SI 2018 Corporate Finance

Antoinette Schoar and Amir Sufi, Organizers

July 9-10, 2018

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 9
Corporate Governance
10:20 am
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
Alon Brav, Duke University and NBER
Tao Li, University of Florida

Picking Friends Before Picking (Proxy) Fights: How Mutual Fund Voting Shapes Proxy Contests
Discussant: Dirk Jenter, London School of Economics
11:10 am
Erik P. Gilje, University of Pennsylvania
Todd Gormley, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Doron Y. Levit, University of Washington

Who’s Paying Attention? Measuring Common Ownership and Its Impact on Managerial Incentives
Discussant: Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
Corporate Taxes
1:00 pm
Benjamin Hébert, Stanford University and NBER
Eduardo Dávila, Yale University and NBER

Optimal Corporate Taxation Under Financial Frictions
Discussant: S. Vish Viswanathan, Duke University and NBER
1:50 pm
Thomas R. Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen
Ludvig S. Wier, University of Copenhagen
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Missing Profits of Nations
Discussant: C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University
2:40 pm
Break
Asymentric Information
3:10 pm
Andrey Malenko, Boston College
Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto

Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty
Discussant: Lucy White, Boston University
4:00 pm
Andres Liberman, New York University
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Luis Aniba. Opazo, Chilean Banking Association
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER

The Equilibrium Effects of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets
Discussant: Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 10
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
International Corporate Finance
8:45am
Tobias Berg, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Anthony Saunders, New York University
Larissa Schaefer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Sascha Steffen

"Brexit" and the Contraction of Syndicated Lending
Discussant: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
9:35 am
Lily Fang, INSEAD
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Chaopeng Wu, Xiamen University
Qi Zhang, Xiamen University

Corruption, Government Subsidies, and Innovation: Evidence from China
Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
10:25 am
Break
10:55 am
Bo Li, Tsinghua University
Zhengwei Wang, Tsinghua University
Hao Zhou, Tsinghua University

China's Anti-Corruption Campaign and Credit Reallocation from SOEs to Non-SOEs
Discussant: TBA
11:45 am
Lunch
Financial Intermediation
afternoon session is joint with Risks of Financial Institutions
12:45 pm
Ben S. Meiselman, Department of the Treasury
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan

Judging Banks’ Risk by the Profits They Report
Discussant: David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:35 pm
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
Erik Stafford, Harvard University

Do Banks have an Edge?
Discussant: Itamar Drechsler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:25 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Puriya Abbassi, Deutsche Bundesbank
Rajkamal Iyer, Imperial College London
José-Luis Peydró, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Paul Soto, Federal Reserve Board

Dressing up for the Regulators: Evidence from the Largest-Ever Supervisory Review
Discussant: Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER
3:30 pm
Viral V. Acharya, New York University and NBER
Katharina Bergant, International Monetary Fund
Matteo Crosignani, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Tim Eisert, Nova School of Business and Economics
Fergal J. McCann, Central Bank of Ireland

The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies
Discussant: Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
The Feldstein Lecture follows at 4:30 in the West Tower Ballroom