The third edition of the workshop, organized by the Faculty of the Luiss Department of Business and Management and the Luiss Department of Economics of Finance in collaboration with CEPR.

Day 1 – Thursday, May 15

1:30 pm Opening Remarks

1:45 pm Financial Intermediation & Asset Prices
Chair
Cathy Zhang, Purdue University

Do Bank Insiders Impede Equity Issuances?
Luc Laeven, European Central Bank

Discussant
José-Luis Peydró, Luiss University

Know Your Customer: Informed Trading by Banks
Rainer Haselmann, Goethe University

Discussant:
Vincenzo Pezone, Tilburg University

3:45 pm Financial Intermediation
Chair
Emilia Bonaccorsi di Patti, Bank of Italy

Distortive Effects of Deposit Insurance: Administrative Evidence from Deposit and Loan Accounts
Dominic Cucic, Danish Central Bank

Discussant
Saleem Bahaj, University College London

Day 2 – Friday, May 16

9:15 am Keynote
Manju Puri, Duke University & NBER

10:15 am Finance & Product Markets
Chair
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Fake Entry,
Jin Xie, Peking University

Discussant:
Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University

11:30 am Corporate Finance Theory
Chair:
Marco Pagano, University of Naples

Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders
Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Imperial College London

Discussant
Martin Oehmke, London School of Economics

The Making of (Modern) Banks
Lucy White, Boston University

Discussant:
Robin Döttling, Rotterdam School of Management