2019-2020
Bank Portfolio Choice, Asset Supply, and Monetary Transmission: A Structural Approach
William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Being Innovative Pays Off, but When?
Alejandro Lopez-Lira, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life-Cycle
Sylvain Catherine, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending
Lorena Keller, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Credit Cycles with Market-Based Household Leverage
Tim Landvoigt, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Do Credit Supply Shocks Matter for Corporate Investment and Stock Prices?
Dominik Supera, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Global Macro Factors?
Nikolai Roussanov, Moise Y. Safra Professor, The Wharton School
Long-Term Asset Arbitrageurs
Chuck Fang, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Monetary Policy and the Tradeoff Between Financial Stability and Unemployment
William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Tim Landvoigt, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Pricing of Syndicated Loans and CLOs
Michael Schwert, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Quantitative Models and Corporate Finance
Alex Belyakov, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Revisiting the Locus of Experience
Lisa Tang, PhD Candidate in Management, The Wharton School
Strategic Disclosure and Investor Beliefs
Stella Park, PhD Candidate in Accounting, The Wharton School
The Dynamics of Costly Persuasion
Irina Luneva, PhD Candidate in Accounting, The Wharton School
Frank Zhou, Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
The Insider Value of Political Connections
Max Miller, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Understanding Fluctuations in Foreign Exchange Markets
Hongye Guo, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Jessica Wachter, Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professor in Quantitative Finance, The Wharton School
U.S. Dollar Flows and the Yield Curve
Nikolai Roussanov, Moise Y. Safra Professor, The Wharton School
2018-2019
Comovement in Arbitrage Limits
Jianan Liu, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Debt Overhang in Distress Times
Joao Gomes, Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Mete Kilic, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
Sebastien Plante, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wisconsin School of Business
Learning to Integrate
Lisa Tang, PhD Candidate in Management, The Wharton School
Misallocation in Innovation
Winston Wei Dou, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Leonid Kogan, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Business
Wei Wu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Retirement in the (Shadow) Banking
Guillermo Ordonez, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Risk Free Interest Rates
Jules van Binsbergen, The Nippon Life Professor in Finance, The Wharton School
William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Marco Grotteria, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Strategic Default as an Explanation of the Debt Conservatism Puzzle
Daniel Kim, PhD Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
The Term Structure of Variance and Asset Pricing
Itamar Drechsler, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Mete Kilic, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
Amir Yaron, Robert Morris Professor of Banking, The Wharton School
2017-2018
Compensation Contracts and Bank Risk-Taking
Allison Nicoletti, Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
Frank Zhou, Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
Does Bank Monitoring Reduce Block Trading Discount?
Tanya Paul, PhD Candidate, Accounting, The Wharton School
Rachel Zhang, PhD Candidate, Accounting, The Wharton School
Global Macro Factors?
Nikolai Roussanov, Moise Y. Safra Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Learning to Integrate
Lisa Tang, PhD Candidate, Management, The Wharton School
Mandating Exchange Trading for Corporate Bonds
Sebastien Plante, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Size Premium and Distress Premium
Daniel Kim, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Supply of Credit Across Financial Institutions: Evidence from the Great Recession
Anna Cororaton, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Stock Return Predictability: Riding the Risk Premium
Roberto Gomez Cram, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Venture Capital, Innovation, and Growth
Jeremy Greenwood, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
2016-2017
Activist Investors and Corporate Strategy
Emilie Feldman, Associate Professor of Management, the Wharton School
A Meta-Learning Approach to Adaptive and Risk-Aware Portfolio Selection
Nicholas Johnson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Information Science, the University of Pennsylvania
Financial Intermediary’s Impact on Firm’s Innovation
Hongxun Ruan, PhD Candidate, Finance, the Wharton School
Fracking, Drilling, and Asset Pricing: Estimating the Economic Benefits of the Shale Revolution
Nikolai Roussanov, Associate Professor of Finance, the Wharton School
Income Shocks and Household Balance Sheets: Evidence from Shale Royalty Windfalls
Erik Gilje, Assistant Professor of Finance, the Wharton School
Learning with Information Procession Cost: The Trade Volume Decline of Seasoned Bonds in the Municipal Bond Market
Frank Zhou, Assistant Professor of Accounting, the Wharton School
Managerial Risk Taking Incentives
Nikolai Roussanov, Associate Professor of Finance, the Wharton School
The Asset Pricing Implications of Contracting Frictions
Amir Yaron, Robert Morris Professor of Banking, the Wharton School
Why do larger corporate bond orders obtain better prices?
