2026 Program

Thursday morning, Sep 10

Session 1 

• Selling to Yourself: Continuation Funds in Private Equity
  Rustam Abuzov (Virginia), Will Gornall (UBC), Sophie Shive (Notre Dame)*, Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford), Michael Weisbach (Ohio State)
  Discussant: Arthur Korteweg (USC)

• The Impact of Patient Capital
  Yingxiang Li (CityUHK), Tong Liu (MIT), Ting Xu (Toronto)*
  Discussant: Antonio Coppola (Stanford)
• Why Don’t Old Firms Do New Things?
  Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern)*, Zhiguo He (Stanford), Victor Lyonnet (Michigan), Yueran Ma (Chicago)
  Discussant:  Matthew Denes (Carnegie Mellon)

Session 2 

• The Longs and Shorts of Hedge Funds
  Alan Kwan (HKU), Po-Yu Liu (National Taiwan University), Yukun Liu (Rochester)*
  Discussant: Luke Taylor (Wharton)
• Dinner Table Alphas
  Sean Cao (Maryland), Huaizhi Chen (UT Dallas)*, Lauren Cohen (Harvard), Tianchen Zhao (Maryland)
  Discussant: Johan Walden (UC Berkeley)

Friday Morning, Sep 11

Session 3 

• Sticky Discount Rates
  Masao Fukui (Boston University), Niels Joachim Gormsen (Chicago), Kilian Huber (Chicago)*
  Discussant: Mark Leary (WUSTL)
• Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: Sufficient Statistics with Heterogeneous Firms
  Antoine Hubert de Fraisse (LSE), Peter Maxted (UC Berkeley)*, Kunal Sangani (Northwestern) David Sraer (UC Berkeley)
  Discussant: Olivier Wang (NYU)
• CEO Ideology and Global Trade
  Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard)*, Mancy Luo (Bayes), Margarita Tsoutsoura (WUSTL)
  Discussant: Janet Gao (Georgetown)

Session 4 

• Working it out: Randomized modification and entrepreneurial effort in a collateralized debt market
  Christopher Eaglin (Duke), Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth)*, Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern), Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth)
  Discussant: Michael Roberts (Wharton)
• Student Debt and the Cinderella Effect
  Jess Cornaggia (Penn State)*, Kimberly Cornaggia (Penn State), Qiang Wang (Calgary), Han Xia (UT Dallas)
  Discussant: Uday Rajan (Michigan)

* presenter