2026 FIRS Conference

Financial Intermediation Research Society

May 28-30, 2026

Miami, Florida

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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, 06:19:02pm EDT

Agenda Overview

Session

Role of Funds in Intermediation

Time:

Thursday, 28/May/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Jiekun Huang, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Presentations

Asset Reclassification and Mutual Fund Flows

Nick Bollen, Veronika Pool, Alexey Vasilenko

Vanderbilt University, United States of America

Discussant: Jonathan Reuter (Boston College)

The Longs and Shorts of Hedge Funds

Alan Kwan¹, Po-Yu Liu², Yukun Liu³

¹University of Hong Kong; ²National Taiwan University; ³University of Rochester, United States of America

Discussant: Mehrdad Samadi (Rutgers University)

The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits

Lubos Pastor, Taisiya Sikorskaya, Jinrui Wang

University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States

Discussant: Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)