13th Annual Conference: Investment Finance

13th Annual Conference
Investment Finance

May
2026

Tuesday

Political and Behavioral Forces in Asset Pricing
Chair: Amit GOYAL (University of Lausanne and ABFER)

Venue: Cuscaden

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Pricing the Global Trade Vulnerability

Jiatao LIU* (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Jun PAN (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Steven DAVIS (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and ABFER)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 10:30am

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Valuing Ideological Customer Capital: Measurement through Procurement

Winston Wei DOU (University of Pennsylvania and ABFER)
Yan JI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
David REIBSTEIN (University of Pennsylvania)
Di TIAN* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Discussant:
John ROMALIS (Macquarie University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Limited Consideration Sets and Financial Decision-Making

Alex IMAS (The University of Chicago)
Wendy JIN (New York University, Shanghai)
Yiqing LU* (New York University, Shanghai)

Discussant:
Joao COCCO (London Business School and ABFER)

Conference Paper

MAY
2026

Thursday

Information and Financial Markets
Chair: Darwin CHOI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Venue: Cuscaden

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Open Data and Financial Market Quality

Lin William CONG (Nanyang Technological University and ABFER)
Siguang LI* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou)
Mingzhe ZHENG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou)

Discussant:
Liyan YANG (University of Toronto and ABFER)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am

FinTech Brings a Bias from Psychology Labs to a Two-trillion-dollar Market

Hongjun YAN (DePaul University)
Zhengwei WANG (Tsinghua University)
Yulai YUAN (Xuanyuan Insurance Agency Co., Ltd)
Xiaole QIU (Tsinghua University)
Jia XIANG (Tsinghua University)
Yaqing XIAO* (Capital University of Economics and Business)
Erik DAVIDSON (Baylor University)

Discussant:
Bohui ZHANG (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and ABFER)

Conference Paper

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

The Pricing of Geopolitical Tensions over a Century

Andrei S GONCALVES* (The Ohio State University)
Alessandro MELONE (The Ohio State University)
Andrea RICCIARDI (The Ohio State University)

Discussant:
Xiaoyan ZHANG (Tsinghua University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 31 Mar 2026.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

Contact Information

Program Director	Conference Organizer
Amit GOYAL (University of Lausanne and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Clemens SIALM (University of Texas at Austin and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Darwin CHOI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Roger LOH (Nanyang Technological University and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program Director

Conference Organizer

Amit GOYAL (University of Lausanne and ABFER)
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Clemens SIALM (University of Texas at Austin and ABFER)
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Darwin CHOI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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Roger LOH (Nanyang Technological University and ABFER)
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