2024 NFA Annual Conference

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Asset Pricing: Mutual Funds and ETFs

Will ETFs Drive Mutual Funds Extinct? | Indexing and the Incorporation of Exogenous Information Shocks to Stock Prices | Factor and stock-specific disagreement and trading flows

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Corporate Finance - Empirical: Corporate Governance

When Values Align: Corporate Philanthropy and Employee Turnover | Directing the Labor Market:The Impact of Shared Board Members on Employee Flows | Access to Financing and Racial Pay Gap Inside Firms

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Fintech: Governance, Payments, and Investment

Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment | Token-based Decentralized Governance, Data Economy and Platform Business Model | Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission

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Real Estate

Nonbank Issuers and Mortgage Credit Supply | Spatial Extrapolation in the Housing Market | Assessing Assessors

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Special Session on Climate Finance

(Sponsored by: HEC Montréal)

The ESG Divide: How Banks and Bondholders Differ in Financing Brown Firms | Fighting Climate Change with FinTech | Panel Discussion: Climate Finance

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Coffee Break

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Asset Pricing: Asset Allocation and Trading

The Low Frequency Trading Arms Race: Machines Versus Delays | Asset Pricing, Participation Constraints, and Inequality | Flow-Based Arbitrage Pricing Theory

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Corporate Finance - Empirical: Investment Policy

Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel | Public Seeds, Private Blooms: A Q-theoretical Exploration of Public and Private Investment | The Epidemiology of Financial Constraints and Corporate Investment

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Financial Intermediation and Banking

Variable Deposit Betas and Bank Interest Rate Risk Exposure | Size-Based Regulation and Bank Fragility: Evidence from the Wells Fargo Asset Cap | Open to All Comers: How Unsought Deposit Inflows Affect Banks

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International Finance - Empirical: Exchange Rates

On the Use of Currency Forwards: Evidence from International Equity Mutual Funds | Presidential Cycles and Exchange Rates | Firm Foreign Activity and the Geography of Exchange Rate Risk

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Special Session on AI & Finance

(Sponsored by: McGill Desautels Faculty of Management and the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre)

Social Learning and Sentiment Contagion in the Bitcoin Market | Executives vs Chatbots: Unmasking Insights through Human-AI Differences in Earnings Conference Q&A | Panel Discussion: AI in Finance

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Eventus NFA Reception

(Sponsored by: Eventus, Cowan Research LC)

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Breakfast

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Asset Pricing - Theoretical: Dynamic Equilibrium Models

Asset Pricing with the Awareness of New Priced Risks | Investor Beliefs and Asset Prices Under Selective Memory | Volatility Disagreement and Asset Prices

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Corporate Finance - Empirical: Diversity, Policy, and Corporate Performance

The Effect of Childcare Access on Women’s Careers and Firm Performance | Mortgage Lenders’ Diversity Policies and Mortgage Lending to Minorities | Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance

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International Finance - Empirical: Global Asset Pricing

The Stock-Bond Correlation: A Tale of Two Days | Economic Policy Uncertainty and Global Portfolio Allocations | The Hairy Premium

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Market Frictions and Asset Pricing

Dealer Specialization and Market Segmentation | The Implications of CIP Deviations for International Capital Flows | A Previously Unknown Benefit of Dual Class Shares: Better Price Informativeness

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Monetary Policy

Monetary Policy Transmission through the Exchange Rate Factor Structure | Monetary Policy in the Age of Universal Banking | Local Monetary Policy

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PhD Session: Climate and Sustainability

International ESG Equity Investing and Heterogeneous Asset Demand | Carbon Pricing and Green Finance in Clean Growth | Using Consumer Demand to Limit Climate Risk: Evidence from the U.S. Electric Utility Sector

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Poster Presentations

Does speed bump resolve the problems of mini flash crashes? Evidence from NYSE American | Silencing the Noise, Amplified Effects: Causal Study on Price Efficiency | ARE PASSIVE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS EFFECTIVE MONITORS? NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DEBT MARKETS | Value-Destroying Activism | Upstream markup, operating leverage, and risk | Anomalies and Cash Flows | Hiding in plain sight: preferred habitat effects in short-term rates | How Carbon Is Priced in Cryptocurrencies | In the Money? Low-Leverage Option Betting | Real Effects of Personal Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution | Aiming Low: The Selection into Alternative Forms of Entrepreneurship by Laid-Off Employees | Questioning the Wisdom of Crowds: When do social media trends help and hinder retail trading? | Minding Your Business or Minding Your Child? Motherhood and the Entrepreneurship Gap

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Venture Capital

Create Your Own Valuation | Financing The Next VC-Backed Startup: The Role of Gender | From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech

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Coffee Break

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Asset Pricing - Empirical: Fund Management Practices and Performance

Can International Funds Navigate Changing Global Investment Environments? | Silent Swing: Do Open-End Funds Tilt Holdings Valuations in Response to Flows? | Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers

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Asset Pricing: Inflation Risk

Good Inflation, Bad Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices | Can the Fed Control Inflation? Stock Market Implications | What Can Cross-Sectional Stocks Tell Us About Core Inflation Shocks?

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Corporate Governance: Partisanship and Political Influence

Investing in influence: Investors, portfolio firms, and political giving | Political Preferences and Financial Market Equilibrium | Media, Partisan Ideology, and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Information Costs and Market Efficiency

Do Investors Have Data Blind Spots? The Role of Data Vendors in Capital Markets | Causal effect of information costs on asset pricing anomalies | Detecting Informed Trading Risk from Undercutting Activity in Limit Order Markets

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Market Microstructure: Dynamics of Trading

What Does Best Execution Look Like? | Kyle Meets Friedman: Transforming a Trading Model into a Consumption Model | Gamification of Stock Trading: Losers and Winners

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PhD Session: Firm Financing

Financing Intangibles | Collateralization, Monitoring, and Credit Reallocation | The Unintended Consequences of Intellectual Property Protection: Staying Private Longer

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Sustainable Finance: Pollution, Greenium, and Environmental Disclosure

Environmental Disclosure Incentives and Externalities | Pollution-Shifting vs. Downscaling: How Financial Distress Affects the Green Transition | The Benchmark Greenium

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Lunch

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Asset Pricing: Return Predictability

Decoding Anomalies through Alpha Dynamics | Sources of Return Predictability | Which (Nonlinear) Factor Models ?

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Corporate Finance and Hedging Policy

Supply Network Fragility, Inventory Investment, and Corporate Liquidity | EXIM’s Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies | How Valuable is Corporate Adaptation to Crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 Work-from-Home Announcements

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Debt Contracts and Investment Policy

Short-term debt overhang | Anticipating Binding Constraints: An Analysis of Financial Covenants

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Global Banking and Financial Intermediation

Decomposing Large Banks' Trading Losses | Geopolitical Risk and Global Banking | Local Power, Global Reach: The Influence of Deposit Market Power on International Banking

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Government Regulation and Financial Intermediation

The Long-Run Impact of Government Asset Guarantees | The Deposit Business at Large vs. Small Banks  | What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient?

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PhD Session: Information and Financial Markets

The Double-edged Sward of Data Mining: Implications on Asset Pricing and Information Efficiency | Taking the Road Less Traveled? Market Misreaction and Firm Innovation Directions | Talk or Walk the Talk? The Real Impact of ESG Investing

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Sustainable Finance: ESG Ratings

The Market for ESG Ratings | How Anti-ESG Pressure Affects Investment: Evidence from Retirement Savings | Do Consumers Care About ESG? Evidence from Barcode-Level Sales Data

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Coffee Break

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General Assembly and Keynote Address

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Asset Management: Responsible Investment

Rich and Responsible: Is ESG a Luxury Good? | How Effective are Portfolio Mandates? | Voting Choice

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Asset Pricing - Empirical: Firm-Level Economic Risks

The Relative Price Premium | The Effect of Malicious Cyber Activity on the U.S. Corporate Sector | Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure

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Asset Pricing: Derivatives

0DTE Option Pricing | An Anatomy of Retail Option Trading | Weather Variance Risk Premia

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Corporate Finance - Empirical: Small Business, Bankruptcy, and Entrepreneurial Success

Contract Completeness of Company Bylaws and Entrepreneurial Success | Entrepreneur Experience & Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines | Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11?

