Clemson Finance Research Conference

Continental Breakfast

"Breaking with Shareholder Primacy: VC Investment in PBCs"
Jun Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago), Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University)

• Presenting author: Jun Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Discussant: Manish Jha (Georgia State University)

Break

"The Quote Not Taken: Inefficient Price Discovery in Opening Auctions"
Thomas Brown (University of Texas at Austin)

• Presenting author: Thomas Brown (University of Texas at Austin)
• Discussant: Greg Eaton (University of Georgia)

Break

"Institutional Landlords in Industrial Real Estate Markets"
Shiyang Huang (University of Hong Kong), Yifei Mao (Santa Clara University), Qinshu Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jiaheng Yu (University of Hong Kong)

• Presenting author: Yifei Mao (Santa Clara University)
• Discussant: Ernesto Aldana (Clemson University)

Lunch

"Segmented Going-Public Markets"
Jessica Bai (Georgetown University), Angela Ma (Boston College), Miles Zheng (Texas Christian University)

• Presenting author: Angela Ma (Boston College)
• Discussant: Brandon Julio (University of Oregon)

Break

"Cash or Stock? Agency Frictions in Venture Capital Distributions"
Minmo Gahng (Cornell University)

• Presenting author: Minmo Gahng (Cornell University)
• Discussant: Vladimir Mukharlyamov (Georgetown University)

Break

"Patent Disclosure and Reliance on External Financing"
Donald E. Bowen III (Lehigh University), Sungjoung Kwon (Wayne State University), Qianqian Yu (Lehigh University), Kathleen Weiss Hanley (Lehigh University), William Mann (Emory University)

• Presenting author: William Mann (Emory University)
• Discussant: Scott Guernsey (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

Conference Dinner: Cocktail Reception at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 at Solé on the Green, 230 Madren Center Dr, Clemson, SC 29634.

Continental Breakfast

"Dinner Table Alphas?"
Sean Cao (University of Maryland), Huaizhi Chen (University of Texas at Dallas), Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School), Tianchen (Hugo) Zhao (University of Maryland)

• Presenting author: Huaizhi Chen (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Discussant: Aaron Mora (University of South Carolina)

Break

"Active Machine-Learning-Based Trading and Mutual Fund Performance"
Xiaowen Hu (Southern Methodist University), Maximilian Rohrer (Norwegian School of Economics), Hanjiang Zhang (Washington State University)

• Presenting author: Xiaowen Hu (Southern Methodist University)
• Discussant: Pekka Honkanen (University of Georgia)

Grab and Go Lunch; Conference Concludes