7th UNC-Duke Corporate Finance Conference
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
12:00 – 1:20 LUNCH – Meadowmont Grill
1:30 – 5:20 SESSIONS – Room 188
SESSION I: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
1:30 – 2:10 Bank Resolution and the Structure of Global Banks
Authors: Patrick Bolton (Columbia) and Martin Oehmke (Columbia)
Discussant: George Pennacchi (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2:10 – 2:50 Asset Insulators
Authors: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard), Andra Ghent (U. Wisconsin-Madison) and Valentin Haddad (UCLA)
Discussant: Richard Rosen (Chicago Fed)
2:50 – 3:30 Securities Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
Authors: Nathan Foley-Fisher (FRB), Borghan Narajabad (FRB) and Stéphane Verani (FRB)
Discussant: Adi Sunderam (Harvard)
3:30 – 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
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SESSION II: HOUSEHOLD AND CORPORATE FINANCE
4:00 – 4:40 Ditching the Middle Class with Consumer Protection Regulation
Authors: Francesco D’Acunto (Maryland) and Alberto Rossi (Maryland)
Discussant: Anthony DeFusco (Northwestern)
4:40 – 5:20 Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis
Authors: Jennifer Brown (UBC) and David Matsa (Northwestern)
Discussant: Fernando Ferreira (UPenn)
5:30 – 7:00 RECEPTION – Courtyard Lobby (outside room 188)
KEYNOTE SPEECH by ANDREI SHLEIFER (Harvard)
7:00 – 9:00 DINNER – Dubose House
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MORNING, SATURDAY, APRIL 1:
7:30 – 8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST – Meeting Room 188
8:30 – 12:20 SESSIONS – Room 188
SESSION III: ADVISORS
8:30 – 9:10 Proxy Advisory Firms: The Economics of Selling Information to Voters
Authors: Andrey Malenko (MIT) and Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
Discussant: Jonathan Cohn (UT Austin)
9:10 – 9:50 The Market for Conflicted Advice
Authors: Briana Chang (U. Wisconsin-Madison) and Martin Szydlowski (U. Minnesota)
Discussant: Dmitry Orlov (Rochester)
9:50 – 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
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SESSION IV: LABOR AND FINANCE
10:20 – 11:00 Capital Share Dynamics When Firms Insure Managers
Authors: Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA), Hanno Lustig (Stanford) and Mindy X. Zhang (U.T. Austin)
Discussant: Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern)
11:00 – 11:40 Real Effects of Financial Distress of Workers: Evidence from Teacher Spillovers
Authors: Gonzalo Maturana (Emory) and Jordan Nickerson (Boston College)
Discussant: Xinxin Wang (UNC)
11:40 – 12:20 Talent in Distressed Firms: Investigating the Labor Costs of Financial Distress
Authors: Ramin P. Baghai (SSE), Rui C. Silva (LBS), Viktor Thell (SSE), and Vikrant Vig (LBS)
Discussant: Xavier Giroud (MIT)
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH – Dubose House
Overnight Conference Attendees
Breakfast is available for all overnight guests in the Meadowmont Grill 6 :30 AM – 9:00 AM
Check-out is 12 PM