The 2024 conference includes 10 papers selected from nearly 500 submissions.
Thursday, April 25
6:00 Welcome Reception at Melodeon at the Grove
Friday, April 26
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Session One Chair: Oliver Boguth (ASU)
Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA), Gregor Schubert (UCLA), Bledi Taska (Lightcast), and Miao Ben Zhang (USC)
- Discussant: Charlie Clarke (NC State)
Distortive Effects of Deposit Insurance: Administrative Evidence from Deposit and Loan Accounts
Dominic Cucic (Danmarks Nationalbank), Raj Iyer (Imperial), Sotirios Kokas (Essex), Jose-Luis Peydro (Imperial), and Stefano Pica (Bank of Italy)
- Discussant: Itay Goldstein (UPenn)
Coffee Break
Educating Investors about Dividends
Andrea Hackethal (Goethe), Tobin Hanspal (WU Vienna), Sam Hartzmark (BC), and Konstantin Brauer
Discussant: Xing Huang (Wash U)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Session Two Chair: Holger Mueller (NYU)
Can US Treasury Markets Add and Subtract?
Roberto Gomez-Cram (NYU), Howard Kung (LBS), and Hanno Lustig (Stanford)
- Discussant: Lira Mota (MIT)
Allen Hu (Yale)
- Discussant: Ryan Israelsen (Michigan State)
2:15 Depart for Keeneland
5:15 Depart Keeneland for Dinner at Castle and Key Distillery
Saturday, April 27
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Session Three Chair: Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown)
The Effects of Environmental Health Risks on Housing Values and Minorities
Jules van Binsbergen (Penn), Joao Cocco (LBS), Marco Grotteria (LBS), and S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan (LBS)
- Discussant: Ryan Lewis (CU Boulder)
A New Theory of Credit Lines (With Evidence)
Jason Donaldson (USC), Naz Koont (Columbia), Giorgia Piacentino (USC), and Victoria Vanasco (CREi, UPF)
- Discussant: Nico Crouzet (Northwestern)
Coffee Break
Diverging Paths in Banks’ Business Models: New Facts and Macro Implications
Shohini Kundu (UCLA), Tyler Muir (UCLA), and Jinyuan Zhang (UCLA)
- Discussant: Constantine Yannelis (Chicago)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Session Four Chair: Jeff Coles (Utah)
Kristy Jansen (USC), Sven Klingler (BI Norwegian), Angelo Ranaldo (St. Gallen, SFI), and Patty Duijm (De Nederlandsche Bank)
- Discussant: Andrew Ellul (Indiana)
Lauren Cohen (HBS), Umit Gurun (UT Dallas), S. Katie Moon (Colorado), and Paula Suh (UGA)
- Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern)
2:15 Conference Ends
2:45 Optional Bourbon Tasting at Belle’s