Location: Mountain Plaza Hotel, Davos, Switzerland
Chair: Kjell Nyborg (University of Zurich)
| S U N D A Y, March 17 | |
| 17:00 | Welcome reception |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Session 1 - Corporate Finance. Chair: Kjell Nyborg (University of Zurich and SFI) |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | Do board connections between product market peers impede competition? Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore) Discussant: Kornelia Fabisik (Universiy of Bern) |
| 18:45 - 19:30 | The Stick or the Carrot? The Role of Regulation and Liquidity in Activist Short-Termism Adrian Aycan Corum (Cornell University) Discussant: Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim) |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| M O N D A Y, March 18 | |
| 08:00 - 09:30 | Session 2 - Carbon. Chair: Josef Zechner (WU Vienna) |
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Carbon-Transition Risk and Net-Zero Portfolios Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College) Discussant: Thomas Dangl (Vienna University of Technology) |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon Pricing, Financial Constraints, and Leverage Regulation Magdalena Anna Rola-Janicka (Imperial College) Discussant: Francesca Zucchi (European Central Bank) |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Session 3 - Asset Pricing. Chair: Paul Ehling (Norwegian Business School) |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | A Non-Linear Market Model Tobias Sichert (Stockholm School of Economics) Discussant: Grigory Vilkov (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Anomaly Predictability with the Mean-Variance Portfolio Alessandro Melone (Ohio State University) Discussant: Bjørn Eraker (Wisconsin School of Business) |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Coffee, snacks and light refreshments |
| 18:45 - 19:30 | Misallocation and Asset Prices Winston Dou (University of Pennsylvania) Discussant: Georgy Chabakauri (London School of Economics) |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| T U E S D A Y, March 19 | |
| 08:00 - 09:30 | Session 4 - Corporate Bonds. Chair: Rüdiger Weber (WU Vienna) |
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds Lorenzo Bretscher (University of Lausanne) Discussant: Jiri Woschitz (Norwegian Business School) |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Monetary Policy and Fragility in Corporate Bond Funds John Kuong (Insead) Discussant: Avi Wohl (Tel Aviv University) |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee, snacks and light refreshments |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Session 5 - China. Chair: Patrick Bolton (Imperial College) |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | The Implementation of Central Bank Policy in China: The Roles of Commercial Bank Ownership and CEO Faction Membership Zexi Wang (Lancaster University) Discussant: Christian Laux (WU Vienna) |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Transmission Of Quantity-based Monetary Policy Through Heterogeneous Banks In China Dan Luo (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Discussant: Jochen Mankart (Deutsche Bundesbank) |
| 19:15 - 20:00 | Transfer |
| 20:00 | Fondue Dinner |
| W E D N E S D A Y, March 20 | |
| 08:15 - 09:45 | Session 6 - Debts & Markets. Chair: Stefan Pichler (WU Vienna University) |
| 08:15 - 09:00 | Nonbank Market Power in Leveraged Lending Franz Hinzen (Tuck School of Business Dartmouth) Discussant: Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Arms Sales in Financial Markets Xingtan Zhang (University of Colorado) Discussant: Felix Fattinger (WU Vienna) |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Sudipto Bhattacharya Memorial Prize |
| Additional participants: | Rossen Valkanov (Rady School of Management, UCSD), Tanja Brieden (WU Vienna), Kristian Miltersen (Copenhagen Business School), Adrien d'Avernas (Stockholm School of Economics), Quentin Vandeweyer (Chicago Booth School of Business), Benjamin Schneider (University of Zurich) |