
PHD MENTORING DAY
Tuesday, June29th, 2021
Coordinated by Scientific Committee Director, Pedro Matos (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia), the PhD Mentoring Day will be held online on June 29, 2021, one day prior to the start of the 28th Finance Forum. It will include:
Mentoring sessions: where our outstanding invited mentors will discuss the latest advances in research and offer career advice for the PhD students.
Parallel sessions: where a reduced number of PhD students will have the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from our mentors, the members of the scientific committee and other guest scholars.
Pedro Matos
John G. Macfarlane Family Chair and Professor of Business Administration
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Invited professors

Rui Albuquerque
Professor of Finance
Carroll School of Management, Boston College.

José Luis Peydro
Professor of Finance
Imperial College & Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Mentors
We will also have a group of outstanding mentors attending students’ presentations and offering them valuable feedback:
Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen and INSEAD), Javier Gil-Bazo (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), Marc Goergen (IE, Instituto de Empresa), Juan Pedro Gómez (IE, Instituto de Empresa), María Gutiérrez Urtiaga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Dmitry Kuvshinov (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), David Martínez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Belén Nieto (Universidad de Alicante), Pablo Ruiz-Verdú (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Fernando Zapatero (Boston University), Andrea Polo (UPF).
PhD Mentoring Day 2021 (June 29th)
Schedule Central European Summer Time
11:50-12:00 | Welcome: María Gutiérrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | President, AEFIN |
12:00-13:00 | Mentoring advice I: Rui Albuquerque, Carroll School of Management, Boston College | |
13:00-15:00 | Morning parallel sessions with three papers each (40 minutes per paper)
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15:00-16:00 | Lunch Break (Spanish lunch time!) | |
16:00-17:00 | Mentoring advice II: José Luis Peydro, Imperial College & Pompeu Fabra | |
17:00-19:00 | Afternoon parallel sessions with three papers each (40 minutes per paper)
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19:00-19:10 | Farewell: Pedro Matos, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia | Scientific chair of the PhD Mentoring Day |
Morning parallel sessions
Banking I – (Chair: David Martínez Miera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Title: Booms, Banking Crises, and Monetary Policy | Presenter: Joël Marbet, CEMFI |
Title: Risky Financial Collateral, Firm Heterogeneity, and the Impact of Eligibility Requirements | Presenter: Matthias Kaldorf, University of Cologne |
Title: Strategic Default in Relationship Banking | Presenter: Nitin Vishen, Indian School of Business |
Asset pricing I – (Chair: Rui Albuquerque, Boston College)
Title: Sea Level Rise and Portfolio Choice | Presenter: Emirhan Ilhan, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
Title: Which Factors with Price-Impact Costs? | Presenter: Sicong (Allen) Li, London Business School |
Title: How Does a Changing Labour Share of Income Affect Asset Prices? | Presenter: Tom Cusbert, University of Sydney |
Corporate Finance I -(Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia)
Title: Who Anchors on Credit Spreads? | Presenter: Yang Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Title: Cash Heterogeneity and the Payout Channel of Monetary Policy | Presenter: Altan Pazarbasi, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Title: The Preferential Treatment of Green Bonds | Presenter: Florian Wicknig, University of Cologne |
Afternoon parallel sessions
Banking II – (Chair: José Luis Peydro, Imperial College & Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: A Macro-Finance model with Realistic Crisis Dynamics | Presenter: Goutham Gopalakrishna, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
Title: Spillover Effects of Banks’ Specialization in Corporate Lending on Mortgage Lending: The Industry Expertise Channel | Presenter: Zhanbing Xiao, University of British Columbia |
Title: Monetary Policy Transmission through the Refinancing of Firms Bank Debt | Presenter: Eunkyung Lee, University of Manchester |
Asset pricing II – (Chair: Fernando Zapatero, Boston University)
Title: What is wrong with the VIX? Expiration Day Effects and Indications of Manipulation | Presenter: Tim Baumgartner, Ulm University |
Title: A Long-Run Productivity Risks Driving q-Factor Model | Presenter: Zhiting Wu, University of St Andrews |
Title: MiFID II and the sensitivity of investors’ portfolio allocation on analyst recommendations | Presenter: Huiting XU, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Corporate Finance II – (Chair: Morten Bennedsen, University of Copenhagen and INSEAD)
Title: Communities as Stakeholders: Impact of Corporate Bankruptcies on Local Governments | Presenter: Baridhi Malakar, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Title: Does Institutional Ownership Composition Matter for Corporate Innovation? | Presenter: Dennis Hutschenreiter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Title: Does media coverage of firms’ environment, social, and governance (ESG) incidents affect analyst coverage and forecasts? | Presenter: Zhichao Li, Durham University |