F i n a n c e U C

7th International Conference


Campus San Joaquin UC

Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul

Santiago, Chile


June 25 - 26, 2014




Conference Program

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 (Room 102)

9:00 Registration

Session 1: Housing

9:30 Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Stefano Giglio - Chicago Booth
Discussant: Jaime Casassus - UC
10:30 Banking Deregulation and The Rise in House Price Comovement
Augustin Landier - Toulouse
Discussant: Andres Liberman - NYU Stern
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Unemployment Insurance and Consumer Credit
Brian Melzer - Kellogg
Discussant: Jeanne Lafortune - UC
13:00 Lunch

Session 2: Asset Management I

14:30 The Rise and Fall of Securitization
Sergey Chernenko - Ohio State University
Discussant: Jose Tessada - UC
15:30 Asset Fire Sales in Equity Markets: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Borja Larrain - UC
Discussant: Jeff Pontiff - Boston College

Thursday, June 26, 2014 (Room 102)

Session 3: Bad Behavior in Financial Markets

9:30 Rumor Has It: Sensationalism in Financial Media
Denis Sosyura - University of Michigan
Discussant: Sergey Chernenko - Ohio State University
10:30 Peer Effects and Corporate Corruption
Chris Parsons - UCSD
Discussant: Francisco Gallego - UC
11:30 Coffee break

Session 4: Trade Credit

12:00 Trade Credit and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Regulation of Buyer-Supplier Contracts
Andres Liberman - NYU Stern
Discussant: Brian Melzer - Kellogg
13:00 Lunch

Session 5: Asset Management II

14:30 Asset Managers
Juhani Linnainmaa - Chicago Booth
Discussant: Julio Riutort - UC
15:30 Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?
Jeff Pontiff - Boston College
Discussant: Borja Larrain - UC