PHD MENTORING DAY

Coordinated by Scientific Committee Director, Andrés Almazán (McCombs), the PhD Mentoring Day will be held on July 5, 2023, one day prior to the start of the 30th Finance Forum. It will include:

Mentoring sessions: where our outstanding invited mentors will discuss the latest advances in research and offer career advice for the PhD students.

Parallel sessions: where a reduced number of PhD students will have the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from our mentors, the members of the scientific committee and other guest scholars.

INVITED PROFESSORS

CHRISTIAN EUFINGER

Christian Eufinger is Associate Professor at IESE’s Financial Management Department. He teaches Banking, Corporate Finance, Valuation, and Operational Finance, in IESE’s MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA, and executive education programs. Prof. Eufinger’s research interests include the foundations of interbank markets, the interaction of banks’ capital structure and investment choices, the corporate governance of banks, banking regulation, and the channels through which banks exert an influence on the real economy.

JAVIER SUÁREZ

Javier Suárez is Full Professor of Finance at CEMFI. He teaches Corporate Finance and Banking. Prof. Suárez’s research interests include corporate finance, banking theory, banking regulation, financial crises and venture capital. He is Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute, Member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, and Academic consultant of the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank.

MENTORS

We will also have a group of outstanding mentors attending students’ presentations and offering them valuable feedback:

• Andrés Almazán (McCombs)
• Dante Amengual (CEMFI)
• Christian Eufinger (IESE)
• Alfredo Ibanez (ICADE)
• David Martínez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III)
• José Penalva (Universidad Carlos III)
• Javier Suárez (CEMFI)
• Anna Toldrà (Universidad Carlos III)
• Sergio Vicente (University of Luxembourg)
• Rafael Zambrana (University of Notre Dame)
• Fernando Zapatero (Boston University)

Wednesday 5 ^th July – PhD Mentoring Day

Morning Session I

Chair: Javier Suárez

Mentors: Sergio Vicente, David Martínez-Miera

“Quantity or quality? The impact of China’s stimulus-driven credit expansion on sectoral investment”, by J. Gong

“Opioid epidemic and mortgage default”, by T. Karimli

“Overbuilding and recession: A new drawback of housing market boom-and-bust cycle”, by X. Shi

Morning Session II

Chair: Fernando Zapatero

Mentors: Rafael Zambrana, Dante Amengual

“On the relevance of variances and correlations for multi-factor investors”, by T.O.K. Zeissler

“Measuring the impact of carbon transition risk in the equity performance of energy corporations”, by I. Figuerola-Ferretti, F.J. Sanz & T. Tang

“Feedback effect, competition for attention and the value of information technology progress”, by Z. Ye

Afternoon Session I

Chair: Christian Eufinger

Mentors: Anna Toldrà, Andrés Almazán

“Vanishing searches and audit fees: Evidence from Google’s withdrawal from China”, by C. Zu

“IPOs of small companies: New facts on listing and performance”, by J.N. Ziadeh

“Privacy regulation and fintech lending”, by S. Doerr, L. Gambacorta, L. Guiso & M. Sanchez del Villar

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Dante Amengual

Mentors: Alfredo Ibánez, José Penalva

“Monthly Return Autocorrelation”, by G. Graziani

“Detecting, characterising and predicting arbitrage opportunities in international rights issues”, by M. Verdú Henares, Ó. Carchano Alcina & J .Ruiz Andújar

“Macroeconomic announcements and the news that matters most to investors”, by S. Badidi, M. Boons & R. Frehen