NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



ASSET PRICING PROGRAM MEETING

Leonid Kogan and Amir Yaron, Organizers



November 10, 2006

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

Jon M. Huntsman Hall

Room 240

3730 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9:



6:30 PM Group Dinner

Brasserie Perrier

1619 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10:



8:10 AM Penn Transit Coach Bus from the Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel to the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania



8:30 PM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

PIERRE-OLIVIER WEILL, UC, Los Angeles

Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?



Discussant: MARKUS K. BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton University and NBER



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM ROBERT NOVY MARX, University of Chicago

Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity and the Value Premium



Discussant: JOAO GOMES, University of Pennsylvania



11:15 AM ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY and ANNETTE VISSING JORGENSEN,

Northwestern University and NBER

The Demand for Treasury Debt



Discussant: MONIKA PIAZZESI, University of Chicago and NBER



12:30 PM Lunch- 2nd Floor Huntsman Hall Lounge



1:30 PM MARTIJN CREMERS and ANTTI PETAJISTO, Yale University

How Active is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure That Predicts Performance



Discussant: JONATHAN BERK, UC, Berkeley and NBER

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2:15 PM LONG CHEN, Michigan State University

XINLEI ZHAO, Kent State University

Return Decomposition



Discussant: JOHN HEATON, University of Chicago and NBER



3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM LUBOS PASTOR, University of Chicago and NBER

ROBERT STAMBAUGH, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors

Discussant: JONATHAN LEWELLEN, Dartmouth College and NBER



4:30 PM Adjourn



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