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  Program Registration Travel Information Ross Papers Finance Dept Past Symposia


Information in Trading

June 9 & 10, 2006
Sam Wyly Hall, W2740
Ross School of Business

Thursday, June 8

6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception at Campus Inn
Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres

Morning  Friday, June 9

Session 1, 8:30 a.m. - Liquidity

Chair: Han Kim (University of Michigan)

 

Cross-sectional Variation in Stock Returns: Liquidity and Idiosyncratic Risk
   Matthew Spiegel (Yale University)
   Vivian Wang (Penn State University)

   DISCUSSANT: Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam (University of California Los  Angeles)

 

Episodic Liquidity Crises: Cooperative and Predatory Trading
   Bruce Carlin (Duke University)
   Miguel Lobo (Duke University)
   S. Viswanathan (Duke University)

   DISCUSSANT: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)

 

Session 2, 10:15 a.m. - Correlated Trading

Chair: Paolo Pasquariello (University of Michigan) 

 

Information Linkages and Correlated Trading
   Paolo Colla (Università Bocconi – IEP)
   Antonio Mele (London School of Economics)

   DISCUSSANT: Henry Cao (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

 

“Correlated Trading and Returns”
   Daniel Dorn (Drexel University)
   Gur Huberman (Columbia University)
   Paul Sengmueller (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

   DISCUSSANT: Mark Seasholes (University of California Berkeley)


Afternoon  Friday, June 9


Session 3, 1:30 p.m. - Rationalizing Anomalies

Chair: Sugato Bhattacharyya (University of Michigan)

 

Momentum as an Outcome of Differences in Higher Order Beliefs
   Snehal Banerjee (Stanford University)
   Ron Kaniel (Duke University)
   Ilan Kremer (Stanford University)

   DISCUSSANT: Peter Kondor (London School of Economics)

 

Time-Varying Information Asymmetry and the Disposition Effect
   Günter Strobl (University of North Carolina)

   DISCUSSANT: Tyler Shumway (University of Michigan)

Session 4, 3:15 p.m. - Information and Asset Prices

Chair: Dennis Capozza (University of Michigan)

 

Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice under Asymmetric Information
   Bruno Biais (Toulouse University, CEPR)
   Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology, CEPR)
   Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University, SEC)

   DISCUSSANT: Matthew Pritsker (Federal Reserve Board)

 

Long-Lived Private Information in a Continuous Time Economy: Portfolio Choice, Optimal Consumption, and Utility Gain
   Jun Liu (University of California San Diego)
   Ehud Peleg (University of California Los Angeles)
   Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam (University of California Los Angeles)

   DISCUSSANT: Kerry Back (Texas A&M University)

 

Adjourn for dinner at Campus Inn
Cocktails 6:30 p.m. - Dinner 7:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Ross (MIT)


Morning  Saturday, June 10

Session 5, 8:30 a.m. - Frictions

Chair: Tak Wakasugi (Tokyo Keizai University)

 

Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of Origins of Bubbles
   Harrison Hong (Princeton University)
   Jose Scheinkman (Princeton University)
   Wei Xiong (Princeton University)

   DISCUSSANT: Jacob Sagi (University of California Berkeley)

 

“Asset Prices under Short-Sale Constraints”
   Yang Bai (University of Hong Kong)
   Eric C. Chang (University of Hong Kong)
   Jiang Wang (MIT, CCFR, CEPR)

   DISCUSSANT: Kathy Yuan (University of Michigan)

 

Session 6, 10:15 a.m. - Order Flow
Chair: Nejat Seyhun (University of Michigan)

 

Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow
   Martin Evans (Georgetown University, NBER)
   Richard Lyons (University of California Berkeley, NBER)

   DISCUSSANT: Clara Vega (University of Rochester)

 

Equilibration under Competition in Smalls: Theory and Experimental Evidence
   Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology, CEPR)

   DISCUSSANT: Uday Rajan (University of Michigan)


Adjourn for closing lunch

Wyly Hall Room 0750
Best Paper Award announced




 

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