Apr 30 - May 01, 2010
New York University, New York University
Stern School of Business
New York, NY
Organizers: Viral Acharya (NYU) and Adriano Rampini (Duke University)
2nd Members Meeting of the Finance Theory Group
Schedule
| Friday, April 30, 2010 | |
| 7:00pm − 9:00pm | Dinner (NYU's Torch Club, 18 Waverly Place, New York, NY, 212-998-6724) |
| Saturday, May 1, 2010 | |
| 8:00am − 9:00am | Breakfast (Gardner Commons, Shimkin Lobby) |
| 9:00am − 10:00am | Commitment Contracts by Philip Bond and Gustav Sigurdsson |
| 10:00am − 11:00am | Rewarding Trading Skills Without Inducing Gambling by Igor Makarov and Guillaume Plantin |
| 11:00am − 11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am − 12:30pm | Market-Timing, Investment, and Risk Management by Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen, and Neng Wang |
| 12:30pm − 2:00pm | Lunch and discussion about future meetings (Gardner Commons, Shimkin Lobby) |
| 2:00pm − 3:00pm | Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation: Rating Inflation and Rating Arbitrage by Christian Opp, Marcus Opp, and Milton Harris |
| 3:00pm − 3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm − 4:30pm | Risk and the CEO Market: Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs? by Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix |
| 4:30pm | Adjourn |
Program
- Viral Acharya (NYU)
- Ulf Axelson (LSE)
- Nittai Bergman (MIT)
- Philip Bond (Wharton)
- Matthieu Bouvard (McGill)
- Archishman Chakraborty (York)
- Alex Edmans (Wharton)
- Xavier Gabaix (NYU)
- Simon Gervais (Duke)
- Vincent Glode (Wharton)
- Itay Goldstein (Wharton)
- Joao Gomes (Wharton)
- Dirk Hackbarth (Illinois)
- Zhiguo He (Chicago)
- Jennifer Huang (UT Austin)
- Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton)
- Ohad Kadan (Wash U)
- Yrjö Koskinen (Boston U)
- Samuel Lee (NYU)
- Dmitry Livdan (UC Berkeley)
- Igor Makarov (LBS)
- Gustavo Manso (MIT)
- Robert Marquez (Boston U)
- Rich Mathews (Duke)
- Jianjun Miao (Boston U)
- Adolfo de Motta (McGill)
- Marcus Opp (UC Berkeley)
- Tomasz Pikorski (Columbia)
- Guillaume Plantin (Toulouse)
- Paul Povel (Houston)
- Uday Rajan (Michigan)
- Haresh Sapra (Chicago)
- Gustav Sigurdsson (Wharton)
- Raj Singh (Minnesota)
- Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford)
- Adriano Rampini (Duke)
- Neng Wang (Columbia)
- Bilge Yılmaz (Wharton)