Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar, Organizers

November 6, 2020

Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 6
FORMAT: Authors have 17 minutes for Presentation, Discussants have 13 minutes, and 10 minutes for Discussion.
9:25 am
Welcome
9:30 am
Bryan Gutierrez, SBS Peru
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
Juliana Salomao, University of Minnesota and NBER

Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru
Discussant: Lorena Keller, University of Pennsylvania
10:10 am
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California at Berkeley
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
James Hodson, AI for Good

Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Industry Concentration
Discussant: Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER
10:50 am
Break
Debt Enforcement
11:00 am
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Brett Green, Washington University in St. Louis
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Unlocking Access to Credit with Lockout Technology (slides)
Discussant: Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University and NBER
11:40 am
Jason R. Donaldson, Washington University in St Louis
Edward Morrison, Columbia University and NBER
Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California and NBER
Xiaobo Yu, Columbia Business School

Restructuring vs Bankruptcy
Discussant: David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm
Break
COVID Economics
1:00 pm
Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
John Krainer, Federal Reserve Board
Pascal Paul, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Credit Line Channel
Discussant: Laura Blattner, Stanford University
1:40 pm
João Granja, University of Chicago
Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?
Discussant: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
ESG
2:30 pm
Eleonora Broccardo, University of Trento
Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

Exit vs. Voice
Discussant: Harrison Hong, Columbia University and NBER
3:10 pm
Adjourn