University of Kentucky Finance Conference

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2024 Program

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)

Generative AI and Firm Values                                                                                   

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) 

Financial News Production                          

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)

Pension Liquidity Risk                                                                                                    

Kristy Jansen (USC), Sven Klingler (BI Norwegian), Angelo Ranaldo (St. Gallen, SFI), and Patty Duijm (De Nederlandsche Bank)

  • Discussant: Andrew Ellul (Indiana)  

Patent Hunters                 

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