Stephen Figlewski (NYU)

An American Call IS Worth More than a European Call: The Value of American Exercise When the Market is Not Perfectly Liquid

Tobias Sichert (Stockholm School of Economics)

“The Shape of the Pricing Kernel and Expected Option Returns”

Bjørn Eraker (Wisconsin-Madison)

"Predictability Puzzles"

Sang Byung Seo (Wisconsin-Madison)

"Is There a Macro-Announcement Premium?"

Chao Ying (U of Minnesota)

"The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift and Private Information: Kyle Meets Macro-Finance"

Ljubica Georgievska (UCLA)

"The persistent element of the no-arbitrage framework: discount rates, bases, and opportunity cost of collateral"

Shuaiqi Li (U of Maryland)

"Option Momentum" with S. Heston

Yannick Dillschneider (Goethe University Frankfurt)

"GMM Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models Using Transform-Based Moments of Derivatives Prices" with R. Maurer

"Modeling Volatility in Dynamic Term Structure Models" by H. Doshi, K. Jacobs and Rui Liu, slides

Discussion by Guillaume Roussellet (McGill), slides

"The Dark Matter in Equity Index Volatility Dynamics: Assessing the Economic Rationales for Unspanned Risks" by Gurdip Bakshi, J. Crosby and X. Gao, slides

Discussion by Winston Dou (Wharton), slides

"The Cross Section of the Monetary Policy Announcement Premium" by H. Ai, L.J. Han, Xuhui (Nick) Pan, and L. Xu, slides

Discussion: Michael Weber (Chicago), slides

"Fed Tails: FOMC Announcements and Stock Market Uncertainty" by Heiner Beckmeyer, N. Branger and T. Grünthaler, slides

Discussion: Emanuel Moench (Bundesbank), slides

"Bond Funds and Credit Risk" by Jaewon Choi, A. Dasgupta and J.Y.J. Oh

Discussion: Vikas Agarwal (GSU)

"Risk Appetite and Intermediation by Swap Dealers" by S. Mixon and Esen Onur

Discussion: Lars Lochstoer (UCLA)

"Price Pressures and Option Returns"* by Ruslan Goyenko and C. Zhang (McGill), slides

Discussion: Albert Menkveld (VU Amsterdam), slides

"Market Return Around the Clock: A Puzzle" by O. Bondarenko and Dmitriy Muravyev, slides

Discussion: Charles Martineau (Toronto), slides

"Engineering Lemons" by Petra Vokata (OSU), slides

Discussion: Neil Pearson (UIUC), slides

"Extrapolation and Complexity" by Donghwa Shin (UNC), slides

Discussion: Boris Vallée (Harvard), slides

Jose Maria Barrero (ITAM), slides

“Short and Long Run Uncertainty” with N. Bloom and I. Wright

Antonia Kirilova (SMU), slides

“Who Profits from Trading Options?” with J. Hu, D. Ryu, and S. Park

Chukwuma Dim (Frankfurt School), slides

“Generalized Bounds on the Conditional Expected Excess Return on Individual Stocks” with F. Chabi-Yo & G. Vilkov

Patrick Augustin (McGill University), slides

“In Sickness and in Debt: The COVID-19 Impact on Sovereign Credit Risk” with V. Sokolovski, M. Subrahmanyam, & D. Tomio

Paola Pederzoli (University of Houston), slides, chat

"Crash Risk in Individual Stocks."

Wenxin Du (University of Chicago Booth), slides

"Are intermediary constraints priced?" with B. M. Hébert and A. Wang Huber

Steve Heston (University of Maryland), slides

"Recovering the Variance Premium"

Gurdip Bakshi (Temple University)

"A New Formula for the Expected Excess Return of the Market." with J. Crosby, X. Gao Bakshi, and W. Zhou

Ian Dew-Becker (Northwestern Kellogg)

"Cross-sectional uncertainty and the business cycle: Evidence from 40 years of options data" with Stefano Giglio

Kris Jacobs (University of Houston), slides

"Expected and Realized Returns on Volatility" with G. Hu

Francis Longstaff (UCLA Anderson), slides

"Renting Balance Sheet Space: Intermediary Balance Sheet Rental Costs and the Valuation of Derivatives" with Matthias Fleckenstein

Torben Andersen (Northwestern Kellogg), slides

"Option-Based Tail Variation Measures, the Equity Risk Premium, and a Peek at tailindex.com."

Mikhail Chernov (UCLA Anderson), slides

"A no-arbitrage perspective on global arbitrage opportunities" with P. Augustin, L. Schmid, and D. Song

Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva, SFI), slides

"Smart Stochastic Discount Factors" with S. A. Korsaye and A. Quaini

Peter Carr (NYU), slides

"The Bachelier Model and a Simpler Alternative"