Conference Agenda

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 15th Sept 2026, 07:46:42am CEST

 
Date: Friday, 21/Aug/2026
9:00amto10:30amMoody's: Private Credit
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Olivier Darmouni, HEC Paris
9:00amto10:30amFI 06: Rewiring Banking: Open Banking, Crypto, and the Democratization of Assets
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
9:00amto10:30amSF 05: Corporate Governance and Sustainable Finance
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Laura Starks, The University of Texas at Austin
9:00amto10:30amHF 04: Household Wealth
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Roine Vestman, Stockholm University
9:00amto10:30amCF 08: Politics and Firm Behavior: Polarization, Geopolitical Risk, and Lobbying
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Frederico Belo, INSEAD
9:00amto10:30amCF 07: Specific and Opaque Assets: Theory
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
9:00amto10:30amAP 08: Equity Risk Premia and Correlation Risk
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Allan Timmermann, University of California-San Diego
9:00amto10:30amAP 09: Empirical Asset Pricing with Quantities
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Kristy Jansen, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
9:00amto10:30amRE 03: Commercial Real Estate
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Sven Damen, University of Antwerp
10:30amto11:00amCoffee Break
11:00amto12:30pmECB: Technological Innovation in Finance: Implications for Markets and Central Bank Policy
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Peter Hoffmann, European Central Bank
Session Chair: Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank
11:00amto12:30pmFI 07: Monetary Policy Transmission
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Hans Degryse, KU Leuven
11:00amto12:30pmSF 06: Implications of Carbon Pricing
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
11:00amto12:30pmHF 05: Household Choice of Financial Products
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Kathrin Schlafmann, Copenhagen Business School
11:00amto12:30pmCF 09: Mergers & Acquisitions
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Henri Servaes, London Business School
11:00amto12:30pmCF 10: Risk, Incentives, and Liquidity in Entrepreneurial Finance
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Rui Silva, Nova SBE
11:00amto12:30pmAP 10: High-Dimensional Asset Pricing
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Theis Jensen, Yale University
11:00amto12:30pmAP 11: Public Policy and Asset Prices
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Lukas Schmid, University of Southern California
11:00amto12:30pmRE 04: Housing Inequality and Access
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business
12:30pmto2:00pmLunch
2:00pmto3:30pmFSMA: The Future of Equity Financing: The Role of Public and Private Markets
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Francois Koulischer, University of Luxembourg
2:00pmto3:30pmFI 08: New Perspectives in Bank Lending to Firms
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Diana Bonfim, ECB and Católica Lisbon
2:00pmto3:30pmSF 07: Sustainable Investment and Real Effects
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Lin Peng, Baruch College
2:00pmto3:30pmMM 04: Client Order Execution Quality
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Session Chair: Laurence Daures, ESSEC Business School
2:00pmto3:30pmCF 11: Shareholder Power
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Josef Zechner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
2:00pmto3:30pmCF 12: Top Executives and Their Incentives
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Session Chair: Marco Becht, Université libre de Bruxelles
2:00pmto3:30pmNBIM: Understanding the Long-run Drivers of Asset Prices
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, BI Norwegian Business School
2:00pmto3:30pmAP 12: Asset Pricing in Networks
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA Anderson School of Management
2:00pmto3:30pmAP 13: New Perspectives on Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Session Chair: Kris Boudt, Ghent University
3:30pmto4:00pmWalking 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.

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.
4:00pmto5:40pmGA: General Assembly - Prize Ceremony - Keynote Address
Location: Handelsbeurs
7:30pmto11:00pmConference Dinner
Location: Old Fish Market (Oude Vismijn)