The program's format will be either 100% virtual or a hybrid of in-person and virtual. The goal of this four-day program is to teach young scholars the tools they need to understand and conduct corporate finance research using structural estimation. The target audience is advanced Ph.D. students...

We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between conventional and unconventional monetary policy, foreign exchange and sovereign debt markets, and the macroeconomy. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of...

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

We invite paper submissions on the theme of Labor and Corporate Finance. Topics: - Labor and corporate governance - Interrelationships between wages, employment, and financial policy - Risk sharing between employees and the firm - Role of firms in explaining broad labor market trends - Effects...

We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between financial intermediation and sovereign debt markets. Topics: - Sovereign debt distribution: participants, auction mechanisms, and market outcomes, - Financial intermediation and the term structure of sovereign debt...

Topics: - Labor and corporate governance, - Interrelationship between wages, employment, and financial policy, - Risk sharing between employees and the firm, - Interplay between cost of capital and cost of labor, - Effects of human capital and worker mobility on financial policy and...

We invite paper submissions on issues pertaining to the interaction between the macroeconomy and financial markets. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Empirical implications of macroeconomic risk for financial asset prices - Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for...

We invite paper submissions on issues pertaining to: - Incentives for risk taking in firms and financial institutions - Impacts of markets on managerial behavior - Power structure within the firm - Executive compensation and contract - Governing through bankruptcy and restructuring -...

We invite paper submissions on issues pertaining to the implications of credit risk for financial markets and the macroeconomy. Possible topics of empirical and theoretical studies include but are not limited to: - The impact of credit risk on the cross section of asset returns and the aggregate...

We invite paper submissions on the effects of symmetric and asymmetric information on market outcomes such as prices, volatility, allocations, trading volume, liquidity, and market structure. Possible topics of theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies include (but are not limited to): -...