Explore the AFA Panels, Special Sessions, and AFA Lecture featured at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The Annual Meeting will take place January 3–5, 2027, at the Westin DC Downtown, with additional AFA programming beginning January 2.
AFA Panel: Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives
Sunday, Jan. 3, 8:00–10:00 a.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Janice C. Eberly, James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
JFIP Co-Editors: Valentin Haddad, Professor of Finance and UCLA Anderson Dean’s Term Chair in Management, University of California, Los Angeles; Arvind Krishnamurthy, John S. Osterweis Professor of Finance, Stanford University; David Thesmar, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papers:
“Is That a $100 Bill on the Sidewalk?” (Philip Bond)
“Most Claimed Statistical Findings in Cross-Sectional Return Predictability Are Likely True” (Andrew Chen)
“Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives” (Salomé Baslandze, Zachary Edwards, John R. Graham, Ty McClure, Michael Sparks, Brent Meyer, Sonya Ravindranath Waddell, and Daniel Weitz)
“Corporate Actions as Moral Issues” (Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf, and Oliver Spalt)
AFA Panel: Emergent AI for Finance: Beyond LLMs
Sunday, Jan. 3, 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Markus Pelger, Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford University
Panelists: Laura Veldkamp, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago; Anton Korinek, Commonwealth Professor of Economics, University of Virginia; Jianqing Fan, Frederick L. Moore ’18 Professor of Finance, Princeton University
AFA Panel: What Can We Learn from Demand Systems?
Sunday, Jan. 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: John Y. Campbell, Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Panelists: Valentin Haddad, Professor of Finance and UCLA Anderson Dean’s Term Chair in Management, University of California, Los Angeles; Julie Zhiyu Fu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Washington University in St. Louis; Jules H. van Binsbergen, Nippon Life Professor in Finance and Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; Motohiro Yogo, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, Princeton University
AFA Panel: Regulation of Prediction Markets
Sunday, Jan. 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Haoxiang Zhu, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panelists: Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Cornell University; Joshua T. White, Chief Economist and Director, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Patrick J. Schorno, Chief Economist, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
AFA Panel: Federal Reserve Policies and Financial Markets
Monday, Jan. 4, 8:00–10:00 a.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Reena Aggarwal, Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance, Georgetown University
Panelists: Lael Brainard, Distinguished Fellow, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy; Former Director, White House National Economic Council; Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board; Randal Quarles, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, The Cynosure Group; Former Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve Board
AFA Panel: The Future of Stablecoins
Monday, Jan. 4, 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Michael Piwowar, Executive Director, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Panelists: Adrienne A. Harris, Advisory Board Member, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy; Former Superintendent, New York State Department of Financial Services; Patrick McHenry, Distinguished Fellow, Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy; Former Chair, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services; Michael Faulkender, William A. Longbrake Professor of Finance, University of Maryland; Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
AFA Lecture
Monday, Jan. 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Speaker: Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
AFA Panel: Measuring Data Assets: A Research Toolkit
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 8:00–10:00 a.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Laura Veldkamp, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University
Panelists: Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance, University of California, Los Angeles; Huan Tang, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Stanford University
AFA Special Session: AI-Generated Papers
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Wei Jiang, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Finance, Emory University
Panelists: Itay Goldstein, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor and Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; Robert Novy-Marx, Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Rochester; William Mann, Associate Professor of Finance, Emory University
AFA Special Session: Future of Finance
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1:00–3:00 p.m. | Westin DC Downtown
Chair: Ulrike Malmendier, Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance, University of California, Berkeley
Papers:
“Financial Regulation and AI: A Faustian Bargain?” (Christopher Clayton and Antonio Coppola)
“Populism and Monetary Policy Transmission” (Nora Lamersdorf)
“The Security Dividend: U.S. Military Power, Dollar Dominance and Global Stability” (Sun Yong Kim)
“Unbalanced Financial Globalization” (Damien Capelle and Bruno Pellegrino)