Papers - ESSFM 2015 (CF)
Monday 13 July
Morning Session: Empirical banking: Wages, financial development, lending standards
08.30 - 09.30 Since you’re so rich, you must be really smart: Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
*Per Johan Strömberg (Stockholm Institute for Financial Research and CEPR) with Daniel Metzger (Stockholm School of Economics)
09.30 - 10.30 Agricultural Productivity and Financial Development
*Jacopo Ponticelli (U. of Chicago - Booth) with Paula Bustos (CREI, UPF and CEPR) and Bruno Caprettini (UPF)
11.00 - 12.00 Decision-Making under the Gambler’s Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires
*Kelly Shue (University of Chicago) with Daniel Chen (University of Chicago) and Toby Moskowitz (University of Chicago)
Tuesday 14 July
Focus session: Experiments and Quasi-experiments
08.45 - 09.30 Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation: Employee-level Evidence from Google
Eric Zitzewitz (Darmouth)
09.30 - 10.15 Information Architecture and Intertemporal Choice: A Randomized Field Experiment in the United States
Yaron Levi (UCLA)
10.30 - 11.15 Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment
Josse Delfgaauw (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
11.15 - 12.00 Competitiveness and the gender gap among young business professionals
Paola Sapienza (Northwestern University and CEPR)
Wednesday 15 July
Focus session: The Real Effects of Information Aggregation in Financial Markets
08.30 - 09.30 Measuring The Informativeness Of Economic Actions And Market Prices
Philip Bond (University of Washington)
09.30 - 10.30 Informational Black Holes in Auctions
*Ulf Axelson (London School of Economics) with Igor Makarov (London School of Economics)
11.00 - 12.00 Target's Learning in M&A Negotiations
*Chong Huang (UC Irvine) with Qiguang Wang (UC Irvine)
Thursday 16 July
Morning Session: Corporate and Banking Theory
08.30 - 09.30 Multiple Lenders, Strategic Default and Covenants
*Andrea Attar (Toulouse School of Economics) with Catherine Casamatta (Toulouse School of Economics), Arnold Chassagnon (Tours University) and Jean Paul Decamps (Toulouse School of Economics)
*Andrey Malenko (MIT) with Steven Grenadier (Stanford University) and Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
11.00 - 12.00 Bank Capital, Bank Credit and Unemployment
*Giorgia Piacentino with Jason Donaldson and Anjan Thakor (all Washington University in St Louis)
Friday 17 July
Morning session: Public finance, economics of marriage, the gambler's fallacy
*Miguel Ferreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CEPR) with Manuel Adelino (Duke University) and Igor Cunha (Nova School of Business and Economics)
*Peter Koudijs (Stanford University) with Laura Salisbury (York University)
11.00 - 12.00 Lending Standards Over the Credit Cycle
*Nicolas Serrano-Velarde (Bocconi) with Emanuele Tarantino (University of Mannheim) and Giacomo Rodano (Bank of Italy)