FRIC hosted FRIC'19 Conference on Financial Frictions last week

We just hosted the annual FRIC Conference: FRIC'19 Conference on Financial Frictions at CBS.

We had the pleasure of these 4 great keynotes:

Keynotes
Richard Cantor, Moody's Corporation, on "The Credit Rating Industry: A Decade After the Global Financial Crisis"
Peter DeMarzo, Stanford Graduate School of Business, on "Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction"
Gary Gorton, Yale School of Management, on "Aggregate Information Dynamics"
Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago (Booth) and CEPR, on " Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in a Global Demand System"

As well as fantastic line-up of speakers and discussants:

Speakers
Hui Chen, MIT Sloan School of Management
Pierre Collin-Dufresne, EPFL and CEPR
Edith Hotchkiss, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Hanno Lustig, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Ian Martin, London School of Economics and CEPR
Michael Schwert, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Stephen Schaefer, London Business School
Paul Schneider, USI Lugano and SFI
Daniel Streitz, Copenhagen Business School and DFI
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University, Questrom School of Business and CEPR

Thanks also to the 140 registered participants who joined us this year.

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