The 3rd Columbia Private Equity conference – generously supported by the Columbia Business School – will be held in person on March 6th and 7th on the Columbia Business School campus.
The first day of the conference (March 6th) is a Ph.D. workshop, and the second is a five-paper conference. Attendance is invite-only and has limited space. Email Mike Ewens ([email protected]) for more information.
Location: Columbia Business School
Format
Ph.D. workshop: 25 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussion, and 5 minutes for Q&A.
Main session: 25 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussion, and 10 minutes for Q&A.
Ph.D. Workshop, Thursday, March 6th
Location: Kravis Hall 370
12 pm – 1 pm: Introduction and Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 pm: “First Investments: Evaluating Strategic Capital Deployment in Private Equity” (Richard Maxwell, UNC)
Discussant: Yingxiang Li (City U HK)
2:00 – 2:45 pm: “Venture Capital Response to Government-Funded Basic Science” (Roham Rezaei and Yufeng Yao, UNSW)
Discussant: Mayank Kumar (Boston University)
2:45 pm-3:15 pm: Break
3:15 – 4 pm: “Start-up Financing, Entry and Innovation” (Charles Parry, University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Magnus Irie (Princeton)
4:00-4:45 pm: “Dancing with the Giants: CVC Investments and Startup Outcomes” (Daisy Wang, OSU)
Discussant: Young Soo Jang (Penn State)
5 pm – 6 pm: Reception
6:30 pm – 8 pm: Dinner (presenters, discussants, and invited guests)
Conference, Friday, March 7th
Location: Geffen 490
9:00 – 9:45 am: Light breakfast and coffee.
9:45 am-10:35 am: “Would I Lie to You? On Private Equity Intermediary Reports” by Borja Fernández Tamayo (Université Côte d’Azur), Reiner Braun (TMU), Florencio López-de-Silanes (SKEMA),
Ludovic Phalippou (Oxford), and Natalia Sigrist (Unigestion, SA)
Discussant: Valeria Fedyk (ASU)
10:35 – 11:00 am: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:50 am: “Leveraged Payouts: How Using New Debt to Pay Returns in Private Equity Affects Firms, Employees, Creditors, and Investors” by Abhishek Bhardwaj (Tulane), Abhinav Gupta (UNC) Sabrina T. Howell (NYU)
Discussant: Edith Hotchkiss (Boston College)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch and coffee
1:30 – 2:20 pm: “Comparing Capital Allocation Efficiency in Public and Private Equity Markets” by Ali Sanati (American Univ.) and Ioannis Spyridopoulos (American Univ.)
Discussant: Slava Fos (Boston College)
2:20- 2:50 pm: Break
2:50-3:40pm: “Do Public Equities Span Private Equity Returns?” by Eric Ghysels (UNC), Oleg Gredil (Tulane), and Mirco Rubin (EDHEC).
Discussant: Shane Miller (Univ. of Michigan)
3:40 – 4:30 pm: “Democratizing Private Markets:
Private Equity Performance of Individual Investors” by Cynthia Balloch (LSE), Federico Mainardi (Booth), Sangmin S. Oh (Columbia), and Petra Vokata (OSU).
Discussant: Tong Liu (MIT)
5:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Drinks and dinner (presenters, discussants, and invited guests)
Attendees
| Name (Institution) |
| Michael Ewens (Columbia Business School; co-organizer) Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia Business School; co-organizer) Jim Albertus Neroli Austin Abhishek Bhardwaj Jun Chen Joseph Choi Shiyang Chu Matthew Denes Jacob Faber Valeria Fedyk Slava Fos Minmo Gahng Oleg Gredil Edie Hotchkiss Wendy Hu Jeremias Huber Magnus Hjortfors Irie William H Janeway Young Soo Jang Hyeik Kim Martin Kornejew Mayank Kumar Xuelin Li Yingxiang Li James Liu Tong Liu Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Richard Maxwell Shane H Miller Ramana Nanda Charles Parry Roham Rezaei Ali Sanati Ioannis Spyridopoulos Petra Vokata Daisy Wang |