Political Economy of Finance 2019
- October 03, 2019
October 3-4, 2019
Chicago, IL
About the Conference
In the last twenty years, political considerations have become important in financial economics. From political connections in firms to the effects of political uncertainty on investments and from the design of the rules that make financial markets viable to the politically-motivated changes in bankruptcy law, politics is playing a greater role in finance research. Yet this is the only conference dedicated to this topic. For this reason, the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is launching the third conference on the Political Economy of Finance.
The conference will be by invitation only
The conference venue is the Gleacher Center, located in Chicago at 450 Cityfront Plaza Dr.
Program
Thursday, October 3
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating Analysts (with Margarita Tsoutsoura) Elisabeth Kempf, University of Chicago Booth School of Business | View Slides Discussant: Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
The Perils of Crying ‘Fake News’ (with Mancy Luo and Massimo Massa) Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University Discussant: Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis | View Slides |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: An Empirical Approach Arieda Muço, Central European University | View Slides Discussant: Rafael Di Tella, Harvard Business School |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University | View Slides Discussant: Graeme Wood, The Atlantic |
| 6:00 p.m. | Cocktail Reception |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address Anat Admati,Stanford University |
Thursday, October 3
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
Going Bankrupt in China (with Jacopo Ponticelli) Bo Li, Tsinghua University PCB School of Finance Discussant: Vikrant Vig, London Business School |
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Financing Legislators (with Renée Adams) Thomas Mosk, Goethe University | View Slides Discussant: Deniz Igan, International Monetary Fund | View Slides |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement -- Firm-level evidence from IRS audits and tax rates Benjamin C.K. Egerod, University of Copenhagen | View Slides Discussant: Mara Faccio, Purdue University | View Slides |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
The Value of Political Geography: Evidence from the Redistricting of Firms (with Joaquin Artes and Jeffrey F. Timmons) Brian Richter, University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business Discussant: Pat Akey, University of Toronto | View Slides |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Electoral Cycles in Macroprudential Regulation Karsten Müller, Princeton University | View Slides Discussant: Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | The Subsidy to Infrastructure as an Asset Class (with Aleksandar Andonov and Roman Kräussl) Joshua Rauh, Stanford University | View Slides Discussant: Michael S. Weisbach, Ohio State University | View Slides |
| 4:30 p.m. | Conference Ends |
The conference venue is the Gleacher Center, located in downtown Chicago at 450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr. There are a number of hotels in the area.
InterContinental Chicago - Conference Hotel
505 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611
800.628.2112
LondonHouse Chicago
85 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
312.357.1200
Club Quarters Wacker at Michigan
75 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
312.357.6400; Reservations: 203.905.2100
Omni Chicago
676 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611
312.944.6664
Conference Organizers
- Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance & Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Gregor Matvos, Howard Berolzheimer Chair in Finance, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Program Committee
- Pat Akey
- Efraim Benmelech
- Mara Faccio
- Viktar Fedaseyeu
- Raymond Fisman
- Stefan Lewellen
- Todd Mitton
- Brian Richter
- Boris Vallee
- Vikrant Vig
- Paolo Volpin
- Yupana Wiwattanakantang
For more information, contact:
Rachel Piontek, Assistant Director, Stigler Center
773.702.4033
rachel.piontek@chicagobooth.edu