Corporate Finance Program Meeting

Martin Oehmke, Adriano A. Rampini, and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

March 24, 2017

Gleacher Center, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, Illinois

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 24
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Household Debt and Distributional Consequences
8:30 am
Jean-Noel Barrot, HEC Paris
Erik Loualiche, University of Minnesota
Matthew C. Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University

Import Competition and Household Debt
Discussant: Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER
9:20 am
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University

Ditching the Middle Class with Financial Regulation
Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College and NBER
Andres Liberman, New York University
Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER

Debt and Human Capital: Evidence from Student Loans
Discussant: Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
Measuring Innovation
11:20 am
Gustaf Bellstam, University of Colorado
Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado
J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado

A Text-Based Analysis of Corporate Innovation
Discussant: Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch-Executive Dining Room 621
Debt Markets
1:10 pm
Peter M. DeMarzo, Stanford University and NBER
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER

Leverage Dynamics without Commitment
Discussant: Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics
2:00 pm
Manuel Adelino, Duke University and NBER
Kristopher Gerardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Barney Hartman-Glaser, University of California at Los Angeles

Are Lemons Sold First? Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market
Discussant: Brett Green, Washington University in St. Louis
2:50 pm
Break
Bankruptcy
3:10 pm
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Xavier Giroud, Columbia University and NBER
Ben Iverson, Brigham Young University

Bankruptcy Spillovers
Discussant: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm
Julian Franks, London Business School
Oren Sussman, University of Oxford
Vikrant Vig, Northwestern University and NBER

The Privatization of Bankruptcy: Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
Discussant: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Joint Reception and Dinner, Gleacher Center
Executive Dining Room 621
Participant List