David will present his paper: Volatility and the Pricing Kernel (co-authored with Tobias Sichert) Abstract Negative stock market returns are significantly more painful to investors when they occur in periods of low volatility. To establish this fact, we show that a drop in volatility makes the pricing kernel steeper and average put option returns Read more…

Tony will present his paper: Money to Burn: Wildfire Insurance via Social Networks with Emily Gallagher and Phil Mulder Abstract: Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to raise emergency funding after disasters. However, for victims of a recent major Colorado wildfire, we find that crowdfunding raised more support for high Read more…