Showcasing Women in Finance – EU – Program

Conference format We will start the conference with a reception on the 17th of December, 2018. We will have 5 papers, a PhD session and a panel discussion. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present their paper, followed by a 15 minute discussion by the respective discussants and ending with a 10 minute discussion with the audience.

Monday, December 17, 2018

17:00 pm to 18.30 pm: Mingle at Swedish House of Finance


Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Registration and coffee: 8.30 am – 9:00 am: Swedish House of Finance

Welcome Remarks:  9:00 am – 9:15 am: Lars Strannegård, The president of the Stockholm School of Economics.


Session 1 Chair: Narly Dwarkasing, Assistant Professor, University of Bonn

Paper 1: 9:15 am -10:00 am: “Disclosing the Gender Pay Gap”, Morten Bennedsen, Elena Simintzi, Margarita Tsoutsoura and Daniel Wolfenzon 

Presenter: Elena Simintzi, Assistant Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina

Discussant: Karin Thorburn, Professor of Finance at Norwegian School of Economics

Paper 2: 10:00 am -10:45 am: “The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions” 

Presenter: Jing Xu, Assistant Professor, University of Technology Sydney

Discussant: Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business


Coffee Break: 10:45 am – 11:00 pm:


Panel Discussion: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm: “Does promoting more diversity in Finance benefits those that it attempts to promote?”

Panel: Renée Adams, Marianne Bertrand, Vidhi Chhaochharia, Vasso Ioannidou, Karin Thorburn and Charlotte Ostergaard

Moderator: Marieke Bos


Lunch: 12:30 pm -1:30 pm:  Swedish House of Finance


Session 2 Chair: Mintra Dwarkasing, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam    

Paper 1: 1:30 pm -2:15 pm: “Stressed Banks”, Diane Pierret and Roberto Steri. 

Presenter: Diane Pierret, Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC – University of Lausanne

Discussant: Vasso Ioannidou, Professor of Finance, Lancaster University

Paper 2: 2:15 pm -3:00 pm: “We’ll Always Have Paris”: Out-of-Country House Buyers in a Global Hotspot”, Dragana Cvijanovic and Christophe Spaenjers 

Presenter: Dragana Cvijanovic, Assistant Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina.

Discussant: Charlotte Ostergaard, Professor of Finance, BI Norwegian Business School.

Paper 3: 3:00 pm -3:45 pm: “The Dark Side of Liquid Bonds in Fire Sales”, Maria Chaderina, Alexander Murmann and Christoph Scheuch. 

Presenter: Maria Chaderina, Assistant Professor of Finance, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Discussant: Vidhi Chhaochharia, Associated Professor, University of Miami School of Business


Coffee Break: 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm


Doctoral Student Sessions: Chair: Dong Yan, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish House of Finance

20 minute presentations, 10 minute discussion with the audience.

Paper 1: 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm “Engineering Lemons”. 

Presenter: Petra Vokatá, PhD student, Aalto University School of Business

Paper 2: 4.30 pm – 5:00 pm “Product Proliferation as Price Obfuscation? Evidence from the Mortgage Market”. 

Presenter: Lu Liu, PhD student, Imperial College London

Paper 3: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm “Dying and Dissaving”. 

Presenter: Clara Fernström, PhD student, Stockholm School of Economics


Dinner by invitation only: Sjöfartshuset, skeppsbron 10, 111 30, Stockholm  6:30 pm