Corporate Finance Conference

Friday, May 10th

Conference Lunch

Sasha lndarte (Wharton) "Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets" 
Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota)

Murray Frank (Minnesota) “Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel” (with Mehdi Beyhaghi, Ping McLemore, and Ali Sanati)
Discussant: Ivan Ivanov (Chicago Fed)

Coffee Break

Sabrina Howell (NYU) "All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization" (with Yeejin Jang, Hyeik Kim, and Michael S. Weisbach)
Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)

Rene Stulz (Ohio) "The Unicorn Puzzle" (with Daria Davydova, Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, and Leandro Sanz) 
Discussant: Richard Thakor (Minnesota) 

Yueran Ma (Chicago) "Superstar Firms through the Generations" (with Benjamin Pugsley and Kaspar Zimmermann) 
Discussant: Carter Davis (Indiana) 

Saturday, May 11th

Breakfast

Harrison Hong (Columbia) “Green Stakeholders in Two-Sided Markets” (with Briana Chang)
Discussant: Adam Zhang (Minnesota) 

Tracy Wang (Minnesota) “Corporate Diversity Culture Spillover” (with Xiao Cen, and Yue Qiu)
Discussant: Michael Weisbach (Ohio)

Coffee Break

David Sraer (Berkeley) “The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France” (with Elio Nimier-David, and David Thesmar)
Discussant: Tom Holmes (Minnesota, Econ)

Chenzi Xu (Stanford) “EXIM’s Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies” (with Poorya Kabir, Adrien Matray, and Karsten Muller)
Discussant: Juliana Salomao (Minnesota)

Lunch