New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management Conference

Monika Piazzesi and Luis M. Viceira, Organizers

May 19-20, 2017

Supported by Norges Bank Investment Management

The Montague on the Gardens
15 Montague Street
London, WC1B 5BJ

Friday, May 19

11:45 am

Introductory Remarks

12:00 noon

Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College
Emiliano Pagnotta, Imperial College
Chasing Private Information

Discussant:

Dong Lou, London School of Economics  (slides)

1:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Nicolae B. Gârleanu, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Lasse H. Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management

Discussant:

Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics and NBER  (slides)

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Matthijs Breugem, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Adrian Buss, INSEAD
Institutional Investors and Information Acquisition: Implications for Asset Prices and Informational Efficiency

Discussant:

Anna Pavlova, London Business School  (slides)

4:15 pm

Break

4:30 pm

Panel on the Future of the Corporation
Chair: James Poterba, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, E.L. Rothschild, LLC and CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
Colin Mayer, Univerrsity of Oxford
Dominic Rossi, Fidelity International

6:00 pm

Transportation to the Royal Society

6:45 pm

Reception and Dinner at the Royal Society
Welcome: Egil Matsen, Deputy Governor, Norges Bank
Speaker: Robert C. Merton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Saturday, May 20

8:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Andra C. Ghent, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Valentin Haddad, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Asset Insulators

Discussant:

Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics  (slides)

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

Anton Lines, London Business School
Do Institutional Incentives Distort Asset Prices?

Discussant:

Christopher Polk, London School of Economics  (slides)

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Marco Di Maggio, Harvard University and NBER
Francesco Franzoni, Swiss Finance Institute
Amir Kermani, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Carlo Sommavilla, Swiss Finance Institute & USI
The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market

Discussant:

Peter Kondor, London School of Economics (slides)

12:00 noon

Lunch and Panel on Long-Term Returns
Chair: Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER

 Elroy Dimson, Cambridge University (slides)
 Lasse H. Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School (slides)
 Luis M. Viceira, Harvard University and NBER (slides)

1:15 pm

Break

1:30 pm

Kevin Pan, Harvard University
Yao Zeng, University of Washington
ETF Arbitrage under Liquidity Mismatch

Discussant:

Francesco Franzoni, Swiss Finance Institute  (slides)

2:30 pm

Erik Stafford, Harvard University
Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

Discussant:

Ludovic Phalippou, University of Oxford (slides)

3:30 pm

Adjourn