Monday, June 21, 2010, 8:15 am -- 10:00 am

 

Debt Runs -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Peter DeMarzo, Stanford University

 

The Hazards of Debt: Dynamic Debt Runs, Agency, and Bailouts

Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Michigan

Konstantin Milbradt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Maturity Rat Race

Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University

Martin Oehmke, Columbia University

 

Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

Wei Xiong, Princeton University

Zhiguo He, University of Chicago

 

Discussants:

Robert Marquez, Boston University

Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Carnegie Mellon University

S. "Vish" Viswanathan, Duke University

 

Jump and Volatility Risk Premia -- Lecture Theater

Scott Joslin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Uncertainty and Leveraged Lucas Trees: The Cross Section of Equilibrium Volatility Risk Premia

Andrea Vedolin, University of Lugano

 

Comovement and Equilibrium Volatility Risk Premia

Andrea Buraschi, Imperial College London

Fabio Trojani, University of Lugano

Andrea Vedolin, London School of Economics and Universita' di Lugano

 

The Market Jump Risk and the Price Structure of Individual Equity Options

Chayawat Ornthanalai, Georgia Institute of Technology

Redouane Elkamhi, University of Iowa

 

Discussants:

Ivan Shaliastovich, University of Pennsylvania

Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, SIFR - Institute for Financial Research

Jefferson Duarte, Rice University

 

External Governance -- Oak Bay

Jay Hartzell, University of Texas-Austin

 

Voting with Their Feet or Activism? Institutional Investors' Impact on CEO Turnover

Jean Helwege, University of South Carolina

Vincent Intintoli, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Andrew Zhang, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

 

Distance Matters! Shareholder Proximity and Corporate Policies

Alexandra Niessen, University of Mannheim

Alok Kumar, University of Texas-Austin

Vidhi Chhaochharia, University of Miami

 

Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat

Sudipto Dasgupta, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Rik Sen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ling Cen, University of Toronto

 

Discussants:

Laura Starks, University of Texas-Austin

Simi Kedia, Rutgers University

David Matsa, Northwestern University

 

Market Structure and Connectedness -- Saanich

Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford University

 

Information Percolation in Segmented Markets

Gustavo Manso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Darrell Duffie, Stanford University

Semyon Malamud, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

 

Connected Stocks

Christopher Polk, London School of Economics

Miguel Anton, London School of Economics

 

Strategic Relationships in Over-the-Counter Markets

Ana Babus, University of Cambridge

 

Discussants:

Richard Lowery, University of Texas-Austin

Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas-Austin

Adolfo de Motta, McGill University

 

Contracts and Incentives -- Esquimalt

Jeffrey Zwiebel, Stanford University

 

Dynamic Incentive Accounts

Xavier Gabaix, New York University

Alex Edmans, University of Pennsylvania

Tomasz Sadzik, New York University

Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University

 

Renegotiation Design: Evidence from NFL Roster Bonuses

Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago

 

Contractual Resolutions of Financial Distress

Stefano Rossi, Imperial College Business School

Nicola Gennaioli, CREI Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Discussants:

Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

Bruce Carlin, University of California-Los Angeles

Adriano Rampini, Duke University

 

Market Microstructure: Theory -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Snehal Banerjee, Northwestern University

 

Market Microstructure Invariants

Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland

Albert S. Kyle, University of Maryland

 

Liquidity and Information in Order Driven Markets

Ioanid Rosu, University of Chicago

 

Prospect Theory and Market Liquidity

Paolo Pasquariello, University of Michigan

 

Discussants:

Eric Hughson, Claremont McKenna College

Dmitri Livdan, University of California-Berkeley

Jan Schneider, University of Texas-Austin

Monday, June 21, 2010, 10:15 am -- 12:00 noon

 

Credit Risk -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Kenneth Singleton, Stanford University

 

Corporate Bond Default Risk: A 150-Year Perspective

Stephen Schaefer, London Business School

Kay Giesecke, Stanford University

Francis Longstaff, University of California-Los Angeles

Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University

 

On the Relative Pricing of Long Maturity SP 500 Index Options and CDX Tranches

Robert Goldstein, University of Minnesota

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Columbia University

Fan Yang, University of Minnesota

 

