The 11^th TAU Finance Conference

Tuesday December 13

13:00-13:30

Registration and light refreshment

13:30-13:45

Opening remarks and welcome

Dan Amiram (Dean)

13:45-15:15

Session 1: Chair – Yaron Leitner (Washington University in St. Louis)

Public Debt and the Balance Sheet of the Private Sector

Hans Gersbach (ETH Zürich), Jean-Charles Rochet (Université de Genève), Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (Universität Mannheim)

Discussant: Norman Schürhoff (HEC Lausanne)

The Voting Premium

Doron Levit (University of Washington), Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan), Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim)

Discussant: Vladimir Vladimirov (University of Amsterdam)

15:15-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-17:15

Session 2: Chair – Ilan Kremer (Hebrew University)

Non-Standard Errors

Albert Menkveld (VU Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) et al
Discussant: David Goldreich (University of Toronto)

Retail Trading in Options and the Rise of the Big Three Wholesalers

Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School), Anna Pavlova (London Business School), Taisiya Sikorskaya (London Business School)

Discussant: Mirela Sandulescu (University of Michigan)

17:15-17:30

17:30-18:15

Coffee break

Learning from Prospectuses

Simona Abis (Columbia University), Andrea Buffa (University of Colorado), Apoorva Javadekar (Indian School of Business), Anton Lines (Columbia University)

Discussant: Azi Ben-Rephael (Rutgers University)

Conference Dinner

Wednesday December 14

08:30-09:30

Gathering and light breakfast

09:30-11:00

Session 3: Chair – Ilan Cooper (University of Haifa)

Identifying preference for early resolution from asset prices

Hengjie Ai (University of Minnesota), Ravi Bansal (Duke University), Hongye Guo (Hong Kong University), Amir Yaron (Bank of Israel and Wharton)

Discussant: Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)

Noisy Factors

Pat Akey (University of Toronto), Adriana Robertson (University of Chicago), Mikhail Simutin (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Gill Segal (University of North Carolina)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:00

Session 4: Chair – Alberto Manconi (Bocconi University)

Noisy FOMC Returns

Oliver Boguth (Arizona State University), Vincent Grégoire (HEC Montéral), Charles Martineau (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Dino Palazzo (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Trading Ahead of Barbarians' Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information

Georgy Chabakauri (London School of Economics), Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College), Wei Jiang (Columbia University)

Discussant: Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester)

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Session 5: Chair -  Roni Michaely (University of Hong Kong)

Session sponsored by the Vicky and Joseph Safra Research Institute for Banking and Financial Intermediation

Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals

Anthony Cookson (University of Colorado), Marina Niessner (Wharton), Christoph Schiller (Arizona State University)

Discussant: Ekaterina Neretina (University of Southern California)

Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets

Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary), Christine A. Parlour (UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Gustavo Schwenkler (Santa Clara University)

Thursday December 15

07:45

Day trip to Jerusalem . Bus leaves from TAU campus

19:30

Return to TAU campus