October 9-10, 2026
Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Fragility

2026 Conference Program

Paper presenter names are listed in bold.

 FRIDAY
OCTOBER 9, 2026

8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30am – 12:00pm Session 1: Bank Funding and Lending
Bank Depositor Composition and the Supply of Credit
Kristian Blickle (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Cecilia Parlatore (NYU), Anthony Saunders (NYU)
Discussant: Jose Luis Peydro (Luiss)
On the Tradeoffs between Interest Rates and Haircuts at Lending Facilities
Anil Kashyap (Chicago), Antonis Kotidis (Federal Reserve Board), Alexandros Vardoulakis (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: Huberto Ennis (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Bank to Non-Bank Lending and the Reallocation of Credit
Jane Li (Columbia), Yiming Ma (Columbia), Caterina Mendicino (European Central Bank), Dominik Supera (Columbia)
Discussant: Quentin Vandeweyer (London Business School)
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:40pm Session 2: Allocational Roles of Prices 
Liquid Staking
Alfred Lehar (Calgary), Christine Parlour (Berkeley), Kathy Yuan (LSE)
Discussant: Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon)
The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis: A Theory of Casino Capitalism
Christian Hellwig (Toulouse)
Discussant: Pete Kyle (Maryland)
2:40 – 3:00pm Break
3:00 – 4:40pm Session 3: Bank Fragility
Too Big to Fail, Too Small to Survive
Redouane Elkamhi (Toronto), Yilin (David) Yang (Minnesota)
Discussant: Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Bank Runs With and Without Bank Failure
Sergio Correia (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Stephan Luck (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Emil Verner (MIT)
Discussant: Enrico Perotti (Amsterdam)
5:00 – 6:00pm Reception
6:00 – 8:00pm Dinner – Keynote Speaker: Monika Piazzesi (Stanford)

 SATURDAY
OCTOBER 10, 2026

8:00 – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:40am Session 4: Interconnections in Financial Markets
Multimarket Contact and the Cost of Trading Corporate Bonds
Marco Grotteria (London Business School), Andreas Rapp (Federal Reserve Board), Ruslan Sverchkov (Warwick), Ram Yamarthy (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: Dan Li (Federal Reserve Board)
Buying from the Family: Private Equity-Owned Insurers and Their Affiliated Investments
Amy Huber (Wharton), Stefan Huber (Wharton), Bella Shan (Wharton), Christina Zhu (Wharton)
Discussant: Ishita Sen (Harvard)
10:40 – 11:00am Break
11:00am – 12:40pm Session 5: Financial Technology, Law, and Regulation
The Optimal Use of AI in Financial Regulation
Chris Clayton (Yale), Antonio Coppola (Chicago)
Discussant: Harald Uhlig (Chicago)
Is Criminal Crypto a Sideshow? Illicit Activities across Three Major Blockchains
John Griffin (Texas), Zirui Wang (Texas), J. A. Artero Calvo (Integra FEC)
Discussant: Huan Tang (Wharton)
12:40 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:00pm Session 6: Liquidity and Fragility in Investment Funds
Who Stays, Who Switches: Tax Frictions and the Shift from Mutual Funds
Jessica Goldenring (Colorado)
Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon)
Geoeconomic Shocks and Mutual Fund Runs
Si Cheng (Syracuse), Allaudeen Hameed (NUS), Hao Jiang (Michigan State)
Discussant: Stijn Claessens (Yale)
Democratizing Illiquid Assets: Liquidity Transformation and Performance in Interval Funds
Stefano Pegoraro (Notre Dame), Sophie Shive (Notre Dame), Rafael Zambrana (Notre Dame)
Discussant: Jonathan Berk (Stanford)
4:00pm Adjourn


Organizing Committee

Vincent Glode (Wharton)
Itay Goldstein (Wharton)
Guillermo Ordonez (Department of Economics)
Yao Zeng (Wharton)