The Fourth FARFE conference                                    

MIT's Endicott House, 80 Haven Street, Dedham, MA 02026    (Conference Logistical Information)


October 18, 2013

6:00-7:30 Reception and Appetizers (Gun Room)

7:30 Dinner (Living Room)


October 19, 2013

7:30 - 8:30: Breakfast
    7:30:  Full Breakfast Buffet in Dining Room for those staying at Endicott
    8:00:  Continental Breakfast in BC Lobby for other conference participants

8:30 - 10:00: Session 1
Chair: Jennifer Huang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Ross Prize Lecture
Liquidity Asset Pricing Model (LAPM)
        Bengt Holmstrom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inside And Outside Liquidity
        Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics

Inefficient provision of liquidity
        Oliver Hart, Harvard University
        Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Discussant: Nobu Kiyotaki, Princeton University

10:00 - 10:15: Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45: Session 2
Chair:  Adriano Rampini, Duke University

A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM): Safety Traps and Economic Policy
       Ricardo J. Caballero, MIT
        Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Discussant: Douglas Gale, New York University

Short-term Debt and Financial Crises:  What we can learn from U.S. Treasury Supply
        Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University
        Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, University of California at Berkeley
Discussant: Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 - 1:15: Lunch Break (Living Room)

1:15 - 2:35: Session 3: Junior papers (30 minutes presenter, 10 minutes general discussion)
Chair: Mike Fishman, Northwestern University

An Information-Based Theory of Slow Moving Capital and Costly Reallocation
       William Fuchs, University of California at Berkeley
       Brett Green, UC Berkeley
       Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University

The Labor Market for Directors and Externalities in Corporate Governance
       Doron Levit, University of Pennsylvania
        Nadya Malenko, Boston College

2:45 - 3:00: Coffee Break

3:00 - 4:30: Panel on “Theory, Measurement and Policy”
Moderator: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
Panelists:
       Doug Diamond, University of Chicago
       Andrea Eisfeldt, University of California at Los Angeles
       Hayne Leland, University of California at Berkeley
        Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford University
       Steve Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00 - 6:00: FARFE annual members meeting

6:00-7:30: Reception and Appetizers

7:30: Dinner