32nd Meeting at Georgia State University (Spring 2025)

May 09 - May 10, 2025

Georgia State University, Atlanta

The FTG Spring 2025 Meeting will be held at Georgia State University on May 9th and 10th, 2025.

The meeting is organized by Ajay Subramanian, Snehal Banerjee, Uday Rajan, and Lucy White.

The organizers have partnered with the hotel to secure special discounted rates for this event: Courtyard Atlanta Buckhead for $129 per night. The reservation code is 'Georgia State University Finance Theory Group'. The reservation link is: Book your group rate for Georgia State University Finance Theory Group Event

Last Day to Book is Wednesday, April 09, 2025.

 

The schedule is the following:

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Friday, May 9, 2025

Location: Georgia State University Buckhead Center (3348 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30326)

2:00pm – 4:00pm     Parallel Sessions  - Rooms 1215 and 1216

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Room 1215

"Private Credit: Risks and Benefits of a Maturity Wall" by Rui Albuquerque and Adam Zawadowski

"Running Responsibly" by Tomy Lee and Chaojun Wang

 

Room 1216

"A Theory of Economic Coercion and Fragmentation" by Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger

"Confirmation and Consistency in Corporate Communication" by Jordan Martel

 

3:00pm – 3:20pm    Coffee Break

3:20pm – 4:20pm

Room 1215

"Bank fragility and the incentives to manage risk" by Toni Ahnert, Christoph Bertsch, Agnes Leonello, and Robert Marquez

"Flexible Monitoring, Double Moral Hazard, and Fixed-Wage Contracts" by Liang Dai, Yenan Wang, and Ming Yang

Room 1216

"Mixology: Order flow segmentation design" by Joshua Mollner

"Optimal Incentives Over Time" by Zhaohui Chen and Juraj Foldes

 

 

4:30pm – 5:30pm     Mentoring Sessions

5:00pm –  7:00pm    Reception (Buckhead Club: 3344 Peachtree Rd NE #2600, Atlanta, GA 30326 )

7:30pm –                    Small group dinners

 

Saturday, May 9 2025

Location:  Georgia State University Buckhead Center (3348 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30326)

Room 1203

7:30am – 8:15am        Breakfast

8:15am – 8:30am         Welcome remarks
    
8:30am – 9:30am        "Demandable Debt and Leverage Ratchet Effect" by Kostas Koufopoulos, Xuyuanda Qi, and Giulio Trigilia

9:30am – 9:45am        Break
    
9:45am – 10:45am      "Optimal Integration: Human, Machine, and Generative AI" by Hongda Zhong
    
10:45am – 11:00am     Break
    
11:00am – 12:00pm     "An Arrow-Pratt Theory of Preference for Early Resolution of Uncertainty" by Hengjie Ai, Ravi Bansal, Hongye Guo, and Amir Yaron

12:00pm – 1:30pm       Lunch and FTG Members Meeting   (12th floor lounge, Room 1203)

1:45pm – 2:45pm         “Corporate Finance Through Loyalty Programs" by Dan Luo

2:45pm – 3:00pm         Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm         “The importance of being earnest (in search markets)" by Brendan Daley and Jacob Sagi

4:00pm                          Adjourn




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