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Agenda

Thursday, September 20th Evening, Dinner

Time Event
7:00 PM Cagle Steaks, 8732 4th Street, Lubbock, TX

Friday, September 21st, Lone Star Conference at Rawls College

Sessions will be held in Multipurpose Room 112NW unless otherwise indicated.

Time Event
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration
Multipurpose Room 112NW (Hallway)
8:45 AM Welcome
Margaret L. Williams, Ph.D., Dean of Rawls College of Business
9:00 AM Session 1A, "Shorting in Broad Daylight: Short Sales and Venue Choice",
Adam V. Reed (UNC), Mehrdad Samadi (SMU), and Jonathan S. Sokobin (FINRA)

Discussant: James Yae (UH)
  Session 1B, "Digital Currency Runs",
David Skeie (Texas A&M)

Discussant: Anna D. Cororaton (SMU)
10:20 AM Break
Multipurpose Room 112NW (Hallway)
10:40 AM  Session 2A, "The beta anomaly and mutual fund performance",
Paul Irvine (TCU), Jeong Ho (John) Kim (Emory), and Jue Ren (TCU)
 
Discussant: Virgilio Zurita (Baylor)
Session 2B, "What Drove the 2003–2006 House Price Boom and Subsequent Collapse? Disentangling Competing Explanations",
John M. Griffin (UT Austin), Samuel Kruger (UT Austin), and Gonzalo Maturana (Emory)

Discussant: Mattia Landoni (SMU)
12:00 PM  Lunch 
Jones AT&T Stadium, Texas Tech Club, West Side
1:30 PM  Session 3A, "Optimal Short-termism",
Dirk Hackbarth (Boston University), Alejandro Rivera (UT Dallas), and Tak-Yuen Wong (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Discussant: Alon Kfir (TTU)
Session 3B, "Big Banks, Household Credit Access, and Economic Mobility",
Erik Mayer (SMU)

Discussant: Aaron Pancost (UT Austin)
 2:50 PM Break
Multipurpose Room 112NW (Hallway)
3:10 PM  Session 4A, "Learning about the Details in CEO Compensation" ,
Shuting (Sophia) Hu (Baylor)

Discussant: David De Angelis (Rice)
Session 4B, "Information Acquisition and Short Selling" ,
Kaitao Lin (UH) and Kevin Roshak (UH)

Discussant: Steven Xiao (UT Dallas)
4:30 PM Wrap Up

 

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