Time-Varying Credit Risk and Liquidity Premia in Bond and CDS Markets

Monika Trapp, University of Cologne

Wolfgang Bühler, University of New South Wales

 

Discussants:

Tyler Shumway, University of Michigan

Erik Stafford, Harvard University

Fan Yu, Claremont McKenna College

 

The Financial Sector and Market Crises -- Lecture Theater

Neng Wang, Columbia University

 

A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector

Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University

Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University

 

Market Freeze and Recovery: Trading Dynamics Under Optimal Intervention by a Market-Maker-of-Last-Resort

Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada

Thorsten Koeppl, Queens University

 

Diversification Disasters

Dwight Jaffee, University of California-Berkeley

Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University

Johan Walden, University of California-Berkeley

 

Discussants:

Anastasia Kartasheva, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Gallmeyer, University of Virginia

Vito Gala, London Business School

 

Governance and Firm Value -- Oak Bay

Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado

 

Industries, Governance, and Equity Prices

Stefan Lewellen, Yale University

Andrew Metrick, Yale University

 

Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value

Greg Nini, University of Pennsylvania

Amir Sufi, University of Chicago

David Smith, University of Virginia

 

Why are U.S. Firms Listed in Foreign Markets Worth More?

Michael Schill, University of Virginia

Sergei Sarkissian, McGill University

 

Discussants:

Shane Johnson, Texas A&M

Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University

Frank Warnock, University of Virginia

 

Short Sale Bans -- Saanich

Ingrid Werner, Ohio State University

 

Short-Selling Bans Around the World:  Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis

Alessandro Beber, University of Amsterdam

Marco Pagano, University of Naples

 

Do Option Markets Undo Restrictions on Short Sales?  Evidence from the 2008 Short-Sale Ban

Bruce Grundy, University of Melbourne

Bryan Lim, University of Melbourne

Patrick Verwijmeren, University of Melbourne

 

Regulatory Uncertainty and Market Liquidity: The 2008 Short Sale Ban’s Impact on Equity Option Markets

Robert Battalio, University of Notre Dame

Paul Schultz, University of Notre Dame

 

Discussants:

Craig Holden, Indiana University

Charles Jones, Columbia University

Karl Diether, Ohio State University

 

Asset Management -- Esquimalt

David Chapman, Boston College

 

Strategic Asset Allocation in Money Management

Dmitry Makarov, New Economic School

Suleyman Basak, London Business School

 

Multi-Market Delegated Asset Management

Zhiguo He, University of Chicago

Wei Xiong, Princeton University

 

On the Size of the Active Management Industry

Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago

Robert Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania

 

Discussants:

Christian Opp, University of Chicago

Peter Kondor, Central European University

Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University

 

Real Investment -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Robert McDonald, Northwestern University

 

Real Options Signaling Games with Applications to Corporate Finance

Steve Grenadier, Stanford University

Andrey Malenko, Stanford University

 

The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation

Sergey Chernenko, Harvard University

Adi Sunderam, Harvard University

 

Investment Timing and Financing Under Asymmetric Information

Erwan Morellec, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Norman Schuerhoff, University of Lausanne

 

Discussants:

Maria Bustamante, London School of Economics

Amit Seru, University of Chicago

Bart Lambrecht, Lancaster University

Monday, June 21, 2010, 2:45 pm -- 4:30 pm

 

Bailouts -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago

 

On the Real Effects of Bank Bailouts: Micro-Evidence from Japan

Andrei Simonov, Michigan State University

Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics

 

TARP Investments: Financials and Politics

Denis Sosyura, University of Michigan

Ran Duchin, University of Michigan

 

Assessing TARP

Anil Shivdasani, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Dinara Bayazitova, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Discussants:

Kathryn Dewenter, University of Washington

Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics

Chenyang (Jason) Wei, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

New Perspectives on Old Problems -- Lecture Theater

Rick Green, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

Jonathan Berk, Stanford University

Johan Walden, University of California-Berkeley

 

The Implied Cost of Capital: A New Approach

Kewei Hou, Ohio State University

Mathijs van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Yinglei Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Revisiting Asset Pricing Anomalies in an Exchange Economy

Johan Walden, University of California-Berkeley

Christine Parlour, University of California-Berkeley

Richard Stanton, University of California-Berkeley

 

Discussants:

Kerry Back, Rice University

Charles Lee, Stanford University

Ian Martin, Stanford University

 

Time-Varying Risk Premia -- Oak Bay

Ravi Bansal, Duke University

 

Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-balancing?

Hanno Lustig, University of California-Los Angeles

Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania

Yi-Li Chien, Purdue University

 

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

Tarek Hassan, University of Chicago

Thomas Mertens, New York University

 

The Fourth-Quarter Consumption Growth Rate:  A Pure-Macro, Not-Estimated Stock Return Predictor That Works In-Sample and Out-of-Sample

Stig Møller, Aarhus School of Business

Jesper Rangvid, Copenhagen Business School

 

Discussants:

Lukas Schmid, Duke University

Hengjie Ai, Duke University

Caio Almeida, Getulio Vargas Foundation

 

M&A: Theory and Evidence -- Saanich

S. "Vish" Viswanathan, Duke University

 

Strategic and Financial Bidders in Takeover Auctions

Alexander Gorbenko, Stanford University

Andrei Malenko, Stanford University

 

Preemptive Bidding, Target Resistance and Takeover Premia: An Empirical Investigation

Stefano Sacchetto, Carnegie Mellon University

Theodosios Dimopoulos, London Business School

 

Do Merger Synergies Exist?

Scott Bauguess, Securities and Exchange Commission

Gennaro Bernile, University of Miami

 

Discussants:

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard University

Nagpurnanand Prabhala, University of Maryland

B. Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth University

 

Preferences & Behavior -- Esquimalt

Terry Odean, University of California-Berkeley

 

Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior?

Henrik Cronqvist, Claremont McKenna College

Amir Barnea, Claremont McKenna College

Stephan Siegel, University of Washington

 

The Origin of Behavior

Thomas Brennan, Northwestern University

Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Commitment Contracts

Gustav Sigurdsson, University of Pennsylvania

Philip Bond, University of Pennsylvania

 

Discussants:

Günter Strobl, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Elena Asparouhova, University of Utah

Andres Almazan, University of Texas-Austin

 

Capital Structure Theory -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Jaime Zender, University of Colorado

 

Legal-System Arbitrage and MNC Capital Structure

Suman Banerjee, Nanyang Tech University

Thomas Noe, Oxford University

 

The Defeasance of Control Rights

Carsten Bienz, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin (NHH)

Antoine Faure-Grimaud, London School of Economics

Zsuzsanna Fluck, Michigan State University

 

Capital Structure under Heterogeneous Beliefs

Hae Won Jung, Georgia State University

Ajay Subramanian, Georgia State University

 

Discussants:

Paul Povel, University of Houston

Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 8:15 am -- 10:00 am

 

Asset Pricing with Frictions -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Tan Wang, University of British Columbia

 

Asset Pricing Under Heterogeneous Information

Weiyang Qiu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jiang Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Liquidity and Asset Prices: A Unified Framework

Jiang Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics

 

Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price

Lasse H. Pedersen, New York University

Nicolae Garleanu, University of California-Berkeley

 

Discussants:

Thomas Gilbert, University of Washington

Haitao Li, University of Michigan

Ron Kaniel, Duke University

 

Impact of Behavior on Asset Prices -- Lecture Theater

Tyler Shumway, University of Michigan

 

The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets

Christopher Parsons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Joseph Engelberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Myopic Extrapolation, Price Momentum, and Price Reversal

Xinlei Zhao, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Long Chen, Washington University-St. Louis

Claudia Moise, Western Reserve University

 

Geographic Location, Media Coverage and Investor Reactions

Devin Shanthikumar, Harvard University

Greg Miller, University of Michigan

 

Discussants:

Sergey Chernenko, Harvard University

Jonathan Lewellen, Dartmouth University

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas-Austin

 

Banking in the Crisis -- Oak Bay

George Pennacchi, University of Illinois

 

Credit Supply: Identifying Balance-Sheet Channels with Loan Applications and Granted Loans

Jose-Luis Peydro, European Central Bank

Gabriel Jiménez, Bank of Spain

Steven Ongena, Tilburg University

Jesus Saurina, Bank of Spain

 

Market Value of Banking Relationships: New Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2008

