Hie Joo Ahn is a Principal Economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems. 

Join us to hear from Anthony DeFusco, University of Wisconsin.  His presentation is titled, "Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis".  

Abstract
We show how firms scheduled to roll over debt in a crisis strategically reduce operations, regardless of their liquidity constraints. Our research design utilizes contractual features of commercial mortgages that generate as-good-as-random variation in whether debt is scheduled to mature during a crisis or just before. Once the...

Buddhika Nettasinghe is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Tippie College of Business. 

Title: "Network scientific view of the emergence of structural disparities in science."

Abstract: Glass ceiling effect, defined as “the unseen, yet unbreakable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements,” is a well-studied phenomenon. However, its emergence in directed networks (e.g...

Stephen Glaeser is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Marcia Fampa is a Professor of Systems and Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Corina Mommaerts is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.