Friday, March 29th 2019
8:15-8:50am Continental Breakfast
8:50-9:00am Welcome
9:00-9:45am Keynote Address
Professor David Yermack
Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation
Chairman, Finance Department
New York University Stern School of Business
9:45-10:30am Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning
Author: Lea Stern (University of Washington)
Discussant: Joshua Lee (University of Georgia)
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-11:45pm Analyst Conflict of Interest and Earnings Conference Call Informativeness
Author: Mani Sethuraman (Cornell University)
Discussant: Kathleen Hanley (Lehigh University)
11:45-12:30pm Nonanswers During Conference Calls
Author: Ian Gow (University of Melbourne)
Discussant: Gennaro Bernile (University of Miami)
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:15pm Trade with Ads
Author: Joshua Madsen (University of Minnesota)
Discussant: Gustavo Grullon (Rice University)
2:15-3:00pm Not All Investors Know-The Investment Value of Spamming Consumer Opinions
Author: Daewoo Kim (Cornell University)
Discussant: Rajiv Banker (Temple University)
3:00-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:15pm The Rise of Big Data: Predictive Analytics and the Management of the Firm
Author: Jim Omartian (University of Michigan)
Discussant: John Bai (Northeastern University)
4:15-5:00pm Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs
Author: Don Bowen (Virginia Tech)
Discussant: Mark Lang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
5:00-6:00pm Break
6:00-6:30pm Predinner Reception, University Club
6:30pm Dinner & Keynote Address, University Club
Professor Wayne Guay
Yageo Professor of Accounting
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics
Saturday, March 30th 2019
8:15-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:45am A Theory of ICOs: Diversification, Agency, and Information Asymmetry
Author: Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University)
Discussant: Thomas Bourveau (Columbia University)
9:45-10:30am Information vs Investment
Author: Anastasia Zakolyukina (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Jeremy Bertomeu (UC San Diego)
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-11:45am Attention, Acquisition Costs, or Executive Information? Using Big Data to Uncover the Sources of Local Information
Author: Forester Wong (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Scott Yonker (Cornell University)
11:45-12:30pm Learning from the Crowd: The Feedback Value of Crowdfunding
Author: Ting Xu (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Beth Blankespoor (University of Washington)
12:30-12:40pm Closing Remarks
12:40pm Boxed Lunch
