Michael Weber (The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Darden, Classroom 120

Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels Abstract Missing data for return predictors is a common problem in cross sectional asset pricing studies. Most papers do not explicitly discuss how they treat missing data but conventional treatments focus on complete cases for all predictors or impute the unconditional mean for the Read more…

Daniel Greenwald – MIT

McIntire

Daniel will present his paper, 'The Credit Line Channel' in-person at Rouss and Robertson Hall Room 305. The paper is attached and the abstract appears below. The seminar can also be attended virtually at the following Zoom Link: https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/CIFM-seminar The Credit Line Channel Abstract: Aggregate U.S. bank lending to firms Read more…

Josh Lerner – HBS

Darden, Classroom 130

Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nicholas Short, & Yuan Sun December 29, 2021 We explore financial innovation through a dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over last two decades, using machine learning to identify the financial patents and  extensively Read more…

Marina Niessner – Wharton

Darden, Classroom 130

Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals

Ludovic Phalippou – Saïd (Oxford)

Darden, FOB 194

Employee Views of Leveraged Buy-Out Transactions ABSTRACT Employee satisfaction decreases following a company acquisition. This effect is, generally, higher when it is through a Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO), but with considerable heterogeneity: the decrease in employee satisfaction is concentrated in Tech LBOs and in Public-to-Private (PU2PE) transactions. After any M&A transaction, Read more…

Song Ma – Yale School of Management

Darden, FOB 194

The Education-Innovation Gap Barbara Biasi and Song Ma May 17, 2022 Abstract This paper documents differences across higher education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7M syllabi  and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative  Read more…

Hyeik Kim – University of Alberta

Darden, FOB 294

All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization Abstract Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners target and manage these assets? And does the contract form—control rights (concession) vs. outright ownership (sale)—matter? We explore these questions in Read more…