Here you can find a list of tracks and topics. You can choose one track, but multiple topics. Topics listed in the same area (e.g. Asset Pricing) are the same for empirical and theory.

Tracks

• Asset Pricing
• Climate Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Intermediation
• Household Finance
• Market Microstructure

Topics within tracks

Asset Pricing Empirical (APE) & Asset Pricing Theory (APT)

• Corporate Policies and Asset Pricing
• Cross-Section of Returns
• Equities
• Expectation Formation and Asset Prices
• Financial Innovation and Asset Pricing
• FinTech / Big Data / Machine Learning
• Fixed Income
• Frictions, Mispricing and Limits to Arbitrage
• Gender, Race, Inequality
• Information Production and Asset Pricing
• Intermediaries and Asset Pricing
• International Finance
• Macro Finance
• Networks
• Options and Other Derivatives
• Policy and Regulatory Issues
• Portfolio Choice and Asset Allocation
• Return Dynamics and Predictability
• Tests of Asset Pricing Models
• Volatility and Tail Risk

Climate Finance (CL)

• Empirical
• Theory
• Climate Change and Corporate Governance
• Climate Change and Investor Behavior
• Climate Finance and Asset Pricing
• Climate Finance and Corporate Performance
• Climate Finance, Central Banking and Public Policy
• Management of Climate Risk
• Other

Corporate Finance Empirical (CFE) & Corporate Finance Theory (CFT)

• Bankruptcy and Distress
• Behavioral Corporate Finance
• Capital Structure
• CEOs/CFOs and Boards
• Compensation and Agency
• Contracts and Incentives
• Corporate Culture / Social Responsibility
• Corporate Disclosure and Accounting
• Corporate Governance (Other)
• Dividend and Payout Policy
• Finance and Development
• Finance and Labor
• Financial Innovation and Security Design
• FinTech / Big Data / Machine Learning
• Gender, Race, Inequality
• Investment Behavior
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Networks
• Policy and Regulatory Issues
• R&D, Patents, and Innovation
• Raising Capital (including IPOs/SEOs)
• Risk Management
• Shareholder Monitoring/Voting

Financial Intermediation Empirical (FIE) & Financial Intermediation Theory (FIT)

• Bank Funding and Capital Structure
• Bank Lending, Covenants and Collateral
• Behavior and Financial Intermediation
• CCPs
• Cryptocurrency and Digital Currencies
• Entrepreneurial Finance / Private Equity / Venture Capital
• Financial Crises and Transmission of Shocks
• Financial Innovation
• Financial Intermediation and Development
• FinTech / Big Data / Machine Learning
• Gender, Race, Inequality
• Government Policy, Bank Regulation and Supervision
• Hedge Funds
• Insurance and Pension Funds
• Monetary Policy and Central Banking
• Mortgages and Real Estate
• Mutual Funds
• Networks
• Ratings and Rating Agencies
• Risk Management at Financial Institutions (Banks and Non-Banks)

Household Finance (HF)

• Debt and Debt management
• Financial Fragility and Precautionary Savings
• Financial Literacy
• FinTech / Big Data / Machine Learning
• Gender, Race and Inequality
• Investment and portfolio choice during a pandemic

Market Microstructure  (MM)

• Empirical
• Theory
• Asymmetric Information and Trading
• FinTech / Big Data / Machine Learning
• Frictions and Trading
• High-frequency Trading
• Market Structure
• Price Formation and Price Discovery