TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

9:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration

10:00 AM | Opening Remarks

  • Ivan Ivanov, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

10:30 AM | Session 1
Chair: Stephen Winterstein, Bloomberg

  • Breaking the Bond: The Effect of Banker Turnover on Municipal Bonds
    • Presenter: Natasha Boreyko, University of Virginia
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Daniel Garrett, The Wharton School
      Presentation
  • The Local Cost of Partisanship
    • Presenter: Gabriel Ramos, Imperial College London
      Presentation
    • Discussant: June Huang, University of Texas at Dallas
      Presentation

12:00 PM | Lunch

1:00 PM | Practitioner Panel
Moderator: Justin Marlowe, The Center for Municipal Finance, University of Chicago

Panelists:

  • Cora Bruemmer, Nuveen
  • Dean Constantinous, Cook County
  • Martin Mannion, TD Securities
  • Liberty Ziegahn, Oppenheimer & Co.

2:30 PM | Break

3:00 PM | Session 2
Chair: Timothy Little, Ernst & Young

  • Market Value of U.S. Universities
  • Demography is Destiny? University Finances and the Enrollment Cliff
    • Presenter: Yuchen Li, Penn State University
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Ryan Israelsen, Michigan State University
      Presentation

4:30 PM | Reception

5:30 PM | Dinner & Keynote Address
John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin
Presentation 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

8:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM | Session 1
Chair: Marcus Painter, Saint Louis University

  • Artificial Intelligence, Agglomeration, and US Metropolitan Credit Risk
    • Presenter: Dermot Murphy, University of Illinois at Chicago
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Pab Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University
      Presentation
  • Who Pays for Data Centers? Evidence from Municipal Financing
    • Presenter: Hala Moussawi, Georgia Tech
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Christine Dobridge, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
      Presentation

10:30 AM | Break

11:00 AM | Session 2
Chair: Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

  • Government Investment and Q: Theory and Evidence
    • Presenter: Daniel Kim, University of Waterloo
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Ron Giammarino, University of British Columbia
      Presentation 
  • Tax Revenue Risk, Municipal Bond Yield, and Public Investments
    • Presenter: Vasudha Nair, The University of Utah
      Presentation
    • Discussant: Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
      Presentation

12:30 PM | Box lunch