Conference Agenda

Session

Trading

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Mirela Sandulescu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Location: Pacific 3

Presentations

The Rise of Derivatives and Off-Exchange Trading and Its Impact on Price Discovery and Volatility

Pankaj Jain¹, Lai Xu², Zhaoque {Chosen} Zhou³

¹University of Memphis; ²Syracuse University; ³Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant: Thomas Ernst (University of Maryland)

Attention on Insider Trading: EDGAR Visits, Investor Sophistication, and Informational Advantage

Mingzhi Du

University of Toledo

Discussant: Boone Bowles (Texas A&M University)

Animal Spirits on Steroids: Evidence From Retail Options Trading in India

Vikas Agarwal³, Pulak Ghosh⁴, Nagpurnanand Prabhala¹, Haibei Zhao²

¹Johns Hopkins University; ²Lehigh University; ³Georgia State University; ⁴Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Discussant: Pedro García-Ares (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)