Corporate Finance Program Meeting
Organized by Song Ma and Jacopo Ponticelli
October 31 - November 1, 2024
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Oberndorf Center, Stanford, CA
Regular Session Format: Authors 20 min, Discussants 15 min, Q&A 15 min.
Special Session Format: Authors ~12 min each paper; Q&A 25 min for the whole session.
Friday, November 1
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Financially Sophisticated Firms

Lira Mota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kerry Y. Siani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
9:20 am

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Naman Nishesh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant:
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am

Information Span in Credit Market Competition

Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Jing Huang, Texas A&M University
Cecilia Parlatore, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:30 am

Housing and Fertility

Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
Dimas M. Fazio, National University of Singapore
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

Discussant:
Lisa J. Dettling, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
12:20 pm
Lunch - Vidalakis Dining Room
1:30 pm
Special Session for Climate Finance and ESG
(short paper session)

Sustainable Investing: Evidence From the Field

Alex Edmans, London Business School
Tom Gosling, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Dirk Jenter, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Do Carbon Markets Undermine Private Climate Initiatives?

Pat Akey, ESSEC Business School
Ian R. Appel, University of Virginia
Aymeric Bellon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Johannes Klausmann, University of Houston

Green Bonds: New Label, Same Projects

Pauline Lam, New York University
Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

Sergey Chernenko, Purdue University
Robert Ialenti, Harvard University
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm

Is There a Business Case for Racial Diversity on Corporate Boards?

Attila Balogh, University of Melbourne
Scott E. Yonker, Cornell University

Discussant:
Paola Sapienza, Stanford University and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn