Conference Agenda

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 15th Sept 2026, 07:45:20am CEST

 
Fri21Aug
LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Chapel (Floor 1)
LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Old Fish Market (Oude Vismijn)
Handelsbeurs
No specific location / location unknown
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm
Moody's: Private Credit
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Olivier Darmouni
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Olivier Darmouni, HEC Paris
ECB: Technological Innovation in Finance: Implications for Markets and Central Bank Policy
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Peter Hoffmann, Angela Maddaloni
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Peter Hoffmann, European Central Bank
Session Chair: Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank
FSMA: The Future of Equity Financing: The Role of Public and Private Markets
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Francois Koulischer
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Francois Koulischer, University of Luxembourg
FI 06: Rewiring Banking: Open Banking, Crypto, and the Democratization of Assets
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Alfred Lehar
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
FI 07: Monetary Policy Transmission
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Hans Degryse
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Hans Degryse, KU Leuven
FI 08: New Perspectives in Bank Lending to Firms
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Diana Bonfim
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Diana Bonfim, ECB and Católica Lisbon
SF 05: Corporate Governance and Sustainable Finance
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Laura Starks
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Laura Starks, The University of Texas at Austin
SF 06: Implications of Carbon Pricing
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Lubos Pastor
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
SF 07: Sustainable Investment and Real Effects
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Lin Peng
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Lin Peng, Baruch College
HF 04: Household Wealth
9:00am - 10:30am
LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Roine Vestman
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Roine Vestman, Stockholm University
HF 05: Household Choice of Financial Products
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Kathrin Schlafmann
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Kathrin Schlafmann, Copenhagen Business School
MM 04: Client Order Execution Quality
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Laurence Daures
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Laurence Daures, ESSEC Business School
CF 08: Politics and Firm Behavior: Polarization, Geopolitical Risk, and Lobbying
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Frederico Belo
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Frederico Belo, INSEAD
CF 09: Mergers & Acquisitions
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Henri Servaes
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Henri Servaes, London Business School
CF 11: Shareholder Power
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Josef Zechner
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Josef Zechner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
CF 07: Specific and Opaque Assets: Theory
9:00am - 10:30am
Chapel (Floor 1)
Dirk Hackbarth
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
CF 10: Risk, Incentives, and Liquidity in Entrepreneurial Finance
11:00am - 12:30pm
Chapel (Floor 1)
Rui Silva
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Rui Silva, Nova SBE
CF 12: Top Executives and Their Incentives
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Chapel (Floor 1)
Marco Becht
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Marco Becht, Université libre de Bruxelles
AP 08: Equity Risk Premia and Correlation Risk
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Allan Timmermann
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Allan Timmermann, University of California-San Diego
AP 10: High-Dimensional Asset Pricing
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Theis Jensen
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Theis Jensen, Yale University
NBIM: Understanding the Long-run Drivers of Asset Prices
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, BI Norwegian Business School
AP 09: Empirical Asset Pricing with Quantities
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Kristy Jansen
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Kristy Jansen, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
AP 11: Public Policy and Asset Prices
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Lukas Schmid
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Lukas Schmid, University of Southern California
AP 12: Asset Pricing in Networks
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Bernard Herskovic
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA Anderson School of Management
RE 03: Commercial Real Estate
9:00am - 10:30am
LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Sven Damen
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Sven Damen, University of Antwerp
RE 04: Housing Inequality and Access
11:00am - 12:30pm
LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Arpit Gupta
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business
AP 13: New Perspectives on Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Kris Boudt
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Kris Boudt, Ghent University
Conference Dinner
7:30pm - 11:00pm
Old Fish Market (Oude Vismijn)
Location: Old Fish Market (Oude Vismijn)
GA: General Assembly - Prize Ceremony - Keynote Address
4:00pm - 5:40pm
Handelsbeurs
Location: Handelsbeurs

EFA General Assembly\nThe EFA 2026 General Assembly will be chaired by EFA President, Laurent E. Calvet.\nPrize Ceremony\nDuring the Prize Ceremony, the following recognition will be awarded:\n\nEFA Honorary Award\nConference Awards\nReview of Finance Awards\nDoctoral Tutorial Award\n\nKeynote Address:  Mechanism Tests in Empirical Finance\nProfessor Toni Whited will be the Keynote Speaker at the EFA 53rd Annual Meeting.
Coffee Break
10:30am - 11:00am
Lunch
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Walking groups will depart every 5 minutes starting at 15:30. The Handelsbeurs (same location as the Welcome Reception) is about a 10-minute walk from Vlerick.
3:30pm - 4:00pm

Walking groups will depart every 5 minutes starting at 15:30.

The Handelsbeurs (the same location as the Welcome Reception) is about a 10-minute walk from Vlerick Business School.