2008 Program Committee

Program Chair

Artur Raviv, Northwestern University

Program Committee Associate Chairpersons

Andrea Eisfeldt
Andrew Hertzberg
Yael Hochberg
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Camelia M. Kuhnen
David A Matsa
Paola Sapienza
Ernst Schaumburg
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

Program Committee Members

Viral Acharya, London Business School
Anat Admati, Stanford University
Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University
Rajesh Aggarwal, Carlson School of Management
Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama
Hengji Ai, Duke University
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
Cindy Alexander, Securities and Exchange Commission
George (Yiorgos) Allayannis, University of Virginia
Andres Almazan, University of Texas, Austin
Heitor Almeida, New York University
Andrew Ang, Columbia University
Doron Avramov, University of Maryland
Ulf Axelson, Stockholm Institute for Financial Research
Warren Bailey, Cornell University
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
Gurdip Bakshi, University of Maryland
Ravi Bansal, Duke University
Brad Barber, University of California, Davis
Nicholas Barberis, Yale University
David Bates, University of Iowa
Geert Bekaert, Columbia University
Luca Benzoni, Chicago FED
Nittai Bergman, MIT
Daniel Bergstresser, Harvard University
Elazar Berkovitch, Arison School of Business, IDC
Antonio Bernardo, University of California, Los Angeles
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
Hank Bessembinder, University of Utah
Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado, Boulder
Harjoat Bhamra, University of British Columbia
Utpal Bhattacharya, Indiana University
Nick Bollen, Vanderbilt University
Philip Bond, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Bossaerts, EPFL
Kobi Boudoukh, Arison School of Business, IDC
Alon Brav, Duke University
Gregory Brown, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Murillo Campello, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Murray Carlson, University of British Columbia
Jennifer Carpenter, New York University
David Chapman, Boston College
Thomas Chemmanur, Boston College
Mikhail Chernov, London Business School
Tarun Chordia, Emory University
Bhagwan Chowdhry, University of California, Los Angeles
Stijn Claessens, University of Amsterdam
Lauren Cohen, Harvard University
Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Columbia University
Jennifer Conrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Francesca Cornelli, London Business School
John Cotter , University of California, Los Angeles
Domenico Cuoco, University of Pennsylvania
Magnus Dahlquist, Swedish Institute for Financial Research
Kent Daniel, Northwestern University
Adolfo De Motta, McGill University
Harry DeAngelo, University of Southern California
Diane Del Guercio, University of Oregon
David Denis, Purdue University
Diane Denis, Purdue University
Mihir Desai, Harvard University
Amy Dittmar, University of Michigan
Robert Dittmar, University of Michigan
Craig Doidge, University of Toronto
Greg Duffee, University of California, Berkeley
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University
Bernard Dumas, University of Lausanne
Phil Dybvig, Washington University, St. Louis
Jan Eberly, Northwestern University
Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth College
Vihang Errunza, McGill University
Michael Faulkender, Northwestern University
Wayne Ferson, Boston College
Laura Field, Penn State University
Adlai Fisher, University of British Columbia
Mike Fishman, Northwestern University
Mark Flannery, University of Florida
Jeff Fleming, Rice University
Julian Franks, London Business School
Carola Frydman, MIT
Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Xavier Gabaix, New York University
Louis Gagnon, Queens University
Nicolae Garleanu, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Garmaise, University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Geczy, University of Pennsylvania
Simon Gervais, Duke University
Ron Giammarino, University of British Columbia
Scott Gibson, College of William and Mary
William Goetzmann, Yale University
Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Goldstein, University of Minnesota
Francisco Gomes, London Business School
Todd Gormley, Washington University, St. Louis
Amit Goyal, Emory University
John Graham, Duke University
Jeremy Graveline, University of Minnesota
Clifton Green, Emory University
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University
John Griffin, University of Texas, Austin
Mark Grinblatt, University of California, Los Angeles
Yaniv Grinstein, Cornell University
Gustavo Grullon, Rice University
Bruce Grundy, Melbourne Business School
Dirk Hackbarth, Washington University, St. Louis
Kathleen Hagerty, Northwestern University
Li Haitao, University of Michigan
Bing Han, University of Texas, Austin
Jeff Harris, University of Delaware
Larry Harris, University of Southern California
Milton Harris, University of Chicago
Joel Hasbrouck, New York University
Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia
Jean Helwege, Penn State University
Steven Heston, University of Maryland
Pierre Hillion, INSEAD
David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Craig Holden, Indiana University
Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University
Edie Hotchkiss, Boston College
Kewei Hou, Ohio State University
David Hsieh, Duke University
Ming Huang, Cornell University
Jennifer Huang, University of Texas, Austin
Eric Hughson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Chuan-Yang Hwang, Nanyang Tech University
David Ikenberry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Ronen Israel, IDC
Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University
Narashimhan Jegadeesh, Emory University
Dirk Jenter, Stanford University
Wei Jiang, Columbia University
Michael Johannes, Columbia University
Kose John, New York University
Tim Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Charles Jones, Columbia University
Christopher Jones, University of Southern California
Philippe Jorion, University of California, Irvine
Raymond Kan, University of Toronto
Eugene Kandel, Hebrew University
Jun-Koo Kang, Michigan State University
Andrew Karolyi, Ohio State University
Gautam Kaul, University of Michigan
Kenneth Kavajecz, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
Donald Keim, University of Pennsylvania
Matti Keloharju, Helsinki School of Economics
Susan Kerr Christoffersen, McGill University
Naveen Khanna, Michigan State University
Bong-Chan Kho, Seoul National University
Doron Kliger, University of Haifa
Johan Knif, Hanken , Svenska handelshögskolan
Peter Kondor, University of Chicago
