Thursday, April 23
6:00 Welcome Reception at Melodeon at the Grove
Friday, April 24
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Session One Chair: Todd Gormley (WashU)
Venture Capital Cycles and the Startup Labor Market
Jessica Bai (Georgetown)
- Discussant: Richard Thakor (Minnesota)
Price Agnostic Demand
Sam Hartzmark (Boston College), Abigail Sussman (Chicago)
- Discussant: Petri Jylhä (Aalto)
Coffee Break
Uncertainty After Dark: Evidence from 19 Million Nights of Sleep
Fotis Grigoris (Iowa), Gill Segal (UNC), Chao Ying (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Discussant: Zhi Da (Notre Dame)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Session Two Chair: Alice Bonaime (Arizona)
Is There a Puzzle in Underwater Mortgage Default?
Lara Loewenstein (Cleveland Fed), Paul Willen (Boston Fed), Yuxi Yao (Nebraska), David Zhang (Rice)
- Discussant: Dan Greenwald (NYU)
Why Don't Old Firms Do New Things?
Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern), Zhiguo He (Stanford), Victor Lyonnet (Michigan), Yueran Ma (Chicago)
- Discussant: Tania Babina (Maryland)
2:15 Depart for Keeneland
5:15 Depart Keeneland for Conference Dinner
Saturday, April 25
9:30 Session Three Chair: Seth Pruitt (ASU)
Breaking the Data Chain: The Ripple Effect of Data Sharing Restrictions on Financial Markets
Simona Abis (Colorado), Bo Bian (UBC), Huan Tang (Penn)
- Discussant: Jill Grennan (Emory)
Green Waste: (Mis)allocation of Green Investment Subsidies
Ingvil Gaarder (Chicago), Morten Grindaker (Stat Norway), Tom Meling (Ohio State), Magne Mogstad (Chicago)
- Discussant: Ian Appel (UVA)
Venture Fraud
Alexander Dyck (Toronto), Freda Fang (Toronto), Camille Hebert (Toronto), Ting Xu (Toronto)
- Discussant: Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia)
12:45 Session Four Chair: Kimberly Cornaggia (Penn State)
Working it out: Randomized modification and entrepreneurial effort in a collateralized debt market
Chris Eaglin (Duke), Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth), Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern), Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth)
- Discussant: Jordan Nickerson (Washington)
The Costs of Bankruptcy Misperceptions
Sam Antill (Harvard), Eleanor Jenke (Harvard), Raymond Kluender (Harvard)
- Discussant: Brian Lee (Emory)
2:15 Conference Ends
2:45 Optional Bourbon Tasting
