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, 06:20:46pm EDT

Agenda Overview

Session

Predicting Prices and Returns

Time:

Saturday, 30/May/2026:

8:30am - 10:15am

Session Chair: Seth Pruitt, ASU

Presentations

Dinner Table Alphas

Huaizhi Chen¹, Sean Cao², Lauren Cohen³, Hugo Zhao²

¹University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America; ²University of Maryland; ³Harvard Business School

Discussant: Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)

Price Agnostic Demand

Samuel Hartzmark¹, Abigail Sussman²

¹Boston College, United States of America; ²University of Chicago

Discussant: Christoph Huber (Aalto University)

Haven’t We Seen This Before? Return Predictions from 200 Years of News

AJ Chen¹, Gerard Hoberg², Miao {Ben} Zhang²

¹University of British Columbia, Canada; ²University of Southern California, USA