Dear FTG members and affiliates,

We hope you have a great start for the new year!

Following the success of previous summer schools, the Finance Theory Group (FTG), in conjunction with the University of Washington - Foster School of Business, is seeking applications and nominations for participation in the FTG’s biennial Summer School program. The summer school will take place at the Foster School of Business on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle on June 21-24, 2023.

The call for applications and all relevant information is available here: Call for Applications - FinanceTheoryGroup PhD Summer School 2023

We have an exciting set of speakers lined up for this event, and we hope that you would encourage your students and junior faculty to apply. Please spread the word to anyone, including empiricists, who is interested in deepening their knowledge in corporate theory and financial markets.

The deadline for applications is March 1st.  

Thank you for supporting this event!

Philip Bond, Doron Levit, Ye Li, Mark M. Westerfield

Planned Schedule

​​​​​​​June 21

4:30 - 5:30 PM: Itay Goldstein (Wharton) – The Role of Theory in Financial Research

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Welcome reception

June 22

Note: Both morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions will include a break of approximately 30 minutes.

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Bruno Biais (HEC Paris) – Mechanism Design Applications to Financial Markets

12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30 - 4:30 PM: Parallel Sessions

• Mark Westerfield (University of Washington) – Introduction to Dynamic Contract Theory
• Jeff Zwiebel (Stanford) – Intra-Firm Bargaining
• Maryam Farboodi (MIT) – Big Data

4:30 - 6:30 PM: Dinner Break

6:30 - 8:30 PM: Presentations of contributed papers by participants

June 23

Note: Both morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions will include a break of approximately 30 minutes.

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford) – Dynamic Capital Structure

12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30 - 4:30 PM: Parallel Sessions

• Giorgia Piacentino and Jason Donaldson (University of Southern California) – Debt and Bankruptcy
• Andrey Malenko (University of Michigan) – Auctions with Finance Applications
• Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics) – ESG

4:30 - 6:30 PM: Dinner Break

6:30 - 8:30 PM: Presentations of contributed papers by participants

June 24

Note: Both morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions will include a break of approximately 30 minutes.

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA) – OTC Markets

12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30 - 4:30 PM: Parallel Sessions

• Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan) – Shareholder Voting
• William Fuchs (UT Austin and UC3M) – Dynamics of Asymmetric Information
• Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley) – Fintech and Blockchain

6:30 - 10:00 PM: Farewell Dinner Cruise