2021 Program Archive

Session I

Session Chair: Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth)

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
Lauren Cohen (Harvard), Umit Gurun (UT Dallas), and Quoc Nguyen (DePaul)
Discussant: Shaun Davies (Colorado-Boulder)

Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of Target Date Funds
Jonathan Parker (MIT), Antoinette Schoar (MIT), and Yang Sun (Brandeis)
Discussant: Clemens Sialm (Texas)

Session II

Session Chair: Rajnish Mehra (ASU)

Using High-Frequency Evaluations to Estimate Discrimination: Evidence from Mortgage Loan Officers
Marco Giacoletti (USC), Rawley Heimer (Boston College), and Edison Yu (FRB-Philadelphia)
Discussant: Pat Akey (Toronto)

Social Security and Trends in Inequality
Sylvain Catherine (Wharton), Max Miller (Wharton), and Natasha Sarin (Wharton)
Discussant: Alan Auerbach (Berkeley)

Session III

Session Chair: Anjan Thakor (WUSTL)

Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing: Evidence from Private Firms
Ivan Ivanov (Fed), Luke Pettit, and Toni Whited (Michigan)
Discussant: Adrien Matray (Princeton)

Marking to Market Corporate Debt
Lorenzo Bretscher (LBS), Lukas Schmid (USC), Andrew Kane (Duke), and Peter Feldhutter (Copenhagen)
Discussant: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA)

Session IV

Session Chair: Lars-Alexander Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon)

Getting to the Core: Inflation Risks Within and Across Asset Classes
Xiang Fang (Hong Kong), Yang Liu (Hong Kong), and Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton)
Discussant: Bjorn Eraker (UW-Madison)

Necessary Evidence For A Risk Factor's Relevance
Alex Chinco (Chicago), Samuel Hartzmark (Chicago), and Abigail Sussman (Chicago)
Discussant: Serhiy Kozak (Maryland)

ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference 2026

February 26-28, 2026

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Organizers

George Aragon
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Ilona Babenko

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Oliver Boguth

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Paul Decaire

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Laura Lindsey
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Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
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Yuri Tserlukevich

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