Sebastien Plante, PhD Candidate, Finance, the Wharton School
Why Do R&D-intensive Companies Earn Higher Returns?
Amora Elsaify, PhD Candidate, Finance, the Wharton School
2015-2016
Acquisitions and Divestitures in Family Firms
Emilie Feldman, Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Estimating Global Bank Network Connectedness
Francis Diebold, Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Financial Consequences of Divestitures
Emilie Feldman, Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Patia McGrath, PhD Candidate, Management, The Wharton School
Fracking, Drilling, and Asset Pricing: Estimating the Economic Benefits of the Shale Revolution
Nikolai Roussanov, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Information Frictions in Markets of Complex Assets
Michael Junho Lee, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Large-scale Loan Portfolio Management
Gerry Tsoukalas, Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions, The Wharton School
Liquidity Mismatch, Bank Stock Returns, and the Macroeconomy
Yasser Boualam, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
Anna Cororaton, PhD Candidate, Finance, The Wharton School
2014-2015
A Sharper Ratio
Kent Smetters, Boettner Professor, The Wharton School
Managerial Risk Taking Incentives
Nikolai Roussanov, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Quantitative Models of Financial Crises and Macroprudential Financial Regulation
Enrique Mendoza, Presidential Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Stability in Financial Networks
Brett Hemenway, Research Scientist, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sanjeev Khanna, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Temporal Modeling and Prediction using Multi-Task Deep Learning
Eric Eaton, Lecturer, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
The effects of foreign cash on U.S. multinational activities
Jennifer Blouin, Associate Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
The Market Value of a Vote
David Musto, Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance; Finance Department Chair, The Wharton School
Christopher Geczy, Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Center; Academic Director, Wharton Wealth Management Initiative; Adjunct Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
2013-2014
Activist Stake Size and Signaling
Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Agency Conflicts and Competition and Agency Conflicts and Financial Distress
Todd Gormley, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Can Differences in Rates of Innovation Explain the Carry-Trade?
Colin Ward, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Casino Gambling and Household Expenditures
Christine Dobridge, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Do Rare Events Explain CDX Tranche Spreads?
Jessica Wachter, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Financial Innovation and Capital Structure: Evidence from Second Lien Loans
Mark Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
International Trade, Currency Risk Premia and Cost of Equity Capital
Nikolai Roussanov, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Portfolio Holdings and Governance Through Exit
Alex Edmans, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
The Effects of Derivative Lawsuits
Ian Appel, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
The Value of Informativeness for Contracting
Alex Edmans, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Using Student Grades to Grade Teachers
Alex Edmans, Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
2012-2013
100 Years of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America
Michael Roberts, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Bank Lending
Michael Roberts, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
An Exploration of Contracts and Incentives in Collateralized Loan Obligations
Gregory Nini, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities and Special Services
Maisy Wong, Assistant Professor of Real Estate, The Wharton School
Dynamic CAPM with Time Varying Asset Risk Exposures
Ivan Shaliastovich, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Amir Yaron, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Estimating Returns to Scale in Active Portfolio Management
Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Foreign Exchange Risk Premia: Evidence from Option Markets
Ivan Shaliastovich, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
International Trade, Currency Risk Premia and Cost of Equity Capital
Nikolai Roussanov, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Managerial Incentive Alignment in Corporate Spinoffs
Emilie Feldman, Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Political Risk and Stock Market Outcomes
Christine Dobridge, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Quantifying the Costs of Renegotiation
William Mann, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, The Wharton School
Michael Roberts, Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
Regulatory Uncertainly and Investment and Agency Conflicts and Financial Distress
Todd Gormley, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
The Real Effects of Disclosure and Empirical Evidence of Managerial Myopia
Alex Edmans, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
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