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9:00am - 10:45am
D1: Corporate Finance Location: Room "Venture" Chair: Jakub Hajda
Beyond Peers: Cross-Industry Competition and Strategic Financing
Boris Nikolov , Norman Schürhoff, Zepeng Wang
University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute
Discussant: Christoph Schneider (University of Münster)
Common Ownership, Incentives & Productivity
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Fiona Kasperk, Martin Schmalz
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Discussant: Urs Peyer (INSEAD)
Escaping Pay-for-Performance
Joseph Kalmenovitz1 , Jakub Hajda 2 , Jason Chen3
1: University of Rochester;
2: HEC Montreal;
3: Auburn University
Discussant: John Thanassoulis (University of Warwick)
11:20am - 12:30pm
D2: Labor and Finance Location: Room "Venture" Chair: Jiajun Tao
Arbitraging Labor Markets
Minrui Gong2 , Ernst Maug2 , Christoph Schneider 1
1: University of Münster, Germany;
2: University of Mannheim, Germany
Discussant: Yuna Heo (University of Basel and Swiss Finance Institute)
Employment Protection and Organizational Structure
Jiajun Tao 1 , Giacinta Cestone2 , Francisco Urzua2
1: University of Leicester, United Kingdom;
2: Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Discussant: Philip Valta (University of Bern)
2:00pm - 3:45pm
D3: Market Microstructure Location: Room "Venture" Chair: Mark Kerssenfischer
Exchange Competition, Fragmentation, and Market Quality
Michal Dzielinski 1 , Björn Hagströmer1 , Chengcheng Qu2
1: Stockholm University;
2: College of International Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Discussant: Wilko Bolt (De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch Central Bank))
Competition between payment card networks and rebates
Vera Roos Lubbersen 1,2 , Wilko Bolt1,2
1: Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam;
2: De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Discussant: Andrea Barbon (University of St. Gallen)
Outages in Sovereign Bond Markets
Mark Kerssenfischer , Caspar Helmus
Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany
Discussant: Per Östberg (University of Zurich)
4:20pm - 5:30pm
D4: Corporate Governance Location: Room "Venture" Chair: Yupana Wiwattanakantang
Delegated shareholder activism
Shaoting Pi
Iowa State University, United States of America
Discussant: Evgeny Petrov (University of Zurich)
The Value of Trade Secrets: Evidence from Economic Espionage
Yupana Wiwattanakantang , Andreas Milidonis, Alexander Michaelides, Vitaliy Ryabinin
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Discussant: Markus Schmid (University of St.Gallen)