NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Asset Pricing Workshop

 

Organizers: Monika Piazzesi and Pierre Olivier Weill

 

July 12 and 13, 2010

 

Hotel Marlowe

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 12:

 

 

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Session 1

 

 

9:30 am

Francois Gourio, Boston University and NBER

 

Disaster Risk and Business Cycles

 

 

 

Discussant:     Urban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania and NBER      

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Xiaoji Lin and Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics

 

Micro Frictions, Asset Pricing, and Aggregate Implications

 

 

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Discussant:     Dimitris Pananikolau, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

Session 2

 

 

1:00 pm

Adam Kolasinksi, University of Washington

 

Adam Reed and Matthew Riggenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

A Multiple Lender Approach to Understanding Supply and Search in the Equity Lending Market

 

 

 

Discussant:     Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Robert Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

On the Size of the Active Management Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:     Rick Green, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

Session 3

 

 

3:30 pm

Kristoffer Nimark, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Speculative Dynamics in the Term Structure of Interest Rates

 

 

 

Discussant:     Kenneth Singleton, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Alexander David, University of Calgary

 

Pietro  Veronesi, University of Chicago and NBER

 

What Ties Return Volatilities to Price Valuations and Fundamentals?

 

 

 

Discussant:     Luis Viceira, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner – Hotel Marlowe

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 13:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Session 1

 

 

8:30 am

Mark Hugget, Georgetown University

 

Greg Kaplan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Human Capital Values and Returns: Bounds Implied By Earnings and Asset Returns Data

 

 

 

Discussant:     Adrien Verdelhan, MIT and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Yi-Li Chien, Purdue University

 

Harold L. Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Hanno Lustig, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk Due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-Balancing?

 

 

 

Discussant:     Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

Session 2

 

 

10:45 am

Nicolae Garleanu, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Lasse Pedersen, New York University and NBER

 

Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price

 

 

 

Discussant:     Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Tobias Adrian and Emanuel Moench, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Hyun Shin, Princeton University

 

Financial Intermediation, Asset Prices, and Macroeconomic Dynamics

 

 

 

Discussant:     Annette Vissing Jorgensen, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

1:00 pm

Lunch (at the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

Session 3 – Joint with the Corporate Finance Group

 

 

2:00 pm

Zhiguo He, University of Chicago

 

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Balance Sheet Adjustment in the 2008 Crisis

 

 

2:50 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER

 

Philipp Schnabel, New York University

 

Efficient Recapitalization

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn