Top Finance Graduate Award Conference
15 May 2024
HEC Campus Z012 & Le Château
The Top Finance Graduate Award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2024. The scientific committee selects the candidates with the greatest promise to have a long-term impact on our understanding of finance, regardless of their field of study. The winners will present this exciting new research during the Top Finance Graduate Award Conference.
9:00–9:30 Coffee and Welcome
9:30–9:40 Opening remarks by Jean-Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris)
9:40–10:25 Taisiya Sikorskaya (LBS): Institutional Investors, Securities Lending, and Short-Selling Constraints
10:25–11:10 Tim de Silva (MIT Sloan), Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment
11:10–11:35 Coffee break
11:35-12:20 Naz Koont (Columbia Business School): The Digital Banking Revolution: Effects on Competition and Stability
12:20-13:20 Lunch break
13:20-14:05 Julia Selgrad (NYU Stern), Testing the Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Quantitative Easing
14:05-14:50 Leland Bybee (Yale School of Management): The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models
14:50–15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:00 Jacob Conway (Stanford University): Consuming Values
16:00-16:10 Awards presented by Augustin Landier (HEC Paris)
16:10-18:30 Break and social activity
18:30-19:00 Cocktail
19:00-21:30 Dinner at HEC Le Château
Organizers: Jean-Edouard Colliard and Augustin Landier (both HEC Paris, Finance Department). We are very grateful to HEC for funding and supporting this event. This conference is by invitation only. If you would like to attend please contact Jean-Edouard Colliard: colliard@hec.fr