Jackson Hole Finance Group
12th Jackson Hole Finance Conference
Jackson Hole, WY January 13 – 15, 2018
Jointly sponsored by
Wells Fargo Center for Corporate Finance and SFS
Schedule
Friday, Jan 12
5:30 – 6:30 pm Wine & cheese Reception – Apres Vous (off main lobby of SRL)
Saturday, Jan 13
7:30 am – 7:45 am Breakfast in Sundance Ballroom
7:45 am – 8:30 am Session I: Information and Asset Pricing
Session Chair: Diego Garcia
Demand for Information and Asset Pricing by Azi Ben-Rephael, Bruce I. Carlin, Zhi Da, and Ryan D. Israelsen
5:00pm Cocktails in Sundance Ballroom
5:15pm – 6:45pm Session II: Incentives & Behavior
Session Chair: Matt Spiegel
Do Labor Markets Discipline? Evidence From RMBS Bankers by John M. Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Gonzalo Maturana
The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts… by Arna Olafsson and Michaela Pagel
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Conference dinner
Sunday, Jan 14
7:00 am – 7:15 am Breakfast in Sundance Ballroom
7:15 am – 8:45 am Session III: Trading
Session Chair: Adriano Rampini
Failing to forecast rare events by James Dow and Philip Bond
The Emergence of Market Structure by Maryam Farboodi, Gregor Jarosch and Robert Shimer
5:00pm – 6:30pm Session IV: Financing & Growth
Session Chair: John Heaton
The Evolution of the Private Equity Market and the Decline in IPOs by Michael Ewens and Joan Farre-Mensa
Developing Novel Drugs by Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou
Monday, Jan 15
7:00 am – 7:15 am Breakfast in Sundance Ballroom
7:15 am – 8:45 am Session V: Macro Asset Pricing
Session Chair: Deborah Lucas
Political Cycles and Stock Returns by Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi
Capital Share Dynamics When Firms Insure Workers by Barney Hartman-Glaser, Hanno Lustig and Mindy Zhang Xiaolan
Conference Organizers
Paolo Fulghieri, Jacob Sagi, and Anil Shivdasani
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Conference Venue
Snake River Lodge & SPA
7710 Granite Loop Road
Teton Village, WY 83025
Program Committee
Jonathan Berk, Stanford University
Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina
Mark Grinblatt, UCLA
Deborah Lucas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
Adriano Rampini, Duke University
Anil Shivdasani, University of North Carolina
Matt Spiegel, Yale University
Anjan Thakor, Washington University
Contact for Administrative Questions
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