Discussions

2025

    Discussion of "Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing" by Rebecca Diamond & William F. Diamond, AFA

    Discussion of "Consumer Bankruptcy Audits" by Fabian Nagel, MFA

2024

    Discussion of "How Do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium?" by Stefano Fiorin, Joseph Hall, & Martin Kanz, UBC Winter Conference

    Discussion of "Collateral Damage: Low-Income Borrowers Depend on Income-Based Lending" by Mark Garmaise, Mark Jansen, & Adam Winegar, AFA

    Discussion of "Bankruptcy Lawyers and Credit Recovery" by Brian Jonghwan Lee, WFA

2023

    Discussion of "Bank Branch Access: Evidence from Geolocation Data" by Jung Sakong & Alexander K. Zantefis, UNC Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality

    Discussion of "Does Trade Policy Affect Consumer Credit? The Role of Captive Finance," by Kristine W. Hankins, Morteza Momeni, & David Sovich, MFA

    Discussion of "Financing the Global Shift to Electric Mobility" by Jan Bena, Bo Bian, & Huan Tang, Olin Finance Conference

2022

    Discussion of "Credit Fire Sales: Captive Lending as Liquidity in Distress," by Matteo Benetton, Sergio Mayordomo, & Daniel Paravisini, WFA

2020

    Discussion of "Social Collateral," by Ha Diep-Nguyen and Huong Dang, WFA

    Discussion of "Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending," by Will Dobbie, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini, and Vikram Pathania, IDC

    Discussion of "Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance," by Mark Jansen, Cavalcade

 

2019

    Discussion of "Flow-Induced Trades and Asset Pricing Factors," by Shiyang Huang, Yang Song, and Hong Xiang, FIRN

    Discussion of "Consumer Protection Laws in Auto Lending," by Jen Brown and Mark Jansen, WFA

    Discussion of "Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors," by Klakow Akepanidtaworn, Alex Imas, Rick Di Mascio, and Lawrence Shmidt, NBER BF meeting

2015

  Discussion of "Don’t Hide Your Light Under a Bushel: Innovative Originality and Stock Returns," by David Hirshleifer, Po-Hsuan Hsu, &  Dongmei Li, WFA

  Discussion of "Geographic Competition Among Mutual Fund Companies," by Fan Chen, Timothy Riley, and Jon Fulkerson,  FMA