SFS Cavalcade North America 2026
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
May 18-21, 2026
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Classroom 120 |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track T1-1: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: Da Ke, University of South Carlina Dinner Table Alphas 1: University of Maryland; 2: University of Texas at Dallas; 3: Harvard Business School |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track T1-2: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: W Ben McCartney, UVA Risky for Me, Safe for Thee: How Parents Invest for Themselves vs. Their Children 1: Copenhagen Business School; 2: Indiana University Kelley School of Business |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track T1-3: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: Stefano Cassella, Tilburg University Navigating through fear and greed: The Experience-driven disposition effect 1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: USI Lugano; 3: Tianjin University |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track T1-4: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: Dejanir Silva, Purdue University A Bound on Price Impact and Disagreement 1: Harvard Business School; 2: University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute; 3: University of Washington in St. Louis |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track T1-5: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: Clifton Green, Emory University Attention Allocation and Fund Flows: Evidence from Institutional Investors 1: University of Notre Dame; 2: Monash University, Australia |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track T1-6: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University Discussant: Mihai Ion, Oklahoma University Partisan Corporate Speech 1: Washington University in St. Louis; 2: Harvard Business School |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track W1-1: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley Haas Innovation Policy and Inventors’ Productivity: Evidence from Global AI Initiatives 1: University of Technology Sydney, UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia; 2: University of New South Wales, UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia; 3: University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Business, Richardson, USA |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track W1-2: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Alessandro Villa, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Fiscal Redistribution Risk in Treasury Markets 1: London business school; 2: Stanford University, United States; 3: Federal Reserve Board |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track W1-3: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Max Miller, Harvard University Partisan Fed London Business School |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track W1-4: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Callum Jones, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Optimal Immigration and Long-Run Growth 1: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; 2: Anderson School, UCLA; 3: NBER |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track W1-5: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Deeksha Gupta, Johns Hopkins University Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging 1: HEC Paris; 2: UCLA |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track W1-6: Government Policies and Financial Markets Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Antje Bendt, Australian National University Bailout Expectations, Default Risk and the Dynamics of Bank Credit Spreads University of Pennsylvania |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track TH1-1: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University Resolving the Zero-Beta Rate Puzzle Duke University |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track TH1-2: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Jane Jian Li, Columbia University Fiscal Imbalances and Asset Returns: Cross-Sector Economic Fluctuations under the Aggregate Budget Constraint 1: Universita' della Svizzera italiana and SFI; 2: Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 3: Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego; 4: Hong Kong University |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track TH1-3: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Ben Matthies, University of Notre Dame The Implied Equity Term Structure 1: Tilburg University; 2: Federal Reserve New York |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track TH1-4: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Gill Segal, University of North Carolina Fundamental Volatility 1: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University; 2: University of Iowa, United States of America |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track TH1-5: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Andrew Chen, Federal Reserve Board Limits To (Machine) Learning 1: Nanyang Technological University; 2: AQR Capital Management, Yale School of Management, and NBER; 3: Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL, and CEPR |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track TH1-6: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Classroom 120 Chair: Thummim Cho, Korea University Business School Discussant: Mirela Sandulescu, UNC Chapel Hill On the Moments of the Stochastic Discount Factor 1: London School of Economics; 2: University of Colorado Boulder |

