12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
Corporate FINANCE

 
 
19
May
2025
Monday

Corporate Finance I
Chair: Abhiroop MUKHERJEE (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)

Venue: Cuscaden

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders
Robin DOTTLING (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Doron LEVIT (University of Washington)
Nadya MALENKO (Boston College)
Magdalena ROLA-JANICKA* (Imperial College London)

Discussant:
Dunhong JIN (University of Hong Kong)
10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
When Protectionism Kills Talent
Mehmet CANAYAZ* (Pennsylvania State University)
Isil EREL (Ohio State University)
Umit G. GURUN (University of Texas at Dallas)
Yufeng WU (Ohio State University)

Discussant:
J. Anthony COOKSON (University of Colorado Boulder)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
AlphaManager: A Data-Driven-Robust-Control Approach to Corporate Finance
Murillo CAMPELLO (University of Florida)
Lin William CONG (Cornell University and ABFER)
Luofeng ZHOU* (New York University)

Discussant:
Rik SEN (University of Georgia)

 
21
MAY
2025
Wednesday

Corporate Finance II
Chair: Hong RU (Nanyang Technological University)

Venue: Cuscaden

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Redistribution Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Bank Lending
Yi HUANG* (Fudan University and ABFER)
Bing LU (Beijing Normal University)
Hao ZHOU (Southern University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Bernard YEUNG (National University of Singapore and ABFER)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Echoes of Muted Political Speech in Financial Speech
Utpal BHATTACHARYA (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Tse-Chun LIN (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)
Janghoon SHON* (University of New South Wales)

Discussant:
Simba CHANG (Nanyang Technological University)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Coalitions, Retaliation, and Whistleblowing: Evidence from Memorials of Qing China
Meng MIAO (Renmin University of China)
Thomas NOE (University of Oxford)
Xiao YAN* (Renmin University of China)

Discussant:
Randall MORCK (University of Alberta and ABFER)

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 26 Feb 2025. 

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

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Jun-Koo KANG (Nanyang Technological University and ABFER)
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Randall MORCK (University of Alberta and ABFER)
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Abhiroop MUKHERJEE (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
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Hong RU (Nanyang Technological University)
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Alminas ZALDOKAS (National University of Singapore)
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