Corporate Finance Program Meeting
Organized by Kenneth R. Ahern and Mark L. Egan
November 7, 2025
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Oberndorf Center, Stanford, CA
Format: 20 minutes for presenters, 15 minutes for discussants, and 10 minutes for Q&A
Thursday, November 6
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Vidalakis Dining Room at Stanford University
Friday, November 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Strategic Claim Payment Delays? Evidence from Property and Casualty Insurance

Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University
Anastasia Kartasheva, University of St. Gallen
Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

Discussant:
Shan Ge, New York University
9:45 am

Freeriders and Underdogs: Participation in Corporate Voting

Konstantinos E. Zachariadis, Queen Mary University of London
Dragana A. Cvijanovic, Cornell University
Moqi Xu, University of London

Discussant:
Ernst G. Maug, University of Mannheim
10:30 am
Break
10:35 am

Access to Capital and the IPO Decision: An Analysis of US Private Firms

Gregory Weitzner, McGill University
Nathan Swem, Federal Reserve Board
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Andres Almazan, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant:
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
10:50 am

Buyouts with Payouts: The Impacts of Private Equity on Workers and Owners

Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Jordan W. Richmond, University of Maryland, College Park
Matthew Smith, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge

Discussant:
Will Gornall, University of British Columbia
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Monetary Policy and Investment Plans

Julia Selgrad, University of Chicago
Kerry Y. Siani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
2:05 pm

Do GSEs Subsidize Mortgage Lending?

Thomas Flanagan, The Ohio State University

Discussant:
Lulu Wang, Northwestern University
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Supervising Failing Banks

Sergio A. Correia, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Stephan Luck, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Emil Verner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER
3:55 pm

Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market

Menaka Hampole, Yale School of Management
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Zoë B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
4:40 pm
Adjourn