The 10^th TAU Finance Conference

Tel Aviv Finance Conference

Tel Aviv University

Coller School of Management

December 17-18 & 19, 2019

Finance Conference

Registration 2019

Program 2018

Submission 2019

Tuesday December 17
13:00-13:30	Registration and light refreshment
13:30-13:45 13:45-15:15	Opening remarks and welcome Moshe Zviran (Dean) Session I: Chair - Andrew Ellul (Indiana) Debt, Innovation, and Growth Thomas Geelen (Copenhagen Business School), Jakub Hajda (HEC Lausanne), and Erwan Morellec (EPF Lausanne) Discussant: Vincent Maurin (Stockholm School of Economics) International Monetary Theory: A Risk Perspective Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton), Yuliy Sannikov (Stanford) Discussant: Hengjie Ai (Minnesota)

15:15-15:45	Coffee break
15:45-17:15	Session II: Chair – Yaron Leitner (Washington University) Common Ownership and Startup Growth Ofer Eldar (Duke), Jillian Grennan (Duke), Katherine Waldock (Georgetown) Discussant: James Albertus (Carnegie Mellon) Informational Efficiency in Securitization After Dodd-Frank Sean J. Flynn Jr. (Colorado State), Andra Ghent (Wisconsin), Alexei Tchistyi (UIUC) Discussant: Claudia Robles-Garcia (Stanford)

17:15-17:30	Coffee break
17:30-18:15	Choosing to Disagree in Financial Markets Snehal Banerjee (UCSD), Jesse Davis (UNC), Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD) Discussant: Francesca Zucchi (Federal Reserve Board)

Wednesday December 18

08:30-09:30

Gathering and light breakfast

09:30-11:00

Session III: Michael Gofman (Rochester)

The Maturity Premium

Maria Chaderina (University of Oregon ), Patrick Weiss (Vienna Graduate School of Finance), Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Discussant: Jennie Bai (Georgetown)

Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns
Stefano Cassella (Tilburg), Benjamin Golez (Notre Dame), Huseyin Gulen (Prudue), Peter Kelly (Notre Dame)
Discussant: Michael Weber (Chicago)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30:13:00

Session IV: Chair – David Goldreich (Toronto)

Leverage Risk and Investment: The Case of Gold Clauses in the 1930s
Joao Gomes (Wharton), Mete Kilic (USC), Sebastien Plante (Wisconsin)
Discussant: Zack Liu (University of Houston)

Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds Malcolm Baker (Harvard), Daneil Bergstresser (Brandeis), George Serafeim (Harvard), Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU)
Discussant: Paola Pederzoli (University of Houston)

13:00-14:30

Lunch at the 2^nd floor patio

14:30-16:00

Session V: Chair - Amir Rubin (IDC & Simon Fraser)

Shale Shocked: The Long Run Effect of Wealth on Household Debt”, J. Anthony Cookson (Colorado Boulder), Erik P. Gilje (Wharton), Rawley Z. Heimer (Boston College)
Discussant: Yaron Levi (USC)

Crowdsourcing Financial Information to Change Spending Behavior
Francesco D’Acunto (Boston College), Alberto G. Rossi (Maryland), Michael Weber (Chicago) Discussant: Tao Li (University of Florida)