The University of Texas at Austin is hosting the 33rd meeting of the FTG on October 3-4, 2025.
The conference will begin with an optional lunch at 12:00pm on Friday and conclude with a lunch and FTG Members Meeting on Saturday, ending at 2:00pm. There will also be an optional dinner on Saturday.
The cut-off date for room bookings at AT&T is September 3rd. It is VERY important that everyone books a room as soon as possible, as there is a music festival that weekend and availability will be very limited.
Here’s the link to book:
https://book.passkey.com/go/MCCOMB1025
Friday, October 3rd, 2025 |
12:00 -1:00pm | Optional Lunch at Carillion Restaurant at AT&T |
1:00pm –2:30pm | Parallel Session 1: Socially responsible investment. (Rowling Hall Room: 4.208) | Parallel Session 2: Governance. (Rowling Hall Room: 4.314) |
| Anjan Thakor: The Color of Finance: Can Bank Capital Requirements Influence Transition to a Green Economy? | Thomas Geelen: Succession |
Xingtang Zhang: Environmental Disclosures in Global Supply Chains | Alessio Piccolo: Firms as Electoral Monopsonies |
Tomy Lee: Running Responsibly | Fahad Saleh: An Economic Model of the L1-L2 Interaction |
2:30pm – 2:45pm | Coffee Break |
2:45pm – 3:45pm | Parallel Session 1: Contracting and Moral Hazard. (Rowling Hall Room: 4.208) | Parallel Session 2: Inequality and Asset Pricing. (Rowling Hall Room: 4.314) |
| Marcus Opp: Moral Hazard and the Quest for Linear Contracts | Ehsan Azarmsa: Investment Sophistication and Wealth Inequality |
Jangwoo Lee: Exploitation Payoffs and Incentives for Exploration | Sergei Glebkin: Benign Granularity in Asset Markets |
3:45pm – 4:00pm | Coffee Break |
4:00pm – 5:30pm | Special Session on DBAP (Rowling Hall 4.208) |
5:45pm-6:45pm | Peter Kondor: “Demand Elasticity in Dynamic Asset Pricing” Christian Opp: "How (Not) to Identify Demand Elasticities in Dynamic Asset Markets” Yu An: "An Arbitrage Foundation for Demand Effects in Asset Pricing” |
| Mentoring Sessions |
6:00pm – 7:30pm | Reception 4th Floor Rowling Hall Terrace |
8:00pm – | Small group dinners |
Saturday, October 4th 2025 |
7:30am – 8:15am | Breakfast. Location Rowling Hall 4.208 (The Guadalupe Room) |
8:15am – 9:15am | Milena Wittwer “Imperfect Competition and Moral Hazard…” |
9:15am – 9:30am | Break |
9:30am – 10:30am | Eduardo Davila “Probability Pricing” |
10:30am – 10:45pm | Break |
10:45am – 11:45am | Jordan Martel “On price Controls….” |
11:45am – 12:45am | Will Diamond “Collateralized Loan Obligations as Fire-Sale Insulation” |
12:45pm – 2:00pm | Lunch and FTG Members Meeting |
| Optional event Saturday night dinner time/location TBD. |
Directions: Rowling Hall is just west of the AT&T hotel. You can walk across the courtyard on the second floor of the AT&T to get there. Once there, head to the 4th floor. https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/about/tech/av-technology-solutions/mccombs-maps/ -
We thank the generous support of the UT Austin McCombs Finance Department and specially Kyle Hernandez for helping with all the logistics.
