Young Scholars Finance Consortium

Event Overview

The Eighth Annual Young Scholars Finance Consortium, organized by Texas A&M University, will be held in person from April 25th to April 27th, 2024. The goal of this annual conference is to provide promising junior finance faculty and PhD students with an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a select group of accomplished scholars. We are honored to have Professor John Y. Campbell from Harvard University as our keynote speaker. Several members of the external program committee have already committed to serving as discussants at the conference.

The conference theme alternates annually between asset pricing/investments and corporate finance/financial intermediation. The theme for 2024 is asset pricing/investments. We invite advanced PhD students and untenured faculty who received their first full-time faculty appointment within the last eight years to submit both theoretical and empirical papers related to pricing/investments (broadly defined) for the conference. Non-presenting co-authors may be more senior.

John Y. Campbell
Harvard University

John Y. Campbell is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994.

Professor Campbell has published over 100 articles on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His books include Financial Decisions and Markets: A Course in Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press 2018), The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (with the Squam Lake Group of financial economists, PUP 2010), Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors (with Luis Viceira, Oxford University Press 2002), and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, PUP 1997).

Professor Campbell delivered the Ely Lecture to the American Economic Association in 2016 and served as President of the American Finance Association in 2005. He is a Research Associate and former Director of the Program in Asset Pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and holds honorary doctorates from BI Norwegian Business School, the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris Dauphine, and Copenhagen Business School. Professor Campbell is also a founding partner of Arrowstreet Capital, LP, a Boston-based quantitative asset management firm.

Keynote’s Website

Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University

Hengjie Ai, University of Wisconsin-Madison

George Aragon, Arizona State University

Kerry Back, Rice University

Frederico Belo, INSEAD

Lauren Cohen, Harvard University

Lin William Cong, Cornell University

Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame

Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University

Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania

Darrell Duffie, Stanford University

Richard Evans, University of Virginia

Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos, Boston College

Lorenzo Garlappi, University of British Columbia

Stefano Giglio, Yale University

Amit Goyal, University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute

Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas

Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University

Zhiguo He, University of Chicago

Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University

Ron Kaniel, University of Rochester

Leonid Kogan, MIT

Pete Kyle, University of Maryland

Xiaoji Lin, University of Minnesota

Dong Lou, London School of Economics

Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis

Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago

Jun Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Stavros Panageas, UCLA

Neil Pearson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lin Peng, City University of New York

Veronika Pool, Vanderbilt University

Lukas Schmid, University of Southern California

Kelly Shue, Yale University

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University

Andrea Vedolin, Boston University

Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University

Adrien Verdelhan, MIT

Neng Wang, Columbia University

Zhenyu Wang, Indiana University

Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago

Liyan Yang, University of Toronto

Harold Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas

Guofu Zhou, Washington University in St. Louis

Paper submissions should be made via the submission portal. For each submission to be considered, a fee of $75 must be paid first via the payment portal. Please include the order number for your payment in the Google paper submission form.

The deadline for paper submission is November 18, 2023, at 11:59pm CT.

Papers authored solely by PhD students will be considered for the Best PhD Student Paper Award. The presenter of the awarded paper will be guaranteed a presentation slot and will receive up to $1000 in travel expenses.