UT Dallas 2023 Fall Finance Conference Program
(Presenter – 20 Minutes; Discussant – 15 Minutes; Q&A – 10 Minutes)
Conference hotel: Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
Address: 900 E Lookout Dr, Richardson, TX 75082. (972) 367-2000
Session room: JSOM I Room 1.118
Friday, September 29, 2023
Bus to School of Management leaves the hotel at 1:15 p.m. CST
Registration, with refreshments and beverages: School of Management
Welcome Remarks (2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.): Dean Hasan Pirkul
Session 1 (2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.):
Remotely Productive: The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives (Ran Duchin, and Denis Sosyura)
Discussant: Ryan Israelsen (Michigan State)
Corporate Hedging, Contract Rights, and Basis Risk (Ilona Babenko, and Yuri Tserlukevich)
Discussant: Liyan Yang (Toronto)
Coffee Break (3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Session 2 (4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.):
Institutional Synergies and the Fragility of Loan Funds (Mustafa Emin, Christopher James, Tao Li, and Jing Lu)
Discussant: Jiacui Li (Utah)
Pricing Technological Innovators: Patent Intensity and Life-Cycle Dynamics (Jan Bena, Adlai Fisher, Jiri Knesl, and Julian Vahl)
Discussant: Bryan Seegmiller (Northwestern)
Reception (6:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.): Fogo de Chão | Sunroof Terrance
Conference Dinner (7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.): Fogo de Chão | Grand Dinner Room
5908 Headquarters Drive; Plano, Texas 75024
A bus will take guests to the dinner venue from School of Management at 5:45 p.m., and take guests back to the hotel from the restaurant at 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Bus to School of Management leaves the hotel at 8:30 a.m. CST
Continental Breakfast (8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
Session 3(9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.):
Which Investors Drive Anomaly Returns and How? (Andrea Tamoni, Stanislav Sokolinski, and Yizhang Li)
Discussant: Shuaiyu Chen (Purdue)
Flow-Based Asset Pricing: A Factor Framework of Cross-Sectional Price Impacts (Yu An, Yinan Su, and Chen Wang)
Discussant: Aditya Chaudhry (OSU)
Coffee Break (11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.)
Session 4(11:20 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.):
Open Banking under Maturity Transformation (Itay Goldstein, Chong Huang, and Liyan Yang)
Discussant: Yunzhi Hu (UNC)
Bailing Out (Firms’) Uninsured Deposits: A Quantitative Analysis (Aaron Pancost, and Roberto Robatto)
Discussant: Tetiana Davydiuk (Johns Hopkins)
Lunch (12:50 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.)
Session 5(2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.):
ChatGPT and Corporate Policies (Manish Jha, Jialin Qian, Michael Weber, and Baozhong Yang)
Discussant: William Mann (Emory)
Peer-Reviewed Theory Does Not Help Predict the Cross-section of Stock Returns (Andrew Y. Chen, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, and Tom Zimmerman)
Discussant: Leland Bybee (Yale)