Umut Gokcen, Boston College

 

Global Retail Lending in the Aftermath of the US Financial Crisis: Distinguishing between Supply and Demand Effects

Jörg Rocholl, ESMT European School of Management and Technology

Manju Puri, Duke University

Sascha Steffen, University of Mannheim

 

Discussants:

Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania

Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan

Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University

 

Cash Policy -- Saanich

Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University

 

Agency Conflicts and Cash: Estimates from a Structural Model

Toni Whited, University of Rochester

Boris Nikolov, University of Rochester

 

Aggregate Risk and the Choice between Cash and Lines of Credit

Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Viral Acharya, New York University

Murillo Campello, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

 

Cash Flow Hedging and Liquidity Choices

Breno Schmidt, Emory University

David Disatnik, Tel-Aviv University

Ran Duchin, University of Michigan

 

Discussants:

Neng Wang, Columbia University

Robert McDonald, Northwestern University

Nathalie Moyen, University of Colorado

 

Shareholder Voting -- Esquimalt

Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania

 

The Market Value of the Vote: A Contingent Claims Approach

Shagun Pant, Texas A&M University

Avner Kalay, University of Utah

 

Non-Binding Voting for Shareholder Proposals

Nadya Malenko, Stanford University

Doron Levit, Stanford University

 

The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value

Vicente Cuñat, London School of Economics

Maria Guadalupe, Columbia University

Mireia Gine, University of Pennsylvania

 

Discussants:

David Musto, University of Pennsylvania

Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim

Ashwini Agrawal, New York University

 

Market Microstructure: Empirical -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Pamela Moulton, Fordham University

 

Is Market Fragmentation Harming Market Quality?

Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University

Mao Ye, Cornell University

 

Does Option Market Volume Signal Bad News?

Eric So, Stanford University

Travis Johnson, Stanford University

 

Price Pressures

Albert Menkveld, VU University Amsterdam

Terrence Hendershott, University of California-Berkeley

 

Discussants:

Jennifer Huang, University of Texas-Austin

Gideon Saar, Cornell University

David Veredas, Universite libre de Bruxelles

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 10:15 am -- 12:00 noon

 

Causes of the Crisis -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Josef Zechner, Vienna University

 

Why are We in a Recession? The Financial Crisis is the Symptom Not the Disease!

Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University

Mudit Kapoor, Indian School of Business

Ernst Schaumburg, Northwestern University

 

Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances?    The Case of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-09

Philipp Schnabl, New York University

Viral Acharya, New York University

 

The Behavior of Intoxicated Investors: The Role of Institutional Investors in Propagating the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Ayako Yasuda, University of California-Davis

Massimo Massa, INSEAD

Alberto Manconi, INSEAD

 

Discussants:

George Pennacchi, University of Illinois

Andres Almazan, University of Texas

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas

 

Mutual Funds -- Lecture Theater

Charles Trzcinka, Indiana University

 

Is Investor Rationality Time Varying? Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

Marcin Kacperczyk, New York University

Vincent Glode, University of Pennsylvania

Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University

Shimon Kogan, University of Texas-Austin

 

On Economies of Scale and Persistent Performance in Corporate Bond Mutual Funds

William Maxwell, Southern Methodist University

Roberto Gutierrez, University of Oregon

Danielle Xu, Gonzaga University

 

Reverse Survivorship Bias

Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Chicago

 

Discussants:

Joshua Pollet, Michigan State University

Bing Han, University of Texas-Austin

Jay Wang, University of Illinois

 

Loan Markets -- Oak Bay

Mark Leary, Cornell University

 

Commercial Paper, Lines of Credit, and the Real Effects of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Firm-Level Evidence from the Manufacturing Industry

Hayong Yun, University of Notre Dame

Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame

 

The Supply-Side Determinants of Loan Contract Strictness

Justin Murfin, Duke University

 

The Costs of Being Private: Evidence from the Loan Market

Sascha Steffen, University of Mannheim

Anthony Saunders, New York University

 

Discussants:

Oguzhan Ozbas, University of Southern California

Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota

Rebecca Zarutskie, Duke University

 

Political Influence -- Saanich

Michael Fishman, Northwestern University

 

