INSEAD Finance Symposium

Past programs: 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017

Dates: May 19th, May 20hth,  2022

Location: INSEAD, Fontainebleau Campus, CEDEP Fontainebleau (Click for campus map)

2022 Program 

Presenters are underlined.  Timing:  45 min. per paper, consisting of 25 min. for the author’s presentation, 15 minutes for the discussant and 5 minutes for Q&A from the audience.

Thursday May 19th

Chair: Massimo Massa (INSEAD)

Session 1: Mispricing

14h00 "A Long and a Short Leg Make For a Wobbly Equilibrium"

Nicolae Garleanu (WashU Olin), Stavros Panageas (UCLA), and Geoffery Zheng (NYU Shanghai)

Discussant: Sergei Glebkin (INSEAD)

14h45 "Dynamic Asset (Mis)Pricing: Build-up vs. Resolution Anomalies "

Jules. van Binsbergen (Wharton), Martijn Boons (Tilburg), Christian Opp (Rochester) and Andrea Tamoni (Rutgers)

Discussant: Olivier Dessaint (INSEAD)

15h30 Coffee break


Chair: Pascal Maenhout (INSEAD)

Session 2: Asset pricing, granular investors and wealth inequality

16h00 “Wealth Inequality, Aggregate Risk, and Asset Prices”

Harjoat S. Bhamra (Imperial), Marco Francischello (Imperial) and Clara Martınez-Toledano (Imperial)

Discussant: Rodolfo Prieto  (INSEAD)

16h45 "Granular Investors and International Bond Prices: Scarcity-Induced Safety"

Ester Faia (Goethe University Frankfurt), Juliana Salomao (University of Minnesota) and Alexia Ventula Veghazy (ECB)

Discussant: Frederico Belo (INSEAD)


18h00 – 19h00  Cocktail at the Cercle  (Click for campus map)

19h00 – 21h00   Dinner at the Cercle (Click for campus map)


Friday May 20th

08h30 Welcome coffee

Chair: Frederico Belo (INSEAD)

Session 3: Financial intermediation 1

09h00 "Waiting for Capital: Dynamic Intermediation in Illiquid Markets"

 Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA), Simon Mayer (Chicago Booth) and Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern Kellogg)

Discussant: Junyuan Zou (INSEAD)

09h45 "Intermediary-based loan pricing"

Pierre Mabille (INSEAD) and Olivier Wang (NYU)

Discussant: Laurent Calvet  (EDHEC)

10h30 Coffee break


Chair: Lily Fang (INSEAD)

Session 4:  Financial intermediation 2

11h00 "Ex-Post Loss Sharing In Consumer Financial Markets" 

Alexandru Barbu (LBS and INSEAD)

Discussant: Johan Hombert (HEC Paris)

11h45 "Funding Liquidity Creation, Bank Capital and Social Welfare"

Fenghua Song (Penn State), Anjan Thakor (WashU Olin)

Discussant: John Kuong (INSEAD)


12h30 – 14h00   Lunch at the INSEAD restaurant (Click for campus map)


Chair: Theo Vermaelen (INSEAD)

Session 5: ESG - theory

14h00 "A Theory of Fair CEO Pay"

Pierre Chaigneau (Queen’s University), Alex Edmans (LBS) and Daniel Gottlieb (LSE)

Discussant: Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD)

14h45 "Sustainable Investing and Public Goods Provision"

Ilaria Piatti (QMUL), Joel Shapiro (Oxford Said), and Xuan Wang (VU Amsterdam)

Discussant: Lin Shen (INSEAD)

15h30 Coffee break


Chair: Joel Peress (INSEAD)

Session 6: Using information in prices & trades

16h00 "Incentivizing effort and informing investment: the dual role of stock prices"

Snehal Banerjee (UCSD Rady), Jesse Davis (UNC), Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD)

Discussant: Diego Garcia (University of Colorado, Boulder)

16h45 "A portfolio Perspective of Payment for Order Flow"

Markus Baldauf (UBC), Joshua Mollner (Kellogg),  Bart Yueshen (INSEAD)

Discussant: Ioanid Rosu (HEC Paris)

17h30 Adjourn