Participants

Manuel Adelino, Duke University and NBER Javed I. Ahmed, Metis Cindy Alexander, Securities and Exchange Commission Asysun Alp, Sabanci University Ana Babus, Washington University in St Louis Anne Beatty, The Ohio State University Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics Itzhak Ben-David, The Ohio State University and NBER Tara K. Bhandari, Securities and Exchange Commission Utpal Bhattacharya, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dion Bongaerts, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology Craig Brown, Purdue University Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Toronto Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin Jess Cornaggia, Penn State University Kimberly J. Cornaggia, Penn State University Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Jennifer L. Dlugosz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Jason R. Donaldson, Washington University in St Louis Darrell Duffie, Stanford University and NBER Andrew Ellul, Indiana University Erkan Erturk, S&P Global Sean J. Flynn, Arizona State University Kingsley Fong, University of New South Wales Mila Getmansky Sherman, University of Massachusetts Amherst Andra C. Ghent, University of Utah Anand M. Goel, DePaul University Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin Kathleen Hanley, Lehigh University Rainer Haselmann, Goethe University Frankfurt and SAFE Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER Jean Helwege, University of California, Riverside Richard Herring, University of Pennsylvania John Hund, University of Georgia Ryan D. Israelsen, Michigan State University Christopher James, University of Florida Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London Anastasia Kartasheva, University of St. Gallen Sergei Kovbasyuk, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Yaron Leitner, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Karen K. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina Andrew MacKinlay, Virginia Tech Rajnish Mehra, Arizona State University and NBER Albert Metz, Moody's Investors Service Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER William Morokoff, Standard and Poor's Jordan Nickerson, University of Washington Stanislava Nikolova, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Christian Opp, University of Rochester and NBER Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics Cecilia Parlatore, New York University and NBER Christine Parlour, University of California at Berkeley Enrico C. Perotti, University of Amsterdam Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California and NBER Matthew Pritsker, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Uday Rajan, University of Michigan Carlos Ramirez, Carnegie Mellon University S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management Enrichetta Ravina, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Francesco Sangiorgi, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER Patrick Schorno, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Chester S. Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Jérôme P. Taillard, Babson College Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland and NBER Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St Louis Walter N. Torous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics and NBER Vikrant Vig, Stanford University and NBER Nancy E. Wallace, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley J. Christina Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Lawrence White, New York University Susan E. Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc. Han Xia, University of Texas at Dallas Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER Simona Mola Yost, Securities and Exchange Commission