Corporate Finance Program Meeting

John Graham and Paola Sapienza, Organizers

November 8, 2019

Lucas Conference Center, SIEPR- Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA

Friday, November 8

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Lucian A. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Wei Wang, Queens University
Wenyu Wang, Indiana University

Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions

Discussant:

Kenneth Ayotte, University of California at Berkeley

9:20 am

Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich

Discussant:

Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Ankit Kalda, Indiana University
Marco Di Maggio, Imperial College Business School
Vincent Yao, Georgia State University

Second Chance: Life Without Student Debt

Holger Mueller, New York University and NBER
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER

Reducing Barriers to Enrollment in Federal Student Loan Repayment Plans: Evidence from the Navient Field Experiment

Discussant:

Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:10 pm

Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC Paris
Thorsten Martin, Bocconi
Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University
Boris Vallee, Harvard University

Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Worker-level Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program

Discussant:

Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER

2:00 pm

Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Labor in the Boardroom

Discussant:

Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

2:50 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Erica Jiang, University of Southern California
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

Banking without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports

Discussant:

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER

4:00 pm

Break

4:20 pm

Francesco D'Acunto, Georgetown University
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER

Gender Roles Distort Women's Economic Outlook

Discussant:

Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER

5:10 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Dinner
Schwab Dining Hall- Vidalakis Mid
680 Serra Street
Stanford, CA