The University of Washington – Foster School of Business, in conjunction with the Finance Theory Group (FTG), is pleased to host the FTG’s Summer School program at the Foster School of Business on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle on June 25-28, 2025.
We will begin collecting applications for the FTG Summer School 2025 in December 2024.
The conference organizers at the University of Washington are:
Philip Bond, Doron Levit, Ye Li, and Mark Westerfield.
Tentative schedule
June 25
Afternoon: Haoxiang Zhu (MIT & SEC)
Evening: Welcome reception
June 26
Morning: Itay Goldstein (Wharton) – Information and fragility in finance
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
- Eduardo Davila (Yale) – Sufficient statistics and normative finance
- Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester) – Emergence and implications of peer effects
- Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina) – Uncertainty and contracting
Evening: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 27
Morning: Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Decentralized-market design
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
- Andrey Malenko (Boston College) – Applications of dynamic games
- Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) – Social preferences
- Victoria Vanasco (Centre de Recerca en Economia International) – Security design
Evening: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 28
Morning: Zhiguo He (Stanford) – Intermediary asset pricing
Afternoon: Parallel Sessions
- Brett Green (Washington University in St. Louis) – Dynamic adverse selection
- Matthieu Bouvard (Toulouse School of Economics) – Blockchains and their finance applications
- Giorgia Piacentino (University of Southern California) – Money and banking
Evening: Farewell Reception/Dinner