May 01 - May 02, 2015
University of Maryland, University of Maryland
Smith School of Business
College Park, MD
Organizers: Nicolae Gârleanu (UC Berkeley) and Rich Mathews (University of Maryland)
12th Members Meeting of the Finance Theory Group
Schedule
| Friday, May 1, 2015 | |
| 7:00pm | Dinner at various locations in Washington, DC |
| Saturday, May 2, 2015 − Van Munching Hall Room 1330 | |
| 8:15am − 9:00am | Continental breakfast (Lobby outside room 1330) |
| 9:00am − 10:00am | Timing Decisions in Organizations: Communication and Authority in a Dynamic Environment by Steven Grenadier, Andrey Malenko, and Nadya Malenko |
| 10:00am − 10:15am | Coffee break (Lobby outside room 1330) |
| 10:15am − 11:15am | Benchmarks in Search Markets by Darrell Duffie, Piotr Dworczak, and Haoxiang Zhu |
| 11:15am − 11:30am | Coffee break (Lobby outside room 1330) |
| 11:30am − 12:30pm | Endogenous Market Making and Network Formation by Briana Chang and Shengxing Zhang |
| 12:30pm − 2:00pm | Lunch and members meeting (Van Munching Hall 2333) |
| 2:00pm − 3:00pm | Information Black Holes in Auctions by Ulf Axelson and Igor Makarov |
| 3:00pm − 3:15pm | Coffee break (Lobby outside room 1330) |
| 3:15pm − 4:15pm | Contracting on Credit Ratings: Adding Value to Public Information by Christine Parlour and Uday Rajan |
| 4:15pm | Adjourn |
Program
- Elias Albagli (USC)
- Fernando Anjos (Texas)
- Vladimir Asriyan (CREi)
- Ulf Axelson (LSE)
- Ana Babus (Chicago Fed)
- Snehal Banerjee (Kellogg)
- Matthieu Bouvard (McGill)
- Bradyn Breon-Drish (Stanford)
- Elena Carletti (Bocconi)
- Briana Chang (Wisconsin)
- Hui Chen (MIT)
- Zhaohui Chen (Virginia)
- William Cong (Chicago)
- Brendan Daley (Duke)
- Amil Dasgupta (LSE)
- Shaun William Davies (Colorado)
- Jason Donaldson (Wash U)
- Phil Dybvig (Wash U)
- Alex Edmans (Wharton)
- Maryam Farboodi (Princeton)
- Nicolae Gârleanu (Berkeley)
- Simon Gervais (Duke)
- Vincent Glode (Wharton)
- Eitan Goldman (Indiana)
- Itay Goldstein (Wharton)
- Brett Green (Berkeley)
- Valentin Haddad (Princeton)
- Zhiguo He (Chicago)
- Chong Huang (UC Irvine)
- Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton)
- Ohad Kadan (Wash U)
- Ron Kaniel (Rochester)
- Anastasia Kartasheva (BIS)
- Péter Kondor (CEU)
- Yrjö Koskinen (Boston U)
- John Kuong (INSEAD)
- Albert (Pete) Kyle (Maryland)
- Nisan Langberg (Houston)
- Jeongmin (Mina) Lee (Wash U)
- Samuel Lee (NYU)
- Yaron Leitner (Philadelphia Fed)
- Doron Levit (Wharton)
- Richard Lowery (Texas)
- Evgeny Lyandres (Boston U)
- Matteo Maggiori (Harvard)
- Igor Makarov (LSE)
- Andrey Malenko (MIT)
- Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
- Gustavo Manso (Berkeley)
- Rich Mathews (Maryland)
- Alan Moreira (Yale)
- Erwan Morellec (EPFL)
- Christian Opp (Wharton)
- Dmitry Orlov (Rochester)
- Emilliano Pagnotta (NYU)
- Christine Parlour (Berkeley)
- Giorgia Piacentino (Wash U)
- Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia)
- Paul Povel (Houston)
- Adriano Rampini (Duke)
- Matt Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard)
- Marzena Rostek (Wisconsin)
- Jacob Sagi (UNC)
- Lukas Schmid (Duke)
- Alp Simsek (MIT)
- Raj Singh (Minnesota)
- Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota)
- Ed Van Wesep (Vanderbilt)
- Victoria Vanasco (Stanford)
- Felipe Varas (Duke)
- Vish Viswanathan (Duke)
- Mark Westerfield (U of Washington)
- Lucy White (HBS)
- Liyan Yang (Toronto)
- Ming Yang (Duke)
- Vijay Yerramilli (Houston)
- Adam Zawadowski (Boston U)
- John Zhu (Wharton)