SI 2020 Corporate Finance

Antoinette Schoar and Amir Sufi, Organizers

July 6-15, 2020

Meeting on July 6, 7, 14 and 15 only

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 6
 Liquidity Provision and Financial Stability
12:00 pm

Micro-evidence from a System-wide Financial Meltdown: The German Crisis of 1931 (slides)
Discussant: Rajkamal Iyer, Imperial College London (slides)
12:50 pm

Bank Debt versus Mutual Fund Equity in Liquidity Provision (slides)
Discussant: Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER (slides)
1:40 pm
Break
Credit Market Disruptions
2:00 pm

High-Speed Internet, Financial Technology and Banking (slides)
Discussant: Laura Blattner, Stanford University (slides)
2:50 pm

Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions (slides)
Discussant: Philipp Schnabl, New York University and NBER (slides)
3:45 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 7
 Household Debt
12:00 pm

The Saving Glut of the Rich and the Rise in Household Debt (slides)
Discussant: Benjamin M. Hébert, Stanford University and NBER (slides)
12:50 pm

The Role of Government and Private Institutions in Credit Cycles in the U.S. Mortgage Market (slides)
Discussant: Claudia Robles Garcia
1:40 pm
Break
Investment and Returns
2:00 pm

The Gender Gap in Housing Returns (slides)
Discussant: Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
2:50 pm

Human Interactions and Financial Investment: A Video-Based Approach (slides)
Discussant: Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 14
 Joint with the Risks of Financial Institutions group
12:00 pm

Does Increasing Formal Credit Access Reduce Payday Borrowing? (slides)
Discussant: Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (slides)
12:50 pm

Mortgage Amortization and Wealth Accumulation (slides)
Discussant: Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Rents and Intangible Capital: a Q+ Framework (slides)
Discussant: David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (slides)
2:50 pm

The Decline of Secured Debt (slides)
Discussant: Philip Strahan, Boston College and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 15
12:00 pm

The Market for CEOs (slides)
Discussant: Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD
12:50 pm

Are Judges Like Umpires? Political Affiliation and Corporate Prosecutions (slides)
Discussant: Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm

How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions? (slides)
Discussant: Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
2:50 pm

Sorting Out the Real Effects of Credit Supply (slides)
Discussant: Samuel Hanson, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
3:45 pm
Adjourn