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Thursday, October 14
Session 1
9:00 a.m. Opening remarks
Paula Tkac, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
9:15 "Conditions Within the Academic Finance Profession: Diversity, Inclusion, and Dissemination of Ideas"
Presenters: Renee Adams, University of Oxford
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
Discussant: Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan
 
10:00 "Do Salary History Bans Limit Discrimination?"
Presenters: Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina
Xinxin Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: James Spindler, University of Texas
 
10:45 Break  
11:00 "Testing Models of Economic Discrimination Using the Discretionary Markup of Indirect Auto Loans" Adobe PDF file format
Presenter: Jonathan A. Lanning, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Discussant: Erik Mayer, Southern Methodist University
 
   
Friday, October 15  
Session 2
 
9:15 a.m. "Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence based on Processing Time" Adobe PDF file format
Presenters: Bin Wei, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Feng Zhao, University of Texas at Dallas
Discussant: James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 
10:00 "Mortgage Policies and their Effects on Racial Segregation and Upward Mobility"
Presenters: Nirupama Kulkarni, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL)
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 
10:45 Break  
11:00 "Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy" Adobe PDF file format
Presenters: Kristopher Gerardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
David Hao Zhang, Harvard University
Discussant: Matt Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of New York