JLFA – Journal of Law, Finance and Accountancy Conference Programme
Università degli Studi di Padova
Palazzo Zacco-Armeni (Padova, Italy)
23-24 June, 2026
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
h 16:00 – Welcome Coffee @Palazzo Zacco-Armeni
h 16:25 – Welcome & Opening JLFA Conference
Session 1
h 16:30 – Svenja Dube (Baruch College)
The Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Market-based Scope 2 Emissions and Renewable Energy Instruments (with Mary Brooke Billings and Han Yan)
Discussant: Giovanna Michelon (University of Padova)
h 17:30 – Daniele Macciocchi (Miami Herbert Business School – University of Miami)
Transparency in Voting: Institutional Investors’ Disclosure of Voting Rationales (with Roni Michaely, Silvina Rubio, and Irene Yi)
Discussant: Amedeo Pugliese (University of Padova)
h 19:30 – Social Dinner @Casa EXFORO (map)
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Session 2
h 09:00 – Gabriel Voelcker (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
Constituent Interests in SEC Rules: Evidence from Voluntary Comment Letters (with Chuck Downing and Gabriel Pündrich)
Discussant: Nicola Maria Fiore (Bocconi University)
h 10:00 – Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University)
Corporate Debt Structure Around the world (with Alireza Aghaee and Lorenzo Bretscher)
Discussant: Florian Kiesel (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
h 11:00 – Coffee break @Palazzo Zacco-Armeni
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Session 3
h 11:30 – Daniel Dejuan-Bitria (Banco de España)
Estimating Normal Loan Loss Provisions under the ECL model (with Javier Gómez-Biscarri)
Discussant: Sara Longo (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
h 12:30 – Barak Yarkoni (Tel Aviv University)
Skewed Voting: How Shareholder Heterogeneity Distorts Corporate Voting
Discussant: Bernard S. Black (Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University)
h 13:30 – Lunch break @Palazzo Zacco-Armeni
Session 4
h 14:30 – Israel Klein (Ariel University)
Empowered or Eclipsed? Re-Evaluating Retail Shareholders’ Role in Corporate Voting (with Avshalom Elmalech)
Discussant: Alessandro Melcarne (University of Padova)
h 15:30 – Rimmy Tomy (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Bank Regulators and Climate Action: Evidence from Supervisory Guidance (with Kirill Skobelev)
Discussant: Maria Guiterrez Urtiaga (Universitat Carlos III Madrid)
h 16:30 – Closing & Coffee Break
h 7:00 – Visit to the Bo Palace
Presenters 30 min; discussants 15 min; Q&A 10 min; Changeover 5 min
Venue: Palazzo Zacco-Armeni Circolo Ufficiali – Prato della Valle, 82 35100 Padova (Italy)