Preliminary Program

The 2020 program has been announced and is available here. Friday, February 14, 2020 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Session I On the magnification of small biases in decision-making Shaun Davies (Colorado), Edward Van Wesep (Colorado), and Brian Waters (Colorado) Discussant: TBA Uncovering the Hidden Effort Problem Azi Ben-Raphael (Rutgers), Bruce Carlin (Rice), Zhi Da (Notre Dame), and Ryan Israelsen (Michigan State) Discussant: Michael Lemmon (Citadel) 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session II A theory of socially responsible investment Martin Oehmke (LSE) and Marcus Opp (Stockholm) Discussant: Diego Garcia (Colorado) Capital Composition and Productivity under Uncertainty: Evidence from the Shipping Industry Murillo Campello (Cornell), Gaurav Kankanhalli (Cornell), and Hyunseob Kim (Cornell) Discussant: Andrea Lanteri (Duke) Trading Credit (Subsidies) for Votes: The Effect of Local Politics on Small Business Lending Sahil Raina (Alberta) and Sheng-Jun Xu (Alberta) Discussant: Igor Cunha (Kentucky) 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Afternoon activity – Hiking or free time 7:00 p.m. Conference Dinner Saturday, February 15, 2020 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. Session III Financing Entrepreneurship: Tax Incentives for Early-Stage Investors Matthew Denes (CMU), Xinxin Wang (UNC), and Ting Xu (Virginia) Discussant: TBA Knowledge Cycles and Corporate Investment  Cecilia Bustamante (Maryland), Julien Cujean (Bern), and Laurent Fresard (Lugano) Discussant: William Mann (Emory) 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session IV Price Revelation from Insider Trading: Evidence from Hacked Earnings News Vincent Gregoire (HEC Montreal), Pat Akey (Toronto), and Charles Martineau (Toronto) Discussant: Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos (Boston College) Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns  Stefano Cassella (Tilburg), Benjamin Golez (Notre Dame), Huseyin Gulen (Purdue), and Peter Kelly (Notre Dame) Discussant: Carolin Pflueger (Chicago) Duration-Driven Returns  Niels Gormsen (Chicago) and Eben Lazarus (MIT) Discussant: Sophie Shive (Notre Dame) 12:15 - 2:00 p.m. Closing Lunch