Special Sessions & Events
AFA PhD Student Panel
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
SPEAKER: Stefan Nagel, Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
AFA Business Meeting and Presidential Address
Presidential Address: Wei Jiang, Emory University
AFA Panel - Measuring Data Assets: A Research Toolkit
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
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
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)