2026 Featured Sessions

AFA Panel: Private Assets Amidst Regulation and Technology

Saturday, Jan. 3rd, 8:00am-10:00am, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Chair: Isil Erel, Ohio State University;

Panelists: Viral Acharya, New York University; Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University; Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University; Alberto Rossi, Georgetown University

AFA Panel: Productivity and Competition in the New Global Environment

Saturday, Jan. 3rd, 10:15am-12:15pm, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Chair: Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College

Panelists: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University; René Stulz, Ohio State University; Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago

AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon

Saturday, Jan. 3rd, 12:30pm-2:30pm, Marriott Philadelphia

Speaker: Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

AFA Panel: Generative AI and Finance Scholarship

Saturday, Jan. 3rd, 2:30pm-4:30pm, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Chair: Robert Novy-Marx, University of Rochester

Panelists: Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University; Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania; Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago

AFA Panel: Publishing in Top Finance Journals – Discussion with Editors

Sunday, Jan. 4th, 8:00am-10:00am, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Chair: John Graham, Duke University

Panelists: Janice Eberly, Northwestern University; Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London; Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania; Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AFA Panel: Finance Insights and Perspectives

Sunday, Jan. 4th, 10:15am-12:15pm, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Chair: Janice Eberly, Northwestern University

Panelists: Viral Acharya, New York University; John Campbell, Harvard University; Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University; Pari Sastry, Columbia University; Ishita Sen, Harvard University

AFA Lecture: The Economics and Finance of Rising Federal Debt

Sunday, Jan. 4th, 2:30pm-4:30pm, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

Speaker: James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology