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Session Overview
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Date: Friday, 19/Sept/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
A4: Financial Intermediation 1
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Chair: Oliver Rehbein
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Probability of Default, Leverage and Dynamics

Günter Franke1, Peter Bednarek2, Daniel te Kaat3

1: Universität Konstanz, Germany; 2: European Central Bank, Frankfurt; 3: University of Groningen, Netherlands

Discussant: Oliver Rehbein (Vienna University of Economics and Business)



10:00am - 10:30am

Taxation and bank liquidity creation

Allen Berger1, Dimitris Chronopoulos2, Anna Lucia Sobiech2,3, John OS Wilson2

1: University of South Carolina, USA; 2: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; 3: University of Cologne, Germany

Discussant: Günter Franke (Univesität Konstanz)



10:30am - 11:00am

When the Dam almost Breaks: Disasters and Credit Risk

Sophia Arlt2,3, Christian Gross2, Oliver Rehbein1, Iliriana Shala2,3

1: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; 2: Deutsche Bundesbank; 3: Goethe University

Discussant: Anna Lucia Sobiech (University of Cologne)

11:30am
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1:00pm
B4: Empirical Finance 1
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Chair: Hannes Mohrschladt
 
11:30am - 12:00pm

Relative visibility and attraction in asset pricing

Matthias Bank

Banken und Finanzen, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Discussant: Hannes Mohrschladt (University of Potsdam)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Satispricing

Clemens Mueller, Patrick Verwijmeren

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The

Discussant: Matthias Bank (Universität Innsbruck)



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Strategic communication with a myopically loss averse investor

Thomas Langer1, Nils Lohmeier1, Hannes Mohrschladt1,2

1: University of Münster; 2: University of Potsdam

Discussant: Clemens Mueller (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

2:00pm
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3:30pm
C4: Financial Intermediation 2
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Chair: Matthias Muck
 
2:00pm - 2:30pm

Same same but different: The risk profile of corporate bond ETFs

Johannes Dinger1, Marcel Müller1, Marliese Uhrig-Homburg1, Aleksandra Rzeźnik2

1: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2: Schulich School of Business York University, Canada

Discussant: Matthias Muck (Universität Bamberg)



2:30pm - 3:00pm

ESG favoritism in mutual fund families

Anna Zsofia Csiky1, Rainer Jankowitsch1,2, Alexander Pasler1, Marti G. Subrahmanyam3,4

1: WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria; 2: Vienna Graduate School of Finance; 3: NYU Stern; 4: NYU Shanghai

Discussant: Johannes Dinger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)



3:00pm - 3:30pm

Unmasking global investors: An examination of the shifting dynamics in sovereign bond trading

Nicole Branger1, Matthias Muck2, Alexander Pütz3

1: Universität Münster; 2: Universität Bamberg; 3: Deutsche Finanzagentur

Discussant: Alexander Pasler (WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business))

Date: Saturday, 20/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
D4: Financial Intermediation 3
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Chair: Valeriya Dinger
 
9:00am - 9:30am

Natural bank reliance

Hannah Lucy Winterberg

International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA

Discussant: Valeriya Dinger (Universität Osnabrück)



9:30am - 10:00am

Once a Trader, Always a Trader: The role of traders in fund management

Gjergji Cici1, Philipp Schuster2, Franziska Weishaupt2

1: University of Kansas, USA; 2: University of Stuttgart, Germany

Discussant: Hannah Lucy Winterberg (IMF)



10:00am - 10:30am

Covered but exposed: currency risk in collateralized bank funding

Valeriya Dinger1, Jin Cao2, Valentina Bruno3

1: Universität Osnabrück, Germany; 2: Norges Bank, Norway; 3: American University, US

Discussant: Franziska Weishaupt (Universität Stuttgart)

11:00am
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12:30pm
E4: Empirical Finance 2
Location: Building 3, Room D 006
Chair: Mathis Moerke
 
11:00am - 11:30am

What could have been - counterfactual thinking among retail investors

Lukas Mertes1, Marcel Quint2

1: University of Mannheim, Germany; 2: LMU Munich, Germany

Discussant: Mathis Moerke (University of St.Gallen)



11:30am - 12:00pm

Evaluating the Effectiveness of EU Securitization Regulation on the Performance of the SME Securitization Market

Aida Cehajic, Wangzhen Xia

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Discussant: Lukas Mertes (University of Mannheim)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Do ESG ratings provide novel information? Evidence from Machine Learning

Mathis Moerke, Jonas Romer, Markus Schmid

University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Discussant: Wangzhen Xia (Technical University of Munich)