Chicago
Steven Grenadier; Stanford University
Yunzhi Hu; University of Chicago
   presented by: Lin Cong, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Xavier Vives, IESE
 

Optimal Deposit Insurance
By Eduardo Davila; New York University
Itay Goldstein; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Eduardo Davila, New York University
   Discussant:   Sebastian Di Tella, Stanford
 

Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
By Juliane Begenau; Harvard Business School
Tim Landvoigt; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: Tim Landvoigt, University of Texas at Austin
   Discussant:   Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin
 
Session: Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, University of California, Berkeley
 

Does Central Bank Tone Move Asset Prices?
By Maik Schmeling; City University London
Christian Wagner; Copenhagen Business School
   presented by: Maik Schmeling, City University London
   Discussant:   Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School & NBER
 

Sovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy
By Wenxin Du; Federal Reserve Board
Carolin Pflueger; University of British Columbia
Jesse Schreger; Princeton University
   presented by: Carolin Pfleuger, University of British Columbia
   Discussant:   Adrien Auclert, Stanford University
 

Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market
By Michael Weber; University of Chicago
Ali Ozdagli; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
   presented by: Michael Weber, University of Chicago
   Discussant:   Bernard Herskovic, University of California, Los Angeles
 
Session: New Methodology for Mutual Fund Performance
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI
 
Session Chair: Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame
 

Rethinking Performance Evaluation
By Campbell Harvey; Duke University
Yan Liu; Texas A&M University
   presented by: Yan Liu, Texas A&M University
   Discussant:   Laurant Barras, McGill University
 

Skewness Consequences of Seeking Alpha
By Kerry Back; Rice University
Alan Crane; Rice University
Kevin Crotty; Rice University
   presented by: Alan Crane, Rice University
   Discussant:   Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
 

Cashflow Timing vs. Discount-rate Timing: A Decomposition of Mutual Fund Market-timing Skills
By Chunhua Lan; University of New South Wales
Russ Wermers; University of Maryland
   presented by: Chunhua Lan, University of New South Wales
   Discussant:   Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University
 
Session: Volatility
January 8, 2017 10:15 to 12:15
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V
 
Session Chair: Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University
 

Time-Varying Crash Risk: The Role of Stock Market Liquidity
By Peter Christoffersen; University of Toronto
Bruno Feunou; Bank of Canada
Yoontae Jeon; University of Toronto
Chayawat Ornthanalai; University of Toronto
   presented by: Yoontae Jeon, University of Toronto
   Discussant:   Torben Andersen, Northwestern University
 

Oil Volatility Risk
By Lin Gao; University of Luxembourg
Steffen Hitzemann; Ohio State University
Ivan Shaliastovich; University of Pennsylvania
Lai Xu; Syracuse University
   presented by: Lin Gao, University of Luxembourg
   Discussant:   Kyle Jurado, Duke University
 

Weighted Least Squares Estimates of Return Predictability Regressions
By Travis Johnson; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: Travis Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
   Discussant:   Rasmus Tangsgaard Varneskov, Northwestern University
 

Variance Risk Premia on Stocks and Bonds
By Philippe Mueller; London School of Economics
Petar Sabtchevsky; London School of Economics
Andrea Vedolin; London School of Economics
Paul Whelan; Copenhagen Business School
   presented by: Petar Sabtchevsky, London School of Economics
   Discussant:   Anh Le, Pennsylvania State University
 
Session: Asset Allocation
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri (Level 2)
 
Session Chair: Francisco Gomes, London Business School
 

Portfolio Choice with Model Misspecification: A Foundation for Alpha and Beta Portfolios
By Paolo Zaffaroni; Imperial College London
Raman Uppal; EDHEC Business School
   presented by: Paolo Zaffaroni, Imperial College London
   Discussant:   Svetlana Bryzgalova, Stanford University
 

On the Asset Allocation of a Default Pension Fund
By Magnus Dahlquist; Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR
Ofer Setty; Tel Aviv University
Roine Vestman; Stockholm University
   presented by: Roine Vestman, Stockholm University
   Discussant:   Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
 

Information Aggregation and Asset Prices in Large Markets with Institutional Investors
By Matthijs Breugem; Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Adrian Buss; INSEAD
   presented by: Matthijs Breugem, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
   Discussant:   Andrea Buffa, Boston University
 
Session: Bond Risk Premia
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III
 
Session Chair: Carolin Pfleuger, University of British Columbia
 

Robust Bond Risk Premia
By Michael Bauer; Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
James Hamilton; University of California, San Diego
   presented by: Michael Bauer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
   Discussant:   Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Chicago
 

Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks
By Olesya Grishchenko; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Zhaogang Song; Johns Hopkins University
Hao Zhou; Tsinghua University
   presented by: Olesya Grishchenko, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
   Discussant:   Philippe Mueller, London School of Economics
 

The Cross-Section of Subjective Bond Risk Premia
By Andrea Buraschi; Imperial College London
Ilaria Piatti; University of Oxford
Paul Whelan; Copenhagen Business School
   presented by: Paul Whelan, Copenhagen Business School
   Discussant:   Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, London Business School
 
Session: Finance and Development
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX
 
Session Chair: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
 

When Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates on Collateral?
By Hans Degryse; KU Leuven
Vasso Ioannidou; Lancaster University
Jose Liberti; Northwestern University and DePaul University
Jason Sturgess; DePaul University
   presented by: Jose Liberti, Northwestern University and DePaul University
   Discussant:   Stefano Rossi, Purdue University
 

Do Criminal Politicians affect Firm Investment and Value? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
By Vikram Nanda; University of Texas-Dallas
Ankur Pareek; Rutgers University
   presented by: Ankur Pareek, Rutgers University
   Discussant:   Mara Faccio, Purdue University
 

Creditor Rights and Relationship Banking: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
By Nagpurnanand Prabhala; University of Maryland
Prasanna Tantri; Indian School of Business
Gursharan Bhue; University of Chicago
   presented by: Prasanna Tantri, Indian School of Business
   Discussant:   Carola Schenone, University of Virginia
 
Session: Financing Frictions and the Real Economy
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Colorado (Level 2)
 
Session Chair: David Matsa, Northwestern University
 

Competition and Innovation in the Presence of Financial Constraints
By William Grieser; Tulane University
Zack Liu; University of Texas at Austin
   presented by: William Grieser, Tulane University
   Discussant:   Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University
 

Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment?
By Jean-Noel Barrot; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ramana Nanda; Harvard University
   presented by: Ramana Nanda, Harvard University
   Discussant:   Eric Zwick, University of Chicago
 

Aggregate Effects of Collateral Constraints
By Sylvain Catherine; HEC
Thomas Chaney; Toulouse School of Economics
Zongbo Huang; Princeton University
David Sraer; UC Berkeley
David Thesmar; MIT Sloan
   presented by: David Sraer, UC Berkeley
   Discussant:   Anthony DeFusco, Northwestern University
 
Session: Liquidity, Frictions and Limits to Arbitrage
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X
 
Session Chair: Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics
 

Flying Under the Radar: The Effects of Short-Sale Disclosure Rules on Investor Behavior and Stock Prices
By Stephan Jank; Deutsche Bundesbank
Christoph Roling; Deutsche Bundesbank
Esad Smajlbegovic; Erasmus University Rotterdam
   presented by: Esad Smajlbegovic, Erasmus University Rotterdam
   Discussant:   Adam Reed, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
 

The Causal Effect of Limits to Arbitrage on Asset Pricing Anomalies
By Yongqiang Chu; University of South Carolina
David Hirshleifer; University of California, Irvine
Liang Ma; University of South Carolina
   presented by: Liang Ma, University of South Carolina
   Discussant:   Jeffrey Pontiff, Boston College
 

Slow Trading and Stock Return Predictability
By Allaudeen Hameed; National University of Singapore
Matthijs Lof; Aalto University
Matti Suominen; Aalto University School of Economics
   presented by: Matthijs Lof, Aalto University
   Discussant:   Tobias Moskowitz, Yale University
 

What Drives Liquidity? Identifying Shocks to Market Makers' Supply of Liquidity and Their Role in Economic Fluctuations
By Jonathan Goldberg; Federal Reserve Board
   presented by: Jonathan Goldberg, Federal Reserve Board
   Discussant:   Tyler Muir, UCLA
 
Session: Market Structure and Market Design
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII
 
Session Chair: Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Can Decentralized Markets Be More Efficient?
By Vincent Glode; University of Pennsylvania
Christian Opp; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Christian Opp, University of Pennsylvania
   Discussant:   Briana Chang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Size Discovery
By Darrell Duffie; Stanford University
Haoxiang Zhu; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   presented by: Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Discussant:   Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Endogenous Specialization and Dealer Networks
By Artem Neklyudov; University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute
Batchimeg Sambalaibat; Indiana University
   presented by: Batchimeg Sambalaibat, Indiana University
   Discussant:   Benjamin Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

Centralized Trading, Transparency and Interest Rate Swap Market Liquidity: Evidence from the Implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act
By Evangelos Benos; Bank of England
Richard Payne; City University London
Michalis Vasios; Bank of England
   presented by: Michalis Vasios, Bank of England
   Discussant:   Emil Siriwardane, Harvard Business School
 
Session: Shareholders and Governance
January 8, 2017 13:00 to 15:00
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II
 
Session Chair: Xavier Giroud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Effect of Passive Investors on Activism
By Ian Appel; Boston College
Todd Gormley; University of Pennsylvania
Donald Keim; University of Pennsylvania
   presented by: Ian Appel, Boston College
   Discussant:   Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD
 

Opportunistic Proposals by Union Shareholders
By John Matsusaka; University of Southern California
Oguzhan Ozbas; University of Southern California
Irene Yi; University of Southern California
   presented by: Oguzhan Ozbas, University of Southern California
   Discussant:   Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics
 

Analyst Coverage Network and Corporate Financial Policies
By Armando Gomes; Washington University in St. Louis
Radhakrishnan Gopalan; Washington University in St. Louis
Mark Leary; Washington University in St. Louis
Francisco Marcet; University of Chile
   presented by: Mark Leary, Washington University in St. Louis
   Discussant:   Ambrus Kecskes, York University

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