NOV222026
SUNDAY · CASA DE CAMPO
Sunday, November 22
Arrivals, culture & connections
07:30–17:30PROGRAM EVENT
Santo Domingo Cultural Program
A day devoted to Santo Domingo and its historical heritage.
19:30–20:00PROGRAM EVENT
Welcome Reception & Networking at Minitas
An opening opportunity to connect with fellow delegates.
⌁ MINITAS BEACH
20:00–22:00PROGRAM EVENT
Opening Dinner at Minitas
Conference welcome dinner at Minitas.
⌁ MINITAS BEACH
NOV232026
MONDAY · CASA DE CAMPO
Monday, November 23
Research, keynote & market perspectives
08:30–10:00PARALLEL SESSIONS
Sustainable Asset Pricing and Climate Risk
SESSION CHAIRGiovanni Pagliardi
PAPER #0132
Trump the Greenium? Evidence On the (First) US Withdrawal from the Paris Accord
David Echeverry
DISCUSSANT Jiasun Li
PAPER #3322
ESG-Factor Investing: A Multi-Layered Approach for Enhanced Portfolio Returns and Risk Mitigation
Salah Ayari and Hayette Gatfaoui
DISCUSSANT Barbara Guardabascio
PAPER #4416
Pricing Climate Geopolitical Risks
Papa Orgen
DISCUSSANT Ivan De Crescenzo
Banking, Credit and Institutional Intermediation
SESSION CHAIRMichel Robe
PAPER #4491
From Institutional Voids to Family Governance: NGOs as Intermediaries for Women-Led Family Enterprises in Bangladesh
Tamanna Marjan, Neda Azad Honari, Karen Watkins Fassler and Lazaro Rodriguez
DISCUSSANT Papa Orgen
PAPER #4609
Bank Complexity, Performance and Risk
Mark Flood and Anoop Rai
DISCUSSANT Onno Steenbeek
PAPER #9820
Monetary-Fiscal Policy Effectiveness and Coordination in the Era of Digital Financial Adoption
Sumaya Shaik
DISCUSSANT Le Zhao
Asset Valuation, Equilibrium and Portfolio Models
SESSION CHAIRQiang Kang
PAPER #0692
Valuation Uncertainty in a Nonlinear Present-Value Model
Xiaoquan Jiang
DISCUSSANT Gianna Figà-Talamanca
PAPER #2334
Beyond global trend risk: A local perspective on portfolio risk and return dynamics
David Neděla
DISCUSSANT Rosella Castellano
PAPER #5572
MINIMAL DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA
David Feldman
DISCUSSANT Héctor Julio Real Aquino
Creators’ Breakfast — Investment Opportunities in Content Creation, Music & Entertainment
A special morning conversation on the economics of creative industries.
10:00–11:30PROGRAM EVENT
Eric S. Maskin — Keynote Address
Eric S. Maskin · Harvard University · Nobel laureate in Economics
⌁ MAIN · FLAMBOYÁN

11:30–11:45PROGRAM EVENT
Coffee & Networking Break
11:45–13:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
Trading, Investor Sentiment and Portfolio Choice
SESSION CHAIRPatrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
PAPER #2243
Cryptocurrencies in equity portfolios: trend or opportunity?
Gianna Figà-Talamanca, Francesco Cesarone and Francesca Luciani
DISCUSSANT Yochanan Shachmurove
PAPER #1385
The Effects of Equity Tokenization
Sulei Han, Vinh Huy Nguyen and Le Zhao
DISCUSSANT Sumaya Shaik
PAPER #1213
Beyond the Screenplay: Social Media, Overconfidence, and Meme-Stock Trading
Edward Lawrence, Benedikt Wick and Mehul Raithatha
DISCUSSANT Kevyn Stefanelli
Sustainable Corporate Finance and Long-Term Firm Value
SESSION CHAIRMarcos Velazquez
PAPER #0769
Flexible Computing Loads, Electricity Grid Resilience, and Carbon Emission Reduction
Jiasun Li
DISCUSSANT Omar Bairan
PAPER #4183
Green game in town: Intra-industry spillover effects of corporate green bond announcements
Arun Upadhyay, Varun Jindal and Sourav Prasad
DISCUSSANT David Echeverry
PAPER #8178
Sustainability Investments and Risks: Financial Performance and Funding Cost Effects in Climate-Polluting Sectors
Mohammad Jafarinejad and Ridwan Rusli
DISCUSSANT Salah Ayari
Financial Econometrics and Forecasting
SESSION CHAIRRosella Castellano
PAPER #1848
Predictable but Not Profitable: Currency Intervention and the Economic Value of Forecasting the Dominican Peso, 2000–2026
Johan Manuel Tapia Bueno and Héctor Julio Real Aquino
DISCUSSANT David Neděla
PAPER #3847
Out-of-Sample Performance of Single-Factor Interest Rate Models: PCA versus Parallel Shifts
Joel Barber
DISCUSSANT Michel Robe
PAPER #7512
Downside Currency Risk and Renewable Infrastructure Project Survival
Papa Orgen
DISCUSSANT Barbara Będowska-Sójka
Trading Competition · Round 1
Dedicated competition session.
13:15–14:45PROGRAM EVENT
WALL STREET PANELS — FIU MSF Program · Luncheon: Practitioners’ Perspectives on Trends in Finance
Finance industry leaders and conference delegates in conversation.
14:45–16:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
Corporate Governance, Technology and Performance
SESSION CHAIREdward Lawrence
PAPER #4383
Executive Equity-based Compensation, Risk, and Environmental Performance
Marcos Velazquez, Michael Goldstein, Suchismita Mishra and Le Zhao
DISCUSSANT Mohammad Jafarinejad
PAPER #7031
Planned vs. Reactive CEO Succession in Family Firms: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
Karen Watkins Fassler, Lázaro Rodríguez Ariza and María de Los Ángeles Aguirre Landa
DISCUSSANT Anoop Rai
PAPER #6207
Founding for the Long Term: How Women Founders Professionalize Family Firms. (A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective on Governance and Transgenerational Value)
Neda Azad-Honari, Fereshteh Shakibaeian, Tamama Marjan, Malvina Prenga and Lazaro Rodriguez-Ariza
DISCUSSANT Karen Watkins Fassler
Cryptocurrency Derivatives and Market Making
SESSION CHAIRMark Flood
PAPER #3091
Illiquid Bitcoin Options
Jiasun Li
DISCUSSANT Joel Barber
PAPER #7648
Risk-controlled Bitcoin allocation with Machine-Learning views
Rosella Castellano
DISCUSSANT Carlos Jaime
PAPER #9894
Volatility Calibration and the Empirical Performance of the Avellaneda-Stoikov Market-Making Model in Fragmented Cryptocurrency Markets
Francesco Bartolucci, Gabriele Ciotti, Gianna Figà-Talamanca and Marco Patacca
DISCUSSANT Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
Commodity Futures, Risk and Market Uncertainty
SESSION CHAIRIvan De Crescenzo
PAPER #8340
Bias in Predictive Regressions
Qiang Kang and Xiaoquan Jiang
DISCUSSANT David Feldman
PAPER #8245
Integrating Volatility, Macro-Correlation, and Style Factor for Market Regime Detection
Barbara Guardabascio, Gianna Figà-Talamanca and Alessandro Parroccini
DISCUSSANT Qiang Kang
PAPER #1139
Global Price Synchronicity and Short Ban Prevalence
Yu Hu, Pankaj Jain, Suchismita Mishra and Robinson Reyes Pena
DISCUSSANT Marco Patacca
Trading Competition · Round 2
Dedicated competition session.
16:15–16:30PROGRAM EVENT
Coffee & Networking Break
16:30–17:30PROGRAM EVENT
Moderator: Suchismita Mishra — FIU
Panelists: Michael Pagano — Villanova University / The Financial Review; Betty Simkins — Oklahoma State University; Brandon Cline — Mississippi State University; Bill Megginson — University of Oklahoma.
⌁ MAIN · FLAMBOYÁN
17:30–18:30PROGRAM EVENT
Moderator: Arun Upadhyay — FIU
Panelists: Michael Goldstein — Babson College; Bill Megginson — University of Oklahoma; David Feldman — UNSW Sydney; Peter Prazmowski — Economic Policy / META RD 2036.
⌁ MAIN · FLAMBOYÁN
20:00–23:00PROGRAM EVENT
Gala Dinner
An evening gathering in the extraordinary setting of Altos de Chavón.