Robert Korajczyk, Northwestern University
Jennifer Koski, University of Washington
Ilan Kremer, Stanford University
Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College
Chris Leach, University of Colorado, Boulder
Charles Lee, Barclays Global Investors
Michael Lemmon, University of Utah
Josh Lerner, Harvard University
Martin Lettau, New York University
Jonathan Lewellen, Dartmouth College
Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College
Bing Liang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Erik Lie, University of Iowa
Laura Lindsey, Arizona State University
Karl Lins, University of Utah
Marc Lipson, University of Virginia
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University
Claudio Loderer, Universitaet Bern
Francis Longstaff, University of California, Los Angeles
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Molina , University of Amsterdam
Michelle Lowry, Penn State University
Deborah Lucas, Northwestern University
Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hanno Lustig, University of California, Los Angeles
Anthony Lynch, New York University
Craig MacKinlay, University of Pennsylvania
Ananth Madhavan, Barclays Global Investors
Pascal Maenhout, INSEAD
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Christopher Malloy, Harvard University
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Gustavo Manso, MIT
Ron Masulis, Vanderbilt University
Rich Mathews, Duke University
David Mauer, Southern Methodist University
Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim
Robert McDonald, Northwestern University
Andrew Metrick, University of Pennsylvania
Roni Michaely, Cornell University
Todd Milbourn, Washington University, St. Louis
Darius Miller, Southern Methodist University
Kristian Miltersen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin (NHH)
Bernadette Minton, Ohio State University
Erwan Morellec, University of Lausanne
Toby Moskowitz, University of Chicago
Holger Mueller, New York University
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan Nagel, Stanford University
Theo Nijman, Tilburg University
Tom Noe, Oxford University
Kjell Nyborg, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin (NHH)
Maureen Ohara, Cornell University
Barbara Ostdiek, Rice University
Darius Palia, Rutgers University
Stavros Panageas, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University
Robert Parrino, University of Texas, Austin
Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
Anna Pavlova, London Business School
Lasse Pedersen, New York University
George Pennacchi, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford University
Thomas Philippon, New York University
Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland
Kate Phylaktis, City University, London
Monika Piazzesi, University of Chicago
Guillaume Plantin, London Business School
Christopher Polk, London School of Economics
Jeff Pontiff, Boston College
N.R. Prabhala, University of Maryland
Manju Puri, Duke University
Adriano Rampini, Duke University
Joshua Rauh, University of Chicago
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Cornell University
Enrichetta Ravina, New York University
Artur Raviv, Northwestern University
Mark Ready, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Adam Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
David Robinson, Duke University
Richard Roll, University of California, Los Angeles
Ehud Ronn, University of Texas, Austin
Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University
Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University
Kristian Rydqvist, Binghamton University
Gideon Saar, Cornell University
Patrik Sandas, University of Virginia
Pedro Santa-Clara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Oded Sarig, Arison School of Business, IDC
Scott Schaefer, University of Utah
Antoinette Schoar, MIT
Paul Schultz, University of Notre Dame
Mark Seasholes, Santa Clara Univ
Lemma Senbet, University of Maryland
Duane Seppi, Carnegie Mellon University
Piet Sercu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tsyplakov Sergey, University of South Carolina
Henri Servaes, London Business School
Nejat Seyhun, University of Michigan
Ann Sherman, DePaul University
Anil Shivdasani, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas, Austin
Morten Sorensen, University of Chicago
Nicholas Souleles, University of Pennsylvania
Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
Erik Stafford, Harvard University
Laura Starks, University of Texas, Austin
Hans Stoll, Vanderbilt University
Neal Stoughton, University of Calgary
Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University
Michael Stutzer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Amir Sufi, University of Chicago
Tyler Sumway, University of Michigan
Bhaskaran (Swami) Swaminathan, Cornell University
Chris Telmer, Carnegie Mellon University
Anjan Thakor, Washington University, St. Louis
Karin Thorburn, Dartmouth College
Sheri Tice, Tulane University
Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin
Alex Triantis, University of Maryland
Charles Trzcinka, Indiana University
Peter Tufano, Harvard University
Raman Uppal, London Business School
Rossen Valkanov, University of California, San Diego
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University
Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics
Marno Verbeek, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago
Luis Viceira, Harvard University
S. (Vish) Viswanathan, Duke University
Ernst-Ludwig (Elu) von Thadden, University of Mannheim
Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Neng Wang, Columbia University
Zhenyu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Weisbach, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Scott Weisbenner, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Russ Wermers, University of Maryland
Ingrid Werner, Ohio State University
James Weston, Rice University
Bob Whaley, Vanderbilt University
Toni Whited, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert Whitelaw, New York University
Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota
Avi Wohl, Tel, Aviv University
Daniel Wolfenzon, New York University
Kent Womack, Dartmouth College
Jeff Wurgler, New York University
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania
David Yermack, New York University
Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania
Motohiro Yogo, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Zarutskie, Duke University
Josef Zechner, University of Vienna
Jaime Zender, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lu Zhang, University of Michigan
Lu Zheng, University of California, Irvine
Guofu Zhou, Washington University, St. Louis