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Discussions
Selected conference discussions, organized by year. Slides and recordings are linked where available.
2026
3Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market
by Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, and Bryan Seegmiller · AFA 2026
Task Efficiency and Signaling in the Age of GenAI: Effort Reallocation and Firm Value Effects
by Shiwei Ye · AFA 2026
The Dynamics of Labor Market Frictions, Input Substitution, and Corporate Investment
by Sreedhar T. Bharath, DuckKi Cho, and Michael Hertzel · AEA 2026
2025
6Is It AI or Data That Drives Market Power?
by Roxana Mihet, Kumar Rishabh, Orlando Gomes · Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference 2025
AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents
by Wei Jiang, Junyoung Park, Rachel Xiao, Shen Zhang · AI in Finance Conference 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk
by Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex He, James Hodson · GSU CEAR-Finance Conference 2025
Contagious Deregulation
by Jakub Hajda, Joseph Kalmenovitz, Billy Xu · UNC/Duke Corporate Finance Conference 2025
SEC Rulemaking: An Empirical Analysis of Comments and Memoranda
by Yuliya Guseva, Irena Hutton, A.C. Pritchard & Joseph A. Grundfest · Penn & NYU Law and Finance Conference 2025
Does Uncertainty Boost or Hinder Firm Investment? The Role of Product Life Cycle
by Sebastiao Oliveira · USC Marshall PhD Conference 2025
2024
2Capital Market Consequences of Generative AI: Early Evidence from the Ban of ChatGPT in Italy
by Jeremy Bertomeu, Yupeng Lin, Yibin Liu, Zhenghui Ni · Columbia & RFS AI in Finance Conference 2024
Steering Labor Mobility through Innovation
by Song Ma, Wenyu Wang, Yufeng Wu · UBC Winter Conference 2024
2023
2Follow the Pipeline: Anticipatory Effects of Proposed Regulations
by Suzanne Chang, Joseph Kalmenovitz, Alejandro Lopez-Lira · FOM Conference (Yale) 2023
Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age
by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu · NBER Summer Institute Law & Economics 2023
2022
5Technology-Skill Complementarity and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Two Centuries of Patents with Occupations
by Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D. W. Schmidt, Bryan Seegmiller · WFA 2022
Surviving The FinTech Disruption
by Wei Jiang, Yuehua Tang, Rachel Xiao, Vincent Yao · SFS Cavalcade 2022
Labor Force Telework Flexibility and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
by Jack Favilukis, Xiaoji Lin, Ali Sharifkhani, and Xiaofei Zhao · AFA 2022
RegTech
by Ben Charoenwong, Zachary T. Kowaleski, Alan Kwan, and Andrew G. Sutherland · ABFER 2022
Labor Coordination and Division: Human Capital Investment in Supply Chains
by Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, Zi’ang Wang, Jing Wu · CICF 2022
2021
4Digital Capital and Superstar Firms
by Prasanna Tambe, Lorin Hitt, Daniel Rock & Erik Brynjolfsson · ABFR Webinar 2021
Searching for the Equity Premium
by Hang Bai and Lu Zhang · CICF 2021
Labor Hiring and Stock Returns: The Importance of the Sales and Marketing Workforce
by Lorenzo Garlappi and Zhongzhi Song · CICF 2021
Workplace Automation and Corporate Financial Policies
by Thomas W. Bates, Fangfang Du, and Jessie Jiaxu Wang · CICF 2021
2020
1The Utilization Premium
by Fotis Grigoris and Gill Segal · RCFS/RAPS Conference 2020
2019
3Hedging Risk Factors
by Bernard Herskovic, Alan Moreirab and Tyler Muir · LA Finance Day 2019
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment
by Paige Ouimet, Elena Simintzi, Kailei Ye · ASU Sonoran Conference 2019
Do Minimum Wage Increases Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses? Evidence from 15 Million Establishments
by Manpreet Singh, Sudheer Chava, Alex Oettl · MFA 2019
2018
3Labor Scarcity, Finance, and Innovation: Evidence from Antebellum America
by Yifei Mao and Jessie Jiaxu Wang · WFA 2018
A Unified Economic Explanation for Profitability Premium and Value Premium
by Leonid Kogan, Jun Li and Harold H. Zhang · SFS Cavalcade 2018
Decomposing the Size Premium
by Zhiyao Chen, Jun Li, and Huijun Wang · MWF 2018
2017
1Information Environment, Sophisticated Investors, and Market Efficiency: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
by Yong Chen, Bryan Kelly, and Wei Wu · Summer Institute of Finance 2017