Introductions

COVID-19 and corporate India

Aakriti Mathur, The Graduate Institute (IHEID) and Rajeswari Sengupta, IGIDR

Discussant: Anjali Sharma, CMI and FRG

Moderator: Poonam Mehra, NITIE

Break

Tournament Culture and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence using Machine Learning

Jitendra Aswani, Fordham University and Franco Fiordelisi, University of Rome III

Discussant: Shekhar Tomar, ISB 

Moderator: Madhavan Mukund, CMI

Wind-up

Introductions

The cultural influence on the internal capital market of multinationals

Fan (John) Zhang, Auckland Univ. of Tech., Qingjie Du and Yang Wang HK Polytechnic Univ., and Amy Yang Victoria Univ. of Wellington

Discussant: Neeru Chaudhry, IIT Delhi

Moderator: Shubho Roy, Chicago Booth

Break

Firms in the pandemic: questions and research opportunities

Ajay Shah

Break

What does financial heterogeneity say about the transmission of monetary policy?

Nishant Vats, Chicago Booth School of Business

Discussant: Josh Felman, J.H. Consulting

Moderator: Harsh Vardhan, SPJIMR

Wind-up

Introductions

Performance of financial distress prediction models: Evidence from bankruptcy petition filings in India

Surbhi Bhatia, LiveMint, and Manish K. Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Discussant: Sourish Das, CMI

Moderator: Susan Thomas

Conversations, Call for Collaborations and Wind-up