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Session Overview
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Date: Friday, 19/Sept/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
A2: Corporate Finance Empirical 1
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Chair: Christoph Schneider
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Dictionaries for post-bankruptcy success prediction: A machine learning approach

Wolfgang Breuer, Andreas Knetsch, Katharina Mersmann

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Discussant: Christoph Schneider (University of Münster)



10:00am - 10:30am

Tech openness: Corporate culture in times of AI-transformation

Sabrina Yufang Sun, Sven Vahlpahl

University of Mannheim, Germany

Discussant: Andreas Knetsch (RWTH Aachen University)



10:30am - 11:00am

The outsized role of tax havens in mergers and acquisitions

Jean-Marie Meier1, Jake Smith2, Christoph Schneider3

1: University of Texas at Dallas; 2: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 3: University of Münster, Germany

Discussant: Sabrina Yufang Sun (University of Mannheim)

11:30am
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1:00pm
B2: Corporate Governance
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Chair: Moritz Wiedemann
 
11:30am - 12:00pm

Algorithms leave but insiders arrive: evidence from the tick size pilot

Chen Lin

Uni Mannheim, Germany

Discussant: Moritz Wiedemann (Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Watchdog or mouthpiece? The role of financial news media in corporate communication

Noah Urban1, Martin Hibbeln1, Henrik Müller1, Ralf Metzler2

1: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 2: TU Dortmund University, Germany

Discussant: Chen Lin (Uni Mannheim)



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Green stewards: Responsible institutional investors foster green capex

Moritz Wiedemann

Rotterdam School Of Management, Erasmus University

Discussant: Ralf Metzler (University of Duisburg-Essen)

2:00pm
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3:30pm
C2: Digital Finance
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Chair: Thomas Walther
 
2:00pm - 2:30pm

Economic limits of bitcoin’s environmental promises: pathway or pitfall for the green transformation?

Jona Stinner, Maximilian Gill, Marcel Tyrell

Witten/Herdecke University, Germany

Discussant: Thomas Walther (Utrecht University)



2:30pm - 3:00pm

Banking for boomers - A field experiment on technology adoption in financial services

Katharina Hartinger1, Erik Sarrazin1, David Jia-Hui Streich2

1: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; 2: Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany

Discussant: Maximilian Gill (University of Witten/Herdecke)



3:00pm - 3:30pm

Certainly! Generative AI and its Impact on Academic Writing (in Finance)

Thomas Walther1,2, Marie Dutordoir3,1

1: Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands; 2: Faculty of Business and Economics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; 3: University of Manchester Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom

Discussant: David Jia-Hui Streich (Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt)

Date: Saturday, 20/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
D2: Household Finance
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Chair: Alexander Klos
 
9:00am - 9:30am

Divorce and Financial Well-Being

Marcel Fischer1,2, Natalia Khorunzhina2

1: University of Konstanz, Germany; 2: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Discussant: Alexander Klos (Kiel University)



9:30am - 10:00am

If I were you: Advisor gender and client risk tolerance

Dominik Scheld, Oscar Stolper

University of Marburg, Germany

Discussant: Marcel Fischer (University of Konstanz)



10:00am - 10:30am

Gambling with Dividends

Alexander Klos1, Jan Müller-Dethard2, Niklas Reinhardt1, Martin Weber2

1: Kiel University; 2: University of Mannheim

Discussant: Dominik Scheld (University of Marburg)

11:00am
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12:30pm
E2: Corporate Finance Empirical 2
Location: Building 3, Room 3 EG
Chair: Alexander Schandlbauer
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Exporting carbon emissions? Evidence from space

Santanu Kundu1, Stefan Ruenzi2

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: University of Mannheim, Germany

Discussant: Alexander Schandlbauer (University of Southern Denmark)



11:30am - 12:00pm

Venture capital and scientists' selection into entrepreneurship

Xuelai Li

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Discussant: Santanu Kundu (Aarhus University)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Who worries about the stock market: Evidence from hospitalizations

Alexander Schandlbauer1, Daniel Rettl2, Mircea Trandafir3

1: University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; 2: Terry College of Business, University of Georgia; 3: Rockwool Foundation Research Unit and IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Discussant: Xuelai Li (Imperial College London)