Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Scott Baker (Stanford University)
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University)
Steven Davis (University of Chicago)

Discussant:
Ross Levine (University of California Berkeley)

Informed Trading in Regulated Industries

David Reeb (National University of Singapore)
Yuzhao Zhang (Oklahoma State University)
Wanli Zhao (Southern Illinois University)

Discussant:
Mara Faccio (Purdue University)

Consumption and Debt Response to Fiscal Stimuli: Evidence from a Large Panel of Consumers in Singapore

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Takeo Hoshi (Stanford University)

Informed Trading & Expected Returns

James Choi (Yale University)
Li Jin (Oxford University & Peking University)
Hongjun Yan (Yale University)

Discussant:
Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University)

Does Group Affiliation Facilitate Access to External Financing? Evidence from IPOs by Family Business Groups

Ron Masulis (University of New South Wales)
Peter Kien Pham (University of New South Wales)
Jason Zein (University of New South Wales)
Stephanie Dash (Deutsche Bank AG Australia & New Zealand)

Discussant:
Joseph Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Shell Games: Have U.S. Capital Markets been harmed by Chinese companies entering via Reverse Mergers?

Charles Lee (Stanford University)
Kevin Li (University of Toronto)
Ran Zhang (Peking University)

Discussant:
Yanbo Wang (Boston University)

State-controlled Banks and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy

Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
M.Deniz Yavuz (Purdue University)
Bernard Yeung (National university of Singapore)

Discussant:
Krishnamurthy Subramanian (Indian School of Business)

Understanding Informal Financing

Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania)
Meijun Qian (National University of Singapore)
Jing Xie (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin)

Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?

David McLean (University of Alberta & Massachusetts Institute at Technology)
Jeffrey Pontiff (Boston College)

Discussant:
Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore)

Does Corporate Hedging Attract Foreign Investors?

Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
Lei Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Anand Srinivasan (National University of Singapore)

Employee Inside Debt and Firm Risk-Taking: Evidence from Employee Deposit Programs in Japan

Sudipto Dasgupta (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Yupeng Lin (National University of Singapore)
Takeshi Yamada (University of Adelaide)
Zhang Zilong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant:
Craig Brown (National University of Singapore)

Non-executive Employee Stock Options and Corporate Innovation

Xin Chang (Nanyang Technological University)
Kangkang Fu (Nanyang Technological University)
Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University)
Wenrui Zhang (Xiamen University)

Discussant:
Renée B. Adams (University of New South Wales)