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Summer School 2025

Summer School 2025

25

Jun

Following the success of previous summer schools, the Finance Theory Group (FTG), in conjunction with the University of Washington - Foster School of Business, is organizing the FTG’s biennial Summer School program at the Foster School of Business on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle on June 25-28, 2025. The target audience includes PhD students and faculty members interested in the theory of corporate finance, financial institutions, and financial markets. Both theorists and empiricists interested in deepening their knowledge of these topics are welcome.

 

More details are available here.

 

Organizers: Philip Bond, Doron Levit, Ye Li, Mark Westerfield

 

Tentative schedule

 


June 25

Afternoon

Afternoon: Haoxiang Zhu (MIT & SEC) – The Law and Economics of Financial Market Design (video) (slides)

Evening

Welcome reception

June 26

Morning

Itay Goldstein (Wharton) – Information and Fragility in Finance (video) (slides)

Afternoon

Parallel Sessions

Eduardo Davila (Yale) – Sufficient Statistics And Normative Finance (video) (slides)

Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester) – Emergence and Implications of Peer Effects (video) (slides)

Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina) - Uncertainty and Contracting (video) (slides- part 1) (slides- part 2)

Evening

Presentations of contributed papers by participants

June 27

Morning

Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Decentralized-Market Design (video) (slides- part 1) (slides- part 2)

Afternoon

Parallel Sessions

Andrey Malenko (Boston College) – Applications of Dynamic Games (video) (slides) (references)

Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) – Social Preferences (video) (slides)

Victoria Vanasco (Centre de Recerca en Economia International) – Security Design (video) (slides)

Evening:

Presentations of contributed papers by participants

June 28

Morning

Zhiguo He (Stanford) – Intermediary Asset Pricing (video) (slides)

Afternoon

Parallel Sessions

Brett Green (Washington University in St. Louis) – Dynamic Adverse Selection (video) (slides)

Matthieu Bouvard (Toulouse School of Economics) – Blockchains and Their Finance Applications (video) (slides)

Giorgia Piacentino (University of Southern California) – Money and Banking (video) (slides)

Evening

Farewell dinner cruise