Special Sessions & Events
AFA PhD Student Panel
You are warmly invited to join SYDNEY LUDVIGSON, AFA Vice President and Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance at New York University, for a special PhD Student Panel at the 2026 AFA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL REGISTERED CONFERENCE ATTENDEES and is designed to benefit both PhD students and early-career junior faculty. *** PANEL TOPICS AND FEATURED PANELISTS: 1. Now What? Navigating Research Setbacks. Featured Panelist: Antonio Coppola (Stanford GSB) 2. When to Stay and When to Fold: Knowing When to Stick with a Research Agenda. Featured Panelist: Max Miller (Harvard Business School) 3. How to Take Rejections Well: Navigating Feedback and Criticism. Featured Panelist: Sasha Indarte (Wharton) 4. Are They Awake? Connecting with Your Audience Through Clear and Stimulating Writing and Presentations. Featured Panelist: Indira Puri (NYU Stern School of Business)
AFA Panel - Private Assets Amidst Regulation and Technology
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
CHAIR: Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College) PANELISTS: Teresa Fort, (Dartmouth College), Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University), René Stulz (Ohio State University), Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
AFA Panel - Generative AI and Finance Scholarship
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
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
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), Parinitha Sastry (University of Pennsylvania), Ishita Sen (Harvard University)
AFA Lecture - The Economics and Finance of Rising Federal Debt
SPEAKER: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)