The Salomon Center 2026 Martin J. Gruber Five-Star Conference on Research in Finance
This annual conference brings together finance researchers from five leading northeastern universities. We invite colleagues at all schools in the northeast, and others interested in current finance research, to a day of research presentations in finance. Faculty from each of the program participant schools present one of the papers on the program.
Date:
Friday, November 20, 2026
Location:
NYU Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
Organizers:
Kose John and Anthony Lynch, New York University
Founding Organizers:
Yakov Amihud and Kose John, New York University
Conference Advisory Committee:
Nick Barberis, Yale University
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
Tano Santos, Columbia University
Heather Tookes, Yale University
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
Registration:
To register for the conference and reserve your luncheon ticket, RSVP using this form.
Program:
Author who will present is in bold.
9:00am Registration & Breakfast
9:30am Introduction: Dean Bharat Anand, Stern School, New York University
9:45am Chair: TBA
Sriya L. Anbil, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Toomas Laarits, New York University
Chase P. Ross, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Sharon Y. Ross, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Discussant: TBA
10:45am Refreshment Break
11:00am Chair: TBA
"Rating Without Market Discipline"
Xuelin Li, Columbia University
Sangmin S. Oh, Columbia University
Giacomo Ricciardi, Columbia University
Discussant: TBA
12:00pm Refreshment Break
12:15pm Chair: TBA
"Democratizing Private Markets: Equilibrium Predictions"
Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
Robert F. Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania
Lucian A. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: TBA
1:15pm Lunch
2:15pm Chair: TBA
"Learning and the Emergence of Nonlinearity in Financial Markets"
Ian Dew-Becker, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Stefano Giglio, Yale University
Pooya Molavi, Northwestern University
Discussant: TBA
3:15pm Refreshment Break
3:30pm Chair: TBD
"Optimal (Un)Conventional Monetary Policy"
Andrey Alexandrov, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Discussant: TBA
4:30pm Reception
4:45pm Keynote speaker: Raghuam G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
"TBA"
Introduction: Martin J. Gruber, New York University