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Corporate Governance - Empirical: Proxy Voting and Shareholder Dynamics

Mutual Fund Disagreement and Firm Value: Passive vs. Active Voice | Custom Proxy Voting Advice | See the Gap: Firm Returns and Shareholder Incentives

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Financial Intermediation and Banking

Banks in Space | The Information Advantage of Banks: Evidence From Their Private Credit Assessments | Municipal Capital Structure

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PhD Session: Credit Markets

Monetary Policy Complementarity: Bank Regulation and the Yield Curve | Mortgage Aggregation and Credit Supply | A Preferred-Habitat Model with a Corporate Sector

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Cocktail Reception & Gala Dinner

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Breakfast

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Asset Pricing - Empirical: Macroeconomic Announcements and Information Processing

Does Partisanship Affect Mutual Fund Information Processing? Evidence from Textual Analysis on Earnings Calls | Learning About Fed Policy From Macro Announcements: A Tale of Two FOMC Days | Equity Premium Events

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Corporate Finance and Investment Policy

Intangible Capital Around the World | The Costs of Hidden Workplace Harassment | The Nature of Innovation and The Market for Corporate Control

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Financial Intermediation - Empirical: Liquidity Risk and Asset Management

Anticipatory Trading Against Distressed Mega Hedge Funds | Risk-averse Dealers in a Risk-free Market -- The Role of Internal Risk Limits | Pension Liquidity Risk

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Fraud, Trust, and Financial Behavior

Ethics and Trust in the Market for Financial Advisors | Is Fraud Contagious? Social Connections and the Looting of COVID Relief Programs | Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud

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Sustainable Finance: Green Transition

Corporate Climate Lobbying | “Glossy Green” Banks: The Disconnect Between Environmental Disclosures and Lending Activities | Getting Dirty Before You Get Clean: Institutional Investment in Fossil Fuels and the Green Transition

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Coffee Break

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Asset Pricing - Empirical: Risk Factors

Intangibles Investment and Asset Quality | A Factor Framework for Cross-Sectional Price Impacts | Downside Risk and the Cross-section of Corporate Bond Returns

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Asset Pricing: Investor Sentiment and Beliefs

The Subjective Risk and Return Expectations of Institutional Investors | Excess Volatility and Mispricing in the Presence of Sentiment and Institutional Investors | Sentiment, Productivity, and Economic Growth

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Careers and Relationships

Relationship Lending in Corporate Bond Markets? Evidence from Corporate Call Policies | Between Boardrooms and the Beltway: The Career Paths of Senior Regulators | Succession

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Financial Intermediation - Theoretical: Banking and Credit Risk

Screen More, Sell Later: Screening and Dynamic Signaling in the Mortgage Market | Manipulable Data, Goodhart's Law, and Credit Risk Prediction | Lending Competition and Funding Collaboration

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Household Finance

The Mortgage Cash-Flow Channel: How Rising Interest Rates Impact Household Consumption | Individual Investors’ Housing Income and Interest Rates Fluctuations | Friends with Benefits: Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior

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Events

Poster Presentations (Friday)

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Special Session on Climate Finance

(Sponsored by: HEC Montréal)

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Special Session on AI & Finance

(Sponsored by: McGill Desautels Faculty of Management and the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre)

Session sponsored by the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre

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Eventus NFA Reception

(Sponsored by: Eventus, Cowan Research LC)

Reception sponsored by Cowan Research, LC - Publisher of Eventus.

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Saturday Breakfast

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Poster Presentations (Saturday)

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Lunch

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General Assembly and Keynote Address

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Cocktail & Gala Dinner

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Sunday Breakfast

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Poster Presentations (Sunday)

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