Top Finance Graduate Award Conference

15 May 2024

 HEC Campus Z012 & Le Château

The Top Finance Graduate Award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2024. 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)

9:40–10:25    Taisiya Sikorskaya (LBS): Institutional Investors, Securities Lending, and Short-Selling Constraints

10:25–11:10  Tim de Silva (MIT Sloan), Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment

11:10–11:35   Coffee break

11:35-12:20    Naz Koont (Columbia Business School): The Digital Banking Revolution: Effects on Competition and Stability

12:20-13:20    Lunch break

13:20-14:05    Julia Selgrad (NYU Stern), Testing the Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Quantitative Easing

14:05-14:50    Leland Bybee (Yale School of Management): The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models

14:50–15:15    Coffee break

15:15-16:00    Jacob Conway (Stanford University): Consuming Values

16:00-16:10    Awards presented by Augustin Landier (HEC Paris)

16:10-18:30    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). We are very grateful to HEC for funding and supporting this event. This conference is by invitation only. If you would like to attend please contact Jean-Edouard Colliard: colliard@hec.fr