The 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.
Participation in the FTG Summer School is by invitation only.
Questions may be sent to [email protected] or any of the conference organizers at the University of Washington: Philip Bond, Doron Levit, Ye Li, and Mark Westerfield.
Tentative schedule
June 25
4:30 – 5:30 PM: Haoxiang Zhu (MIT) – The Law and Economics of Financial Market Design
5:30 – 7:00 PM: Welcome reception
June 26
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Itay Goldstein (Wharton) – Information and fragility in finance
12:00 – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 – 4:30 PM: 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
4:30 – 6:30 PM: Dinner Break
6:30 – 8:30 PM: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 27
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Decentralized-market design
12:00 – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 – 4:30 PM: 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
4:30 – 6:30 PM: Dinner Break
6:30 – 8:30 PM: Presentations of contributed papers by participants
June 28
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Zhiguo He (Stanford) – Intermediary asset pricing
12:00 – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 – 4:30 PM: 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 South California) – Money and banking
6:30 – 10:00 PM: Farewell Dinner Cruise
Find more information on previous FTG Summer School programs.