⌁ ALTOS DE CHAVÓN
NOV242026
TUESDAY · CASA DE CAMPO
Tuesday, November 24
Family enterprise, innovation & future finance
08:30–10:00PARALLEL SESSIONS
Energy Transition and Commodity Markets
SESSION CHAIROmar Bairan
PAPER #2281
Geopolitical Risk Across Energy Transition Markets: Evidence from Energy Commodities and Critical Materials
Ivan De Crescenzo
DISCUSSANT Papa Orgen
PAPER #8464
The Fossil-Fuel Dependency of the Green Transition
Barbara Będowska-Sójka
DISCUSSANT Arun Upadhyay
Climate Financial Risk and Infrastructure
SESSION CHAIRDavid Echeverry
PAPER #6689
Climate change and transition risk for insurers: A forward-looking framework for coffee production in Colombia
Tjeerd Boonman and Adriana Abrego
DISCUSSANT Krishnan Dandapani
PAPER #7443
Climate Risks and Sovereign Bond Markets in Emerging Economies
Milos Vulanovic, Nebojsa Dimic, Vanja Piljak and Laurens Swinkels
DISCUSSANT Ilaria Stefani
PAPER #2506
Tariffs and Technology
Deevah Revallion and Robinson Reyes
DISCUSSANT Milos Vulanovic
Political Risk and Institutional Investing
SESSION CHAIRDavid Feldman
PAPER #1745
Which political beta? Measuring and hedging deep uncertainty in political risk
Somayyeh Lotfi, Giovanni Pagliardi and Stavros Zenios
DISCUSSANT Xiaoquan Jiang
PAPER #4295
Patriotism in Your Pension?
Onno Steenbeek
DISCUSSANT Johan Manuel Tapia Bueno
PAPER #0194
DIVERGENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS FOR PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION VS. MARKET MECHANISMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND THEORETICAL MODEL OF THE LIQUIDITY RISK PREMIUM
Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
DISCUSSANT Suchismita Mishra
Market Liquidity, Futures and Derivatives Access
SESSION CHAIRJoel Barber
PAPER #2031
Democratizing Derivatives: Barriers and Pathways to Retail Options Access in Latin America
Carlos Jaime
DISCUSSANT Edward Lawrence
PAPER #6578
Offsets vs. Calendar Spreads in U.S. Treasury Futures Markets
Michel Robe, Esen Onur and Alexei Orlov
DISCUSSANT Mark Flood
PAPER #6701
Market Power, Short Selling, and Market Liquidity
Estella Acheampong, Suchismita Mishra and Robinson Reyes Pena
DISCUSSANT Michael Goldstein
The Ultimate Legacy Panel and Breakfast · Breakfast
A special conversation around family enterprise.
10:00–11:30PARALLEL SESSIONS
WALL STREET PANELS — FIU MSF Program · The Next Generation on Wall Street
Perspectives from emerging leaders in the investment industry.
The Ultimate Legacy Panel and Breakfast · Panel
A discussion of intergenerational leadership and lasting value in family businesses.
11:30–11:45PROGRAM EVENT
Coffee & Networking Break
11:45–13:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
Equity Risk, ESG and Market Regimes
SESSION CHAIRBarbara Będowska-Sójka
PAPER #0378
Fear Driven Pricing of Nuclear Stocks
Kevyn Stefanelli
DISCUSSANT Giovanni Pagliardi
PAPER #5981
ESG Cross-Section of U.S. Equity Returns Under Economic Policy Uncertainty And Geopolitical Risk: The Insurance Puzzle
Salah Ayari and Hayette Gatfaoui
DISCUSSANT Lazaro Rodriguez
PAPER #9288
Agentic Language Models and Volatility: Measuring Information Shocks in Crude Oil Futures
Omar Bairan
DISCUSSANT Paweł Kossecki
Low-Carbon Transition and Power Systems
PAPER #0698
Market-implied time to transition to a low-carbon economy: a stochastic modelling and inference framework
Ilaria Stefani, Edit Rroji, Lorenzo Mercuri and Andrea Perchiazzo
DISCUSSANT Robinson Reyes Pena
PAPER #8478
German and Polish Residential Power Balancing Technology Adoption
Mariusz Przybylik, Yochanan Shachmurove and Paweł Kossecki
DISCUSSANT Jiasun Li
PAPER #4808
What Drives Uncertainty and Sentiment in Agricultural Markets?
Michel Robe, Valentina Bruno and Michael Adjemian
Investment Opportunities in Content Creation, Music & Entertainment
Creative industries through a finance and investment lens.
AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Finance
An exploration of AI, machine learning, and financial services.
13:15–14:45PROGRAM EVENT
Closing Luncheon — Pensions & Institutional Investing
A closing discussion on pensions, long-term capital, and institutional investing.
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