Asset Pricing Program Meeting

Tano Santos and Harrison Hong, Organizers

November 30, 2018

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Seawell Boardroom (B400), Bass Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, November 29
6:00 pm
Dinner
Schwab-Vidalakis Dining Hall, 680 Serra Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Friday, November 30
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Yaron Levi, University of Southern California
Ivo Welch, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Market-Beta and Downside Risk
Discussant: Andrew Ang, Columbia University
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Paul Ho, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Erik Loualiche, University of Minnesota

Efficient Bubbles?
Discussant: Pablo Kurlat, University of Southern California and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Martin Lettau, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Markus Pelger, Stanford University and NBER

Factors that Fit the Time Series and Cross-Section of Stock Returns (slides)
Discussant: Serhiy Kozak, University of Maryland
12:00 pm
Break
1:15 pm
Cecilia Parlatore, New York University and NBER
Eduardo Dávila, Yale University and NBER

Volatility and Informativeness
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
2:15 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Michael Sockin, University of Texas at Austin
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

A Model of Cryptocurrencies
Discussant: Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University and NBER
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER

Foreign Safe Asset Demand and the Dollar Exchange Rate
Discussant: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:45 pm
Adjourn