30th Annual Global Finance Conference Program
Sessions
Wednesday 14th of June 2023
Session C01: A subject of disagreements
Session Chair: Hugo Benedetti
Performance evaluation disagreement: determinants and impact on fund flows
Stéphane Chrétien, Manel Kammoun
An Inquiry into Hostile Activism The Case of Hedge Funds
Hugo Benedetti, Ehsan Nikbakht, Andrew Spieler
Retirement and Politics: Identifying the best practices
Robinson Reyes Pena, Mustafa Caglayan, Edward Lawrence
Externalities of Corporate Political Activism: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abroad
Marcos Velazquez, Arun Upadhyay
Session C02: Pollution
Session Chair: Riccardo Cosenza
How do Climate Policy Events Shape the Pricing of Carbon in ETS Compliance and Voluntary Carbon Credit Markets?
Riccardo Cosenza, Papa Orgen
Revisiting the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: the link between FDI and Air pollution in Sub-sahara African countries
Francis Ayensu, Sun Dongying
The Role of Financing Mechanism in Sustainable Transformation to A Bluer Economy in Australia
Changfa Fu
The Effect of CEO Compensation on Corporate Sustainability Behavior
Frederique Bouwman, Dennis Bams, Bart Frijns
Session C03: Valuations
Session Chair: Max Berre
Which Factors Matter Most? Can Startup Valuation be Micro-Targeted?
Max Berre
Business Valuation with ODDS: Odds as a Financial Ratio in Business Valuation Theory
Mark Van Herk
How Venture Capitalists and Startups Bet on Each Other: Evidence From an Experimental System
Ye Zhang, Mehran Ebrahimian
Does ESG Investing Help VC Funds to Attract Startups? Experimental Evidence
Ye Zhang
Session C04: Governments & Regulations
Session Chair: Dan Palmon
Rethinking the Corporate Tax Base
Dan Palmon
The influence of e-Government on corruption: a Latin American and Caribbean approach
Mohammad Refakar, Sofia García Gámez, Gilberto Cardenas Cardenas, Alvaro Salas Suárez
Disappearing Audit Disclosure: Changes in the Reporting of Critical Audit Matters
Katsiaryna (Kate) Suslava
Payout Policy around the World
Matias Braun
Session C05: Everything to do with Real Estate
Session Chair: Andreas Christopoulos
15 seconds to alpha: Higher frequency risk pricing for commercial real estate securities
Andreas Christopoulos, Joshua Barratt
Mortgage Default: A Heterogeneous-Agent Model
Philip Kalikman, Joelle Scally
Behavioral biases in real estate investment: Developments and the road ahead
Utkarsh Goel, Shailendra Kumar, Akshita Singh
When Brokerages Restrict Retail Investors, Does the Game Stop?
Adam Reed, Charles Jones, Will Waller, Spencer Andrews
Session C06: SMEs
Session Chair: Cristina Martina-Sola
To apply, or not to apply: The role of societal trust in SME financing decisions in the context of economic uncertainty
Anastassia Vilderson, Rebel Cole, Svetlana Kalinnikova
The effect of collateral on small business rationing of term loans and lines of credit
Rebel Cole, Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu
Line of credit financing and growth of SMEs: an empirical analysis across 28 European countries
Cristina Martina-Sola, Ana Mol-Gómez-Vázquez, Ginés Hernández-Cánovas
Global market integration: industry level versus country level
Weiping Qin
Session C07: CEO and Board Compensation
Session Chair:
It is good to be connected – Bank board network and stock returns in India
Shreya Biswas, Grahithaa Sarathy
Is Bank CEO Pay Sensitive to Operational Risk Event Announcements?
Kevin Amess, Ahmed Barakat, Anna Chernobai, Hurvashee Gya
Does Board Compensation Matter?
Ankur Paliwal, Rama Seth, Vishwanath SR
Closing pay gaps without hurting performance; the influence of leverage in SA mining and retail firms.
Nomanyano Mnyaka-Rulwa, Joseph Akande
Value Relevance of corporate hedging practices in the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Shailendra Kumar, Jyoti Prakash Das, Utkarsh Goel
Session C08: Investing
Session Chair:
A sceptical appraisal of Industry-Specific Return Predictability
Jochen Lawrenz, Mauricio Praxmarer, Nicolas Richtmann
How quickly do investors react to analyst reports? Evidence from reports released outside trading hours
Kotaro Miwa
The role of intellectual and social capital in funding businesses: a cross-country analysis
Samuel Mongrut, Luis Berggrun, Klender Cprtez, Martha del Pilar Rodríguez - García
Price Bands and Their Effects on Equity Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Vladimir Gatchev, Rama Seth, Ajai Singh, Vishwanatha SR
Customers’ Non-GAAP Disclosures and Suppliers’ Investment Efficiency
Weixiao Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Lingwei Li
Session C09: Family owned and small business
Session Chair:
CAN FAMILY FIRMS IN EMERGING MARKETS CREATE VALUE THROUGH DIVESTITURES?
