2021
March 18-21 (Virtual)
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Doctoral Symposium
Best Paper Awards
President
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College
Presidential Address: Finance and Competition
Program Chair
Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University
Keynote Speakers
Antoinette Schoar, Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, MIT
Keynote Address: The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Businesses and Their Owners
Wei Xiong, Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance, Princeton University
Keynote Address: Data Privacy and Fintech
2020
August 6-8 (Virtual)
Conference Program
Presidential Address
Program Chair
Hengjie Ai, University of Minnesota
Keynote Speakers
Douglas Breeden, William W. Priest Jr. Professor, Duke University
Keynote Address: Stock and Bond Insurance Prices Implicit in Option Prices
Toni Whited, Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan
Keynote Address: Bank Market Power and Monetary Policy Transmission
Special Session
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh: Can the Covid Bailouts Save the Economy?
2019
March 7-9, Chicago
Conference Program
Presidential Address
All conference events took place at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel.
Program Chair
Gordon Phillips, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Keynote Speakers
Amit Seru, Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance, Stanford University
Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Sponsors and Exhibitors
American Association of Individual Investors (AAII); Geoffrey A. Hirt, Ph.D.; the Quarterly Journal of Finance; Tippie College of Business (The University of Iowa); Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) (University of Pennsylvania); World Scientific; CRSP (Booth School of Business – University of Chicago); StockTrak.com; Tuck Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP); Palgrave Macmillan, S&P Global Market Intelligence
2018
March 1-3, San Antonio
Conference Program
Presidential Address
Outstanding Paper Awards
Keynote Speakers (view bios)
Jeff Korcheck, Sony Pictures Animation (James A. Gentry Distinguished Financial Executive State of the Industry Address)
Gikas Hardouvelis, Former Greek Finance Minister
Kose John, New York University
David Scharfstein, Harvard University
Sponsors and Exhibitors
AAII (American Association of Individual Investors); Geoffrey A. Hirt, Ph.D.; the Quarterly Journal of Finance; Sy Syms School of Business (Yeshiva University); Tippie College of Business (The University of Iowa); Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) (University of Pennsylvania); World Scientific Publishing Company; CRSP (Booth School of Business – University of Chicago); equitysym; Hewlett-Packard; StockTrak.com.
2017
March 1-4, Chicago
Conference Program
Outstanding Paper Awards
Keynote Speakers (view bios)
Todd Pulvino, Founding Principal, CNH Partners, LLC (James A. Gentry Distinguished Financial Executive State of the Industry Address)
Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Mitchell Petersen, Glen Vasel Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Loyola University Chicago-Quinlan School of Business, University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, The Quarterly Journal of Finance, Professor Geoffrey Hirt – Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, AAII (American Association of Individual Investors), DePaul Center for Financial Services, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), World Scientific Publishing Company, Bloomberg for Education, Bureau Van Dijk, CBOE Options Institute, CRSP, Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), S&P Global Market Intelligence, thinkorswim Division of TD AMERITRADE, Inc.
2016
March 2-5, Atlanta
Conference Program
Outstanding Paper Awards
Programs Track Chairs and Review Committee
Keynote Speakers
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Arno A. Rayner Chair in Finance and Management, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Gerald Garvey, Managing Director, BlackRock, Inc. (James A. Gentry Distinguished Financial Executive State of the Industry Address)
Sponsors and Exhibitors
CFA Institute, The Quarterly Journal of Finance, Professor Geoffrey Hirt – Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, AAII (American Association of Individual Investors), World Scientific Publishing Company, University of Toronto, Bloomberg Institute, CRSP, Conley Smith ePublishing LLC, Equities Lab LLC, StockTrak, S&P Capital IQ and SNL, thinkorswim Division of TD AMERITRADE, Inc.