Corporate Finance 2025

Schedule


Friday, March 28, 2025

Lunch (12:00pm – 1:00pm)

Session 1 – Insurance and Climate (1:00pm -3:00pm) Chair: Camelia Kuhnen (UNC)

Coffee Break – 3:00pm-3:30pm

Session 2 – Debt (3:30pm-5:30pm) Chair: Simon Gervais (Duke)


Keynote Speech: Amit Seru, Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business (5:30pm-6:30pm)

Dinner


Saturday, March 29, 2025

Breakfast (7:30am-8:30am)

Session 3 – Finance and Labor (8:30am – 10:30am) Chair: Paolo Fulghieri (UNC)

Coffee Break (10:30am-11:00am)

Session 4 – Governance and Regulation (11:00am – 1:00pm) Chair: Cam Harvey (Duke)

  • The Network Structure of the Data Economy
    • Authors: Bo Bian (University of British Columbia), Qiushi Huang (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance), Ye Li (University of Washington), Huan Tang (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Discussant: Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern University)
  • Contagious Deregulation
    • Authors: Jakub Hajda (HEC Montreal), Joseph Kalmenovitz (University of Rochester),  Billy Xu (University of Rochester)
    • Discussant: Miao Ben Zhang (University of Southern California)
  • (Ir)responsible Takeovers
    • Authors: Philip Bond (University of Washington), Doron Levit (University of Washington)
    • Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University)

Lunch: 1:00pm -2:00pm