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Registration and  arrival coffee/tea  9:30 am
Welcome 10:00 am
Keynote presentation 10:05 am
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)
Morning Break 10:50 am
Session 1 11:20am
Newspaper Closures and Trading in Local Stocks
Peter Cziraki (Texas A&M University), Jasmin Gider (Tilburg University)
Discussant: Eliza Wu (University of Sydney)
The Ineffecient Pricing of News
Antoine Didisheim (The University of Melbourne), Bryan T. Kelly (Yale University), Mohammad Pourmohammadi (Yale University), Hanqing Tian (The University of Melbourne)
Discussant: Yongxin Xu (Monash University)
Lunch 12:30 pm
Session 2 2:00 pm
Hiding in Plain Sight: Preferred Habitat Effects in Short-Term Rates
Edouard Mattille (UNSW)
Discussant: Yancheng Qiu (University of Sydney)
Forecast Dispersion and the Price Impact of Macroeconomic News
Samia Badidi (Nanyang Technological University)
Discussant: Alessandro Spina (University of Technology Sydney)
Survey Expectations Meet Option Prices: New Insights from the FX Market
Pasquale Della Corte (Imperial College London), Can Gao (University of St. Gallen), Alexandre Jeanneret (UNSW)
Discussant: Wei Opie (Deakin University)
Afternoon Break 3:45 pm
Session 3 4:15 pm
SDF-based portfolio choice 
Jaffe Greenwald (Cambridge University), Richard Priestley (BI Norwegian Business School), Kevin Schneider (University of Arizona)
Discussant: Federico Nardari (The University of Melbourne)
Forecast-Agnostic Portfolios
Hongye Guo (University of Hong Kong), Jessica A. Wachter (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Idan Hodor (Monash University)
Concluding remarks 5:25 pm
Conference ends 5:30 pm
Conference Dinner (RSVP required) 5:45 pm

Please note program is subject to change