TAU Finance Conference - Program 2012

2012

Tuesday December 18
 

13:00-13:30

 Registration and light refreshment (Dan David building, third floor room 303)

 

13:30-15:00

 

Opening remarks and welcome
Asher Tishler (Dean)
Session I: Chair - Ohad Kadan (Washington U in St. Louis)
Blood and Money: Kin altruism and the governance of the family firm.

Thomas Noe (Oxford)
Discussant : Andrew Ellul (Indiana University)

 

 

 

Intellectual Property Contracts:Theory and Evidence from Screenplay Sales.
Milton Harris (Chicago), S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid (Yeshiva), Suman Basuroy (Oklahoma).
Discussant : Doron Levit (Wharton)

 

15:30-16:00

 

Coffee break 

16:00-17:30

 

Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors MonitorBanks?
Rajkamal Iyer (MIT) , Manju Puri (Duke),Nicolas Ryan (MIT).

Discussant : Brandon Julio (LBS)

 

 

 

Do Loan Officers' Incentives Lead to Lax Lendiing Standards?
Sumit Agarwal
(National U of Singapore), Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State)
Discussant : Dwight Jaffee (Berkeley)

 

18:30

Dinner (restaurant Tel Aviv - L'Entrecote)

 

 

 

Wednesday December 19

 

08:30-09:00

Gathering and light breakfast

09:00-10:30

Session IIA: Chair - Doron Avramov (Hebrew University)

 

Beyond Q: Estimating Investment without Asset Prices.

Vito D. Gala (LBS), Joao Gomes (LBS).

Discussant : Ilan Cooper ( TAU and Norwegian Business School)

 

 

 

 

The Role of Investability Restrictions on Size, Value, and Momentum in International Stock Returns.

G. Andrew Karolyi (Cornell), Ying Wu (Cornell)

Discussant : Zhi Da (Notre Dame).

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-12:30

Session IIB: Chair - Navin Chopra (Northwestern)

Aggregate Stock Market Illiquidinty and Bond Risk Premia.

Kees E. Bouwman (Erasmus), Elvira Sojli (Erasmus), Wing Wah Tham (Erasmus).

Discussant : Jefferson Duarte (Rice).

Volatility, The Macroeconomy and Asset Prices.

Ravi Bansal ( Duke), Dana Kiku (Wharton), Ivan Shaliastovich (Wharton), Amir Yaron ( Wharton).

Discussant : Lukas Schmid (Duke)

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch at the "Green House" ( Habait Hayarok ) restaurant on campus

 

14:00-15:30

Session IIIA: Chair - David Goldreich (U Toronto)

 

 

 

No News is News: Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?

Stefano Giglio (Chicago), Kelly Shue ( Chicago).

Discussant : Noah Stoffman (Indiana)

 

 

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Markets.

Bo Becker (Harvard), Victoria Ivashina (Harvard).

Discussant : Chayawat Ornthanalai (U Toronto)

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

 

16:00-17:30

Session IIIB: Chair - Nadia Massoud (York University)

Is Historical Cost Accounting a Panacea? Market Stress,Incentive Distortionons, and Gains Trading.

Andrew Ellul (Indiana), Chotibhak Jotikasthira (UNC), Christian T. Lundblad (UNC),Yihui Wang (Hong Kong).

Discussant : Tzachi Zach (Ohio State)

 Information Diversity and Market Efficiency Spirals.

Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Liyan Yang (U Toronto).

Discussant : Giovanni Cespa (City University London)

 

 

 

Thursday December 20

 

 

07:45

Day trip to Jerusalem. Bus leaves from TAU campus

 

19:30

Return to TAU campus

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