This annual conference brings together finance researchers from five leading northeastern universities. We invite colleagues at all schools in the northeast, and others interested in current finance research, to a day of research presentations in finance. Faculty from each of the program participant schools present one of the papers on the program.
Agenda
9:00am - Registration
9:30am - Introduction
9:45am - Itamar Drechsler, The University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School Alexi Savov, Philipp Schnabl and Olivier Wang, NYU – Stern School
Discussant: Alp Simsek, Yale School of Management
10:45am - Refreshment Break
11:00am - Naz Koont and Tano Santos, Columbia University – GSB Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago – Booth School
Destabilizing Digital “Bank Walks”
Discussant: Thomas Philippon, NYU – Stern School
12:00pm - Refreshment Break
12:15pm - Jules van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School Sophia Hua, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School Jessica A. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School
Is The United States A Lucky Survivor: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
Discussant: Moritz Lenel, Princeton University
1:15pm - Lunch
Speakers: Martin J. Gruber, NYU – Stern School Keynote address by Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
2:15pm - Ernest Liu, Princeton University - Room 1-170 Song Ma, Yale School of Management
Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation
Discussant: Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University GSB
3:15pm - Refreshment Break
3:30pm - Samuel M. Hartzmark, Boston College Kelly Shue, Yale School of Management
Counterproductive Sustainable Investing: The Impact Elasticity of Brown and Green Firms
Discussant: Lucian Taylor, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School
4:30pm - Reception