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ABFR events are held as Zoom webinars and are open to all. If you would like to receive updates about these events, please join our mailing list. We will send out the Zoom links to access the webinar over our mailing lists. A Zoom link will also be available on this website one hour prior to the presentation. Recordings of past events will be available on the ABFR YouTube channel. Please direct any inquiries related to the forum to abfrforum@gmail.com.

DECEMBER 12, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

NANCY WALLACE
Berkeley Haas 
 

USING MACHINE LEARNING TO MEASURE WILDFIRE RISK IN CALIFORNIA

Discussant: Maryam Farboodi (MIT) 

Host: Markus Pelger (Stanford)

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Meeting ID: 976 3079 0824

Password: 564136

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MARCH 28, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

MARKUS K. BRUNNERMEIER
Princeton University
 

STRATEGIC MONEY AND CREDIT LEDGERS

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Discussant: Péter Kondor (LSE) 

Host: Maryam Farboodi (MIT)

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APRIL 25, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

LIN WILLIAM CONG
Cornell University
 
ALPHA-MANAGER:
A DATA-DRIVEN-ROBUST-CONTROL APPROACH TO CORPORATE FINANCE

Discussant: Wei Jiang (Emory University) 
Host: Léa H. Stern (University of Washington)

MAY 30, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

ANDREA EISFELDT
UCLA
 

GENERATIVE AI AND FIRM VALUES

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Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley)

Host: Markus Pelger (Stanford University)

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JUNE 20, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

JULES VAN BINSBERGEN
University of Pennsylvania 
 

(ALMOST) 200 YEARS OF NEWS-BASED ECONOMIC SENTIMENT​

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Discussant: Baozhong Yang (Georgia State University)

Host: Andreas Neuhierl (Washington University in St. Louis)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

ROBERT RICHMOND
NYU 
 

ASSET EMBEDDINGS

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Discussant: Yinan Su (John Hopkins University)

Host: Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

OCTOBER 31, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

SEMYON MALAMUD
Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL
 

APT or "AIPT"? THE SURPRISING DOMINANCE OF LARGE FACTOR MODELS

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Discussant: Paul Schneider  (USI Lugano and SFI)

Host: Serhiy Kozak (University of Maryland)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024 | 12-1 PM ET

DMITRY LIVDAN
Berkeley Haas
 

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PAYMENT SYSTEM STRESS: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIA

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Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern Kellogg) 

Host: Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School)

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