Asset Pricing Program Meeting

Martin Lettau and Laura Veldkamp, Organizers

November 5, 2021

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge and Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 5
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:50 am
Opening and introductions
9:00 am
Vimal Balasubramaniam, Queen Mary University of London
John Y. Campbell, Harvard University and NBER
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London
Benjamin Ranish, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Who Owns What? A Factor Model for Direct Stock Holding
Discussant: Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Samuel M. Hartzmark, Boston College and NBER
David H. Solomon, Boston College

Predictable Price Pressure
Discussant: Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Panel ─ Central bank digital currencies: Challenges and opportunities
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University and NBER (moderator)
Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Jinfei Sheng, University of California, Irvine
Zheng Sun, University of California, Irvine
Wanyi Wang, University of California, Irvine

Partisan Return Gap: The Polarized Stock Market in the Time of a Pandemic
Discussant: Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore
Boris Vallee, Harvard University
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania

FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments
Discussant: Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Toomas Laarits, New York University

Precautionary Savings and the Stock-Bond Covariance
Discussant: Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn