7TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
Corporate FINANCE

 
 
28
May
2019
Tuesday

Debt & Bankruptcy
Chair: Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Location: Siloso 2

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Loan Syndication Structures and Price Collusion

Jian Cai (Washington University in St. Louis)
Frederik Eidam (Centre for European Economic Research)
Anthony Saunders (New York University)
Sascha Steffen* (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)

Discussant:
Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University & ABFER)

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Going Bankrupt in China

Bo Li* (Tsinghua University)
Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)

Discussant:
Meijun Qian (Australian National University)

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Network Effects in Crowdfunding

Paul Belleflamme (Université catholique de Louvain)
Thomas Lambert* (Erasmus University)
Armin Schwienbacher (Université Côte d’Azur)

Discussant:
Vesa Pursiainen (The University of Hong Kong)

 
29
MAY
2019
Wednesday 

Governance
Chair: Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University & ABFER)

Location: Siloso 3

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Management (of) Proposals

Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University)
Goeun Choi* (Arizona State University)
Rik Sen (University of New South Wales)

Discussant:
Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)

10:00 am – 11:00 am
Organized Crime and Firms - Evidence from Italy

Pablo Slutzky (University of Maryland)
Stefan Zeume* (University of Michigan)

Discussant:
Randall Morck (University of Alberta & ABFER)

11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Free-riders and Underdogs: Participation in Corporate Voting

Dragana Cvijanovic (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Moqi Groen-Xu (London School of Economics)
Konstantinos E. Zachariadis* (Queen Mary University of London)

Discussant:
Vikas Mehrotra (University of Alberta)

30
MAY
2019
Thursday

FinTech
Chair: Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)

Location: Siloso 3

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Are Tokens Securities? An Anatomy of Initial Coin Offerings

Evgeny Lyandres* (Boston University)
Berardino Palazzo (Federal Reserve Board)
Daniel Rabetti (London School of Economics)

Discussant:
Ben Charoenwong (National University of Singapore)

10:00 am - 11:00 am
Can Technology Undermine Macroprudential Regulation? Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Credit in China

Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University )
Alberto Manconi (Bocconi University)
Haikun Zhu* (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Discussant:
Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

11:30 am - 12:30 pm
On the Rise of FinTechs - Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints

Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Valentin Burg (Humboldt University Berlin)
Ana Gombović (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Manju Puri* (Duke University & ABFER)

Discussant:
Xin Wang (Nanyang Technological University)

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 2 May 2019. 


Contact Information

Program Director Conference Organizer

Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University & ABFER)
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Randall Morck (University of Alberta & ABFER)
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Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University & ABFER)
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Kasper Nielsen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)
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