2026 FIRS Conference

Financial Intermediation Research Society

May 28-30, 2026

Miami, Florida

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Conference Agenda

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Agenda Overview

Session

Technology and Patents

Time:

Friday, 29/May/2026:

10:30am - 12:15pm

Session Chair: Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College

Presentations

Why Don't Old Firms Do New Things?

Crouzet Nicolas¹, Zhiguo He², Victor Lyonnet³, Yueran Ma⁴

¹Northwestern University; ²Stanford University; ³University of Michigan; ⁴University of Chicao

Discussant: Onur Bayar (University of Texas at San Antonio)

Demographics and Technology Adoption

Zeshu Xu

BI Norwegian business school, Norway

Discussant: Yu Wang (University of Arkansas)

Patent Intensity, Firm Life Cycle, and the Long-Run Return and Risk Dynamics of Technological Innovators

Jiri Knesl¹, Jan Bena², Adlai Fisher², Julian Vahl³

¹Said Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia; ³Theory and Practice

Discussant: Karthik Krishnan (Northeastern University)