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

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

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

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

9:00-9:15Welcome to the PhD Mentoring Day: Grade Hall
9:15-10:15Mentoring Advice I: Hans Degryse, KU Leuven -Grade Hall
10:15-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:50Parallel Sessions
12:50-14:45Lunch Break
14:45-16:30Parallel Sessions
16:30-16:45Coffee Break
16:45-17:45Mentoring 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
Chair: Javier Suarez
Mentors: Hans Degryse, David Martinez Miera, Anna Toldra
IDTitleAuthor
123Financial Deregulation and Fertility Decisions: The Unintended Consequences of Banking LegislationJulian Soriano Harris
164Pledgeability, Monitoring, and Credit ReallocationTong Zhao
222The fintech lending channel of monetary policyLavinia Franco
26Repeated Interaction in Distant Lending RelationshipsMalte Heissela

Session A2 (Classroom F.2.5): ASSET PRICING

Wednesday 3, 10:30h., Classroom F. 2.5
Chair: Fernando Zapatero
Mentors: Dante Amengual, Belen Nieto
IDTitleAuthor
163Alpha AccountingJan Sandoval
196Selection Neglect and the Cross-Section of Wine ReturnsRobbe Van Tillo
77Extrapolative investor beliefs and salience across stocksEva Mynot
146Earnings News Insights: Option-Implied Predictors, Bias Expectation, and MispricingMaosen Wang

Session A3 (Classroom F.2.6): SUSTAINABILITY

Wednesday 3, 10:30h., Classroom F. 2.6
Chair: Javier Gil-Bazo
Mentors: Roni Michaely, Ariadna Dumitrescu
IDTitleAuthor
51The Effects of ESG Ratings on Firms’ Financial DecisionsSahand Davani
170Do Homeowners Care About Sustainability?Milind Goel
198Resilience of mutual funds to climate transition shocksDiana Mykhalyuk
54Talk vs. Walk: Lessons from Silent Sustainable Investing of MutualHaoran 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
Chair: Andrés Almazan
Mentors: Anna Toldra
IDTitleAuthor
149Common Ownership and AutomationJoseph Alexander Emmens
224Closing sectoral gender gaps in STEM and FinanceKristine Sahakyan
178Green Neighbors, Greener NeighborhoodsChristine Zhuowei Huang

Session B2 (Classroom F.2.6): FIXED INCOME

Wednesday 3, 14:45h., Classroom F. 2.6
Chair: Dante Mengual
Mentors: Fernando Zapatero
IDTitleAuthor
153Cultural BondsFrancesco Stradi
189Fixed-income Asian and Australian optionsLeon-Perez Belén
100Slope and Curvature of the Currency Forward CurveAng Lia