2024 Program

Thursday morning, Sep 12

Session 1 

• Precautionary Debt Capacity
  Olivia Kim (Harvard)*, Deniz Aydin (Washington – St. Louis)
  Discussant: Amir Sufi (Chicago)

• When Private Equity comes to Town: The Local Economic Consequences of Rising Healthcare Costs
  Cyrus Aghamolla (Rice), Jash Jain (Minnesota), Richard Thakor (Minnesota)*
  Discussant:  Paola Sapienza (Kellogg)
• Modeling Managers as EPS Maximizers
  Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State), Alex Chinco (Baruch)*
  Discussant: Zhiguo He (Stanford)

Session 2 

• Intergenerational Effects of Household Debt Relief: Evidence from Bankruptcy Protection
  Naser Hamdi (Equifax), Ankit Kalda (Indiana)*, Qianfan Wu (Indiana)
  Discussant: Erica Jiang (USC)
• Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes
  Bronson Argyle (BYU), Sasha Indarte (Wharton), Ben Iverson (BYU)*, Christopher Palmer (MIT) 
  Discussant: Lulu Wang (Kellogg)

Friday Morning, Sep 13

Session 3 

• Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth
  Nicolae Garleanu (Washington – St. Louis)*, Stavros Panageas (UCLA)
  Discussant: Winston Dou (Wharton)
• Asset Purchases Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market
  Valentin Haddad (UCLA), Alan Moreira (Rochester), Tyler Muir (UCLA)*
  Discussant: Emil Verner (MIT)
• Interest Rate Risk in Banking
  Peter Demarzo (Stanford)*, Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford), Stefan Nagel (Chicago)
  Discussant: Mark Egan (Harvard)

Session 4 

• Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution
  David Berger (Duke), Konstantin Milbradt (Kellogg)*, Fabrice Tourre (Baruch)
  Discussant: Tim Landvoigt (Wharton)
• Understanding Excess Repayment
  Jack Liebersohn (UC Irvine)*, Michael Fitzpatrick (UC Irvine), Vikram Jambulapati (UCSD)
  Discussant: Arpit Gupta (NYU)

* presenter