Conference Agenda

Text Is All You Need: Asset Pricing Without Returns

Christian Breitung

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Discussant: Mathis Moerke (ESCP Business School)

New Products

Abhiroop Mukherjee¹, Bruno Pellegrino², Alminas Zaldokas³

1: HKUST; 2: Columbia University; 3: NUS, Singapore

Discussant: Dominik Walter (University of Konstanz)

Newspaper Closures and Trading in Local Stocks

Peter Cziraki^1,2, Jasmin Gider³

1: Texas A&M University; 2: European Corporate Governance Institute; 3: Tilburg University

Discussant: Tina Oreski (ESCP Business School)

When Public Information Goes Private: Analyst Careers and Market Efficiency

Ling Cen¹, Jiang Chen², Chay Ornthanalai³, Christoph Schiller⁴

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: Peking University; 3: Rotman School of Management; 4: Ohio State University

Discussant: Christoph Sextroh (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)

What Treasury Auctions Reveal About Investor Demand

Fabricius Somogyi¹, Jonathan Wallen², Lingdi Xu³

1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: Harvard Business School, USA; 3: Harvard University, USA

Discussant: Utso Pal Mustafi (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

China Walls

Tomy Lee¹, Daniel Nathan², Chaojun Wang³

1: Central European University; 2: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Andriy Shkilko (University of Georgia)

The Quiet Hand of Regulation: Harnessing Uncertainty and Disagreement

Daniel Andrei¹, Lorenzo Garlappi²

1: McGill, Canada; 2: UBC, Canada

Discussant: Jan Schneemeier (Michigan State University)

Demystifying Cheap Sustainability Talks: Theory and Evidence

Tianhao Yao¹, Junli Zhao²

1: Singapore Management University; 2: City University of London

Discussant: Stefano Lovo (HEC Paris)

The Two-System View of Cognition and Investor Choice

Yang Song¹, Kai Li², Nianhang Xu³, Chunyu Zu⁴

1: University of Washington, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia; 3: Renmin University of China; 4: Communication University of China

Discussant: Alexander Hillert (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University Frankfurt)

Facing Default?

Pranav Gang², Marius Guenzel³, Shimon Kogan¹, Marina Niessner⁴, Kelly Shue²

1: Reichman University, Israel; 2: Yale, US; 3: Wharton, US; 4: Indiana, US

Discussant: Simon Rother (University of Mannheim)