PhD Mentoring Day 2024
PHD MENTORING DAY COORDINATOR
The PhD Mentoring Day will be held on July 3, 2024, one day prior to the start of the 31st Finance Forum coordinated by Scientific Committee Director, Ariadna Dumitrescu (ESADE)
Ariadna Dumitrescu
Ariadna Dumitrescu is an Associate Professor of Finance at ESADE Business School. She holds a PhD in Economics from IDEA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest. Her research deals with market participants’ strategic behaviour and the role of information in investors’ decisions with applications to sustainable finance and financial markets microstructure.
INVITED PROFESSORS
Hans Degryse
Hans Degryse is Professor of Finance at the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Insurance of the KU Leuven. He is a research fellow at the CEPR, CESIfo, the European Banking Center (EBC), SUERF, and TILEC. His research focuses on financial intermediation, including empirical banking as well as theoretical and empirical market microstructure. He co-authored, with Moshe Kim and Steven Ongena, the graduate textbook Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications and Results published by Oxford University Press.
Roni Michaely
Roni Michaely is the Zhang Yonghong Endowed Chair Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurialship at The University of Hong Kong Business School, and the founder Managing Director of the HKU Tel-Aviv Innovation Hub. Professor Michaely is also a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Michaely’s research interests are in the areas of empirical Corporate Finance and Capital Markets.
MENTORS
We will also have a group of outstanding mentors attending students’ presentations and offering them valuable feedback:
- Andrés Almazan (McCombs)
- Dante Amengual (CEMFI)
- Ariadna Dumitrescu (ESADE)
- Javier Gil-Bazo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- David Martinez Miera (Universidad Carlos III)
- Belén Nieto Domenech (Universidad de Alicante)
- Anna Toldra (Universidad Carlos III)
- Javier Suarez (CEMFI)
- Fernando Zapatero (Boston University)
WEDNESDAY JULY 3, 2024 – PHD MENTORING DAY
9:00-9:15 | Welcome to the PhD Mentoring Day: Grade Hall |
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9:15-10:15 | Mentoring Advice I: Hans Degryse, KU Leuven -Grade Hall |
10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-12:50 | Parallel Sessions |
12:50-14:45 | Lunch Break |
14:45-16:30 | Parallel Sessions |
16:30-16:45 | Coffee Break |
16:45-17:45 | Mentoring Advice II: Roni Michaely, University of Hong Kong – Grade Hall |
PARALLEL SESSIONS A (from 10:30 to 12:50 h.)
Classrooms of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism
Session A1 (Grade Hall): BANKING
Wednesday 3, 10:30h., Grade Hall | ||
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Chair: Javier Suarez | ||
Mentors: Hans Degryse, David Martinez Miera, Anna Toldra | ||
ID | Title | Author |
123 | Financial Deregulation and Fertility Decisions: The Unintended Consequences of Banking Legislation | Julian Soriano Harris |
164 | Pledgeability, Monitoring, and Credit Reallocation | Tong Zhao |
222 | The fintech lending channel of monetary policy | Lavinia Franco |
26 | Repeated Interaction in Distant Lending Relationships | Malte Heissela |
Session A2 (Classroom F.2.5): ASSET PRICING
Wednesday 3, 10:30h., Classroom F. 2.5 | ||
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Chair: Fernando Zapatero | ||
Mentors: Dante Amengual, Belen Nieto | ||
ID | Title | Author |
163 | Alpha Accounting | Jan Sandoval |
196 | Selection Neglect and the Cross-Section of Wine Returns | Robbe Van Tillo |
77 | Extrapolative investor beliefs and salience across stocks | Eva Mynot |
146 | Earnings News Insights: Option-Implied Predictors, Bias Expectation, and Mispricing | Maosen Wang |
Session A3 (Classroom F.2.6): SUSTAINABILITY
Wednesday 3, 10:30h., Classroom F. 2.6 | ||
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Chair: Javier Gil-Bazo | ||
Mentors: Roni Michaely, Ariadna Dumitrescu | ||
ID | Title | Author |
51 | The Effects of ESG Ratings on Firms’ Financial Decisions | Sahand Davani |
170 | Do Homeowners Care About Sustainability? | Milind Goel |
198 | Resilience of mutual funds to climate transition shocks | Diana Mykhalyuk |
54 | Talk vs. Walk: Lessons from Silent Sustainable Investing of Mutual | Haoran Wu |
PARALLEL SESSIONS B (from 14:45 to 16:30 h.)
Classrooms of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism
Session B1 (Classroom F.2.5): PEER EFFECTS
Wednesday 3, 14:45h., Classroom F. 2.5 | ||
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Chair: Andrés Almazan | ||
Mentors: Anna Toldra | ||
ID | Title | Author |
149 | Common Ownership and Automation | Joseph Alexander Emmens |
224 | Closing sectoral gender gaps in STEM and Finance | Kristine Sahakyan |
178 | Green Neighbors, Greener Neighborhoods | Christine Zhuowei Huang |
Session B2 (Classroom F.2.6): FIXED INCOME
Wednesday 3, 14:45h., Classroom F. 2.6 | ||
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Chair: Dante Mengual | ||
Mentors: Fernando Zapatero | ||
ID | Title | Author |
153 | Cultural Bonds | Francesco Stradi |
189 | Fixed-income Asian and Australian options | Leon-Perez Belén |
100 | Slope and Curvature of the Currency Forward Curve | Ang Lia |