The Debt Markets Conference at Kellogg will be presenting five papers throughout the weekend conference. Information about our presenters, discussants, moderators, and attendees are below.
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Fabian Nagel
Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
Assistant Professor of Accounting Information and Management
Paper: The pass-through of corporate tax cuts to consumer loans: Evidence from the TCJA
Discussant: Scott Dyreng, Duke-Fuqua
Session One – 9:30AM
Ed Owens
University of Utah – Eccles School of Business
Associate Professor of Accounting; Director, Accounting PhD Program
Paper: Bank Internal Credit Ratings Bias and Borrower Financial Reporting Quality
Discussant: Aytekin Ertan, LBS
Session Two – 11:00AM
Jim Naughton
University of Virginia – Darden School of Business
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Paper: The Downside of Dissemination: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
Discussant: Joe Weber, MIT-Sloan
Session Three – 1:00PM
Yadav Gopalan
University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Paper: Managerial Capital and Soft Information: Implications for Performance and CEO Turnover
Discussant: Stephen Ryan, NYU-Stern
Session Four – 2:30PM
Irina Luneva
New York University – Stern School of Business
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Paper: Explaining Debt Covenant Amendments: a Structural Approach
Discussant: Robert Bushman, UNC-Kenan-Flagler
Session Five – 4:00PM
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Scott Dyreng
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Senior Associate Dean of Innovation and Professor of Accounting
Discussing: Fabian Nagel, Northwestern-Kellogg
Aytekin Ertan
London Business School
Associate Professor of Accounting
Discussing: Ed Owens, Utah-Eccles
Joe Weber
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management
Professor of Accounting
Discussing: Jim Naughton, UVA-Darden
Stephen Ryan
New York University – Stern School of Business
Professor of Accounting
Discussing: Yadav Gopala, Notre Dame-Mendoza
Robert Bushman
University of North Carolina – Kenan-Flagler Business School
Professor of Accounting
Discussing: Irina Luneva, NYU-Stern
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Session One: Matt Phillips (MIT Sloan)
Session Two: Sugata Roychowdhury
Session Three: Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Session Four: Fabian Nagel
Session Five: Thomas Hagenberg
Moderators are faculty of the Accounting Information and Management Department at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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Updated: 04.11.2025.
https://sites.northwestern.edu/kelloggdebtmarkets/wp-admin/post.php?post=2481&action=edit#
| First Name | Last Name | School | Attendee Type |
| Gaoqing | Zhang | Carnegie Mellon | Faculty |
| Jane | Pyo | Carnegie Mellon | Doctoral Student |
| Jizhou | Wang | Chicago | Doctoral Student |
| Rimmy | Tomy | Chicago | Faculty |
| Fred | Asante | Cornell | Doctoral Student |
| Yao | Lu | Cornell | Faculty |
| Elia | Ferracuti | Duke | Faculty |
| Emma | Haithcock | Duke | Doctoral Student |
| Kevin | Chen | Duke | Faculty |
| Qi | Chen | Duke | Faculty |
| Scott | Dyreng | Duke | Discussant / Faculty |
| Donny | Zhao | Emory | Faculty |
| Ally | Lin | ESMT | Doctoral Student |
| Oliver | Binz | ESMT | Faculty |
| Gene | Amromin | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Senior Vice-President |
| Ralf | Meisenzahl | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Vice-President |
| Anya | Kleymenova | Federal Reserve Board | Faculty |
| Peter | Demerjian | Georgia State University | Faculty |
| Riddha | Basu | GWU | Faculty |
| Jung Koo | Kang | Harvard Business School | Faculty |
| Pepa | Kraft | HEC Paris | Faculty |
| Allen | Huang | HKUST | Faculty |
| Arthur | Morris | HKUST | Faculty |
| James | Schaeffer | Indiana University | Doctoral Student |
| Elsa | Juliani | INSEAD | Faculty |
| Hami | Amiraslani | INSEAD | Faculty |
| Martina | Andreani | INSEAD | Faculty |
| Aytekin | Ertan | London Business School | Discussant / Faculty |
| Maria | Correia | LSE | Faculty |
| Stafano | Cascino | LSE | Faculty |
| Emmanuel | De George | Miami | Faculty |
| Oussema | El Ajel | Miami | Doctoral Student |
| Chuck | Downing | MIT | Doctoral Student |
| Zirui | Song | MIT | Doctoral Student |
| Joe | Weber | MIT Sloan | Discussant / Faculty |
| Mahfuz | Chy | Missouri | Faculty |
| Aaron | Yoon | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Amy | Chien | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Andy | Leone | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Beverly | Walther | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Chanmu | Park | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Fabian | Nagel | Northwestern | Presenter / Faculty |
| Georg | Rickmann | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Hyunjin | Kim | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Jung Min | Kim | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Leile | Zhou | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Margaret | Beisenbek | Northwestern | Staff |
| Matt | Phillips | Northwestern / MIT | Faculty |
| Nicolas | Crouzet | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Regina | Wittenberg Moerman | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Ron | Dye | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Sangwook | Nam | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Shera | Gong | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Siqi | Zheng | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Sri | Sridharan | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Sugata | Roychowdhury | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Tian | Chen | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Tom | Hagenberg | Northwestern | Faculty |
| Xingbang | Su | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Yuze | Xia | Northwestern | Doctoral Student |
| Zhihao | Zhang | Northwestern | Staff |
| Laurel | Mazur | Notre Dame | Faculty |
| Yadav | Gopalan | Notre Dame | Presenter / Faculty |
| Aleksander | Aleszczyk | NYU | Faculty |
| Christine | Cuny | NYU | Faculty |
| Ferdinand | Bratek | NYU | Doctoral Student |
| Irina | Luneva | NYU | Presenter / Faculty |
| Stephen | Ryan | NYU | Discussant / Faculty |
| Justin | Walton | OSU | Doctoral Student |
| Sam | Bonsall | Penn State University | Faculty |
| Allison | Nicoletti | Pennsylvania | Faculty |
| Jeffrey | Jou | Pennsylvania | Doctoral Student |
| Anthony | Joffre | Rice | Faculty |
| K | Ramesh | Rice | Faculty |
| Leila | Peyravan | Rice | Faculty |
| Zijun | Liu | Rice | Doctoral Student |
| Wei | Wang | Temple | Faculty |
| Clark | Shu | Toronto | Doctoral Student |
| Dushyant | Vyas | Toronto | Faculty |
| Barrett | Wheeler | Tulane | Faculty |
| AJ | Chen | UBC Sauder | Faculty |
| Richard | Carrizosa | UC Riverside | Faculty |
| Jaeho | Yoo | UNC | Doctoral Student |
| Robert | Bushman | UNC | Discussant / Faculty |
| Yunzhi | Hu | UNC | Faculty |
| Jessie | Cheong | USC | Doctoral Student |
| Tiange | Ye | USC | Doctoral Student |
| Xiangyu | Li | USC | Doctoral Student |
| Urooj | Khan | UT Austin | Faculty |
| Gil | Sadka | UT Dallas | Faculty |
| MV | Shivaani | UT Dallas | Dcotoral Student |
| Kirti | Sinha | UT Dallas | Faculty |
| Ed | Owens | Utah | Presenter / Faculty |
| Simon | Cui | Utah | Doctoral Student |
| Jim | Naughton | Virginia | Presenter / Faculty |