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Session Overview
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Date: Friday, 19/Sept/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
A6: Derivatives 1
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Chair: Fabian Hollstein
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Measuring Option Liquidity

Alexander Götz1, Ryan Riordan2, Philipp Schuster1, Marliese Uhrig-Homburg3

1: Universität Stuttgart, Germany; 2: LMU Munich School of Management, Germany; 3: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Discussant: Fabian Hollstein (Saarland University)



10:00am - 10:30am

Good and bad variance premia and expected carbon returns

Nicole Branger, Jan Harren, Stefan Menze

University of Münster, Germany

Discussant: Alexander Götz (Universität Stuttgart)



10:30am - 11:00am

How do investors trade option anomalies?

Fabian Hollstein1, Chardin Wese Simen2

1: Saarland University, Germany; 2: University of Liverpool, UK

Discussant: Stefan Menze (University of Münster)

11:30am
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1:00pm
B6: Market Microstructure
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Chair: Lennart Sperling
 
11:30am - 12:00pm

Liquidity mechanisms in decentralized finance: Design, fragmentation, and arbitrage in real-world asset markets

Ralf Laschinger1, Heiko Leonhard2, Gregor Dorfleitner3, Wolfgang Schäfers4

1: LMU Munich School of Management, Germany; 2: International Real Estate Business School, University of Regensburg; 3: Department of Finance, University of Regensburg; 4: International Real Estate Business School, University of Regensburg

Discussant: Lennart Sperling (FernUniversität in Hagen)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

SOFR so good: Transaction costs and resilience in the post-Libor swap market

Jan Gabriel Roth, Anders Bjerre Trolle

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Discussant: Heiko Leonhard (University of Regensburg)

2:00pm
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3:30pm
C6: Derivatives 2
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Chair: Fanchen Meng
 
2:00pm - 2:30pm

Pieces of the index option return puzzle: Some new evidence

Rainer Baule, Florian Borchard

FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Discussant: Fanchen Meng (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie)



2:30pm - 3:00pm

Long-run and short-run idiosyncratic stock volatilities and cross-section of option returns

Quan Gan, Van Quoc Thinh Nguyen

University of Sydney, Australia

Discussant: Florian Borchard (FernUniversität in Hagen)



3:00pm - 3:30pm

How option traders take sides on return predictability

Julian Böll, Fanchen Meng, Julian Thimme, Marliese Uhrig-Homburg

Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, Germany

Discussant: Van Quoc Thinh Nguyen (University of Sydney)

Date: Saturday, 20/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
D6: Derivatives 3
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Chair: Samia Badidi
 
9:00am - 9:30am

Arbitrage Opportunities

Tobias Lauter1,2, Marcel Prokopczuk1

1: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; 2: Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

Discussant: Samia Badidi (Tilburg University)



9:30am - 10:00am

Inferring the trade direction in option auctions

Leander Gayda

Universität Münster, Germany

Discussant: Tobias Lauter (Leibniz Universität Hannover)



10:00am - 10:30am

Forecast dispersion and the price impact of macroeconomic news

Samia Badidi

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The

Discussant: Leander Gayda (Universität Münster)

11:00am
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12:30pm
E6: Experimental Finance
Location: Building 11, Room D 0002/3
Chair: David Jia-Hui Streich
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Ranking concerns or reference points: The impact of communicating expected payoffs in experimental studies

Sebastian Krull, Matthias Pelster

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Discussant: David Jia-Hui Streich (Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt)



11:30am - 12:00pm

Will AI replace or enhance human intelligence in investment management?

Vikram Nanda1, Sanghyun Hugh Kim2

1: University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America; 2: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Discussant: Sebastian Krull (Universität Duisburg-Essen)



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Making GenAI smarter: Evidence from a portfolio allocation experiment

Lars Hornuf1, David Streich2, Niklas Töllich2

1: Dresden University of Technology; 2: Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt

Discussant: Vikram Nanda (University of Texas at Dallas)