Precarious Politics and Returns Volatility

Hitesh Doshi, McGill University

Art Durnev, McGill University

Maria Boutchkova, University of Leicester

Alexander Molchanov, Massey University

 

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Joshua Coval, Harvard University

Chris Malloy, Harvard University

Lauren Cohen, Harvard University

 

Political Capital and Moral Hazard

Leonard Kostovetsky, University of Rochester

 

Discussants:

Brandon Julio, London Business School

Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, Stanford University

Amit Seru, University of Chicago

 

Distress Costs -- Esquimalt

Michael Hertzel, Arizona State University

 

Is Shareholders' Strategic Default Behavior Priced? Evidence from an International Cross Section of Stocks

Enrique Schroth, University of Amsterdam

Giovanni Favara, International Monetary Fund

Philip Valta, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

 

Macroeconomic Risks and Debt Overhang

Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gustavo Manso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Are The Bankrupt Skies the Friendliest?

Carola Schenone, University of Virginia

Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia

 

Discussants:

Ronald Giammarino, University of British Columbia

David Mauer, University of Texas-Dallas

Sergei Davydenko, University of Toronto

 

Higher Moments in Returns -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Adlai Fisher, University of British Columbia

 

Ex Ante Skewness and Expected Stock Returns

Robert Dittmar, University of Michigan

Jennifer Conrad, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Market Skewness Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Peter Christoffersen, McGill University

Bo-Young Chang, McGill University

Kris Jacobs, McGill University

 

Do Higher-Moment Equity Risks Explain Hedge Fund Returns?

Gurdip Bakshi, University of Maryland

Vikas Aarwal, Georgia State University

Joop Huij, Eramus University

 

Discussants:

John Griffin, University of Texas-Austin

Amit Goyal, Emory University

Alexi Savov, University of Chicago

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 2:45 pm -- 4:30 pm

 

Managing Liquidity in the Crisis -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University

 

Liquidity Management in the Financial Crisis

Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University

David Scharfstein, Harvard University

 

Precautionary Hoarding of Liquidity and Inter-Bank Markets: Evidence from the Sub-prime Crisis

Viral Acharya, New York University

Ouarda Merrouche, European University Institute

 

Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis

Erasmo Giambona, University of Amsterdam

Murillo Campello, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

John Graham, Duke University

Campell Harvey, Duke University

 

Discussants:

Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Enrichetta Ravina, Columbia University

Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University

 

Empirical Capital Structure -- Lecture Theater

Arthur Korteweg, Stanford University

 

Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy

Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania

Mark Leary, Cornell University

 

What Does CEOs' Personal Leverage Tell Us About Corporate Leverage?

Anil Makhija, Ohio State University

Henrik Cronqvist, Claremont McKenna College

Scott Yonker, Ohio State University

 

Labor and Capital: Is Debt a Bargaining Tool?

Elena Simintzi, London Business School

Paolo Volpin, London Business School

Vikrant Vig, London Business School

 

Discussants:

Murray Frank, University of Minnesota

Michael Lemmon, University of Utah

Toni Whited, University of Rochester

 

Investor Behavior -- Oak Bay

Simon Gervais, Duke University

 

IQ and Stock Market Participation

Mark Grinblatt, University of California-Los Angeles

Matti Keloharju, Helsinki School Of Economics & Business

Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Chicago

 

Transaction Costs and Investment Decisions of Individual Investors

Deniz Anginer, World Bank Group

 

The Sum of All FEARS: Investor Sentiment, Noise Trading and Aggregate Volatility

Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame

Joseph Engelberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame

 

Discussants:

George Korniotis, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Ning Zhu, University of California-Davis

Shimon Kogan, University of Texas-Austin

 

Inside Information -- Saanich

Ron Kaniel, Duke University

 

Do Hedge Funds Trade on Private Information? Evidence from Syndicated Lending and Short-Selling

Debarshi Nandy, York University

Nadia Massoud, York University

Anthony Saunders, New York University

Keke Song, York University

 

Business Connections and Informed Trading of Mutual Fund Managers

Yue Tang, University of Florida

 

Decoding Inside Information

Lukasz Pomorski, University of Toronto

Lauren Cohen, Harvard University

Christopher Malloy, Harvard University

 

Discussants:

David Musto, University of Pennsylvania

Yael Hochberg, Northwestern University

Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Monitoring by Boards -- Esquimalt

Laura Lindsey, Arizona State University

 

Authority Versus Loyalty: Social Incentives and Modes of Governance

Samuel Lee, New York University

Petra Persson, Columbia University

 

Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?

Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University

Francesca Cornelli, London Business School

Zbigniew Kominek, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

 

The Changing of the Boards: The Value Effect of a Massive Exogenous Shock

Amy Dittmar, University of Michigan

Kenneth Ahern, University of Michigan

 

Discussants:

Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics

Geoffrey Tate, University of California-Los Angeles

Jeffrey Coles, Arizona State University

 

Options -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Costis Skiadas, Northwestern University

 

Improving Portfolio Selection Using Option-Implied Volatility and Skewness

Raman Uppal, London Business School

Victor DeMiguel, London Business School

Yuliya Plyakha, Goethe University Frankfurt

Grigory Vilkov, Goethe University Frankfurt

 

Monotonicity of the Stochastic Discount Factor and Expected Option Returns

Mark Schroder, Michigan State University

Ranadeb Chaudhuri, Oakland University

 

Probability Weighting Functions Implied by Options Prices

Valery Polkovnichenko, University of Texas-Dallas

Feng Zhao, University of Texas-Dallas

 

Discussants:

Luca Benzoni, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Mark Loewenstein, University of Maryland

Fousseni Chabi-Yo, Ohio State University

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 8:15 am -- 10:00 am

 

Liquidity -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Nicolae Garleanu, University of California-Berkeley

 

Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns

Yakov Amihud, New York University

Viral Acharya, New York University

Sreedhar Bharath, University of Michigan

 

Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers: Evidence From the Lehman Bankruptcy

George Aragon, Arizona State University

Philip Strahan, Boston College

 

How Does Illiquidity Affect Delegated Portfolio Choice?

Luis Goncalves-Pinto, University of Southern California

 

Discussants:

Hank Bessembinder, University of Utah

Paolo Pasquariello, University of Michigan

Igor Makarov, London Business School

 

Securitization and Loan Sales -- Lecture Theater

Nancy Wallace, University of California-Berkeley

 

Liar’s Loan? Effects of Loan Origination Channel and Loan Sale on Delinquency

Wei Jiang, Columbia University

Ashlyn Nelson, Indiana University

Edward Vytlacil, Yale University

 

Optimal Securitization with Moral Hazard

Alexei Tchistyi, University of California-Berkeley

Barney Hartman-Glaser, University of California-Berkeley

Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

 

The Impact of Secondary Mortgage Market Activity on the Expansion of Subprime Credit

Taylor Nadauld, Brigham Young University

Shane Sherlund, Federal Reserve Board of Governers

 

Discussants:

Kose John, New York University

Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania

Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

 

The Market For CEOs -- Oak Bay

Dirk Jenter, Stanford University

 

The Price of a CEO’s Rolodex

Joseph Engelberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Christopher Parsons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame

 

Geography & the Market for CEOs

Scott Yonker, Ohio State University

 

CEO Turnover in a Competitive Assignment Framework

Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University

Camelia Kuhnen, Northwestern University

 

Discussants:

Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth University

Carola Frydman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Term Structure -- Saanich

Torben Andersen, Northwestern University

 

Long Run Risks in the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Estimation

Taeyoung Doh, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

 

Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Regime Switching Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model

Kyu Ho Kang, Washington University-St. Louis

 

Sharpe Ratios in Term Structure Models

Greg Duffee, Johns Hopkins University

 

Discussants:

Anisha Ghosh, Carnegie Mellon University

Scott Joslin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Olesya Grishchenko, Penn State University

 

M&A Activity -- Esquimalt

Ronald W. Masulis, Vanderbilt University

 

World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions

Michael Weisbach, Ohio State University

Isil Erel, Ohio State University

Rose Liao, Rutgers University

 

Board Connections and M&A Transactions

Merih Sevilir, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Ye Cai, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Private and Public Merger Waves

Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland

Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland

Liu Yang, University of California-Los Angeles

 

Discussants:

Pedro Matos, University of Southern California

Jay Hartzell, University of Texas-Austin

Jarrad Harford, University of Washington

 

