Registration
The University of Texas McCombs School of Business is hosting a Forensic Finance Conference on May 1-2, 2025 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin. You are invited to submit papers on any topic related to forensic finance.
Our goal for the conference is to bring more attention to the field of forensic finance, which focuses on financial activity that is potentially illegal, illicit, and immoral. Research on forensic finance includes asset pricing, corporate finance, financial intermediation, and household finance, and can also be related to research in other economic fields, accounting, and the law. We welcome submissions across this full spectrum of research areas. If you are interested in more information on the field of forensic finance and the broad range of exciting research being done, you can take a look at our survey paper.
If you have any questions, please contact the conference organizers, John Griffin and Sam Kruger.
Program
Thursday, May 1
Afternoon
Session Chair: Jay Ritter
Rowling Hall, Classroom 4.402
2:00-2:15 pm
Welcome and Introduction
2:15-3:00 pm
3:00-3:15 pm
Break
3:15-4:45 pm
“Regulatory Leakage Among Financial Advisors: Evidence from FINRA Regulation of ‘Bad’ Broker”
Authors: Colleen Honigsberg (Stanford), Edwin Hu (Virginia), and Rob Jackson (NYU)
Discussant: Shan Ge (NYU)
“Death of a Salesman’s Manager: Soft Information, Collusion, and Misconduct in Financial Advisory Firms”
Authors: Stephen Dimmock (NUS), Jesse Ellis (NC State), and William Gerken (Kentucky)
Discussant: Tarik Umar (Rice)
4:45-5:00 pm
Break
5:00-5:30 pm
Keynote Address
Maureen O’Hara (Cornell)
6:30 pm
Dinner – Jacoby’s Restaurant & Mercantile
3235 E Cesar Chavez St., Austin TX 78702
Friday, May 2
Morning
Session Chair: Jonathan Karpoff
Rowling Hall, Classroom 4.402
8:00-8:30 am
Breakfast – Outside room 4.402
8:30-10:00 am
“Tunneling and Hidden Profits in Health Care”
Authors: Ashvin Gandhi (UCLA) and Andrew Olenski (UCLA)
Discussant: Jess Cornaggia (Penn State)
10:00-10:15 am
Break
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
“Kamikazes in Public Procurements: Bid-Rigging and Real Non-Market Outcomes”
Authors: Dimas Fazio (NUS) and Alminas Zaldokas (NUS)
Discussant: Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas)
“Box Jumping: Portfolio Recompositions to Achieve Higher Morningstar Ratings”
Authors: Lauren Cohen (Harvard), David S. Kim (MIT), and Eric C. So (MIT)
Discussant: Mindy Xiaolan (University of Texas at Austin)
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch – Tejas Dining Room
AT&T Hotel & Conference Center
Afternoon
Session Chair: Michael Sockin
Rowling Hall, Classroom 4.402
1:00-2:30 pm
“Splitting the Spoils: The Economics of Ransomware as a Service”
Authors: Anirudh Dhawan (IIM-Bangalore), Sean Foley (Macquarie), and Vito Mollica (Macquarie)
Discussant: Baolian Wang (Florida)
“Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations”
Authors: Lin William Cong (Cornell), Daniel Rabetti (NUS), Charles C.Y. Wang (Harvard),
and Yu Yan (NUS)
Discussant: Cesare Fracassi (University of Texas at Austin)
Accommodations
AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705
512-404-1900
Toll Free: 877-744-8822
Room rate: $204/night
Room reservations in our block must be made by the April 1, 2025 cutoff date.
Other Area Hotels
We do not have room blocks at these hotels.
Hampton Inn & Suites Austin at The University/Capitol
1701 Lavaca Street
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 499-8881
Hotel Ella
1900 Rio Grade Street
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 495-1800
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel
303 W. 15th Street
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 478-7000
Organization
Program Committee:
Lauren Cohen
Jess Cornaggia
Kim Cornaggia
Mark Egan
Janet Gao
Umit Gurun
Will Gerken
Nick Hirschey
Colleen Honigsberg
Jonathan Karpoff
Gonzalo Maturana
Jordan Nickerson
Maureen O’Hara
Jay Ritter
Margarita Tsoutsoura
Stefan Zeume
Eric Zitzewitz