Macro-Asset Pricing Conference
The 2025 Minnesota Macro-Asset Pricing Conference will be held on May 9th & May 10th, 2025.
Friday, May 9th
Conference Lunch
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University) - "Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates"
Discussant: Juliana Salomao (Minnesota)
Kerry Sianti (MIT) - "Monetary Policy and Investment Plans"
Discussant: Richard Thakor (Minnesota)
Break
Erik Loualiche (Minnesota) - "Causal Inference for Asset Pricing"
Discussant: Rui Da (Indiana)
Wei Xiong (Princeton) - "Structured Beliefs and Fund Investment"
Discussant: Leland Bybee (Chicago)
Saturday, May 10th
Conference Breakfast
Alexi Savov (NYU) - "Liquidity and Volatility"
Discussant: Bob Goldstein (Minnesota)
Juliana Salomao (Minnesota) - "Intangible Capital Around the World"
Discussant: Morad Zekhnini (Michigan)
Break
Alan Moreira (Rochester) - "Asset Purchase Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market"
Discussant: Adam Zhang (Minnesota)
Julia Selgrad (Chicago) - "Testing the Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Quantitative Easing"
Discussant: Erik Loualiche (Minnesota)
Lunch
Speakers
Erik Loualiche
Associate Professor of Finance - University of Minnesota
Alan Moreira
Associate Professor of Finance - University of Rochester
Juliana Salomao
Associate Professor of Finance - University of Minnesota
Alexi Savov
Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics - New York University
Julia Selgrad
Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Chicago
Kerry Siani
Assistant Professor of Finance - MIT
Andrea Vedolin
Professor of Finance - Boston University
Wei Xiong
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance - Princeton University