We received 316 papers, resulting in an acceptance rate below 4%. Below is the 2018 program.
Thursday
6:00 Welcome Reception at Saul Good
Friday
8:45 Breakfast
9:15 Welcome Remarks
9:30 Session One - Chair: Bruce Carlin, UCLA
Ling Cen (University of Toronto), Michael Hertzel (Arizona State University), Christoph Schiller (University of Toronto)
- Discussant: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Rustom Irani (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajkamal Iyer (Imperial), Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Board), José-Luis Peydro (Pompeu Fabra)
- Discussant: Mark Flannery (University of Florida)
Coffee Break
Sudheer Chava (Georgia Tech), Andras Danis (Georgia Tech), Alex Hsu (Georgia Tech)
- Discussant: Liu Yang (University of Maryland)
11:30 Lunch and Keynote Address
12:45 Session Two - Chair: Alice Bonaime, University of Arizona
Francois Cocquemas (Vanderbilt University)
- Discussant: Neil Pearson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Ing-Haw Cheng (Dartmouth College), Felipe Severino (Dartmouth College), Richard Townsend (UC San Diego)
- Discussant: Tony Cookson (University of Colorado)
Coffee Break
Shimon Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tobias Moskowitz (Yale University), Marina Niessner (Yale University)
- Discussant: Eric So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:45 Depart for Keeneland
5:15 Depart Keeneland for dinner at Dudley’s
Saturday
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Session Three - Chair: Matt Spiegel, Yale University
Daniel Andrei (UCLA), William Mann (UCLA), Nathalie Moyen (University of Colorado)
- Discussant: Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University)
Thummim Cho (London School of Economics)
- Discussant: David McLean (Georgetown University)
Coffee Break
Yifei Mao (Cornell University), Jessie J. Wang (Arizona State University)
- Discussant: Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics)
11:30 Lunch
12:15 Session Four - Chair: Mark Huson, University of Alberta
Arpit Gupta (New York University), Kunal Sachdeva (Columbia University/Rice University)
- Discussant: Nick Gantchev (Southern Methodist University)
Steve Foerster (Western University), Juhani Linnainmaa (University of Southern California), Brian Melzer (Northwestern University), Alessandro Previtero (Indiana University)
- Discussant: Mark Egan (Harvard University)
Coffee Break
Laura Lindsey (Arizona State University), Luke Stein (Arizona State University)
- Discussant: Berk Sensoy (Vanderbilt University)
2:15 Optional Bourbon Tasting at Beaumont Inn