Vikas Mehrotraitas , Rama Seth, Antik Singhal, Vishwanatha SR
Finding the Right Mix: Impact of Technology on Small Business Lending After Bank Branch Closings
Shuang Wu
The Zero-leverage policy and family firms
Sonal Kumar, Maher Kooli, Pedram Fardnia
Reducing Racial Disparities in Consumer Credit: Evidence from Anonymous Loan Applications
Poorya Kabir, Tianyue Ruan
The effect of audit committee financial expertise on earnings management tactics in the post-SOX era
Harry Xia
Session C10: Panel Session: Sustainability, Green Fintech, and Green Real Estate: An Integrated Discussion
Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Nataliya Tkachenko, Ali Parhizgari, Hugo Benedetti, Ehsan Nikbakht, Andrew Spieler
Session C11: Demographics playing a role in Finance
Session Chair: Katarzyna Schmidt-Jessa
Firm Location and the Value-Growth Premium
Yifan Chen
Demographic factors and costumers' bank choice criteria
Katarzyna Schmidt-Jessa
Why Firms Reincorporate in Delaware
Shahriar Khaksari, Mufaddale Baxamusa, Abu Jalal, Hamid Mehran
Firm Foreign Activity and the Geography of Exchange Rate Risk
Amir Akbari, Francesca Carrieri
Session C12: COVID-19: what did it change?
Session Chair: Edgardo Cayon
Beyond COVID-19 – The New Normal in International Investment and Finance Education
Monzurul Hoque, Nathaly Gal
Personality and Risk-Perception Profiles with Regard to Subjective Wellbeing and Company Management: A Survey of Corporate Managers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Adam Szyszka, Marcin Rzeszutek, Szymon Okon
Financial Literacy and Finance Behaviors in Latin America and its Relationship with the COVID-Pandemic Period
Edgardo Cayon, Julio Sarmiento, Maria Antonieta Collazos, Juan Sebastian Sandoval
Supply Chain Configurations: Impacts on Risk Preparedness and Pandemic Resilience
Francois Constant, Max Berre
Session C13: Investing Methods
Session Chair: Matteo Bagnara
Clustering-based Sector Investing
Matteo Bagnara, Milad Goodarzi
Thematic Investing in Mutual Funds
Hasan Zafer Yuksel
Traditional Capital Investment and Corporate Lobbying
Ryan Whitby, Benjamin Blau, Todd Griffith
Behavioral Perspective of Electronic Financial Trading: Development and Future Agenda
Utkarsh Goel, Shailendra Kumar, Sayed Mohammad Ali Hasan
Session C14: Blockchain a new tool in Finance
Session Chair: Paolo Petacchi
Using Blockchain to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain
Paolo Petacchi
Stablecoins as the cornerstone in the linkage between the digital and conventional financial markets
Mariya Gubareva, Ahmed Bossman
Using Blockchain to enhance Bank Cybersecurity
Krishnan Dandapani, Negar Sangtarash, Hemang Subramanian
On The Evolution Of Full Nodes In Blockchains
Le Ba Thong (Tim) Dong
Session C15: New Technologies
Session Chair:
The Fundamental Value of Art NFTs
Gilbert Fridgen, Kräussl Roman, Papageorgiou Orestis, Tugnetti Alessandro
Analyzing market reaction to AI narratives in corporate disclosure
Anup Basnet, Galla Salganik-Shoshan
Portfolio Optimization Combined With Dynamic Covariance Matrix Estimation and Machine Learning
Chang Wang
Factor endowment and high-quality development of trade: From the perspective of global value chain
Huifang Chen, Jiayu Yuan, Zi Jin
Cybercrime News and Hedging in an ICAPM Framework
Jiatao Liu, Ian Marsh, Yajun Xiao
Session C16: Social Finance
Session Chair:
Governance, environment, and corporate performance: new evidence for civil law countries
Maria Elisabete Neves
The Social Geography of Misconduct
Matias Braun, Santiago Truffa
Information Acquisition in Shareholder Voting
Adam Meirowitz, Shaoting Pi
Finance and Intelligence: a survey
Nicolas Eber, Patrick Roger, Tristan Roger
Financial Stability And Public Confidence In Banks: Evidence From Ghana
Francis Ayensu, Sun Dongying