Discussions

2025

CUHK-RAPS-RCFS Conference on Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance: “Financial Innovation and Perceptions of Existing Financial Products” by Deniz Okat, Mikael Paaso, Vesa Pursiainen, George Mulingi Mugabe, and Jean Shirimpaka
EFA: “Local bank supervision” by Di Gong, Thomas Lambert, and Wolf Wagner
CICF: “The Consumption Response to Protectionism” by Chen Lin, Hongyu Shan, and Da Tian
Conference on FinTech Advances in Emerging Markets: “The Use and Disuse of FinTech Credit: When Buy-Now-Pay-Later Meets Credit Reporting” by Yanfei Dong, Jiayin Hu, Yiping Huang, and Han Qiu
CEIBS Finance and Accounting Symposium: “Picking Up the PACE: Loans for Residential Climate-Proofing” by Aymeric Bellon, Cameron LaPoint, Francesco Mazzola, and Guosong Xu
MoFiR Workshop on Banking: “Unleashing International Trade through Financial Integration: Evidence from a Cross-Border Payment System” by Gustavo S. Cortes, Lucas Argentieri Mariani, and Vinicios P. Sant’Anna
FIRS: “CEO Ownership, Risk Management, and Bank Runs at Unlimited Liability Banks during the 1890s” by Haelim Anderson, Jaewon Choi, and Jennifer Rhee
FIRS: “How Do Income-Driven Repayment Plans Benefit Student Debt Borrowers?” by Sylvain Catherine, Mehran Ebrahimian, and Constantine Yannelis

SFS Cavalcade Asia Pacific: “Consumption out of Investment Proceeds under Limited Attention” by Guodong Chen, Xiaomeng Lu, Yiqing Lü, and Michaela Pagel
EFA: “Interest-rate risk and household portfolios” by Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron, and Natasha Sarin
ABFER Annual Conference: “Artificial Intelligence and Customer Acquisition in Retail Financial Services: Experimental Evidence from Insurance Distribution” by Xing Liu
ABFER Annual Conference: “Capital Flight with Intra-firm Lending” by Jiafei Hu and Haishan Yuan
AFA: “Connections over Competence: The Impact of Political Ties on Sell-Side Research” by Kaizhao Guo, Yanghua Shi, and Jingshu Wen
AFA: “FinTech Lending with LowTech Pricing” by Mark J. Johnson, Itzhak Ben-David, Jason Lee, and Vincent Yao

Bank of England & Imperial College Business School Joint Workshop on Household Finance and Housing: “Does Saving Cause Borrowing? Implications for the Co-Holding Puzzle” by Paolina C. Medina and Michaela Pagel

Paris Financial Management Conference: “Digitalization, Financial Knowledge and Financial Decisions” by Daniela Marconi, Marco Marinucci, and Giovanna Paladino
ABFER Webinar - “Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond”: “Crowdsourcing Peer Information to Change Spending Behavior” by Alberto G. Rossi, Francesco D’Acunto, and Michael Weber
Singapore Scholars Symposium: “Do Women Receive Worse Financial Advice?” by Utpal Bhattacharya, Amit Kumar, Sujata Visaria, and Jing Zhao
FIRS Conference: “Household Finance and Life-Cycle Economic Decisions under the Shadow of Cancer” by Dániel Kárpáti
AFA: “The Value of Big Data in a Pandemic” by Kairong Xiao

Shanghai Financial Forefront Symposium: “The Effects of a U.S. Approach to Enforcement: Evidence from China” by Tinghua Duan, Kai Li, Rafael Rogo, and Ray Zhang
CEPR European Conference on Household Finance: “Wealth Inequality: Opportunity or Unfairness?” by Michael Haliassos, Thomas Jansson, and Yigitcan Karabulut
WFA: “Shale Shocked: Cash Windfalls and Household Debt Repayment” by J. Anthony Cookson, Erik P. Gilje, and Rawley Z. Heimer
ABFER Annual Conference: “Effects of IPOs: Evidence from Chinese Listing Suspensions” by Frank Packer and Mark M. Spiegel

Annual Volatility institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) Conference: “Credit Default Swaps and Firm Risk” by Hai Lin, Binh Nguyen, Junbo Wang, and Cheng Zhang
Singapore Scholars Symposium: “Can Partial Commitment Increase Pension Contribution? A Field Experiment in Sri Lanka” by Changcheng Song
Tsinghua Finance Workshop: “Who Benefits from Robo-Advising? Evidence from Machine Learning” by Alberto G. Rossi and Stephen Utkus
ISB Summer Research Conference: “The Long and Short of Cash Flow Shocks and Debt Financing” by Seong Byun, Valery Polkovnichenko, and Michael Rebello
CICF: “Mentally Spent: Credit Market Conditions and Mental Health” by Qing Hu, Ross Levine, Chen Lin, and Mingzhu Tai

SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific: “Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation” by François Derrien, Ambrus Kecskés, and Phuong-Anh Nguyen
Singapore Scholars Symposium: “Monitoring from Afar: Do Foreign Institutional Investors Deter Insider Trading?” by Claire Yurong Hong, Frank Weikai Li, and Qifei Zhu