Top Finance Graduate Award Conference

6 May 2025

 HEC Campus X013 & Le Château

The Top Finance Graduate Award recognizes the most promising PhD candidates in financial economics worldwide, graduating in 2025. The scientific committee selects the candidates with the greatest promise to have a long-term impact on our understanding of finance, regardless of their field of study. The winners will present this exciting new research during the Top Finance Graduate Award Conference.

9:00–9:30      Coffee and Welcome

9:30–9:40      Opening remarks by Jean-Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris)

9:40–10:25    James Paron (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), The Wealth of Stagnation: Falling Growth, Rising Valuations

10:25–11:10  Daniel Graves (Yale University), What Lies Beneath Zero: Censoring, Demand Estimation, and Hidden Beliefs

11:10–11:35   Coffee break

11:35-12:20   Suproteem Sarkar  (Harvard University), Economic Representations

12:20-13:20   Lunch break

13:20-14:05   Susan Cherry (Stanford Garduate School of Business), Regulating Credit: The Impact of Price Regulations and Lender Technologies on Financial Inclusion

14:05-14:50   Juan Antolin-Diaz (London Business School), How Did Government Bonds Become Safe ?

14:50–15:15   Coffee break

15:15-16:00   Leonardo d'Amico (Harvard University), Capital Market Integration and Growth Across the United States

16:00-16:10   Awards presented by Augustin Landier (HEC Paris)

16:10-18:00   Break and social activity

18:00-19:00   Cocktail

19:00-21:30   Dinner at Le Château

Organizers: Jean-Edouard Colliard and Augustin Landier (both HEC Paris, Finance Department). We are very grateful to HEC for funding and supporting this event.