Finance Theory Group Summer School 2025
Description
Finance Theory Group Summer School
June 25-28, 2025
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Following the success of previous summer schools, the Finance Theory Group (FTG), in conjunction with the University of Washington Foster School of Business, is seeking applications and nominations for participation in the FTG’s biennial Summer School program. Each day will feature invited lectures by selected speakers in the morning and/or afternoon, and afternoon/evening presentations of contributed papers by participants.
All presentations will take place at the Foster School of Business on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. 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 to apply.
SCHEDULE
June 25
Afternoon: Haoxiang Zhu (MIT & SEC) – The Law and Economics of Financial Market Design
Evening: Welcome reception
June 26
Morning: Itay Goldstein (Wharton) – Information and Fragility in Finance
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
• Eduardo Davila (Yale) – Sufficient Statistics And Normative Finance
• Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester) – Emergence And Implications of Peer Effects
• Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina) - Uncertainty And Contracting
Evening: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 27
Morning: Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Decentralized-Market Design
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
• Andrey Malenko (Boston College) – Applications of Dynamic Games
• Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) – Social Preferences
• Victoria Vanasco (Centre de Recerca en Economia International) – Security Design
Evening: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 28
Morning: Zhiguo He (Stanford) – Intermediary Asset Pricing
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
• Brett Green (Washington University in St. Louis) – Dynamic Adverse Selection
• Matthieu Bouvard (Toulouse School of Economics) – Blockchains And Their Finance Applications
• Giorgia Piacentino (University of Southern California) – Money And Banking
Evening: Farewell Dinner Cruise
For information on previous FTG Summer School programs, visit the following link: https://www.financetheory.org/event-category/summer-school
The registration fee for the program is $550 for both student and faculty participants and includes meals. Participants are responsible for their transportation and accommodation costs.
In the past, these costs were covered by the participant's department, research funds or advisor's funds. For students only - if for some reason you do not have sufficient access to any of these funding sources, please let us know when applying. There is a limited pool of funding to help students in these cases.
APPLICATION PROCESS
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PhD student nominations
PhD students and faculty members interested in attending the summer school must apply using the following link: https://uwfoster.tfaforms.net/95
PhD students must be nominated by a faculty member from the school in which they are enrolled. To help with the selection process, students will recommend a faculty sponsor when they apply. We will email this sponsor requesting a short description of the benefits for the nominated student of attending the FTG Summer School. To be eligible, students must have completed at least the 2nd year of their Ph.D. program by the time of the FTG Summer School.
The application deadline is March 1, 2025. Students and faculty selected to participate in the Summer School will be contacted directly via email.
Please contact program organizers for questions:
Philip Bond apbond@uw.edu
Doron Levit dlevit@uw.edu
Ye Li liye@uw.edu
Mark M. Westerfield mwesterf@uw.edu
For information about the Finance Theory Group, please visit: https://financetheory.org/
We encourage you to share this invitation with your colleagues and PhD students