The Fifth Annual
Early Career Women in Finance Conference
Organizers: Carola Frydman, Enrichetta Ravina
Sponsored by Columbia
Business School and MIT Sloan
School of Management
Program
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, San Diego Marriott Hotel &
Marina.
Room:
Oceanside.
9:00am
– 9:30am: Continental Breakfast
9:30am – 10:15am – Informed
and Uninformed Investment in Housing: the Downside of Diversification – Elena Loutskina (Darden – University of Virginia),
with Philip Strahan (Boston College).
10:15am –
11:00am - Growth to
Value: Option Exercise and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns – Dana Kiku (Wharton – University of
Pennsylvania), with
Hengjie Ai (Duke, Fuqua School of Business).
11:00am – 11:45am - The Liquidity of the Market Portfolio - Prachi Deuskar
(University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign), with Tim Johnson (University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign).
11:45am – 12:30pm - Lunch & Presentation - Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Performance - Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota),
with Xuan Tian (Indiana
University).
12:30pm – 1:15pm - Do Investment Banks Matter? The Impact of the Near Loss of an Underwriter on Newly Public Firms – Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve
Bank of New York)
1:15pm – 2:00pm – Mind the Gap: Disentangling Credit and
Liquidity in Risk Spreads - Krista Schwarz (Wharton – University of Pennsylvania)
2:00pm – Break for WFA