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FINANCE THEORY GROUP DESCRIPTION: The
goal of the group is to foster theoretical research in the areas of corporate
finance, financial institutions, and financial markets. We hold two meetings
every year, where members and fellows meet to present and discuss their work.
Members and fellows are researchers from leading institutions, who work
primarily on the theory of corporate finance, financial institutions, and
financial markets. The
group was founded by Itay Goldstein and Gustavo Manso
in the fall of 2009, when they organized the first meeting at MIT. Since
then, the organization of meetings is rotated among members of the group,
such that each meeting is organized by two different members. Participation
is by invitation only. For
more information, see our By-Laws. CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gustavo
Manso (president), Itay
Goldstein, Uday
Rajan, Adriano Rampini, Ilya Strebulaev PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS Itay
Goldstein (2011-2012) PAST MEETINGS: First Meeting:
MIT; Fall 2009. Organizers: Itay
Goldstein and Gustavo
Manso Second Meeting: NYU; Spring 2010. Organizers: Viral Acharya and Adriano Rampini Third meeting:
BU; Fall 2010. Organizers: Robert Marquez and Uday Rajan Fourth meeting: Stanford; Spring 2011. Organizers: Marcus Opp and Ilya Strebulaev Fifth Meeting:
Wharton; Fall 2011. Organizers: Vincent
Glode and Itay
Goldstein Sixth Meeting: HBS; Spring 2012. Organizers: Christine Parlour and Matt Rhodes Kropf Seventh
Meeting: Duke; Fall 2012. Organizers: Simon Gervais and Dirk Hackbarth Eighth
Meeting: Berkeley; Spring 2013. Organizers: Willie Fuchs and Brett Green FUTURE MEETINGS: Ninth
Meeting: Columbia; Fall 2013. Organizers: Martin Oehmke and Tomasz
Piskorski Tenth
Meeting: Chicago; Spring 2014. Organizers: Zhiguo
He and Konstantin Milbradt Eleventh
Meeting: UCLA; Fall 2014. Organizers: Bruce
Carlin and Barney
Hartman-Glaser BEST PAPER AWARD: Awarded
to the best theory papers on the finance job market (based on a vote of
members of the group): 2011
(financed by Viral Acharya, Itay Goldstein, Gustavo Manso, Robert Marquez, Marcus
Opp, Adriano Rampini, Uday Rajan, Ilya Strebulaev): First
Prize: Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets:
Anything Goes by Bradyn Breon-Drish (Berkeley, joining Stanford) Second
Prize: Sticky Incentives and Dynamic Agency: Optimal
Contracting with Perks and Shirking
by John Zhu
(Berkeley, joining Wharton) 2012
(financed by Itay Goldstein, Gustavo Manso, Adriano Rampini, Uday Rajan, Ilya
Strebulaev): First Prize: Optimality
of Securitized Debt with Endogenous and Flexible Information Acquisition by Ming
Yang (Princeton, joining Duke) Second
Prize: Financial
Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies by Matteo Maggiori (Berkeley, joining NYU) 2013
(financed by Itay Goldstein, Gustavo Manso, Adriano Rampini, Uday Rajan, Ilya
Strebulaev): First Prize: Contracting
Timely Delivery with Hard to Verify Quality by Felipe Varas (Stanford, joining Duke) Second
Prize: Uncertainty
Shocks and Balance Sheet Recessions by Sebastian Di Tella (MIT, joining Stanford) CURRENT
MEMBERS: Hengjie
Ai (Minnesota), Elias Albagli (USC), Andres Almazan (Texas), Aydogan Alti (Texas), Daniel
Andrei (UCLA), Fernando Anjos (Texas), Ana Babus
(Imperial), Snehal Banerjee (Kellogg), Nittai
Bergman (MIT), Philip Bond (Minnesota), Matthieu Bouvard (McGill), Bradyn
Breon-Drish (Stanford), Andrea Buffa (BU), Bruce
Carlin (UCLA), Archishman Chakraborty (York), Hui Chen (MIT), Ing-Haw Cheng
(Michigan), Jonathan Cohn (Texas), Brendan Daley (Duke), Amil Dasgupta (LSE),
Adolfo De Motta (McGill), Sebastian Di Tella
(Stanford), Alex Edmans (Wharton), Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA), Emmanuel Farhi
(Harvard), Willie Fuchs (Berkeley), Diego Garcia (UNC), Nicolae Garleanu
(Berkeley), Simon Gervais (Duke), Vincent Glode (Wharton), Eitan Goldman
(Indiana), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Alexander Gorbenko (LBS), Brett Green
(Berkeley), Dirk Hackbarth (Illinois), Barney Hartman-Glaser (Duke), Zhiguo
He (Chicago), Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton), Ohad Kadan (Washington),
Anastasia Kartasheva (BIS), Peter Kondor (CEU), Yrjo Koskinen (BU), Pablo
Kurlat (Stanford), Nisan Langberg (Houston), Samuel Lee (NYU), Yaron Leitner
(Philadelphia Fed), Doron Levit (Wharton), Dmitry Livdan (Berkeley), Richard
Lowery (Texas), Evgeny Lyandres
(BU), Matteo Maggiori (NYU), Igor Makarov (LBS), Semyon Malamud (Lausanne), Andrey Malenko (MIT), Nadya Malenko (BC), Gustavo Manso (Berkeley), Robert
Marquez (UC Davis), Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA), Rich
Mathews (Maryland), Jianjun Miao (BU), Konstantin Milbradt (MIT), Martin
Oehmke (Columbia), Christian Opp (Wharton), Marcus Opp (Berkeley), Guillermo
Ordonez (Penn), Emilliano Pagnotta
(NYU), Christine Parlour (Berkeley), Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia), Guillaume Plantin
(Toulouse), Paul Povel (Houston), Uday Rajan
(Michigan), Adriano Rampini (Duke), Matt Rhodes-Kropf (HBS), Jacob Sagi (UNC), Francesco Sangiorgi
(Stockholm), Lukas Schmid (Duke), Alp Simsek
(Harvard), Raj Singh (Minnesota), Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford), Gunter Strobl
(UNC), Ajay Subramanyan (Georgia), Alexei Tchistyi
(Berkeley), James Thompson (Waterloo), Felipe Varas
(Duke), Neng Wang (Columbia), Ed van Wesep (UNC), Lucy White (HBS), Liyan
Yang (Toronto), Ming Yang (Duke), Vijay Yerramilli (Houston), Bilge Yilmaz
(Wharton), Adam Zawadoski (BU), Haoxiang
Zhu (MIT), John Zhu (Wharton). FELLOWS: Anat
Admati (Stanford), Franklin Allen (Wharton), Patrick Bolton (Columbia), Peter
DeMarzo (Stanford), Douglas Diamond (Chicago), Darrell
Duffie (Stanford), Michael Fishman (Kellogg), Milton Harris (Chicago), Bengt
Holmstrom (MIT), Albert Pete Kyle (Maryland), Hayne Leland (Berkeley), Stewart
Myers (MIT), Vish Viswanathan (Duke), Andrew Winton (Minnesota), Jeffrey Zwiebel (Stanford). DISCUSSIONS AND OPINIONS: A Note on Referee
Reports for Theory Papers, by
Matt Rhodes Kropf and Ilya Strebulaev. |