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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Asset Pricing

 

Urban Jermann, and Amir Yaron, Organizers

 

July 12-13, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM



Thursday, July 12:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Ian Martin, Stanford University and NBER
Simple Variance Swaps

Discussant: Itamar Drechsler, New York University


9:30 am


Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Johannes, Columbia University
Lars Lochstoer, Columiba University
Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium: The Asset Pricing Implications

Discussant: Lars P. Hansen, University of Chicago and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Jonathan B. Berk, Stanford University and NBER
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Northwestern University and NBER
Measuring Economic Rents in the Mutual Funds Industry

Discussant: Robert Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania and NBER


12:00 n


Jakub W. Jurek, Princeton University and NBER
Erik Stafford, Harvard University
The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Discussant: Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


1:00 pm


Lunch


2:00 pm


Scott Condie, Cornell University
Jayant Ganguli, University of Nottingham
Philipp Illeditsch, University of Pennsylvania
Information Inertia

Discussant: Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Songzi Du, Stanford GSB
Haoxiang Zhu, Stanford University
Are CDS Auctions Biased??

Discussant: Mikhail Chernov, London School of Economics


4:30 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Group Dinner at the Hotel Marlowe


Friday, July 13:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Zhiguo He, University of Chicago and NBER
Konstantin Milbradt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Endogenous Liquidity and Defaultable Bonds

Discussant: Richard Green, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER


9:30 am


Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yu Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jun Yang, Bank of Canada
Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

Discussant: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER
Alexi Savov, New York University
Jennie Bai, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Have Financial Markets Become More Informative?

Discussant: Robert Novy-Marx, University of Rochester and NBER


12:00 n


Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University
Lu Zhang, Ohio State University and NBER
An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search

Discussant: Francois Gourio Boston University and NBER


1:00 pm


Lunch


2:00 pm


Jason Chen, University of British Columbia
Do Cash Flows of Growth Stocks Really Grow Faster?

Discussant: Ravi Bansal Duke University and NBER


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago and NBER
Lasse Pedersen, New York University and NBER
Evert Vrugt, VU University Amsterdam, PGO-IM

Carry

Discussant: Owen Lamont, Harvard University

4:30 pm

Adjourn