TAU Finance Conference - Program 2017

Sunday December 17 2017

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 - Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania)
In Defense of Market Efficiency: Evidence from Two Million Strategies
Tarun Chordia (Emory University), Amit Goyal (SFI), Alessio Saretto (University of Texas, Dallas)
Discussant : Ohad Kadan (Washington University)
 

Informed Trading in the Stock Market and Option Price Discovery
Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Swiss Finance Institute), Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College), Dmitry Muravyev (Boston College)
Discussant: Neil Pearson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne)
 

15:15-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-17:15

The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity

Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School), Michaela Pagel (Columbia University)

Discussant : Inessa Liskovich (University of Texas, Austin)
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17:15-17:30

Coffee break

17:30-18:15

Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis
Jennifer Brown (UBC), David A. Matsa (Kellogg School of Management)
Discussant : Vikram Nanda (University of Texas, Dallas)

Monday December 18 2017

08:30-09:30

Gathering and light breakfast

09:30-11:00

Session III: Chair – Artur Raviv (Kellogg School of Management)

Dynamic Information Acquisition and Strategic Trading
Snehal Banerjee (USCD), Bradyn Breon-Drish (USCD) Discussant: Alberto Teguia (SFI)
 

Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts
Lin William Cong (University of Chicago), Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Hongda Zhong (LSE)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30:13:00

Session IV: Chair –Eitan Goldman (Indiana University)

Does Economic Insecurity Affect Employee Innovation
Shai Bernstein (Stanford University), Timothy McQuade (Stanford University),(GSB), and Richard R. Townsend (UCSD)
Discussant: Andrew Ellul (Indiana University)

Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship

Tania Babina (Columbia Business School)

Discussant:Matthias Efing (HEC)

13:00-14:30

Lunch at the 2^nd floor patio

14:30-16:00

Session V: Chair- Meni Abudy (Bar Ilan University)
Inside Brokers
Frank Weikai Li (HKUST), Abhiroop Mukherjee (HKUST), Rik Sen (University of New South Wales),
Discussant :Noah Stoffman (Indiana University)

The Information Content of Dividends: Safer Profits, not Higher Profits

Roni Michaely (Cornell University), Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University), Michael Weber (Chicago Booth School of Business)
Discussant: Ran Duchin (University of Washington)

Coffee break

Tuesday December 19

07:45

Day trip. Bus leaves from TAU campus

19:30

Return to TAU campus