UT Dallas Fall Finance Conference 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024

Bus to School of Management leaves the hotel at 1:15pm CST

Registration, with refreshments and beverages

Welcome Remarks (2:00pm-2:15pm): Dean Hasan Pirkul

Session 1 (2:15-3:45pm): Chris Reilly

Local Government Valuations – Oliver Giesecke (Stanford), Haaris Mateen (Houston), and Marcelo Sena (Stanford)
Discussant: Kenneth Ahern (USC)

Tech Dollars and Exchange Rate Reconnect – Qiushi Huang (SAIF), Leonid Kogan (MIT), Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern)
Discussant: Shaojun Zhang (OSU)

Coffee Break (3:45pm-4:00pm) – Lounge (across conference room)

Session 2 (4:00-5:30pm): Felipe Varas

Shareholder Voice and Executive Compensation – John Barry (Rice)
Discussant: Felix Feng (University of Washington)

Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Financial Innovation – Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown), Hengyi Huang (Tilburg), Michael Weber (Chicago), Jin Xie (Peking University HSBC Business school), Liu Yang (Maryland)
Discussant: Jess Cornaggia (Penn State)

Reception (6:15 -7:00pm): Fogo de Chão | Sunroof Terrance
Conference Dinner (7:00 -10:00pm): 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 5:45pm, and take guests back to the hotel from the restaurant at 10:00pm.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Bus to School of Management leaves the hotel at 8:30am CST

Breakfast (8:45-9:30am) – Lounge (across conference room)

Session 3 (9:30-11:00am): Alejandro Rivera

Collateral Damage: Low-Income Borrowers Depend on Income-Based Lending – Mark Garmaise (UCLA), Mark Jansen (Utah), Adam Winegar (BI Norwegian Business School)
Discussant: Discussant: Huan Tang (Wharton)

Labor Market Polarization and Student Debt – Sanket Korgaonkar (Virginia), Elena Loutskina (Virginia), Constantine Yannelis (Chicago)
Discussant: Ankit Kalda (Indiana)

Coffee Break (11:00am-11:20am)

Session 4 (11:20-12:50pm): Hongda Zhong

Environmental Disclosures in Global Supply Chains – Christian Opp (Rochester), Xingtan Zhang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins)

Measuring Misinformation in Financial Markets – Jianqing Fan (Princeton), Qingfu Liu (Fudan), Yang Song (University of Washington), Zilu Wang (Fudan)
Discussant: Xiaofei Zhao (Georgetown)

Lunch (12:50-2:20pm) – Lounge (across conference room)

Session 5 (2:20-3:50pm): Hao Pang

Nominal rigidity and the inflation risk premium: Identification from the cross section of equity returns – Hengjie Ai (Wisconsin), Xinxin Hu (Wisconsin), Xuhui Pan (Oklahoma)
Discussant: Ali Ozdagli (Dallas Fed)

Equity Premium Events – Ben Knox (Federal Reserve Board), Juan M. Londono (Federal Reserve Board), Mehrdad Samadi (Federal Reserve Board), and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: Eben Lazarus (UC Berkley)

Coffee Break (3:50-4:10pm)

Keynote Speech (4:10-5:00pm): Itay Goldstein (Wharton)

Amplification and Fragility in Financial Markets

Closing Remarks (5:00pm)