Student Led Workshop
The 8th WEFI student-led workshop will take place virtually (Zoom) on November 2nd, 2026. The workshop includes a best paper award.
Program (all times ET)
12:30 pm – Welcoming Remarks
12:35 pm – “Compete or Coordinate? Private Credit and the Reorganization of Banking Intermediation”
Author: Ly Nguyen (Rice University)
Discussant: Ting Xu
1:10 pm – “Firm Dynamics and Private Credit”
Author: Jared Rutner (UCLA)
Discussant: Simon Mayer
1:45 pm – Break
1:55 pm – “Why Do Venture Capitalists Bet Young? Conflict between VC and Founder Horizons”
Author: Yuanqing (Lorna) Zhong (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Tianshu Lyu
2:30 pm – “The Making of Kings: Venture Capital Allocation and Competitive Deterrence”
Author: Yucheng Huang (UCLA)
Discussant: Laurent Frésard
Format
20-minute presentation, 10-minute discussion, and 5-minute Q&A
Registration: Zoom registration required.
Organizers
Student co-organizers: Sevket Camoglu (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Alice Eliet-Doillet (EPFL), Himal Gautam (BI Norwegian Business School), Elif Nisa Guler (Indiana University, Bloomington), Haojing Han (University of Texas at Austin), Guilherme Junqueira (University of Florida), Andy Li (University of Amsterdam), Renyuan Luo (Purdue University), Rishabh Malhotra (New York University), Elizaveta Smorodenkova (LSE).
Faculty co-organizers: Michael Ewens, Camille Hebert, Song Ma, and Melanie Wallskog.