TAU Finance Conference - Program 2014
Tel Aviv Finance Conference
Tel Aviv University
Recanati Graduate School of Business
December 16-17 & 18, 2014
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Tuesday December 16
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13:00-13:30 |
Registration and light refreshment (Recanati Building 4floor room 405) |
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13:30-15:00
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Opening remarks and welcome Moshe Zviran (Dean)
Session I: Chair – Lukas Schmidt (Duke) Policy Announcements in FX Markets. Philippe Mueller (LSE), Paolo Porchia (Instituto Empresa), Andrea Vedolin (LSE) Discussant: Roman Kozhan (University of Warwick) |
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Learning by doing: The Value of Experience and origins of Skill for mutual Fund Managers. Elisabeth Kempf (Tilburg University and CentER), Alberto Manconi (Tilburg University and CentER), Oliver Spalt (Tilburg University and CentER). Discussant: Andrei Simonov (Michigan State University) |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-17:30
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Session II: Chair – Michael Gofman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) A Solution to the Palm – 3Com Spin – Off Puzzles Martin Cherkes (Columbia University), Charles M. Jones (Columbia University), Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University). Discussant: David Goldreich (University of Toronto) |
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The Fetal Origins Hypothesis in Finance: Prenatal Environment and Financial Risk Taking Henrik Cronqvist (CEIBS), Alessandro Previtero (Ivey, UWO), Rod White (Ivey, UWO), Stephan Siegel (University of Washington). Discussant: Paul Gao (University of Notre Dame) |
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18:00 |
Bus leaves TAU campus at around 18:00pm to the restaurant |
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18:30 |
Dinner "Goshen Restaurant" (37 Nachalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv) |
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Wednesday December 17 |
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08:30-09:00
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Gathering and light breakfast
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09:00-10:30 |
Session III: Chair – Yishay Yafeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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Good Disclosure, Bad Disclosure Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania), Liyan Yang (University of Toronto). Discussant: Ron Kaniel (Rochester). |
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Good and Bad Uncertainty: Macroeconomic and Financial Market Implications. Returns. Gill Segal (University of Pennsylvania), Ivan Shaliastovich (University of Pennsylvania), Amir Yaron (Wharton and NBER) Discussant: Philippe Mueller (LSE) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-12:30
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Session IV: Chair – Yaniv Grinstein (Cornel University and IDC) Playing it Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk and Agency Conflicts. Todd A. Gormley (Wharton), David A. Matsa (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University). Discussant: Stefan Lewellen (London Business School). Optimal Debt and and Profitabilityin the Tradeoff Theory. Andrew B. Abel (Wharton). Discussant: Adriano Rampini (Duke University) |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch at the “Green House” (Habait Hayarok) restaurant on campus |
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14:00-15:30 |
Session V: Chair – Yaron Leitner (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadephia) |
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How Does Failure Spread Across Broker-Dealers and Dealer Banks? Jefferson Duarte (Rice University), Adam Kolasinski (Texas A&M University). Discussant : Hitesh Doshi (University of Houston) |
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The Macroeconomics of Shadow Banking Alan Moreira (Yale University), Alexi Savov (New York University, Stern). Discussant :Assaf Patir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-17:30
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Session VI : Chair –Ilan Kremer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Interim Fund Performance and Fundraising in Private Equity. Brad M. Barber (UC Davis), Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis). Discussant : Ran Duchin (University of Washington). Marco Di Maggio (Columbia Business School), Amir Kermani (Berkeley). Discussant: Stefano Giglio (University of Chicago) |
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Thursday December 18
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07:45 |
Day trip to Jerusalem. Bus leaves from TAU campus |
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19:30 |
Return to TAU campus |
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