Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Song Ma and Jacopo Ponticelli, Organizers

October 31 - November 1, 2024

Regular Session Format: Authors 20 min, Discussants 15 min, Q&A 15 min.
Special Session Format: Authors ~12 min each paper; Q&A 25 min for the whole session.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 1
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Lira Mota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kerry Y. Siani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Financially Sophisticated Firms
Discussant: Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
9:20 am
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Naman Nishesh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel
Discussant: Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Jing Huang, Texas A&M University
Cecilia Parlatore, New York University and NBER

Information Span in Credit Market Competition
Discussant: Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:30 am
Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
Dimas M. Fazio, National University of Singapore
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

Housing and Fertility
Discussant: Lisa J. Dettling, Federal Reserve Board
12:20 pm
Lunch - Vidalakis Dining Room
1:30 pm
Special Session for Climate Finance and ESG
(short paper session)
Alex Edmans, London Business School
Tom Gosling, London Business School
Dirk Jenter, London School of Economics

Sustainable Investing: Evidence From the Field
Pat Akey, INSEAD
Ian R. Appel, University of Virginia
Aymeric Bellon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Johannes Klausmann, University of Virginia

Do Carbon Markets Undermine Private Climate Initiatives?
Pauline Lam, New York University
Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University and NBER

Green Bonds: New Label, Same Projects
2:30 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Sergey Chernenko, Purdue University
Robert Ialenti, Harvard University
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER

Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit
Discussant: Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm
Attila Balogh, University of Melbourne
Scott E. Yonker, Cornell University

Is There a Business Case for Racial Diversity on Corporate Boards?
Discussant: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn