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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 intend to hold two meetings every year, where participants meet to present and discuss their work. Participants include researchers from leading institutions, who finished their PhD after 1995, and 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.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Itay Goldstein (President), Gustavo Manso, Uday Rajan, Adriano Rampini, Ilya Strebulaev

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

First Meeting: MIT; November 21, 2009. Organizers: Itay Goldstein and Gustavo Manso

Second Meeting: NYU; May 1, 2010. Organizers: Viral Acharya and Adriano Rampini

Third meeting: BU; October 30, 2010. Organizers: Robert Marquez and Uday Rajan

Fourth meeting: Stanford; May 6-7, 2011. Organizers: Marcus Opp and Ilya Strebulaev

Fifth Meeting: Wharton; October 29, 2011. Organizers: Vincent Glode and Itay Goldstein

NEXT MEETINGS:

Sixth Meeting: HBS; May 12, 2012. Organizers: Christine Parlour and Matt Rhodes Kropf

Seventh Meeting: Duke; Fall 2012. Organizers: Simon Gervais and Dirk Hackbarth

BEST PAPER AWARD:

We congratulate the recipients of the best paper award for best theory paper on the finance job market in 2011:

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)

CURRENT MEMBERS:

Viral Acharya (NYU), Rui Albuquerque (BU), Andres Almazan (Texas), Aydogan Alti (Texas), Fernando Anjos (Texas), Ulf Axelson (LSE), Snehal Banerjee (Kellogg), Nittai Bergman (MIT), Philip Bond (Minnesota), Matthieu Bouvard (McGill), Bradyn Breon-Drish (Stanford), Bruce Carlin (UCLA), Archishman Chakraborty (York), Hui Chen (MIT), Ing-Haw Cheng (Michigan), Jonathan Cohn (Texas), Brendan Daley (Duke), Adolfo De Motta (McGill), Giovanni Dell'Ariccia (IMF), Alex Edmans (Wharton), Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA), Willie Fuchs (Berkeley), Diego Garcia (UNC), Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley), Simon Gervais (Duke), Vincent Glode (Wharton), Eitan Goldman (Indiana), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Joao Gomes (Wharton), Alexander Gorbenko (LBS), Brett Green (Kellogg), Dirk Hackbarth (Illinois), Barney Hartman-Glaser (Duke), Zhiguo He (Chicago), Jennifer Huang (Texas), Philipp Illeditsch (Wharton), Ohad Kadan (Washington), Anastasia Kartasheva (Wharton), Peter Kondor (CEU), Yrjo Koskinen (BU), Augustin Landier (Toulouse), Nisan Langberg (Houston), Samuel Lee (NYU), Yaron Leitner (Philadelphia Fed), Doron Levit (Wharton), Dmitry Livdan (Berkeley), Richard Lowery (Texas), Evgeny Lyandres (BU), Igor Makarov (LBS), Andrey Malenko (MIT), Nadya Malenko (BC), Gustavo Manso (MIT), Robert Marquez (BU), Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA), Rich Mathews (Maryland), Jianjun Miao (BU), Konstantin Milbradt (MIT), Martin Oehmke (Columbia), Christian Opp (Wharton), Marcus Opp (Berkeley), Emilliano Pagnotta (NYU), Christine Parlour (Berkeley), Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia), Paul Povel (Houston), Uday Rajan (Michigan), Adriano Rampini (Duke), Matt Rhodes-Kropf (HBS), Francesco Sangiorgi (Stockholm), Lukas Schmid (Duke), Gustav Sigurdsson (Wharton), Raj Singh (Minnesota), Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford), Gunter Strobl (UNC), Alexei Tchistyi (Berkeley), Neng Wang (Columbia), Ed van Wesep (UNC), Lucy White (HBS), Vijay Yerramilli (Houston), Bilge Yilmaz (Wharton), Adam Zawadoski (BU), John Zhu (Wharton).

DISCUSSIONS AND OPINIONS:

A Note on Referee Reports for Theory Papers, by Matt Rhodes Kropf and Ilya Strebulaev.