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33rd Meeting at UT Austin (Fall 2025)

33rd Meeting at UT Austin (Fall 2025)

03

Oct

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)


Tomy Lee: Running Responsibly

Thomas Geelen: Succession

Xingtang Zhang: Environmental Disclosures in Global Supply Chains

Alessio Piccolo: Firms as Electoral Monopsonies

Anjan Thakor: The Color of Finance: Can Bank Capital Requirements Influence Transition to a Green Economy?

Daniel Andrei: The Quiet Hand of Regulation: Harnessing Uncertainty and Disagreement

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


Special Session on DBAP (Rowling Hall 4.208)


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”

5:45pm – 6:45pm

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.