NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Universities Research Conference

Asset Pricing with Imperfect Trading

 

May 13-14, 2005

 

Darrell Duffie and Owen Lamont, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

LAUREN COHEN, University of Chicago

 

KARL DIETHER, Ohio State University

 

CHRISTOPHER MALLOY, London Business School

 

Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  TYLER HENRY, University of Washington

 

 

10:15 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:30 a.m.

RONNIE SADKA, University of Washington

 

ANNA SCHERBINA, Harvard University

 

Analyst Disagreement, Mispricing and Liquidity

 

 

 

Discussant: ADAM REED, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

11:45 a.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 p.m.

ROBERT NOVY-MARX, University of Chicago

 

On the Excess Returns to Illiquidity

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT STAMBAUGH, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

NICOLAE GARLEANU, University of Pennsylvania

 

LASSE HEJE PEDERSEN, New York University

 

ALLEN POTESHMAN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Demand-Based Option Pricing

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOSHUA COVAL, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

HARRISON HONG, Princeton University

 

JIALIN YU, Columbia University

 

Gone Fishin’: Seasonality in Speculative Trading and Asset Prices

 

 

 

Discussant:  KENT DANIEL, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 5:15 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Reception and Group Dinner

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

5 Cambridge Parkway

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 14:

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

ANTTI PETAJISTO, Yale University

 

Why Do Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down?

 

 

 

Discussant: ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY, Northwestern University

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:00 a.m.

SANDRO ANDRADE, UC, Berkeley

 

CHARLES CHANG, Cornell University

 

MARK SEASHOLES, UC, Berkeley

 

Trading Shocks, Asset Prices and the Limits of Arbitrage

 

 

 

Discussant: MALCOLM BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:15 a.m.

ANDREA FRAZZINI, Yale University

 

OWEN LAMONT, Yale University and NBER

 

Dumb Money:  Mutual Fund Flows and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

 

 

 

Discussant:  STEFAN NAGEL, Stanford University

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/20/05