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9:00am - 10:45am
B1: Empirical Asset Pricing Location: Room "Link" Chair: Mads Markvart Kjær
Why is Stock-Level Demand Inelastic? A Portfolio Choice Approach
Carter Davis 1 , Mahyar Kargar2 , Jiacui Li3
1: Indiana University, United States of America;
2: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America;
3: University of Utah, United States of America
Discussant: Mads Markvart Kjær (Aarhus University)
Dollar and Carry Redux
Sining Liu2 , Thomas Maurer 1 , Yaoyuan Zhang1 , Andrea Vedolin3
1: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China);
2: Soochow University;
3: Boston University
Discussant: Ines Chaieb (University of Geneva)
Anomaly-driven demand
Mads Markvart Kjær , Anders Merrild Posselt
Aarhus University, Denmark
Discussant: Florian Weigert (University of Neuchâtel)
11:20am - 12:30pm
B2: Asset Pricing Theory Location: Room "Link" Chair: Thorsten Hens
Asset Pricing with the Awareness of New Priced Risks
Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen1 , Philipp Illeditsch2 , Petra Sinagl 3
1: BI Norwegian Business School;
2: Texas A&M;
3: University of Iowa, United States of America
Discussant: Yucheng Yang (Department of Finance | University of Zurich)
Engagement in Equilibrium
Chiaki Hara2 , Thorsten Hens 1 , Ester Trutwin1
1: University of Zurich, Switzerland;
2: Kyoto University, Japan
Discussant: Petra Sinagl (University of Iowa)
2:00pm - 3:45pm
B3: Asset Management and Investments Location: Room "Link" Chair: Felix Corell
Asset (and Data) Managers
Marco Zanotti
Swiss Finance Institute; USI Lugano, Switzerland
Discussant: Vatsala Shreeti (Bank for International Settlements)
Forecasting Mutual Fund Performance – Combining Return-Based with Portfolio Holdings-Based Predictors
Sebastian Müller2 , Nikolay Pugachyov 1 , Florian Weigert1
1: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland;
2: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Discussant: Aleksi Pitkäjärvi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Learning from Holdings: Drivers of Convenience Yield and Policy Implications
Felix Corell 1 , Lira Mota2 , Melina Papoutsi3
1: VU Amsterdam;
2: MIT;
3: European Central Bank, Germany
Discussant: Yushi Peng (University of Tilburg)
4:20pm - 5:30pm
B4: Options Location: Room "Link" Chair: James O'Donovan
Intermediary Option Pricing
Julian Terstegge
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Discussant: Tim Kroencke (FHNW School of Business)
Transaction Costs and Cost Mitigation in Option Investment Strategies
James O'Donovan 1 , Gloria Yu2
1: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China);
2: Singapore Management University
Discussant: George Skiadopoulos (University of Piraeus)