The Top Finance Graduate Award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2023. 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)
9:40–10:20 Menaka Hampole (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University): Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments
10:20–11:00 Nishant Vats (University of Chicago Booth School of Business): Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:10 Lulu Wang (Stanford Graduate School of Business): Payment Network Competition
12:10-13:20 Lunch break
13:20-14:00 Indira Puri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Preferences for Simplicity and Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
14:00-14:40 Philippe van der Beck (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) : Flow-driven ESG returns
14:40–15:10 Coffee break
15:10-15:50 Max Miller (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania): Who values democracy?
15:50-16:00 Awards presented by Augustin Landier (HEC Paris)
16:00-18:30 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).