13th Annual Conference
Corporate Finance

 
 
18
May
2026
Monday

Intangible Capital and Growth
Chair: Ayako YASUDA (University of California, Davis and ABFER)

Venue: Tanglin I & II

9:00 am – 10:00 am
The Intangible Gap
Mindy XIAOLAN* (The University of Texas at Austin)
Lei ZHANG (University of Hong Kong)
Yiyuan ZHANG (The University of Texas at Austin)

Discussant:
Kai LI (Tsinghua University)
10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Innovations and (Shocks to) Industry-Academia Collaboration
Anqi JIAO (Capital University of Economics and Business)
Evgeny LYANDRES (Tel Aviv University)
Honglin REN* (Renmin University of China)

Discussant:
Elvira SOJLI (University of New South Wales and ABFER)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Acquiring Supplier Networks: Domestic Mergers for International Supply Chain Resilience
Ling CEN* (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Sudipto DASGUPTA (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Isil EREL (The Ohio State University)
Yanru HAN (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Discussant:
Prabhala NAGPURNANAND (Johns Hopkins University and ABFER)

 
20
MAY
2026
Wednesday

Geoeconomics and Politics
Chair: Caroline FLAMMER (Columbia University and ABFER)

Venue: Cuscaden

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
China's Global Ownership
Jennie BAI (Georgetown University and ABFER)
Yaojun KE (Nanyang Technological University)
Luc LAEVEN (European Central Bank)
Hong RU* (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Vidhan K. GOYAL (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Geoeconomics of Imports: Evidence from the United Nations Security Council
Yanduo CHEN* (Singapore Management University)
Jing WU (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant:
Randall MORCK (University of Alberta and ABFER)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Unreadable Political Trades
Ziming DONG (University of California)
Nancy R. XU (Boston College)
Xiaoyun YU* (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Bo BIAN (University of British Columbia)

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 25 Mar 2026. 

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.

Contact Information

Program Director Conference Organizer

Manju PURI (Duke University and ABFER)
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Ayako YASUDA (University of California, Davis and ABFER)
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Abhiroop MUKHERJEE (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
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Alminas ZALDOKAS (National University of Singapore and ABFER)
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