Wednesday, July 25

8:45 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:15 am

Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston
Jean Guillaume Forand, University of Waterloo
Don't Hatch The Messenger? On the Desirability of Restricting the Political Activity of Bureaucrats

Special Session on Consumer Finance (10:10 am - 12:15 pm)

10:10 am

John Beshears, Harvard University and NBER
James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER
David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER
Bill Skimmyhorn, United States Military Academy (retired)
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

11:05 am

Break

11:20 am

Paul D. Adams, UK Financial Conduct Authority
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Redis Zaliauskas, UK Financial Conduct Authority
Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure: Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts

12:15 pm

Lunch

Special Session on Consumer Finance cont. (1:15 pm - 2:10 pm)

1:15 pm

Robert P. Bartlett, III, University of California at Berkeley
Adair Morse, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley
Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley
Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era

2:10 pm

Break

2:25 pm

Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
Judicial Mechanism Design

3:20 pm

Break

3:40 pm

Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER
Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency

4:35 pm

Sarath Sanga, Northwestern University
Network Effects in Corporate Governance

5:30 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

Thursday, July 26

8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

Special Session on Corporate Governance (8:55 am - 10:45 am)

8:55 am

Alex Edmans, London Business School
Doron Y. Levit, University of Pennsylvania
Devin J. Reilly, University of Pennsylvania
Governance Under Common Ownership

9:50 am

Patrick Bolton, Columbia University and NBER
Tao Li, University of Florida
Enrichetta Ravina, Northwestern University
Howard Rosenthal, Princeton University
Investor Ideology

10:45 am

Break

10:55 am

Haoran He, Beijing Normal University
Sherry X. Li, University of Texas at Dallas
Yuling Han, Beijing Normal University
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China

11:50 am

Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology
Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-A-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb

12:45 pm

Adjourn and Lunch