2024 Program

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)

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)

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)

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)