Information and Strategic Trading -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Anat Admati, Stanford University

 

A Model of Portfolio Delegation and Strategic Trading

Albert S. Kyle, University of Maryland

Hui Ou-yang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Bin Wei, Baruch College

 

Information Sales and Strategic Trading

Francesco Sangiorgi, Stockholm School of Economics

Diego Garcia, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Uncertainty, Information Acquisition, and Price Swings in Asset Markets

Antonio Mele, London School of Economics

Francesco Sangiorgi, Stockholm School of Economics

 

Discussants:

Michael Fishman, Northwestern University

Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California-Los Angeles

Simon Gervais, Duke University

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 10:15 am -- 12:00 noon

 

Real Estate & the Macro Economy -- Salon A, 2nd Floor

Jefferson Duarte, Rice University

 

Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amir Khandani, Morgan Stanley

Robert Merton, Harvard University

 

Asset Pricing and Housing Supply in a Production Economy

Ivan Jaccard, European Central Bank

 

Testing the Efficiency of the Commercial Real Estate Market: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

Otto Van Hemert, AQR Capital Management

Joost Driessen, Tilburg University

 

Discussants:

Nancy Wallace, University of California-Berkeley

Frederico Belo, University of Minnesota

Richard Stanton, University of California-Berkeley

 

Large Shareholders: Family and Government Ownership -- Lecture Theater

Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, Stanford University

 

Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms

Vikas Mehrotra, University of Alberta

Randall Morck, University of Alberta

Jungwook Shim, Hitotsubashi University

Yupana Wiwattanakantang, Hitotsubashi University

 

The Effect of Succession Taxes on Family Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Margarita Tsoutsoura, Columbia University

 

The Real Effects of Government Owned Banks: Evidence from an Emerging Market

Daniel Carvalho, University of Southern California

 

Discussants:

Hernan Ortiz-Molina, University of British Columbia

Andrew Ellul, Indiana University

Serdar Dinc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

International Asset Pricing -- Oak Bay

Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

International  Asset Pricing with Risk-Sensitive Rare Events

Riccardo Colacito, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Mariano M. Croce, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle

Chris Telmer, Carnegie Mellon University

David Backus, New York University

Federico Gavazzoni, Carnegie Mellon University

Stanley Zin, New York University

 

Asset Prices and Risk Sharing in Open Economies

Andreas Stathopoulos, University of Southern California

 

Discussants:

Lorenzo Garlappi, University of British Columbia

Adrien Verdelhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania

 

Tail Risk -- Saanich

Ian Martin, Stanford University

 

Risk Premia and the Conditional Tails of Stock Returns

Bryan Kelly, New York University

 

Learning, Confidence, and Option Prices

Ivan Shaliastovich, University of Pennsylvania

 

Tails, Fears and Risk Premia

Viktor Todorov, Northwestern University

Tim Bollerslev, Duke University

 

Discussants:

Joe Chen, University of California-Davis

Jakub Jurek, Princeton University

Yuhang Xing, Rice University

 

Relationship Lending -- Esquimalt

Anjan Thakor, Washington University

 

Relationship Bank Behavior During Borrower Distress and Bankruptcy

Anand Srinivasan, National University of Singapore

Yan Li, Korea University

 

What's Bank Reputation Worth? The Effect of Fraud on Financial Contracts and Investment

Daniel Paravisini, Columbia University

Hannah Lin, International Monetary Fund

 

Skin in the Game: The Incentive Structure in Online Social Lending

Thomas Hildebrand, European School of Management and Technology

Manju Puri, Duke University

Jörg Rocholl, European School of Management and Technology

 

Discussants:

Lori Santikian, Harvard University

S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Rutgers University

Nagpurnanand Prabhala, University of Maryland

 

Competition and Firm Behavior -- Sidney, 2nd Floor

Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College

 

How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

Bo Becker, Harvard University

Todd Milbourn, Washington University-St. Louis

 

The Effect of Credit Rationing on the Shape of the Competition-Innovation Relationship

Jan Bena, University of British Columbia

 

Trade Credit, Product Market Power, and Relation-specific Investment

Vikram Nanda, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jayant Kale, Georgia State University

Nishant Dass, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Discussants:

Anastasia Kartasheva, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Povel, University of Houston

Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland