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 270 |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track T8-1: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: Shuaiyu Chen, UVA Darden Asset Reclassification and Mutual Fund Flows Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track T8-2: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: David Solomon, Boston College The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits University of Chicago |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track T8-3: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: Pat Akey, ESSEC Does Sustainable Investing Weaken Stock Reactions to Cash Flow News? 1: University of Houston; 2: Rutgers Business School; 3: Michigan State University; 4: University of Notre Dame; 5: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track T8-4: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: Anna Helmke, Vanderbilt Persistence in Alphas without Persistence in Skill 1: Northern Illinois University; 2: Dartmouth College, NBER, Kepos Capital |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track T8-5: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: Federico Mainardi, Columbia Business School How (Not) to Identify Demand Elasticities in Dynamic Asset Markets 1: University of Rochester; 2: University of Pennsylvania |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track T8-6: Flows, Prices, and Institutional Investors Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Ian Appel, UVA Darden Discussant: Daniel Neuhann, University of Texas at Austin On the Recovery and Usage of Demand Elasticities in Dynamic Settings 1: The Ohio State University; 2: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; 3: University of Utah; 4: Purdue University |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track W8-1: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Mark Chen, Georgia State University Does Corporate Production of AI Innovation Create Value? 1: Schulich School of Business at York University; 2: HKU Business School and ECGI; 3: School of Administrative Studies at York University |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track W8-2: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Pauline Liang, Stanford GSB Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems 1: University of Minnesota; 2: Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile; 3: Insper, Brazil |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track W8-3: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley Haas How Good is Generative AI Personal Financial Advice? 1: MIT Sloan; 2: Stanford GSB |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track W8-4: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Agustin Hurtado, University of Maryland Hidden Medical Debt and Consumer Access to Credit University of Virginia |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track W8-5: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Dexin Zhou, Baruch College FinTech Brings a Bias from Psychology Labs to a Two-trillion-dollar Market 1: DePaul University; 2: Tsinghua University; 3: Xuanyuan Insurance Agency Co., Ltd; 4: Capital University of Economics and Business; 5: Baylor University |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track W8-6: FinTech and AI in Finance Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Pedro Matos, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Discussant: Abhinav Gupta, UNC Kenan Flagler Why Do Firms Engage in Open-Source Software Development? UT Austin |
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
Track TH8-1: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Greg Phelan, Williams College Productivity Enables Security: The Economics of Blockchain Settlement 1: Duke University; 2: NYU Stern School of Business; 3: University of Florida |
| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Track TH8-2: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Naz Koont, Stanford The Value of Contingent Liquidity from Banks to Nonbank Financiers The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Track TH8-3: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Vladimir Yankov, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Deposit Competition Beyond Rates 1: Berkeley Haas; 2: Stanford GSB; 3: Berkeley Haas |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Track TH8-4: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Jane Jian Li, Columbia University Bank Opacity and Deposit Rates 1: Washington University in St. Louis & CEPR; 2: MIT Sloan, NBER & CEPR; 3: Universitat Pompeu Fabra & BSE |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
Track TH8-5: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Arthur Taburet, Duke University Strategic Bankruptcy and Corporate Negligence 1: Harvard Business School; 2: University of Georgia; 3: University of Michigan |
| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Track TH8-6: Depository Institutions and FinTech Location: Classroom 270 Chair: Kinda Hachem, UVA Darden Discussant: Huberto Ennis, FRB Richmond How Do Government Guarantees Affect Deposit Supply? 1: The Ohio State University; 2: University of Michigan; 3: UCLA; 4: University of Texas at Austin |

