Nebraska

The inaugural Silicon Prairie Finance Conference provides faculty and doctoral students an opportunity to present academic research, exchange ideas and expand professional networks.

May 21-22, 2022
Hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business

Schedule

Saturday, May 21
12 - 12:30 p.m.	Conference Check-in and Welcome Howard L. Hawks Hall
12:30 - 1:15 p.m.	Julie Wu (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) “Investor ESG Tastes and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Primary Bond Market” (with Liying Wang)
1:15 - 1:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
1:30 - 2:15 p.m.	Tyler Jensen (Iowa State University) “Understanding Analyst Behavior: Do Individual Analysts Actually Walk Down Their Forecasts?”
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.	Hyunbok Wee (University of Iowa) “Estimating Nonlinear Investment-q Relation in the Presence of Measurement Error” (with Suyong Song)
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.	Alex Zhang (University of Kansas) “On the Valuation Skills of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds” (with Gjergji Cici)
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks
5 - 6 p.m.	Cocktails and Networking Courtyard by Marriott
6 - 9 p.m.	Dinner Courtyard by Marriott

Sunday, May 22
8:30 - 9 a.m.	Breakfast Buffet Howard L. Hawks Hall
9 - 10:15 a.m.	Brooke Wang (University of Iowa) “Climate policy uncertainty and firm pollutant emissions”
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.	Kevin Pisciotta (University of Kansas) “The Breadth of IPO Marketing” (with Matthew Gustafson, Joseph J. Henry and Emily Kim)
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Liying Wang (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) “Corporate Bond Flipping” (with Stas Nikolova)
12:15 – 12:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
12:30 – 1:15 p.m.	Alberto Martin-Utrera (Iowa State University) “The Risk of Out-of-Sample Portfolio Performance”
1:15 p.m.	Closing Remarks and Adjourn