Rothschild Caesarea Center 10th Annual Conference
“Recent Advances in Financial Economics Research”
Sunday-Monday, 19-20 May, 2013
The Arison School of Business, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya
Conference Co-Organizers: Jacob Boudoukh Arison School of Business, IDC
Roni Michaely Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Arison School of Business, IDC
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Location: Room E402, Radzyner-Sustainability Building
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 Day 1 Session 1
Session chair: Antoinette Schoar, Sloan School of Management, MIT
"A Model of Financialization of Commodities"
Suleyman Basak, London Business School
Anna Pavlova, London Business School
"Common Errors: How to (and Not to) Control for Unobserved Heterogeneity"
Todd Gormley, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
David Matsa, Kellogg School of management, Northwestern University
Discussant: Xavier Giroud, Sloan School of Management, MIT
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00
Day 1 Session 2
Session chair: Roni Michaely, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Arison School of Business, IDC
"On the Determinants of the Non-Voting Shares’ Discount: Investor Preferences and Fundamentals"
Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University
Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
Discussant: Carola Frydman, Boston University
Asymmetric information and the pecking (dis)order
Paolo Fulghieri, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC at Chapel Hill
Diego Garcia, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC at Chapel Hill
Dirk Hackbarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Best Paper Award
Discussant: Martin Schmalz, Ross school of business, University of Michigan
12:30 Lunch
13:40 Greetings: Professor Ron Shachar, Dean of the Arison School of Business, Reichman University.
13:45
Day 1 Session 3
Session chair: Jie Gan, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
"The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Stock Returns"
Zhi Da, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Mitch Warachka, Claremont McKenna College
Hayong Yun, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Effi Benmelech, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Do Asset Price Bubbles have Negative Real Effects?"
Indraneel Chakraborty, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, SMU
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew MacKinlay, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, SMU
Discussant: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
19:30 Dinner
Monday, 20 May 2013
Location: Room E402, Radzyner-Sustainability Building
08:30 Coffee
09:00
Day 2 Session 1
Session chair: Kent Womack, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
"The Structure of Risks in Equilibrium Affine Models of Bond Yields"
Anh Le, Kenan-Flagler business school, UNC at Chapel Hill
Kenneth J. Singleton, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Discussant: Mikhail Chernov, London School of Economics
"Do firm managers properly assess risk? Evidence from US firms proximity to hurricane strikes"
Olivier Dessaint, HEC Paris
Adrien Matray, HEC Paris
Discussant: Dong Lou, London School of Economics
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Day 2 Session 2
Session chair: Lukasz Pomorski, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
"News Implied Volatility and Disaster Concerns"
Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis
Alan Moreira, Yale School of Management, Yale University
Discussant: Jacob Sagi, Kenan-Flagler business school, UNC at Chapel Hill Best Discussant Award
Market Implied Costs of Bankruptcy"
Johann Reindl, WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
Neal Stoughton, WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
Josef Zechner, WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
Discussant: Egor Matveyev, University of Alberta
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Day 2 Session 3
Session chair: Yrjo Koskinen, Boston University
"Trading by Bank Insiders before and during the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis"
Peter Cziraki, University of Toronto
Discussant: Pamela Moulton, Cornell University
"The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Payout Policy: A Regression Discontinuity Design Approach"
Alan D. Crane, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Sébastien Michenaud, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
James P. Weston, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Discussant: Todd Gormley, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
15:00 Closing Ceremony
Best Paper Award
Best Discussant Award
Closing reception
Paper Selection Committee Members:
Alon Brav (Duke University), Francois Degeorge (University of Lugano), François Derrien (HEC Paris), Alex Edmans (University of Pennsylvania), Joseph Engelberg (University of California, San Diego), Eliezer Fitch (Drexel University), Carola Frydman (Boston University), Simon Gervais (Duke University), Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania), Vidhan Goyal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell University), Gustavo Grullon (Rice University), Yael Hochberg (Northwestern University), Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University), Ohad Kadan (Washington University), Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester), Hyunseob Kim (Cornell University), Shimon Kogan (University of Texas at Austin), Yelena Larkin (Penn State University), Mark Leary (Washington University), Michael Lemmon (University of Utah), Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University), Semyon Malamud (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Daniel Parvisini (London School of Economics), Anna Pavlova (London Business School), Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), Adriano Rampini (Duke University), Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania), Stefano Rossi (Purdue University), Amir Rubin (Simon Fraser University), Jacob Sagi (University of North Carolina), David Scharfstein (Harvard University), Martin Schmalz (University of Michigan), Kelly Shue (University of Chicago), Clemens Sialm (University of Texas at Austin), Elena Simintzi (University of British Columbia), Margarita Tsoutsoura (University of Chicago), Michela Verardo (London School of Economics), Avi Wohl (Tel Aviv University), Kent Womack (University of Toronto), Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania), Josef Zechner (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business).