The 2026 HKUST Finance Symposium

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Emilio Bisetti
Briana Chang
Dong Lou
Abhiroop Mukherjee
Jianfeng Yu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Hengjie Ai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
Ana Babus, Washington University in St. Louis
Turan Bali, Georgetown University
Snehal Banerjee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Frederico Belo, INSEAD
Effi Benmelech, Northwestern University
Justin Birru, Ohio State University
Jaewon Choi, Seoul National University
Joao Cocco, London Business School
Jean-Edouard Colliard, HEC Paris
Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics
Sudipto Dasgupta, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Anthony Defusco, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Winston Dou, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Egan, Harvard University
Michael Ewens, Columbia University
Nicolae Garleanu, Washington University in St. Louis
Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
Daniel Greenwald, New York University
Zhiguo He, Stanford University
Yunzhi Hu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shiyang Huang, University of Hong Kong
Xing Huang, Cornell University/Washington University in St. Louis
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang, Nanyang Technological University
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University
Rajkamal Iyer, Imperial College London
Mahyar Kargar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Elisabeth Kempf, Harvard University
Alexandr Kopytov, University of Rochester
Erica X.N. Li, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Xuewen Liu, University of Hong Kong
Nadya Malenko, Boston College
Kasper Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles
Lin Peng, Baruch College
Joel Peress, INSEAD
Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Texas, Austin
Rik Sen, University of Georgia
Kelly Shue, Yale University
Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas, Austin
Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto
Neng Wang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Yongxiang Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Yufeng Wu, Ohio State University
Kairong Xiao, Columbia University
Ming Yang, University College London
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge
Mao Ye, Cornell University
Xiaoyun Yu, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Alminas Zaldokas, National University of Singapore

and all faculty members at the HKUST Finance Department