The Supply Chain and Finance 4th Annual Symposium
Schedule
Monday, July 7
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome |
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| Víctor Martínez de Albéniz, IESE Business School | |
| Session I & II. Chair: Burak Kazaz | |
| 9:15 – 10:45 | Session I – Contracting and Bankruptcy Risk
• Vlad Babich, Georgetown University “Franchise Contracting with Debt Financing and Bankruptcy Risk’’ • Song Alex Yang, London Business School “The Supply Chain Effects of Bankruptcy’’ |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Session II – Commodity Risk Management
• Nicola Secomandi, Carnegie Mellon University "Analysis and Enhancement of Practice-based Policies for the Real Option Management of Commodity Storage Assets" • Onur Boyabatli, Singapore Management University "Capacity Management for Oilseeds Processors" |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch at North Campus Cafeteria, IESE Business School |
| Session III. Chair: Onur Boyabatli | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Session III – Hedging and Risk Management
• Burak Kazaz, Syracuse University "Global Sourcing under Exchange-Rate Uncertainty" • Panos Markou, IE Business School “The Midas Touch: An Empirical Investigation of Gold Hedging’’ |
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Sagrada Familia Tour |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner TBD |
Tuesday, July 8
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Session IV – Impact of Financial Risk on Operational Decisions • Peter Berling, Lund University/Linneaus University "The Influence of Financial Risk on Inventory Control Decisions’’ • Fehmi Tanrisever, Bilkent University "The Entrepreneurial Newsvendor: Manging Market Frictions through Process Investment" |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Session V - Empirical Research in OM-Finance Interface
• John Birge, Chicago University “Supply Chain Network Structure and Risk Propagation’’ • Sridhar Seshadri, Indian School of Business "Systematic Risk and Mask Layoffs: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing Sector" |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch at North Campus Cafeteria, IESE Business School |
| Session IV & V. Chair: John Birge
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Session VI – Financial Contracts in Operations Management
• Jiri Chod, Boston College "Agency Theory of Trade Credit" • Dan Iancu, Stanford University “Operationalizing Financial Covenants’ |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Session VII – Industrial Perspectives on Supply Chain and Finance
TBD |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Concluding Remarks |
| • Wei Luo, IESE Business School | |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Barcelona Walking Tour and Tapas |