5th Annual Conference 
Corporate Finance

 
 
23
May
2017
Tuesday

Session: Topics in Corporate Finance I
Chair: Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Venue: Gardenia

2.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Is the Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign Effective?
Tao Shu (University of Georgia)
John Griffin (University of Texas at Austin)
Clark Liu (Tsinghua University)

Discussant:
Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore)
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Institutional Bidding in IPO Allocation: Evidence from China
Bo Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
William Megginson (University of Oklahoma)
Tiecheng Leng (Sun Yat-sen University)
Xiaping Cao (Sun Yat-sen University)

Discussant:
Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University)
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Misvaluation of Investment Options
Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University)
Egor Matveyev (University of Alberta)
Alexei Zhdanov (Pennsylvania State University)

Discussant:
Guojun Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Do Credit Card Companies Screen For Behavioral Biases?
Hong Ru (Nanyang Technological University)
Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussant:
Sumit Agarwal (Georgetown University)
 
24
May
2017
Wednesday

Session: Topics in Corporate Finance II
Chair: Randall Morck (University of Alberta)

Venue: Gardenia

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Perks or Peanuts? The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading
Peter Cziraki (University of Toronto)
Jasmin Gider (University of Bonn)

Discussant:
Rik Sen (University of New South Wales)
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Do CEOs Deserve Their Raises? Evidence from Stock Returns after Subjective Performance Reviews
Yiqing Lu (New York University)
Moqi Groen-Xu (London School of Economics)
Peggy Huang (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

Discussant:
Renée Adams (University of New South Wales)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Value of Offshore Secrets – Evidence from the Panama Papers
Stefan Zeume (University of Michigan)
James Odonovan (INSEAD)
Hannes Wagner (Bocconi University)

Discussant:
Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 
25
May
2017
Thursday

Session: Topics in Corporate Finance III
Chair: Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)

Venue: Gardenia

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Local Crowding Out in China
Yi Huang (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)
Ugo Panizza* (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Discussant:
Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Politically Motivated Corporate Decisions: Evidence from China
David Feldman (University of New South Wales)
Jiaming Li (University of New South Wales)
Konark Saxena* (University of New South Wales)

Discussant:
Tao Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Drivers of Effort: Evidence from Employee Absenteeism
Morten Bennedsen* (INSEAD)
Margarita Tsoutsoura (University of Chicago)
Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)

Discussant:
Gilles Hilary (Georgetown University)

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Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
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Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University)
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Angie Low (Nanyang Technological Unviersity)
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Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology)
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Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)
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