PROGRAMME:
09:15 – 9:30 Registration & coffee
09:30 – 9:45 Welcome & introductions
09:45 – 10.45 Alexander Wagner, Swiss Finance Institute, University of Zurich, “Do equity markets spur corporate detox?” (with Ali Ataullah and Hang Le).
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 Josef Zechner, WU Vienna, “Optimal sovereign debt structure: Evidence and theory” (with Jaewon Choi, Sebastiao Oliveira, and Jay Rafi).
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (Registration required)
13:30 – 14:30 Vojislav Maksimovic, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, “Automation under constraints: Exchange rates, interest rates, and firm investment” (with Meghana Ayyagari, Rodimiro Rodrigo, and Ariel Weinberger).
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, “Quietly ahead: The diverging R&D productivity of public and private firms” (with Daniel Bias).
16:00 Closing of the scientific program