34th Meeting at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Spring 2026)

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May

The 34th FTG Meeting will take place at the University of Colorado Boulder on May 8-9, 2026. The local organizers are Andrea Buffa and Ed Van Wesep.

For local accommodations, there is a room block at the Limelight Boulder hotel with a rate of $249 per night.

The deadline for the room block is April 13, 2026. The link for reservations is:

https://www.limelighthotels.com/boulder/reservations#/booking/step-1?arrive=5%2F7%2F2026&depart=5%2F10%2F2026&group=4322340

Other recommended hotels in Boulder (without a room block)

Moxy Boulder — https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/denbx-moxy-boulder-university
Embassy Suites Boulder — https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/denboes-embassy-suites-boulder/
Hilton Garden Inn Boulder — https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/wbubogi-hilton-garden-inn-boulder/
Boulder Marriott — https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/denbo-boulder-marriott
St Julien — https://stjulien.com

Friday, May 8
12:00 – 1:00pm	Optional Lunch
1:00 – 2:00pm	Parallel Session 1	Parallel Session 2
1:00 – 1:30pm	Subsidizing Less by Coordinating More: When Brown Firms Collaborate on Green Innovation Matthew Gustafson and Zhe Wang	Information-Concealing Credit Architecture by Gary Gorton, Ye Li, and Guillermo Ordonez
1:30 – 2:00pm	Corporate Governance by Workers Anthony Lee Zhang and Hongda Zhong	Leveraging to Lend: A Theory of Lax Credit Ulf Axelson and Igor Makarov
	Coffee Break
2:15 – 2:45pm	Tech-Driven Intermediation in the Originate-to-Distribute Model Zhiguo He, Sheila Jiang, and Douglas Xu	A Unified Theory of Delegated Capital Management Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo
2:45 – 3:15pm	Financing via Partially Liquid Tokens Dan Luo, Evgeny Lyandres, and Yizhou Xiao	Liquidity and Information Acquisition in Large Markets Paymon Khorrami and João Thereze
	Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:00pm	Dealers as Record Keepers John Kuong and Vincent Maurin	Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Output Robin Döttling, Logan Emery, and Shuo Zhao
4:00 – 4:30pm	Collateral, Contagion and Clearing Francesco Sannino and Jing Zeng	Human Skills in the Age of AI Joanne Chen, Brandon Han, and Hongda Zhong
4:30 – 5:30pm	Mentoring Sessions
5:00 – 7:00pm	Reception at the Limelight Hotel
7:30 PM	Group dinners
Saturday, May 9
7:30 – 8:15am	Breakfast
8:15 – 9:15am	Impact Through Catalytic Finance Florian Hoffmann and Vladimir Vladimirov
	Break
9:30 – 10:30am	Bank Opacity and Deposit Rates Ana Babus, Maryam Farboodi, and Gabriela Stockler
	Break
10:45 – 11:45am	Private Equity Continuation Vehicles: A Model of Strategic Asset Transfers Victoria Ivashina, Simon Mayer, and Ludovic Phalippou
	Break
12:00 - 1:00pm	Smart Contracting in Network Markets Darrell Duffie and Chaojun Wang
1:00 - 2:30pm	Lunch + FTG Member Meeting
2:30 PM	Adjourn

From: May 8, 2026

To: May 9, 2026

University of Colorado Boulder

Registration Deadline

Apr 13, 2026

Paper Submission Deadline

Mar 8, 2026

34th Meeting at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Spring 2026)

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