Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Apr 2026, 04:51:46pm EDT
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Daily Overview |
| Date: Saturday, 30/May/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Asset Prices and Corporate Policies Session Chair: Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos, Boston College |
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The Fed Information Effect and Firm Investment 1Georgia Institute of Technology; 2Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; 3University of Delaware; 4Babson College Learning about Discount Rates INSEAD, France Do Share Repurchases Increase the Value of Non-repurchasing Firms? UC Irvine, United States of America |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Bank Stability Session Chair: Robert Marquez, University of California, Davis |
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Dealers, Information, and Liquidity Crises in Safe Assets 1Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; 2Bank of England Interest Rate Risk and Bank Hedging 1Stanford University, United States of America; 2Northwestern University, United States of America; 3NBER Fragile Financing? How Corporate Reliance on Shadow Banking Affects their Access to Bank Liquidity 1NYU Stern; 2Georgia Institute of Technology,; 3Frankfurt School of Finance; 4CEPR; 5NBER; 6ECGI |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Predicting Prices and Returns Session Chair: Seth Pruitt, ASU |
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Dinner Table Alphas 1University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America; 2University of Maryland; 3Harvard Business School Price Agnostic Demand 1Boston College, United States of America; 2University of Chicago Haven’t We Seen This Before? Return Predictions from 200 Years of News 1University of British Columbia, Canada; 2University of Southern California, USA |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Cryptocurrencies and Tokens Session Chair: Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary |
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The Design of Central Bank Digital Currencies and Consumer Demand 1University of Houston, United States of America; 2Georgetown University, United States of America; 3Alliance Manchester Business School Optimal Policy for Financial Market Tokenization International Monetary Fund, United States of America Are Crypto Anti-Money Laundering Policies Effective? McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | LLMs and AI Session Chair: Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley Haas |
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Behavioral Economics of AI: LLM Biases and Corrections 1Boston University, United States of America; 2Cornell University, United States of America; 3NBER Writing Matters: Generative AI as an Academic Impact Equalizer 1University of Rochester, United States of America; 2University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America How Good is Generative AI Personal Financial Advice? 1Stanford University, United States of America; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America |
| 8:30am - 10:15am | Conflicts of Interest in Financial Intermediation Session Chair: Anjan Thakor, washington university in st. louis |
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China Walls 1Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2The Wharton School; 3Central European University Conflicts of Interest in Universal Banks 1Goethe University, Germany; 2Chicago Booth Beyond Creation and Redemption: Principal Trading by Bond ETFs 1University of Waterloo; 2Cornell University; 3Southern Methodist University, United States of America |
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Cof3 |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Real Estate Session Chair: Timothy McQuade, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
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Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities 1Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, United States of America; 2University of California, Irvine The Long-Run Effects of Remote Work on U.S. Office Markets 1SUNY Buffalo, United States of America; 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 3University of California San Diego, Rady School of Management The Commercial Real Estate Ecosystem 1Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; 2Columbia Business School |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Payment Fragmentation and Timing Session Chair: Christine Parlour, UC Berkeley |
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The Effect of Instant Payments on the Banking System: Liquidity Transformation and Risk-Taking 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2Central Bank of Brazil, Brazil; 3Columbia University, United States of America; 4University of Pennsylvania, United States of America Integrating Fragmented Networks: Interoperability in Money and Payments 1International Monetary Fund, United States of America; 2Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; 3NBER Payment Timing Federal Reserve Board, United States of America |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Cross-sectional Stock Returns Session Chair: Shrihari Santosh, University of Maryland |
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Size Distortions in Robust Estimators: Implications for Asset Pricing 1HEC Montreal, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Canada Macroeconomic reports and the cross-section of industry returns Technical University of Munich, Germany The Relative Price Premium 1University of Iowa, United States of America; 2BI Oslo; 3Indiana University |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Instruments: Applications and Critique Session Chair: Malcolm Wardlaw, University of Georgia |
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The Channels of Amplification: Dissecting the Credit Boom that led to the Global Financial Crisis UIUC Gies, United States of America From Cayman to Main Street: Offshore Tax Transparency and Small Business Lending 1INSEAD, France; 2National University of Singapore Business School Investigating Instruments with Meta-Regressions 1University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, United States of America; 2Colorado State University |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | Repos Session Chair: Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, University of Mannheim |
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Negative Treasury Haircuts 1Office of Financial Research; 2Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; 3Harvard Business School, United States of America Short-Circuiting Short-Term Funding 1Office of Financial Research, United States of America; 2Federal Reserve Board of Governors Treasury Tri-party Repo Pricing 1Federal Reserve Board, United States of America; 2Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| 10:30am - 12:15pm | CEO and Employee Compensation Session Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia |
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Human Capital Metrics and CEO Pay 1University of Connecticut, United States of America; 2Wagner College; 3Cornell University; 4Ohio State University Employee Forgivable Loans 1INSEAD and Wharton, France; 2INSEAD When the Tax Break Breaks: CEO Pay and Turnover Following TCJA 1ASU, United States of America; 2Texas Christian University; 3Cornell University |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch2 |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Legal Actions Session Chair: Edie Hotchkiss, Boston College |
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The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping 1UNC, United States of America; 2Harvard Business School Judicial Enforcement, Credit Frictions, and the Transmission of Bankruptcy through Firm Networks 1UCP, Portugal; 2Banco de Portugal A Theory of Shareholder Class Action UT Dallas, United States of America |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Relationship Between Banks and Non-Banks Session Chair: Indraneel Chakraborty, University of Miami |
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Lending to Hedge Funds: Does Competition Erode Bank Risk Management? Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany Banks and non-banks: competitors in loans originations, partners in regulatory arbitrage University College London, United Kingdom How Does Bank Lending To Non-Banks Affect Credit Allocation And Systemic Risk 1Tulane University; 2Muthoot FinCorp Ltd. |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Options and Futures Session Chair: Dmitriy Muravyev, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
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Intermediary Option Pricing University of Michigan, United States of America On the No-Arbitrage Relation between Securities\\ Lending Fees and Option Prices 1City University of Hong Kong; 2University of Utah, United States of America Exchange-Traded Liquidity 1Copenhagen Business School; 2Aarhus University; 3Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Human Capital Session Chair: Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University |
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Luck as a Mixed Blessing 1McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; 2Terry College of Business, University of Georgia; 3Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University; and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; 4Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University Economic Opportunity Costs: Banking Access and Educational (Dis)Investment 1National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2IIM Bangalore Investing in Human Capital Incubation 1Northwestern University; 2University of Southern California; 3Ohio State University |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Corporate Policies - Evidence from Textual Analysis Session Chair: S. Viswanathan, Duke University |
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Intangible Intensity 1University of California, Los Angeles; 2University of Michigan Corporate Horizons UVA Darden, United States of America The Equity Constraint Channel of Monetary Policy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America |
| 2:30pm - 4:15pm | Takeover Effects - Positive and Negative Session Chair: Thomas Bates, Arizona State University |
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The Real Effects of Valuation Mistakes:\\ Estimates from Mergers and Acquisitions 1HEC Paris, France; 2University of Bern Acquiring Supplier Networks: Domestic Mergers for International Supply Chain Resilience 1Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2Ohio State University; 3Stevens Institute of Technology The Effect of Takeovers on Knowledge Worker Productivity 1Central European University; 2University of Vienna, Austria |