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 DiversificationElena 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 ReturnsDana 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