NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Asset Pricing Workshop

 

Jonathan Berk and Robert Novy-Marx, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 10 - 11, 2008

 

PROGRAM

  

THURSDAY, JULY 10:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JESSICA WACHTER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Can Time-Varying Risk of Rare Disasters Explain Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?

 

 

 

Discussant: CHRISTIAN JULLIARD, London School of Economics

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

CHRISTIAN JULLIARD and ANISHA GHOSH, London School of Economics

 

Can Rare Events Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle?

 

 

 

Discussant: JESSICA WACHTER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

 

EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER

 

Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates

 

 

 

Discussant: BENRNARD DUMAS, HEC Lausanne and NBER

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Legal Sea Foods in Kendall Square

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 11:

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:30 am

HAN OZSOYLEV, Oxford University

 

JOHAN WALDEN, UC, Berkeley

 

Asset Pricing in Large Information Networks

 

 

 

Discussant: SANJIV DAS, Santa Clara University

 

 

 9:30 am

Break

 

 

 9:45 am

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

STEFAN NAGEL, Stanford University and NBER

 

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

 

 

 

Discussant: BRAD BARBER, UC ,Davis

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

JOAO GOMES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

LEONID KOGAN, MIT and NBER

 

MOTOHIRO YOGO, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns

 

 

 

Discussant: LU ZHANG, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

GREG DUFFEE, Johns Hopkins University

 

Information in (and not in) the Term Structure

 

 

 

Discussant: SCOTT JOSLIN, MIT

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

HANNO LUSTIG, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

 

ADRIEN VERDELHAN, Boston University

 

The Wealth-Consumption Ratio

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT GOLDSTEIN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

CLIFF ASNESS, AQR Capital Management, LLC

 

TOBY MOSKOWITZ, University of Chicago and NBER

 

LASSE PEDERSEN, New York University and NBER

 

Value and Momentum Everywhere

 

 

 

Discussant: KENT DANIEL, GSAM and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/28/08