NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Market Microstructure Meeting

 

Bruce Lehmann, Duane Seppi, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Organizers

 

October 6, 2006

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5:

 

 

7:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel - Somerset Room

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6:

 

 

 8:15 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

 8:30 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

AVRAHAM KAMARA, XIAOXIA LOU, and

 

RONNIE SADKA, University of Washington

 

The Polarization of Systematic Liquidity in the Cross-Section of Stocks

 

 

 

Discussant: JAY COUGHENOUR, University of Delaware

 

 

10:00 am

DARWIN CHOI and HEATHER TOOKES, Yale University

 

MILA GETMANSKY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

Convertible Bond Arbitrage, Liquidity Externalities and Stock Prices

 

 

 

Discussant: NICOLAS BOLLEN, Vanderbilt University

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ELLYN BOUKUS, Yale University

 

JOSHUA ROSENBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

The Information Content of FOMC Minutes

 

 

 

Discussant: MICHAEL FLEMING, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Speaker: DAVID MODEST, JP Morgan Chase

 

 

 1:15 pm

ZHI DA, University of Notre Dame

 

PENGJIE GAO, Northwestern University

 

Clientele Change, Liquidity Shock, and the Return on Financially Distressed Stocks

 

 

 

Discussant: GERGANA JOSTOVA, George Washington University

 

 

 2:15 pm

HENDRIK BESSEMBINDER and

 

IVALINA KALCHEVA, University of Utah

 

Liquidity Biases in Asset Pricing Tests

 

 

 

Discussant: GIDEON SAAR, Cornell University

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

PAOLO PASQUARIELLO, University of Michigan

 

CLARA VEGA, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 

Strategic Order Flow in the On-The-Run and Off-The-Run Bond Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY, Northwestern University

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/28/06