Programme

08:30

Registration with coffee and pastries

08:55

Conference opening
Scott Moeller (Bayes Business School)

09:00

Session 1
Session chair: Liangrong Chunyu (University of Essex)

“Race, Gender, and Employee Turnover: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions”

Presenter: Tingting Liu (University of Tennessee)
Co-authors: Rui Dai (University of Pennsylvania), Cong Wang (Texas Tech University)
Discussant: Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge)

“The Real Effects of Interest Limitation Rules: Evidence from M&A Investments”

Presenter: Barbara Stage (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management)
Co-authors: Eliezer M. Fich (Drexel University), Lisa Hillmann (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management), Johanna Kling (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management)
Discussant: Benjamin Yost (Boston College)

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Session 2
Session chair: Henri Servaes (London Business School)

“M&A and the Rise of Concentration”

Presenter: Simcha Barkai (Boston College)
Co-authors: Ezra Karger (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Scott Loring (Cornerstone Research)

“The Cost of Antitrust and Firm Strategic Mergers & Acquisitions”

Presenter: Miaoyin (Alexandra) Zhang (Central University of Finance & Economics, Beijing)

“M&As and Innovation: Evidence from Acquiring Private Firms”

Presenter: Jana Fidrmuc (University of Warwick)
Co-authors: Siti Farida (University of Birmingham), Chendi Zhang (University of Exeter)

“Looking Beyond the Bigs: What About Subsidiary and Private Targets?”

Presenter: Annette Poulsen (University of Georgia)
Co-authors: Miguel Puertas (University of Georgia), Jeffry Netter (University of Georgia), Mike Stegemoller (Baylor University)

“The Supply Chain Spillovers of Private Equity Buyouts”

Presenter: Olivier De Jonghe (Tilburg University)
Co-author: Cédric Huylebroek (KU Leuven)

“See the Gap: Firm Returns and Shareholder Incentives”

Presenter: Wenyu Wang (Indiana University & Vanderbilt)
Co-authors: Eitan Goldman (Indiana University), Jinkyu Kim (Indiana University)

12:30

Lunch

13:45

Session 3
Session chair: Siyang Tian (University of Sussex)

Brief introduction to the keynote speech: Professor Barbara Casu (Deputy Dean of Faculty and Research, Bayes Business School)

Keynote speech: “Trends in takeovers and takeover regulation in the UK”

Speaker: Ian Hart, Co-Chairman of UK Investment Banking at UBS (and former Director General of The Takeover Panel)

“Artificial Intelligence and Merger and Acquisitions”

Presenter: Yue Fang (Zhejiang University)
Co-author: Zilong Zhang (Zhejiang University)
Discussant: Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto)

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Session 4
Session chair: Jason Sturgess (Queen Mary University of London)

“CEO Incentives and Acquisitions: Evidence from the Pay Ratio Disclosure Mandate”

Presenter: Tao Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Co-authors: Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yuxuan Zhu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Micah Officer (Loyola Marymount University)

“Institutional Mobility in Global Capital Market”

Presenter: Roger Silvers (University of Utah & ECGI)
Co-author: Rachel M. Hayes (University of Utah)
Discussant: Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales)

17:15

Closing remarks
Anh Tran (Bayes Business School)

17:30

Reception and networking

18:30

Close of conference