BI-SHoF Conference 2025

The Center for Asset Pricing Research at BI Norwegian Business School was hosting the 11th BI-SHoF conference on asset pricing and financial econometrics. The BI-SHoF conference is a collaboration between BI and the Swedish House of Finance alternating between Oslo and Stockholm.

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This conference is an opportunity for academics from all around the world to catch up and discuss importance of new findings in asset pricing.

Each paper has 45 minutes, which are divided as follows:

  • 25 minutes for the presentation,
  • 15 minutes for the discussant,
  • 5 minutes for the presenter to reply to the discussant, and take questions from the audience.

 

Program

Monday August 18

Session 1

Chair: Lovisa Reiche

   
09:00-09:45 Dynamic Trading: Price Intertia and Front-Running
  Yuliy Sannikov (Stanford GBS)
  Discussant: Francesco Nicolai (BI)
   
09:45-10:30 Corporate Bond Factors: Replication Failures and a New Framework
  Peter Feldhütter (Copenhagen Business School)
  Discussant: Thomas Poulsen (BI)
   
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
   

Session 2

Chair: Paul Ehling

   
11:00-11:45 Executive Compensation and Pollution: Theory and Evidence
  Jerome Detemple (BU Questrom)
  Discussant: Adam Winegar (BI)
   
11:45-13:00 Lunch
   

Session 3

Chair: Francesco Nicolai

   
13:00-13:45 Operating Leverage and Risk Premium
  Yifan Zhu (BI)
  Discussant: Lorenzo Bretscher (University of Lausanne)
   
13:45-14:30 Intangible Capital, Firm Scope, and Growth
  Nicolas Crouzet (Northwestern Kellogg)
  Discussant: Yifan Zhu (BI)
   
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
   

Session 4

Chair: Tobias Sichert

   
15:00-15:45 The Term Structure of Return Expectations
  Cameron Peng (London School of Economics)
  Discussant: Lovisa Reiche (BI)
   
15:45-16:30 Does Active Fund Management Add Value to Shortsale-Constrained Investors?
  Raman Uppal (EDHEC Business School)
  Discussant: Stig Lundeby (BI) 
   
  Dinner (by invitation)

                 

    

Monday August 19

Session 5

Chair: Paul Huebner

   
09:00-09:45 The Uncertainty of Machine Learning Predictions in Asset Pricing
  Andreas Neuhierl (Purdue)
  Discussant: Paolo Giordani (BI)
   
09:45-10:30 Aggregation, Liquidity, and Asset Prices with Incomplete Markets
  Pablo Kurlat (USC)
  Discussant: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen (BI)
   
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
   

Session 6

Chair: Stig Lundeby

   
11:00-11:45 Rethinking Volume
  Lorenzo Bretscher (University of Lausanne)
  Discussant: Paul Huebner (Stockholm School of Economics)
   
11:45-12:30 Betting on Stocks with Options?
  Tobias Sichert (Stockholm School of Economics)
  Discussant: Bjørn Eraker (University of Wisconsin)