Friday, April 8

8:00 am

Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

Erik Stafford, Harvard University

9:20 am

Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?

Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ting Xu, University of Toronto

10:30 am

Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850

Peter Koudijs, New York University
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER

11:20 am

The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information

Marieke Bos, Stockholm School of Economics
Emily L. Breza, Harvard University and NBER
Andres Liberman, New York University

1:10 pm

Flexible Prices and Leverage

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Ryan Liu, University of California at Berkeley
Carolin Pflueger, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER

2:00 pm

The Market For Financial Adviser Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

3:10 pm

Consistent Good News and Inconsistent Bad News

Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University
John W. Maxwell, Indiana University
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER

4:00 pm

Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles

Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER