HEC Paris Spring Finance Conference
Date: April 23, 2020
Location: Zoom
Program committee: Denis Gromb, Thierry Foucault, Johan Hombert, Augustin Landier, David Thesmar, Irina Zviadadze
VIDEO OF THE ASSET PRICING SESSION
VIDEO OF THE CORPORATE FINANCE SESSION
All times are Paris time (GMT+2)
Session 1: Asset Pricing
Session chairs: Hugues Langlois (HEC), Daniel Schmidt (HEC), Irina Zviadadze (HEC)
10:00 am Micro Uncertainty and Asset Prices
Bernard Herskovic (UCLA), Thilo Kind (LBS), Howard Kung (LBS)
Discussant: Max Croce (Bocconi)
10:40 am Climate Regulation and Emissions Abatement: Theory and Evidence from Firms’ Disclosures
Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial), Federica Zeni (Imperial)
Discussant: Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
11:20 am More Risk, More Information: How Passive Ownership Can Improve Informational Efficiency
Adrian Buss (INSEAD), Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial)
Discussant: Alexander Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics)
12:00 pm Break
Session 2: Corporate Finance
Session chairs: Denis Gromb (HEC), Johan Hombert (HEC), Guillaume Vuillemey (HEC)
2:00 pm Firm Uncertainty and Household Spending
Ivan Alfaro (BI), Hoonsuk Park (NTU)
Discussant: Sylvain Catherine (Wharton)
2:40 pm Forced Entrepreneurs
Isaac Hacamo (Indiana), Kristoph Kleiner (Indiana)
Discussant: Hans Hvide (University of Bergen)
3:20 pm Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation
Stefano Federico (Bank of Italy), Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy), Veronica Rappoport (LSE)
Discussant: Melina Papoutsi (ECB)
4:00 pm Adjourn