Corporate Finance Program Meeting
Organized by perter_demarzo, Bruce I. Carlin, and Antoinette Schoar
November 6, 2015
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Friday, November 6

8:30 am

The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments

Christophe Perignon, HEC Paris
Boris Vallee, Harvard University

9:20 am

Beyond Random Assignment: Credible Inference of Causal Effects in Dynamic Economies

Ilya A. Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher Hennessy, London School of Business and CEPR

10:30 am

Adverse Selection on Maturity: Evidence from On-line Consumer Credit

Andrew Hertzberg, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Andres Liberman, New York University
Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

11:20 am

Informational Black Holes in Financial Markets

Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Igor Makarov, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

1:10 pm

Interim Fund Performance and Fundraising in Private Equity

Brad Barber, University of California, Davis
Ayako Yasuda, University of California, Davis

2:00 pm

Asset Reallocation in Bankruptcy

Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Ben Iverson, Brigham Young University

3:10 pm

State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

Xavier Giroud, Columbia University and NBER
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER

4:00 pm

What's in a (school) name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets

Christopher A. Parsons, University of Washington
Casey Dougal, Drexel University
William J. Mayew, Duke University
Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame