NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Asset Pricing Workshop

Andrew Ang and Robert Hodrick, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 18 - 19, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17:

6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, JULY 18:



11:00 AM ZHENYU WANG, Columbia University

A Shrinkage Approach to Model Uncertainty and Asset Allocation

Discussant: ROBERT STAMBAUGH, University of Pennsylvania and NBER



12:00 PM Lunch



1:00 PM JACOB BOUDOUKH, MATTHEW RICHARDSON, and

ROBERT WHITELAW, New York University and NBER

YUQING SHEN, J.P. Morgan

Do Asset Prices Reflect Fundamentals?

Freshly squeezed Evidence from the FCOJ Market



Discussant: KENT DANIEL, Northwestern University and NBER



2:00 PM NICHOLAS BARBERIS, University of Chicago and NBER

ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

JEFFREY WURGLER, New York University

Comovement



Discussant: KENNETH FRENCH, Dartmouth College and NBER



3:00 PM Break



3:15 PM LEONID KOGAN, STEPHEN ROSS, and JIANG WANG, MIT and NBER

MARK WESTERFIELD, MIT

The Survival and Price Impact of Irrational Traders



Discussant: MING HUANG, Stanford University



4:15 PM Adjourn



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FRIDAY, JULY 19:



8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries



9:00 AM JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER

MONIKA PIAZZESI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Bond Risk Premia



Discussant: GEERT BEKAERT, Columbia University and NBER



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM MICHAEL JOHANNES, Columbia University

NICHOLAS POLSON, University of Chicago

JON STROUD, University of Pennsylvania

Sequential Optimal Portfolio Performance: Market and Volatility Timing



Discussant: MICHAEL BRANDT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER



11:15 AM VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School

LASSE PEDERSEN, New York University

Asset Pricing with Liquidity Risk



Discussant: LUIS VICEIRA, Harvard University and NBER



12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM JUN LIU, UC, Los Angeles

JUN PAN, MIT

TAN WANG, University of British Columbia

An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia



Discussant: TORBEN ANDERSEN, Northwestern University and NBER



2:15 PM LARRY EPSTEIN, University of Rochester

MARTIN SCHNEIDER, UC, Los Angeles

Learning Under Ambiguity



Discussant: BERNARD DUMAS, INSEAD and NBER



3:15 PM Adjourn



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