Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Date: Thursday, 21/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
AP 02: AI in Finance
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Ruslan Sverchkov, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
 

Artificial Intelligence and Firms' Systematic Risk

Tania Babina2, Anastassia Fedyk1, Alex He2, James Hodson3

1: University of California at Berkeley, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland; 3: AI for Good Foundation



ChatGPT and Perception Biases in Investments: An Experimental Study

Anastassia Fedyk1, Ali Kakhbod2, Peiyao Li3, Ulrike Malmendier4

1: UC Berkeley, United States of America; 2: UC Berkeley, United States of America; 3: UC Berkeley, United States of America; 4: UC Berkeley, United States of America



AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship

Robert Novy-Marx2, Mihail Velikov1

1: Penn State University, United States of America; 2: University of Rochester, United States of America

11:00am
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12:30pm
AP 04: Recent Advances in Derivatives
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Elise Gourier, ESSEC Business School
 

Demand-Based Expected Returns

Alessandro Crescini1,2, Fabio Trojani1,2, Andrea Vedolin3

1: University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Finance Institute; 3: Boston University



The Market for 0DTE: The Role of Liquidity Providers in Volatility Attenuation

Greg Adams2, Jean-Sebastien Fontaine2, Chay Ornthanalai1

1: Rotman School of Management, Canada; 2: Bank of Canada



Do Funds Engage in Optimal FX Hedging?

Leonie Braeuer1,2, Harald Hau1,2,3

1: University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Finance Institute; 3: CEPR

2:00pm
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3:30pm
AP 07: Asset Pricing in a Noisy and Complex World
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Daniel Andrei, McGill University
 

The Limited Virtue of Complexity in a Noisy World

Yuantao Shi1,2, Qi Jin1,2, Álvaro Cartea1,2

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Oxford-Man Institute



A Theory of Complexity Aversion

Xavier Gabaix

Harvard, United States of America



Why Complexity Makes Factor Models Fail

Carter Davis1, Alejandro Lopez-Lira2

1: Indiana University; 2: University of Florida

Date: Friday, 22/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
AP 10: Networks and Macro in Asset Pricing
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Jun Pan, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
 

Network Factors for Idiosyncratic Volatility Spillover

Belinda Chen

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America



Global Production Networks and Asset Prices

Teodor Dyakov1, Hao Jiang2

1: EDHEC Business School; 2: Broad College of Business, Michigan State University



Macro Strikes Back: Term Structure of Risk Premia

Svetlana Bryzgalova1, Jiantao Huang2, Christian Julliard3

1: Department of Finance, London Business School; 2: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: Department of Finance, FMG, and SRC, London School of Economics, and CEPR

11:00am
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12:30pm
AP 12: The Macro-Finance of Debt, Credit, and Inflation
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Allan Timmermann, University of California-San Diego
 

Inflation, Default, and Corporate Bond Returns

Xiaomeng Lu1, Yoshio Nozawa2, Zhaogang Song3

1: Fudan University; 2: University of Toronto; 3: Johns Hopkins University, United States of America



Good Inflation, Bad Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices

Dino Palazzo1, Ram Yamarthy2, Diego Bonelli3

1: Federal Reserve Board, United States of America; 2: Federal Reserve Board, United States of America; 3: Banco de España



The Global Credit Cycle

Nina Boyarchenko1,2, Leonardo Elias1

1: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, United States of America; 2: CEPR, CesIfo

2:00pm
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3:30pm
AP 14: Expectations, Asset Pricing, and the Macroeconomy
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Nicolae Garleanu, Washington University in St. Louis
 

Extrapolative Market Participation

Wanbin Pan1, Zhiwei Su2, Huijun Wang3, Jianfeng Yu4

1: University of Science and Technology of China; 2: Lingnan University; 3: Auburn University; 4: Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance



The Term Structure of Return Expectations

Federico Bastianello1, Cameron Peng2

1: London Business School, United Kingdom; 2: London School of Economics, United Kingdom



The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Traded Event Contracts

Eric Swanson1, Renxuan Wang2, Yanbin Wu3

1: University of California, Irvine and NBER; 2: CEIBS; 3: University of Florida

Date: Saturday, 23/Aug/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
AP 16: Return Predictability
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Irina Zviadadze, HEC Paris
 

Sources of Return Predictability

Beata Gafka1, Pavel Savor2, Mungo Wilson3

1: Ivey Business School at University of Western Ontario, Canada; 2: DePaul University - Kellstadt Graduate School of Business; 3: Said Business School at Oxford University



How Global is Predictability? The Power of Financial Transfer Learning

Oliver Hellum1, Lasse Heje Pedersen2, Anders Rønn-Nielsen1

1: Copenhagen Business School; 2: AQR, Copenhagen Business School, CEPR



International Sentiment Networks and Equity Return Predictability

Gustavo Freire1, Ali Moin1, Alberto Quaini1, Amar Soebhag1,2

1: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 2: Robeco Quantitative Investing

11:30am
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1:00pm
AP 18: Asset Return Dynamics
Location: 1.003-1.004 (Floor 1)
Chair: Adlai Fisher, UBC
 

Why Does Volatility Demand Fall During Market Turmoil? A Market Maker Perspective

Kris Jacobs, Anh Thu Mai, Paola Pederzoli

University of Houston, United States of America



The Stock-Bond Correlation: A Tale of Two Days in the U.S. Treasury Market

Grace Xing Hu1, Zhao Jin2, Jun Pan3

1: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University; 2: School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics; 3: Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University



What Drives the Aggregate Net Payout Yield? A Structural Investment Approach

Ilan Cooper1,4, Xuenan {Erica} Li2, Paulo Maio3, Chunyu Yang4

1: University of Haifa, Israel; 2: Hanken School of Economics, Finland; 3: CKGSB, China; 4: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway


 
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