Chicago Booth Asset Pricing Conference Schedule

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Lunch (room 602)
Noon-1:00 p.m.

Welcome
1:00-1:10 p.m.

Financing Hedging and Optimal Currency of Invoicing
1:10-2:00 p.m.


Presenter: Oliver Xie, MIT Sloan School of Management
Discussant: Anil K Kashyap University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Break
2:00-2:10 p.m.

Stocks for the Long Run or Liquidity? Tax Data Evidence and Portfolio Choice Implications
2:10-3:00 p.m.


Presenter: Patrick Adams Wharton School, University of Pennsylvannia
Discussant: Clemens Sialm University of Texas at Austin

Break
3:00-3:10 p.m.

Banking on Inattention
3:10-4:00 p.m.


Presenter: Xu Lu University of Washington
Discussant: Juliane Begenau Stanford Graduate School of Business

Break
4:00-4:10 p.m.

The Great Codification: GenAI and Intangible Capital
4:10-5:00 p.m.


Presenter: Gregor Schubert UCLA Anderson School of Management
Discussant: Harrison G. Hong Columbia University

Dinner: Avec – River North
6:00-9:00 p.m.


(Note: Dinner is for faculty and presenters only)

 

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:00 a.m.

Intermediary Inventory Risk and the Pricing Kernel
9:00-9:50 p.m.


Presenter: Alexander Ober Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Discussant: Zhiguo He Stanford Graduate School of Business

Break
9:50-10:00 a.m.

Causal Inference for Asset Pricing
10:00-10:50 p.m.


Presenter: Paul Huebner Stockholm School of Economics
Discussant: Lukas Schmid Stanford Graduate School of Business

Break
10:50-11:00 a.m.

A Bound on Price Impact and Disagreement
11:00-11:50 p.m.


Presenter: Philippe van der Beck Harvard Business School
Discussant: Eben Lazarus Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

Boxed lunches will be available outside of the classroom after the last presentation.

Location

The conference will be held at the David Rubenstein Forum located at
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 in room 601.

 


Organizers

Francesca Bastianello, Assistant Professor of Finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty
Fellow, Fama Faculty Fellow (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

Leland Bybee, Assistant Professor of Finance and Family Faculty Fellow (University of
Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

Suproteem Sarkar, Assistant Professor of Finance and Applied AI, and Faculty Research
& Cumulative Initiatives Faculty Fellow (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

Julia Selgrad, Assistant Professor of Finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow 
(University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

Taisiya Sikorskaya, Assistant Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow (University of
Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

For questions or additional information, contact Jennifer Williams