Program

Program

Session

Time

Registration and coffee/tea 09:30 am
Welcome 10:00 am
Keynote presentation 10:05 am
Zhi Da (Notre Dame)
Coffee Break / Breakfast 10:50 am
Session 1 11:20am

Financial News Production
Allen Hu (UBC)
Discussant: Phong Ng (ANU)

Equity Premium Events
Ben Knox (FRB), Juan M Londono (FRB), Mehrdad Samadi (FRB), Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (FRB)
Discussant: Terry Zhang (ANU)

Lunch 12:30 pm
Session 2 2:00 pm

ETFs and Mutual Fund Trades
Charles Trzcinka (Indiana), Ziwei Zhao (Lausanne/SFI)
Discussant: Andrea Lu (Melbourne)

Information Acquisition By Mutual Fund Investors: Evidence from Stock Trading Suspensions
Clemens Sialm (UT Austin), David Xiaoyu Xu (SMU)
Discussant: Zhuo Zhong (Melbourne)

Pricing Corporate Bonds with Credit Risk Primitives
Alexander Dickerson (UNSW), Yoshio Nozawa (Toronto)
Discussant: Yichao Zhu (ANU)

Coffee Break 3:45 pm
Session 3 4:15 pm

Labor Pains: The Impact of Labor Market Competition on Stock Returns
Ivan Indriawan (Adelaide), Shihe Li (Adelaide), Ralf Zurbruegg (Adelaide)
Discussant: Janghoon Shon (UNSW)

In victory or defeat: Consumption responses to wealth shocks
Alex Imas (Booth), Tse-Chun Lin (HKU), Yan Luo (Fudan), Xiaohuan Wang (Shanghai National Accounting Institute)
Discussant: Michele Garagnani (Melbourne)

Concluding remarks 5:25 pm
Conference ends 5:30 pm
Reception and Dinner (RSVP) 5:45 pm

The Woodward - 10th Floor Melbourne Law
The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham St, Carlton