Symposium Schedule

Day 01: January 11, 2025
Time Event
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Registration
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Inauguration
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM Panel Discussion: Technological Innovation, The AI Wave, and its
Implications for Business Education and Practice
Panelist 1: Miklos A. Vasarhelyi (Rutgers Business School)
Panelist 2: CA P R Ramesh (Former Chairman, Deloitte India)
Panelist 3: D Manjunath (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Moderator: Suresh Govindaraj (Rutgers Business School)
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee/Tea Break
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Paper #1: Labor Threats, Product Market Competition and Seemingly
Self-Sabotaging Disclosures
Presenter: Bitan Chakraborty (Indian School of Business)
Discussant: Moumita Tiwari  (Indian Institute of Management Udaipur)
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Paper #2: Prevention is Better than Cure:
Forecasting Future Misreporting

Presenter: Dhanya Krishna Kumar (Warwick Business School)
Co-Authors: Joanne Horton (Warwick Business School),
Facundo Mercado (Warwick Business School)
Discussant: Bharat Sarath (Rutgers Business School)
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch Break
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Paper #3: Vertical Integration and Cost of Private Debt
Presenter: Swetha Agarwal (Indian School of Business)
Discussant: Ashiq Ali (University of Texas at Dallas)
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Coffee/Tea Break
7:30 PM onwards Gala Dinner
Day 02: January 12, 2025
Time Event
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Paper #4: Operational creditor rights and trade credit- Evidence from
policy interventions

Presenter: Shreyansh Chaurasiya (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Discussant: Bhavya Singhvi (Indian Institute of Management Udaipur)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Paper #5: The Dark Side of Collateral: House Prices, Entrepreneurship,
and Misallocation

Presenter: Kizkitza Biguri (Oslo Business School)
Discussant: Prashant Das (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Paper #6: Target Setting: Large-Sample Evidence
from Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries

Presenter: Vishal Baloria (University of Connecticut)
Discussant: Michael Alles (Rutgers Business School)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Paper #7: Historical Kinship Structure and Country-
Level Contemporary Financial Reporting Quality

Presenter: Ashiq Ali (University of Texas at Dallas)
Co-Authors: Zhongwen Fan (City University of Hong Kong),
Yifan Jia (University of Hong Kong), Siman Li (Xiamen University)
Discussant: Venu Madhav (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch Break
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Paper #8: Capital Market Consequences of Reputation
Damage to CRAs: Evidence on Spillover Effects to Bond Issuers

Presenter: Apoorv Gogar (Indian School of Business)
Co-Authors: Hariom Manchiraju (Indian School of Business),
Shyam Sunder (University of Arizona)
Discussant: Tara Shankar Shaw (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Closing Remarks
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM Coffee/Tea