HKU-TLV Finance Forum 2023
Conference Program
Agenda
Interludes
Day 1 – May 18, 2023
08:30-08:45 | Welcome and opening remarks
08:45-10:25 | Session 1 - Chair: Maria-Teresa Marchica, Manchester Business School
08:45-09:35
Matthew Ringgenberg (The University of Utah) and Jixing Li.
09:35-10:25
Tse-Chun Lin (The University of Hong Kong), Alex Imas, Yan Luo and Xiaohuan Wang
10:25-10:50 | Coffee Break
10:50-12:30 | Session 2 - Chair: Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University
10:50-11:40
Making sure your vote does not count: ESG activism, pseudo-green shareholders, and insincere proxy voting
Dunhong Jin (The University of Hong Kong) and Thomas Noe
11:40-12:30
Nickolay Gantchev (University of Warwick), Mariassunta Giannetti and Rachel Li
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 | Session 3 - Chair: Alon Brav, Duke University
13:30-13:45
Becoming Virtuous? Mutual funds’ reactions to ESG scandals
Fatima Zahra Filali Adib (Copenhagen Business School), Bastian Von Beschwitz and Daniel Schmidt
11:40-12:30
Managing Resource (Mis-)Allocation
Xavier Giroud (Columbia University)
14:00-14:15
Undisclosed Material Inflation Risk
Yaniv Konchitchki (University of California, Berkeley) and Jin Xie
14:15-14:30
Macroprudential Regulation and Systemic Risk
Simon Rother (Copenhagen Business School)
14:30-14:45
National Sentiment and Foreign Investors: Evidence from Shareholder Activism
Yujing Ma (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
14:45-15:00
The Voting Behavior of Women-Led Mutual Funds
Alberta Di Giuli (ESCP Business School), Alexandre Garel and Arthur Petit Romec
15:00-15:25 | Coffee Break
15:25-17:55 | Session 4 - Chair: Pingyang Gao, Hong Kong University
15:25-16:15
Ran Duchin (Boston College), Janet Gao and Qiping Xu
16:15-17:05
Biodiversity Finance
Caroline Flammer (Columbia University), Thomas Giroux and Geoffrey M. Heal
17:05-17:55
Philipp Krueger (The University of Geneva), Vaska Atta-Darkua, Simon Glossner and
Pedro Matos
19:00 | Dinner
Dinner at Beit Kandinof – A unique art and culinary venue in the old city of Jaffa. A transfer directly from the Hub will be available.
Day 2 – May 19, 2023
09:00-10:40 | Session 5 - Chair: Ekaterina Neretina, USC
09:00-09:50
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Wenlan Qian, Tianyue Ruan and
Bernard Yin Yeung
09:50-10:40
How Shifting from In-Person to Virtual-Only Shareholder Meetings Affects Shareholders’ Voice
Miriam Schwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:40-11:10 | Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 | Session 6 - Chair: Shai Bernstein, Harvard Business School
11:10-11:25
Does Market Efficiency Imply Capital Allocation Efficiency? The Case of Decentralized Exchanges
Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)
11:25-11:40
How does Green Energy affect Electricity Prices?
Thomas Schmid (The University of Hong Kong)
11:40-11:55
What Is the Impact of Mutual Funds' ESG Preferences on Portfolio Firms?
Maxime Couvert (The University of Hong Kong)
11:55-12:10
Does Abstract Thinking Facilitate Information Processing? Evidence from Financial Analysts
Gloria Yu (Singapore Management University), Frank Weikai Li and Rong Wang
12:10-12:25
Baumol's cost disease and the distributional impact of sectoral shocks
Nittai Bergman (Tel Aviv University), Nir Jaimovich and Itay Saporta-Eksten
12:25-12:40
The Coherence Side of Rationality: Rules of Thumb, Narrow Bracketing, and Managerial Incoherence in Corporate Forecasts
Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University) and Pamela Giustinelli
12:40-13:40 | Lunch Break
13:40-15:20 | Session 7 - Chair: Gennaro Bernile, University of Miami
13:40-14:30
Fee the People: Retail Investor Behavior and Trading Commission Fees
Shimon Kogan (Reichman University), Omri Even-Tov, Kimberlyn George and Eric So
14:30-15:20
Learning when to quit: a randomized experiment with innovation driven entrepreneurs
Yael Hochberg (Rice University), Esther Bailey, Daniel Fehder, Eric Floyd and Daniel Lee
19:30 | Dinner
Dinner at Roni Michaely’s home (Spouses and kids are welcome; 6 Hayasmin St., Herzliya). Independent arrival.
