Friday, April 2
9:50 am
Welcome and Introduction
10:00 am

Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing: Evidence from Private Firms

Ivan T. Ivanov, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Luke Pettit, George Mason University
Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussant:
Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
10:50 am

Municipal Bond Insurance and the U.S. Drinking Water Crisis (slides)

Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics
Daniel Kim, BI Norwegian Business School

Discussant:
Deborah J. Lucas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:40 am
Break
12:00 pm

Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis

Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Jeyul Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benjamin Iverson, Brigham Young University
Renhao Jiang, University of Maryland

Discussant:
Edie Hotchkiss, Boston College
12:50 pm

The Job-Preservation Effects of Paycheck Protection Program Loans

Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland
Stephen Miran Robert Jackman, US Department of the Treasury

Discussant:
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore
Emil Verner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER
2:50 pm

Impediments to the Schumpeterian Process in the Replacement of Large Firms

Mara Faccio, Purdue University and NBER
John J. McConnell, Purdue University

Discussant:
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
3:40 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier

Ivan Alfaro, BI Norwegian Business School
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Xiaoji Lin, University of Minnesota

Discussant:
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
4:50 pm

Pirates without Borders: the Propagation of Cyberattacks through Firms' Supply Chains

Matteo Crosignani, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marco Macchiavelli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andre Silva, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Patricia Mosser, Columbia University
5:40 pm
Adjourn