2021 Program

Wednesday, December 15

Beginning at 5:00 pm — Arrival, Registration, and Welcome Reception

Thursday, December 16

6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins

7:05 am: Introduction and Welcome

7:05 am -- 8:30 am — Corporate Investment

Session Chair: Janis Skrastins (WashU)

Waiting on a Friend: Strategic Learning and Corporate Investment, Paul  Décaire (ASU), Michael Wittry (OSU)

Discussant: Mark Leary (WashU)

Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment, Cameron LaPoint (Yale), Shogo Sakabe (Columbia)

Discussant: Taylor Begley (WashU)

4:30 pm: Reception Begins

5:00 pm -- 7:00 pm — Job Market Session: Our Profession's Promise

Session Chair: TBD

Increasing Corporate Bond Liquidity Premium and Post-Crisis Regulations, Botao Wu (NYU)

Ex-Post Loss Sharing in Consumer Financal Markets, Alexandru Barbu (LBS)

Rise of Superstar Firms and Fall of the Price Mechanism, Dan Su (Minnesota)

Strategic Intangible Investment: The Case of Campaign Finance, Sylvain Delalay (Maryland)

Long-term Investors, Demand Shifts, and Yields, Kristy Jansen (Tillburg)

Friday, December 17

6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins

7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Race & Culture

Session Chair: Jawad Addoum

Partisan Entrepreneurship, Joey Engelberg (UCSD), Jorge Guzman (Columbia), Runjing Lu (Alberta), Will Mullins (UCSD)

Discussant: Ben McCartney (Purdue)

Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes, Bronson Argyle (BYU), Sasha Indarte (Wharton), Ben Iverson (BYU), and Christopher Palmer (MIT)

Discussant: Michaela Pagel (Columbia)

 4:30 pm: Reception Begins

5:00 pm -- 6:30 pm — Who Still Does Theory?

Session Chair: TBD

Debt Maturity Management, Yunzhi Hu (UNC), Felipe Varas (Duke), Chao Ying (CUHK)

Discussant: Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern)

Firm Quality Dynamics and the Slippery Slope of Credit Intervention, Wenhao Li (USC), Ye Li (OSU)

Discussant: Martin Oehmke (LSE)

Saturday, December 18 

6:45 am: Breakfast Buffet Begins

7:00 am -- 8:30 am — Financing Investment

Session Chair: Jordan Nickerson

Barriers to Global Capital Allocation, Bruno Pellegrino (Maryland), Enrico Spolaore (Tufts), Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)

Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)

Startup (Dis)similarity and Types of Early-stage Financing, Katie Moon (Colorado), Paula Suh (Georgia)

Discussant: Xinxin Wang (UCLA)