SI 2018 Asset Pricing

Urban Jermann and Jessica Wachter, Organizers

July 12-13, 2018


Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 11
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Daniel Andrei, McGill University
Julien Cujean, University of Bern
Mungo Wilson, University of Oxford

The Lost Capital Asset Pricing Model (slides)
Discussant: Kenneth R. French, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:30 am
Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis
Alan Moreira, University of Rochester and NBER

Text Selection
Discussant: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Serhiy Kozak, University of Maryland
Shrihari Santosh, University of Maryland

The Economics of Factor Timing
Discussant: John Y. Campbell, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

Long Run Growth of Financial Data Technology
Discussant: Vincent Glode, University of Pennsylvania
2:00 pm
Emiliano Pagnotta, Singapore Management University
Andrea Buraschi, University of Chicago

An Equilibrium Valuation of Bitcoin and Decentralized Network Assets
Discussant: Michael Sockin, University of Texas at Austin
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bernard Herskovic, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University and NBER
Sriram Rajan, Department of the Treasury

OTC Intermediaries
Discussant: Darrell Duffie, Stanford University and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 13
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
Jaromir Nosal, Boston College
Savitar Sundaresan, Imperial College London

Market Power and Price Informativeness
Discussant: Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
9:30 am
Ned Augenblick, University of California at Berkeley
Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley

Restrictions on Asset-Price Movements Under Rational Expectations: Theory and Evidence
Discussant: Jaroslav Borovička, New York University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER
Pengfei Sui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Asset Pricing with Return Extrapolation
Discussant: Lars A. Lochstoer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Nicolae B. Gârleanu, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Discussant: Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 pm
Frederico Belo, INSEAD
Vito Gala, PIMCO
Juliana Salomao, University of Minnesota and NBER
Maria Ana Vitorino, INSEAD

Decomposing Firm Value
Discussant: Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Luca Benzoni, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Lorenzo Garlappi, University of British Columbia
Robert Goldstein, University of Minnesota and NBER

Term Structures of Credit Spreads with Dynamic Debt Issuance and Incomplete Information
Discussant: Gregory Duffee, Johns Hopkins University
4:15 pm
Adjourn