SI 2024 Asset Pricing

Ralph S. J. Koijen and Sydney C. Ludvigson, Organizers

July 11-12, 2024

Ballroom A

Format: 20 minutes for authors, 20 minutes for discussants, 20 minutes for Q&A.

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 11
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Macro, Money and Financial Frictions
8:30 am
Ballroom A
Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alan Moreira, University of Rochester and NBER
Tyler Muir, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Asset Purchase Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market
Discussant: William F. Diamond, University of Pennsylvania
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Ballroom A
Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland and NBER
Wenting Song, Bank of Canada

Financial Intermediaries and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from a High-Frequency Identification
Discussant: Simon Gilchrist, New York University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Ballroom A
Nina Boyarchenko, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Leonardo Elias, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Financing Private Credit
Discussant: Greg Buchak, Stanford University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yan Ji, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Session (2 hours): Competing perspectives on the fluctuations of valuation ratios
2:30 pm
Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

There is No Excess Volatility Puzzle
3:00 pm
Alex Chinco, Baruch College
Itzhak Ben-David, The Ohio State University and NBER

Expected EPS x Trailing P/E
3:30 pm
Ricardo De la O, University of Southern California
Xiao Han, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Sean Myers, University of Pennsylvania

The Return of Return Dominance: Decomposing the Cross-Section of Prices
4:00 pm
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Rafael La Porta, Brown University and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Finance without (exotic) risk
Discussant: Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Marc Eskildsen, Copenhagen Business School
Markus F. Ibert, Copenhagen Business School
Theis I. Jensen, Yale University
Lasse H. Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School

In Search of the True Greenium
Discussant: Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Hélène Rey, London Business School and NBER
Adrien Rousset Planat, London Business School
Vania Stavrakeva, London Business School
Jenny Tang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Elephants in Equity Markets (slides)
Discussant: Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Lightning Round (1 hour)
11:00 am
Nicola Borri, LUISS
Denis Chetverikov, University of California at Los Angeles
Yukun Liu, University of Rochester
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER

One Factor to Bind the Cross-Section of Returns
11:20 am
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University
John Shim, University of Notre Dame

Who Clears the Market when Passive Investors Trade?
11:40 am
Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
Ke Tang, Tsinghua University
Jingyuan Wang, Beihang University

Goal-Oriented Portfolio Management Through Transformer-Based Reinforcement Learning
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER
Michael McMahon, University of Oxford

Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premia
Discussant: Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University and NBER
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER

Implications of Asset Market Data for Equilibrium Models of Exchange Rates
Discussant: Ian Martin, London School of Economics
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Andrew Y. Chen, Federal Reserve Board
Alejandro Lopez-Lira, University of Florida
Tom Zimmermann, University of Cologne

Does Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns? (slides)
Discussant: John Y. Campbell, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn