Program

Friday, February 14, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Session I

Session Chair: Jeffrey Zweibel

Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders
Robin Dottling (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Doron Levit (University of Washington), Nadya Malenko (Boston College), Magdalena Rola-Janicka (Imperial College London)
Discussant: Jason Donaldson (USC)

Succession
Thomas Geelen (Penn State University), Jakub Hajda (HEC Montreal)
Discussant: John Barry (Rice University)

Real Effects of Personal Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution
Noemie Bucourt (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Sangeun Ha (Copenhagen Business School)

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m Session II

Session Chair: Robert Parrino (U. Texas)

Kamikazes in Public Procurements: Bid-Rigging and Real Non-Market Outcomes
Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore), Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Leon Musolff (Wharton)

Who Clears the Market When Passive Investors Trade?
Marco Sammon (Harvard), John Shim (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Lukas Schmid (USC)

Poverty Spreads in Deposit Markets
Emilio Bisetti (HKUST), Arkodipta Sarkar (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Jess Cornaggia (Penn State University)


Saturday, February 15, 2025

8:00 – 9:20 a.m. Session III

Session Chair: TBD

Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits
Gustavo S. Cortes (University of Florida), Cameron LaPoint (Yale SOM)
Discussant: Jiro Yoshida (Penn State University)

Assessing Assessors 
Huaizhi Chen (University of Notre Dame), Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School)
Discussant: Anna Scherbina (Brandeis University)

9:40 – 11:00 a.m. Session IV

Session Chair: Wayne Ferson (USC)

ChatGPT and Perception Biases in Investments: An Experimental Study
Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley), Ali Kakhbod (UC Berkeley), Peiyao Lei (UC Berkeley), Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Leland Bybee (University of Chicago)

Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice
Aizhan Anarkulova (Emory University), Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona), Michael S. O’Doherty (University of Missouri)
Discussant: Neil Pearson (University of Illinois)

11:20 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Session V

Session Chair: Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona)

Two Trees and a Gardener: Asset Pricing with Real Capital Flows
Sebastien Betermeier (McGill University), Laurent Calvet (SKEMA Business School), Evan Jo (Queen’s University), Johan Walden (UC Berkeley) 
Discussant: Georgy Chabakauri (London School of Economics)

Out-of-Sample Alphas Post Publication 
Andrei Goncalves (The Ohio State University), Johnathan Loudis (University of Notre Dame), Richard Ogden (Rowan University)
Discussant: Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)

 

ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference 2025

February 13-15, 2025
Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia

To submit a paper, please complete this online form by Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. Authors will be notified by late December 2024.

Contact Us
financeconference@asu.edu


Organizers

George Aragon
george.aragon@asu.edu

Ilona Babenko
ilona.babenko@asu.edu

Oliver Boguth
oliver.boguth@asu.edu

Paul Decaire
paul.decaire@asu.edu

Valeria Fedyk
vfedyk@asu.edu

Laura Lindsey
laura.lindsey@asu.edu

Yuri Tserlukevich
yuri.tserlukevich@asu.edu