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The Thirty-first Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will be held February 3-5, 2022. The opening reception begins Wednesday evening, February 2nd. The location is the beautiful Cliff Lodge at Snowbird.

Session I: Corporate Finance - Thursday 7:30-9:15 am

Session Chair: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford)

Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

Authors: Michael Ewens (Cal Tech), Kairong Xiao (Columbia) and Ting Xu (Virginia)

Discussant:  Shai Bernstein (Harvard) 

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Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation and Career Prospects

Authors: Ron Kaniel (Rochester) and Dmitry Orlov (Wisconsin)

Discussant:   Brett Green (Washington U) 

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Session II: Asset Pricing - Thursday 5:45-7:30 pm

Session Chair: Mark Grinblatt (UCLA)

Memory and Trading

Author: Constantin Charles (USC)

Discussant:   Joseph Engelberg (UCSD) 

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Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoins and Crypto Shadow Banking

Authors: Ye Li (Ohio State) and Simon Mayer (Chicago)

Discussant:   Itay Goldstein (Wharton) 

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Session III: Inflation and Asset Pricing - Friday 7:30-9:15 am

Session Chair: Lubos Pastor (Chicago)

Getting to the Core: Inflation Risks Within and Across Asset Classes

Authors: Xiang Fang (Hong Kong), Yang Liu (Hong Kong) and Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton)

Discussant:   Anna Cieslak (Duke) 

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Do Common Factors Really Explain the Cross-Section of Stock Returns?

Authors: Alejandro Lopez Lira (Florida) and Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton)

Discussant:   Kerry Back (Rice) 

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Session IV: Financial Markets - Friday 5:45-7:30 pm

Session Chair: Adriano Rampini (Duke)

Feedback and Contagion Through Distressed Competition

Authors: Hui Chen (MIT), Winston Wei Dou (Wharton), Hongye Guo (Wharton) and Yan Ji (HKUST)

Discussant:    Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern)

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Competition and Selection in Credit Markets

Authors: Constantine Yannelis (Chicago) and Anthony Lee Zhang (Chicago)

Discussant:   Mitchell Petersen (Northwestern) 

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Session V: Social and Political Finance - Saturday 7:30-9:15 am

Session Chair: Jonathan Berk (Stanford)

The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital

Authors: Daniel Green (Harvard) and Benjamin Roth (Harvard)

Discussant:   Luigi Zingales (Chicago) 

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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership

Authors: Michael Ewens (Cal Tech). Arpit Gupta (NYU) and Sabrina Howell (NYU)

Discussant:   Gregory Martin (Stanford) 

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