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: 6th Mar 2026, 05:22:29pm PST
|
Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 13/Mar/2026 | |||||||||
| 7:30am - 5:00pm |
Registration Location: Pacific Foyer - 2nd Floor |
||||||||
| 7:45am - 5:00pm |
Exhibitors Location: 2nd Floor |
||||||||
| 8:00am - 9:45am |
Doctoral Symposium - Shock Transmission Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan, University of Texas at Austin Monetary Transmission in Equity Markets: Evidence from Financial Intermediaries Private Fund Capital Calls, Investor Portfolios, and Spillovers Local Government Fiscal Policy and Bond Valuation |
Policy Risk and Asset Prices Location: Aegean Chair: Alessandro Melone, Ohio State University Canaries in the Coal Mine: Firm Response to Biodiversity Transition Risk Uncertainty, Stock Prices, and Debt Structure Dirty Business: Transition Risk of Factor Portfolios |
Funds and Corporate Governance Location: Baltic Chair: Irene Yi, University of Toronto All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal Fund Proliferation, Decentralization, and Shareholder Power Control Rights or Wrongs? Active versus Index Governance |
Cost of Credit: Transmission Mechanisms Location: Bering Chair: Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta The Transmission of Corporate Tax Cuts to Consumer Loans: Evidence from the TCJA The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes When Banks Fail: Depositor Attention and the Cost of Funding for Survivors |
Corporate Financing and Hedging Location: Caribbean Chair: Fotis Grigoris, University of Iowa Public Debt and Private Investment: The Role of Firm Leverage Financing and the Green Paradox The Economics of Financial and Operational Hedging: Insights from U.S. Power Plants |
Networks, Knowledge, and M&A Outcomes Location: Caspian Chair: Liu Yang, University of Maryland Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis Blockholder Networks, Information Exchange, and M&A Performance When Buy-and-Build Breaks: Serial Private Equity Acquisitions in the Hospital Industry |
Entrepreneurship and Labor Market Shocks Location: Pacific 1 Chair: William Mann, Emory University Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines Aiming Low: Necessity Entrepreneurs and the Choice to Incorporate The "Great Reshuffling" and Entrepreneurship |
Banks and Monetary Policy Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Jincheng Tong, University of Toronto Ample Reserves for Whom? The Role of Foreign Banks in U.S. Monetary Policy Implementation Banks and the State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy Indirect Credit Supply: How Bank Lending to Private Credit Shapes Monetary Policy Transmission |
Machine Learning, Expectations, and Information in Derivative Pricing Location: Pacific 3 Chair: Pedro García-Ares, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Subjective Expectations for Variance and Skewness: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts The Network Foundations of Credit Counterparty Risk: Theory and Evidence Unpacking Retail Trading Costs: the Role of Options Trading and Limit Order Usage |
| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor |
||||||||
| 10:00am - 11:45am |
Doctoral Symposium - Finance and Institutions Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan, University of Texas at Austin Returns to Scale in Passive Management: Evidence from ETFs Reaching for Yield in Target Date Funds The Forgotten Channel: Long-Term Impacts of GFC-era Foreclosures |
Beliefs Location: Aegean Chair: Hongjun Yan, DePaul University Expectations and Experience Effects: New Facts From an Empirical Model Belief Distortions, Asset Prices, and Unemployment Fluctuations Does Climate Change Affect Retail Investors? Your Opinion Matters |
ESG and Strategic Firm Choices Location: Baltic Chair: Zoey Zhou, Columbia University Do Firms Become More Socially Responsible Reacting to School Shootings? Temperature, Adaptation, and Local Industry Concentration Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation: Firms' Internal Networks and Resilience to Disasters |
Financial Inclusion I Location: Bering Chair: Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University Shedding Light on Bias: Consumer Complaint Disclosure and Racial Equity in Financial Services Partisan Loan Officers and the Racial Gap in Mortgage Lending Information Regimes and Financial Inclusion |
Unintended Regulation Location: Caribbean Chair: James Weston, Rice University The Road to False Positives: Indirect Effects of Reg SHO The Real Effects of Liquidity Relief: Commercial Rent Forbearance in the Covid-19 Recession How Do Debt Collection Restrictions Affect Hospitals and Patients? |
Financing and Oversight in M&A Location: Caspian Chair: Richard Thakor, University of Minnesota Why Are Acquisitions of Unlisted Firms Better Deals? Evidence from OTC Markets The Role of Credit Lines in Funding Takeovers Watchdog or Showdog? Spotlight Chasing in Antitrust Enforcement |
Information Acquisition and Mutual Fund Trading Location: Pacific 1 Chair: Zoran Ivkovich, Michigan State University Familiarity in International Fund Allocation and Performance: Information or Bias The Complex Materiality of Proprietary ESG Information: Evidence from Actively Managed Funds Complementarities in Information Acquisition: Evidence from Mandatory Portfolio Disclosures |
QJF Special Session Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Fernando Zapatero, Boston University Triangular Pure Parity Deviations The US Treasury’s Biggest Short: Duration in the Shadows When Buys Move Markets More than Sells: How Institutions Boost Prices without Net Buying |
Market Microstructure: Recent Developments in Trading Location: Pacific 3 Chair: Marc Lipson, University of Virginia Nocturnal Trading Manipulating Algorithmic Markets Dark Crypto |
| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Luncheon, Membership Meeting and Presidential Address Location: Atlantic E - 1st Floor Meals are by advance ticket purchase only and must be purchased online during conference registration. |
||||||||
| 1:30pm - 3:15pm |
Doctoral Symposium - Corporate Finance Location: Adriatic Chair: Andres Almazan, University of Texas at Austin Bridging Markets: Equity Investors' Dual Roles in Corporate Debt Financing Corporate Finance in the Subscription Economy Financing Risk and Startup Growth |
Investor Behavior Location: Aegean Chair: Dexin Zhou, Baruch College Pass-through Mutual Funds, Flow of Funds, and Low-Risk Anomaly When Retail Meets Informed: How News Days Drive Retail Losses Shadow of Loss: Mutual Fund Tail Behavior and Investor Flows |
The Allocation of Green Capital: Markets and Government Incentives Location: Baltic Chair: Aymeric Bellon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Unintended Consequences of Carbon Markets The Green Value of BigTech Credit Green Waste |
Financial inclusion II Location: Bering Chair: Jacelly Cespedes, University of Minnesota The Costs of Financial Fraud Victimization Economic Opportunity Costs: Banking Access and Educational (Dis)Investment Immigration and Credit in America |
Information and Markets Location: Caribbean Chair: Russell Jame, University of Kentucky AI Washing Organized Crime, Public Procurement, and Firms Salient Cues of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Era |
Intermediation Location: Caspian Chair: Veronika Pool, Vanderbilt University The Hidden Costs of Financial Services: Consumer Complaints and Financial Restitution Securities losses, Interbank Markets, and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from the Eurozone Rebalancing of Currency Hedging and the Impact on Exchange Rates Relationship Lending in Bond Markets? |
Imperfect Competition and Price Efficiency Location: Pacific 1 Chair: Michael Sockin, University of Texas at Austin When Silicon Valley Meets Wall Street: A Theory of Financial Overengineering Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency Riding or Attacking the Bubble? Equity Bubbles and Capital Structure Arbitrage |
Beliefs and Macroeconomic Risk Transmission Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Altan Pazarbaşı, University of Iowa Learning and Subjective Beliefs about Good and Bad Inflation Ranges Safe Haven Status of the U.S. Dollar, Dollar Index Options, and Quantitative Implications for Dynamic Currency Models The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Traded Event Contracts |
Forecasting with Machine Learning Location: Pacific 3 Chair: Fahiz Baba-Yara, Indiana University Market Risk Premium: A Single Optimal Predictive Factor in High Dimension Improving Hedge Fund Return Prediction: Dealing with Missing Data via Deep Learning Will AI Replace or Enhance Human Intelligence in Asset Management? |
| 3:15pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee Break Location: Pacific Foyer - 2nd Floor |
||||||||
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
Access to Finance Location: Adriatic Chair: Paul Beaumont, McGill University Corporate Liquidity Supply from Non-Bank Intermediaries and the Real Effects of Factoring Group Decision Making Under Real World Uncertainty: Evidence From the Internal Investment Process of a Venture Capital (VC)-Backed Startup Accelerator How Do Public and Private Firms Respond to Monetary Policy Shocks? |
Volatility, Risk, and Returns Location: Aegean Chair: Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame Optimal Sharpe Ratio Timing with Stop Loss A Century of Market Reversals: Resurrecting Volatility Local Estimation for Option Pricing: Improving Forecasts with Market State Information |
Attention to ESG and the Consequent Effects Location: Baltic Chair: Sumudu Watugala, Indiana University Can US Equity Funds Time ESG Score Updates? Carbon in the Cloud Climate Risk, Credit, and Food Security |
Emerging Markets Location: Bering Chair: Meghana Ayyagari, George Washington University Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid Behind Dollar Savings in Mutual Funds: Are Shifting Sands Threatening Financial Stability? Crowding Out and Banking Crises |
Speculation, Hedging, and Rollover Risk in International Financial Markets Location: Caribbean Chair: Fabricius Somogyi, Northeastern University Who Carries? Speculation, Forward Exchange Demand, and CIP Deviations in Emerging Economies Local Currency Debt and Sovereign Rollover Risk |
The Real Effects of Polarization and Partisanship Location: Caspian Chair: Runjing Lu, University of Toronto Partisan Borders: Political Ideology and Frictions in Interstate Job-to-Job Flows Fiscal Risk Perception: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts Political Polarization and Corporate Investment |
Regulation, Private Capital, and Banks Location: Pacific 1 Chair: Shohini Kundu, University of California, Los Angeles The Private Equity Experiment of U.S. Banking Industry Institutional Investor Protection: Evidence from Conflict-of-Interest Regulation in Private Equity Banks on the Block: Branch Proximity and Small Business Performance |
Expectations and Banking Location: Pacific 2 Chair: Dejanir Silva, Purdue University Granular Markups and Inflation Surge: the role of managerial incentives Global Banks’ Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Supply Banking on Inattention |
Blockchain & GenAI Location: Pacific 3 Chair: Kuntara Pukthuanthong, University of Missouri Harnessing Generative AI for Economic Insights Irreversibility and Hysteresis in Blockchain Validation Markets Systemic Risk by Design? Causal Evidence on Endogenous Blockchain Security |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Keynote Address Location: Atlantic D - 1st Floor Keynote Speaker: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago |
||||||||
| 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
Evening Reception Location: Atlantic Foyer - 1st Floor |
||||||||