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Special Sessions & Events

AFA PhD Student Panel

Saturday, Jan 02, 2027

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST

You are warmly invited to join AFA Vice President Andrea Eisfeldt for a special PhD Student Panel at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. This event is open to all registered conference attendees and is designed to benefit both PhD students and early-career junior faculty. The panel will share insights, practical advice, and perspectives on navigating the early stages of an academic career in finance. Panel topics and featured panelists: TBD

AFA Welcome Reception

Saturday, Jan 02, 2027

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST

All registered conference attendees are invited to join us for the AFA Welcome Reception on the evening before conference sessions begin. Begin the Annual Meeting with an evening of conversation and connection with colleagues from across the finance community. Guests are invited to enjoy complimentary cocktails, beverages, and hors d’oeuvres while viewing the PhD Student Poster Session, meeting the student presenters, and connecting with emerging scholars, including PhD candidates on the academic job market.

Poster Session TOUR

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

8:30 am - 9:30 am EST

Please join AFA Vice President Andrea Eisfeldt for a special TOUR of the PhD Student Poster Session at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting. This is a great opportunity to view the posters, meet the student presenters, and talk with PhD students about their research.

AFA Panel - Emergent AI for Finance: Beyond LLMs

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

10:15 am - 12:15 pm EST

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

AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

AFA Panel - What Can We Learn from Demand Systems?

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST

CHAIR: John 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 03, 2027

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST

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 Board of Directors Meeting

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

4:45 pm - 6:30 pm EST

INVITATION ONLY

AFFECT Committee Reception - DATA AND DRINKS

Sunday, Jan 03, 2027

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EST

AFA Panel - Federal Reserve Policies and Financial Markets

Monday, Jan 04, 2027

8:00 am - 10:00 am EST

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 04, 2027

10:15 am - 12:15 pm EST

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

AFFECT Committee Meeting

Monday, Jan 04, 2027

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST

INVITATION ONLY

AFA Lecture

Monday, Jan 04, 2027

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EST

SPEAKER: Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago

AFA Business Meeting and Presidential Address

Monday, Jan 04, 2027

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST

Presidential Address: Wei Jiang, Emory University

AFA Nominating Committee Meeting

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2027

8:00 am - 10:00 am EST

INVITATION ONLY

AFA Panel - Measuring Data Assets: A Research Toolkit

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2027

8:00 am - 10:00 am EST

CHAIR: Laura Veldkamp, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University PANELISTS: Andrea 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 05, 2027

10:15 am - 12:15 pm EST

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 05, 2027

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

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)

PhD Poster Session

Sunday, Jan 03  |  7:00 am - 6:00 pm EST

Session: AFA PhD Student Poster Session
Sunday, Jan 03
7:00 am - 6:00 pm EST
Session Chair:

Paper Sessions

Sunday, Jan 03  |  8:00 am - 10:00 am EST

Session: Diversity, Careers, and Capital Allocation
Sunday, Jan 03
8:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Session Chair: Mila Sherman (University of Massachusetts)

Race, Gender, and Careers in Asset Management: Evidence from U.S. Administrative Data

John Jianqiu Bai (Northeastern University)
Linlin Ma (Peking University)
Kevin Mullally (University of Central Florida)
Aisulu Munkina (University of Florida)
Yuehua Tang (University of Florida)

Discussant: Wenting Ma (University of Massachusetts)

Information Frictions and the Real Effects of Sustainable Investing

Cynthia Yin (Cornell University)
Minsu Ko (Binghamton University)

Discussant: Kelly Shue (Yale University)

Board Diversity and Career Progression of Women

Anushri Jain (Washington University in St. Louis)
Rana Mohie El Din (Washington University in St. Louis)

Discussant: Nadya Malenko (Boston College)

Session: Behavioral Household Finance
Sunday, Jan 03
8:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Session Chair: Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School)

The Impact of Financial Literacy: Evidence from a Randomized Trial Linked to Administrative Data

Miguel Ferreira (NOVA University Lisbon)
Diogo Mendes (Stockholm School of Economics)
Andre F. Silva (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown University)

Targeting Higher Credit Card Payments

Benedict Guttman-Kenney (Rice University)

Discussant: Ben Keys (University of Pennsylvania)

The Financial Psychology of Shrinking Families: How Demographic Decline Shapes Investor Behavior

Yingmei Cheng (Florida State University)
Henrik Cronqvist (Chapman University)
Jingyu Guo (Xiamen University)
Chaopeng Wu (Xiamen University)

Discussant: Da Ke (University of South Carolina-Columbia)

Eliciting Stopping Times

Maximilian Voigt (HEC - Montréal)
Sebastian Ebert (Heidelberg University)

Discussant: Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University)

Session: AFA Panel - Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives
Sunday, Jan 03
8:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Session Chair: Janice Eberly (Northwestern University)

Panelists include the JFIP Co-Editors: Valentin Haddad (University of California, Los Angeles), Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford University), David Thesmar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Is that a $100 bill on the sidewalk?

Philip Bond (University of Washington)

Discussant: David Thesmar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Most claimed statistical findings in cross-sectional return predictability are likely true

Andrew Chen (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford University)

Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives

Salome Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Zachary Edwards (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
John Graham (Duke University)
Ty McClure (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Michael Sparks (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Brent Meyer (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Sonya Waddell (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Daniel Weitz (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

Discussant: Valentin Haddad (University of California-Los Angeles)

Corporate Actions as Moral Issues

Zwetelina Iliewa (University of Bonn)
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University)
Oliver Spalt (University of Mannheim)

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