Recent Conference Discussions
ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference 2016
"Who is afraid of BlackRock?" Massa, Schumacher, and Wang -- [my discussion slides]
The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) 2016
"(Crowd)funding Innovation: Financing Constraints, Price Discrimination and Welfare" Kumar, Langberg, and Zvilichovsky -- [my discussion slides]
A model extension I wrote -- [model extension]
Western Finance Association (WFA) 2016
"The Liquid Hand-to-Mouth: Evidence from Personal Finance Management Software" Pagel and Vardardottir -- [my discussion slides]
Western Finance Association (WFA) 2016
"401(k) Plan Consultants: Distorted Incentives from Compensation Arrangements" Werner -- [my discussion slides]
UNC Chapel Hill Junior Finance Roundtable 2017
"ETF Arbitrage under Liquidity Mismatch" Pan and Zeng -- [my discussion slides]
Chicago Financial Institutions Conference (CFIC) 2018
"ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short-selling or Operational Shorting?" Evans, Moussawi, Pagano, and Sedunov -- [my discussion slides]
The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) 2018
"Human Capital Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions" Fulghieri and Sevilir -- [my discussion slides]
European Finance Association (EFA) 2018
"Style-level Return Chasing and Noise Trader Demand" Broman -- [my discussion slides]
UN PRI Academic Network Conference 2018
"Control rights and corporate sustainability around the world" Dyck, Lins, Roth,Towner, and Wagner -- [my discussion slides]
Chicago Financial Institutions Conference (CFIC) 2019
"Liquidity Support in Financial Institutions" Fecht, Genc, Karabulut -- [my discussion slides]
Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds and Factor Investing Conference 2019
"Do ETFs increase the commonality in liquidity of underlying stocks?" Agarwal, Hanouna, Moussawi, Stahel -- [my discussion slides]
2019 China International Conference in Finance
"Institutionalization, Delegation, and Asset Prices" Huang, Qiu, and Yang -- joint work with Xingtan Zhang-- [our discussion slides]
2019 J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities Symposium
"Financialization and Commodity Market Serial Dependence" Da, Tang, and Tao-- [my discussion slides]
2019 University of Denver Summer Finance Conference
"Informational Efficiency in Securitization After Dodd-Frank" Flynn, Ghent, and Tchistyi-- [my discussion slides]
2020 Midwest Finance Association Conference
"Consumers as Financiers: Consumer Surplus, Crowdfunding, and Initial Coin Offerings" Lee and Parlour-- [my discussion slides]
American Finance Association (AFA) 2021 Annual Meeting
"A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment" Oehmke and Opp -- [my discussion slides]
ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference 2021
"The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting" Cohen, Gurun, and Nguyen -- [my discussion slides]
2021 Jacob Gold & Associates Best Discussant Prize Winner
2021 Midwest Finance Association Conference
"Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World" Gibson, Glossner, Krueger, Matos, and Steffen -- [my discussion slides]
The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) 2021
"Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment" Corum, Malenko, and Malenko -- [my discussion slides]
UN PRI Academic Network Conference 2021
"The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds" Jeffers, Lyu, and Posenau -- [my discussion slides]
2021 Chapman Conference on the Experimental and Behavioral Aspects of Financial Markets
"Predictable Price Pressure" Hartzmark and Solomon -- [my discussion slides]
2021 Paris December Finance Meeting
"How Competitive is the Stock Market? Theory, Evidence from Portfolios, and Implications for the Rise of Passive Investing" Haddad, Huebner, and Loualiche -- [my discussion slides]
American Finance Association (AFA) 2022 Annual Meeting
"ETF Arbitrage and International Diversification" Filippou, Gozluklu, and Rozental -- [my discussion slides]
2022 Financial Management Association International (FMA) Annual Meeting
"The Optimal Design of Green Securities" Barbalau and Zeni -- [my discussion slides]
The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) 2023
"Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms" Jiang, Vayanos, and Zheng -- [my discussion slides]
Finance UC – 17th International Conference
"Pension Fund Flows, Exchange Rates, and Covered Interest Rate Parity" Aldunate, Da, Larrain, and Sialm -- [my discussion slides]
UN PRI Academic Network Conference 2023
"Empowering Women by Index Membership: Evidence from a Unique Experiment from Japan" Mehrotra, Roth, Tsujimoto, and Wiwattanakantang -- [my discussion slides]
2023 Financial Management Association International (FMA) Annual Meeting
"A Market Maker of Two Markets: The Role of Options in ETF Arbitrage" Moussawi, Xu, and Zhou -- [my discussion slides]
2024 University of Delaware Weinberg Center/ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium
"Polarization, Purpose and Profit" Ferreira and Nikolowa -- [my discussion slides]
2024 Texas Finance Festival
"Misallocation and Asset Prices" Dou, Ji, Tian and Wang -- [my discussion slides]
SFS Cavalcade North America 2024
"Ethics and Trust in the Market for Financial Advisors" Gervais and Thanassoulis -- [my discussion slides]