UT Dallas 2021 Fall Finance Conference Program
(Presenter – 30 Minutes; Discussant – 20 Minutes; Q&A – 10 Minutes)
Friday, October 8, 2021
Welcome Remarks (12:45 p.m.- 1 p.m. CST): Dean Hasan Pirkul, Caruth Chair
Session 1: Lending (1 p.m. – 3 p.m. CST)
Chair: Han Xia
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Did FinTech Lenders Facilitate PPP Fraud?
John Griffin (UT Austin), Samuel Kruger (UT Austin), Prateek Mahajan (UT Austin)
Discussant: Alberto Rossi (Georgetown)
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Competition and Selection in Credit Markets
Constantine Yannelis (Chicago), Anthony Zhang (Chicago)
Discussant: Taylor Nadauld (BYU)
Break (3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. CST)
Session 2: Production (3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. CST)
Chair: Jun Li
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: Innovation, Industry Equilibrium, and Discount Rates
Maria Cecillia Bustamante (Maryland), Francesca Zucchi (FRB)
Discussant: Praveen Kumar (Houston)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Idiosyncratic Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Asset Prices
Maarten Meeuwis (WUSTL)
Discussant: Bernard Herskovic (UCLA)
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Session 3: Regulation (10 a.m. – 12 p.m. CST)
Chair: Jean-Marie Meier
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation
Michael Ewens (Caltech), Kairong Xiao (Columbia), Ting Xu (Virginia)
Discussant: Peter Iliev (Penn State)
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.: A Race to Lead: How Chinese Government Interventions Shape the U.S.-China Production Competition
Xiao Cen (Texas A&M), Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College), Wei Jiang (Columbia)
Discussant: Bo Bian (UBC)
Lunch Break (12 p.m. – 1 p.m. CST)
Session 4: FinTech (1 p.m. – 3 p.m. CST)
Chair: Pingle Wang
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Automation and Inequality in Wealth Management
Michael Reher (UCSD), Stanislav Sokolinsk (Rutgers)
Discussant: Francesco D’Acunto (Boston College)
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses
Sean Cao (GSU), Wei Jiang (Columbia), Junbo Wang (LSU), Baozhong Yang (GSU)
Discussant: Michael Gofman (Rochester)
Break (3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. CST)
Keynote Speech (3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CST): Lauren Cohen (HBS)
The ESG Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting