Program for the 11th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association
Caesars Palace Conference Center
Verona/Turin/Trevi Room
Saturday December 13, 2014
12:30 PM Pre-Meeting Coffee and Refreshments
1:00 PM Introductory Remarks
1:10 PM to 3:10 PM Session 1
Chairperson: Eli Fich
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers are there, really?
Authors: Yong Chen and Wayne Ferson
Discussant/Presenter: Luke Taylor
Product market competition in a world of cross-ownership: Evidence from institutional blockholdings
Authors: Jie (Jack) He and Jiekun Huang
Discussant/Presenter: Kenneth Ahern
The cross-section of overnight versus intraday expected returns
Authors: Dong Lou, Christopher Polk, and Spyros Skouras
Discussant/Presenter: Narasimhan Jegadeesh
3:10 PM to 3:40 PM Break
3:40 PM to 5:00 PM Session 2
Chairperson: Mark Huson
Network centrality and gradual information diffusion
Author: Binying Liu
Discussant/Presenter: Samuel Hartzmark
Captive finance and the Coase conjecture
Author: Justin Murfin and Ryan Pratt
Discussant/Presenter: Rich Mathews
Wine Tasting– The room number will be announced at the conference.
Sunday December 14, 2014
12:30 PM Pre-Meeting Coffee and Refreshments
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Session 3
Chairperson:Micah Officer
Procrastination, Present-Biased Preferences and Financial Behaviors
Authors: Jeffrey Brown and Alessandro Previtero
Discussant/Presenter: John Beshears
Asset Pricing and Sports Betting
Author: Tobias Moskowitz
Discussant/Presenter: Antonio Bernardo
Governance by Litigation
Author: Ian Appel
Discussant/Presenter: Jon Karpoff
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM Break
3.30 PM to 5:00 PM Session 4: Early Ideas
Chairperson: Bruce Carlin
Phantom Liquidity and the Flash Boys, Jesse Blocher
6:15 PM Dinner-Alize at the Palms