October 10-11, 2025
Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Fragility

2025 Conference Program

 FRIDAY
OCTOBER 10, 2025

8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30am – 12:00pm Session 1: Information and Liquidity
Chair: Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim)
Optimally Opaque Banks
Ana Babus (Washington University in St. Louis), Maryam Farboodi (MIT), and Gabriela Stockler (UPF and BSE)
Discussant: Zhen Zhou (Tsinghua)
Trade-Off? What Trade-Off: Information Production without Illiquidity
Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris), Kostas Koufopoulos (University of Sussex), and Roman Kozhan (University of Warwick)
Discussant: Péter Kondor (LSE)
(Deep) Learning to Trade: An Experimental Analysis of AI Trading and Market Outcomes
Ivan Gufler (Luiss University), Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), and Emanuele Tarantino (Luiss University)
Discussant: Snehal Banerjee (Michigan)
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:40pm Session 2: Real Estate and Financial Fragility
Chair: Ben Lester (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Mortgage Structure, Financial Stability, and Risk Sharing
Vadim Elenev (Johns Hopkins) and Lu Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Jonathan Wallen (Harvard)
Too-Many-to-Ignore: Regional Banks and CRE Risks
Franz Hinzen (Dartmouth), Felipe Severino (Dartmouth) and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (Columbia)
Discussant: Greg Buchak (Stanford)
2:40 – 3:00pm Break
3:00 – 4:40pm Session 3: Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Financial Fragility
Chair: Alexandros Vardoulakis (Federal Reserve Board)
Unrealized Trading Gains
Chuck Fang (Drexel)
Discussant: Yiming Ma (Columbia)
Financial Intermediary Funding Constraints and Segmented Markets: Evidence from SMCCF ETF Purchases
Samuel Hempel (Federal Reserve Board), Dasol Kim (U.S. Treasury) and Russ Wermers (University of Maryland)
Discussant: Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
5:00 – 6:00pm Reception
6:00 – 8:00pm Dinner – Keynote Speaker: Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

 SATURDAY
OCTOBER 11, 2025

8:00 – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:40am Session 4: International Financial Markets
Chair: Amy Huber (Wharton)
Repo and FX Swap: A Tale of Two Markets
Wenxin Du (Harvard), Georg Strasser (European Central Bank), and Adrien Verdelhan (MIT)
Discussant: Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania)
Financial Cooperation in A Fragmented World
Javier Bianchi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Sebastian Horn (University of Hamburg and IfW), Giovanni Rosso (University of Oxford), and César Sosa-Padilla (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Alberto Martin (Barcelona School of Economics)
10:40 – 11:00am Break
11:00am – 12:40pm Session 5: Decentralized Finance: The Future of Money and Trading?
Chair: TBD
Platform Money
Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School), Yuan Tian (LSE), and Kathy Yuan (LSE)
Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins)
Automated Exchange Economies
Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon), Yikang Shen (Carnegie Mellon), and Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon)
Discussant: Michael Sockin (UT Austin)
12:40 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:00pm Session 6: Bank Runs: New Dimensions
Chair: Todd Keister (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Deposit Clustering
Ruslan Sverchkov (Warwick) and Chaojun Wang (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Sebastian Infante (Federal Reserve Board)
Investor Attention to Bank Risk During the Spring 2023 Bank Run
Natalia Fischl-Lanzoni (NYU), Martin Hiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), and Asani Sarkar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Discussant: Loretta Mester (University of Pennsylvania)
Maturity Risks and Bank Runs
Jihene Arfaoui (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Stephen Williamson (University of Western Ontario)
4:00pm Adjourn


Note: Presenters for each paper are written in bold.

Organizing Committee

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