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Fordham University

12th Floor Lounge

1. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center

Lowenstein Building

113 West 60th Street

8:30 – 9:00 Registration 

9:00 – 9:10 Opening Remarks

Donna Rapaccioli, Dean and University Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

9:10 – 10:40 Session I: On ESG Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices

Session Chair: Sris Chatterjee, Gabelli Chair in Global Security Analysis, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Rising Star:  Itay Goldstein, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor of Finance and Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Distinguished Scholar: Thomas Noe, Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Distinguished Scholar: Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance and Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, IESE Business School 

10:55 – 12:25 Session II: Human Capitalists

Session Chair: Gayane Hovakimian, Associate Professor of Finance, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Rising Star:  Andrea Eisfeldt, Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles

Distinguished Scholar: Toni Whited, Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Distinguished Scholar: Dimitris Papanikolaou, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

12:30 – 12:45 Awards Presentation

Dennis C. Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham University

Donna Rapaccioli, Dean and University Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

12:45 – 1:45 Lunch

1:45 – 2:30 The 2021 Trailblazer in Finance Keynote Lecture 

Daron Acemoglu, MIT Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30 – 4:00 Session III: A Quantity-Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios

Session Chair: Bill B. Francis, Warren H. and Pauline U. Bruggeman Distinguished Professor of Finance, Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rising Star: Johannes Stroebel, David S. Loeb Professor of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Distinguished Scholar: Nicola Gennaioli, Professor of Finance, Università Bocconi 

Distinguished Scholar: Wei Jiang, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, Columbia University

4:15 – 5:45 Session IV: Disguised Pollution: Industrial Activities in the Dark

Session Chair: Kose John, Charles William Gerstenberg Professor of Banking and Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Rising Star: Sumit Agarwal, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore 

Distinguished Scholar: Zhiguo He, Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Distinguished Scholar: Jeffrey Wurgler, Nomura Professor of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

5:45 – 5:55 Concluding Remarks

Nemmara “Chiddi” Chidambaran, Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

5:55 – 6:55 Reception

Scientific Committee

Franklin Allen, Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, 

Kose John, Jeremy Stein, Sheridan Titman, and Ivo Welch

Zoom Link to attend virtually.