2025 Program

Friday, December 12

5:00 pm: Registration and Welcome Reception

Saturday, December 13

MORNING SESSION

6:40 am: Breakfast Buffet

7:00 am: Welcome and Introduction

7:05 am — 8:35 am
Session Chair: Pavel Zryumov (U Rochester)

Climate Risk Pricing: Are Green Stocks Riskier? - Nicolae Garleanu (WashU) and Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School)
Discussant: Daniel Andrei (McGill U)

Green Waste: (Mis)allocation of Green Investment Subsidies - Ingvil Gaarder (U Chicago), Morten Grindaker (U Chicago), Tom Meling (Ohio State U) and Magne Mogstad (U Chicago)
Discussant: Jan Bena (UBC)

AFTERNOON SESSION

4:15 pm: Reception

5:00 pm — 7:00 pm:  Job Market Session - Our Profession's Promise
Session Chair: 

Tiange Ye (USC) - Getting Called: The Risks of Investor Liquidity Provision to Private Funds
Samia Badidi (Tilburg U) - Forecast Dispersion and the Price Impact of  Macroeconomic News
Joanna Harris (U Chicago) - Valuing Local Climate Policy: Evidence from Firm Behavior and Financial Markets
Danial Salman (UW) - End of the Road? Autonomous Vehicles and Displacement Risk

Sunday, December 14

MORNING SESSION

6:40 am: Breakfast Buffet

7:00 am — 8:30 am
Session Chair: Constantin Charles (LSE)

The Growth and Performance of Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management - Shuang Chen (U Melbourne), Clemens Sialm (U Texas at Austin) and David Xu (SMU)
Discussant: Pietro Bini (BU)

Set it and Forget it: Engineering Investment Habits with FinTech - Antonio Gargano (U Houston) and Alberto Rossi (Georgetown U)
Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley)

AFTERNOON SESSION

4:15 pm: Reception

5:00 pm — 6:30 pm
Session Chair: Brent Glover (CMU)

Working it Out: Randomized Restructuring and Entrepreneurial Effort in a Collateralized Debt Market - Chris Eaglin (Duke U), Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College), Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern U) and Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College)
Discussant: Ben Iverson (BYU)

Selection through Lapsation in Life Insurance Markets - Cameron Ellis (U Iowa) and Johannes Jaspersen (LMU Munich School of Management)
Discussant: Ana-Maria Tenekedjievia (ASU)

Monday, December 15

MORNING SESSION

6:40 am: Breakfast Buffet

7:00 am — 8:30 am
Session Chair: Oliver Boguth (ASU)

Monetary Policy and the Maturity Structure of Public Debt - Michele Andreolli (BC)
Discussant: Alexandre Jeanneret (UNSW)

The Biggest Short: Duration in the Shadows - Ljubica Georgievska (BI Norwegian Business School and NYU), Stefano Pegoraro (U Notre Dame) and Anthony Saunders (NYU)
Discussant: Jonathan Wallen (HBS)