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2026 ASSA Preliminary Program

Philadelphia PA
January 3 – 5

The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held on January 3–5, 2026 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The headquarters hotel is Marriott Philadelphia Downtown.

Friday, January 2

AREUEA Poster Session (R0)

Poster Session

Friday, Jan. 2, 2026 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
  • Chair: Lu Han, University of Wisconsin Madison

Saturday, January 3

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Poster Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: òòò½Íø

AFA PhD Student Poster Session (G0)

Poster Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association

Environment, Innovation and Agriculture (Q0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: African Finance and Economics Association
  • Chairs:
    Socrates Kraido Majune, President-Elect, African Finance and Economics Association, University of Nairobi
  • Gbadebo Odularu, President, African Finance and Economics Association

Agricultural and Food Policy (Q1, O1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Sushant Singh, University of Oklahoma

Digital Money (G0, E4)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Emre Ozdenoren, London Business School

Firm Structure and Labor Standards (J8, L1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Gonçalo Costa, Harvard University

Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply (Z0, Z0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø & Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
  • Chair: Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina

Geoeconomics, Trade and Industrial Policy (F1, F5)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Nuno Limao, Georgetown University and NBER

Mental Health Care and Its Impacts (I1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chairs:
    Valentin Bolotnyy, Stanford University
  • Natalia Emanuel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Money, Interest Rates, and Policy Effects (E5)

Lightning Round Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Charles Weise, Gettysburg College

New Developments in Economic Statistics (C8, E0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø & Committee on Economic Statistics
  • Chair: Karen Dynan, Harvard University

New Measures of Progress in Development (I3, D6)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Lant Pritchett, London School of Economics

Promoting Health Care Efficiencies (I1)

Lightning Round Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Adam Biener, Lafayette College

Social Safety Net (H5)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Brendan Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College

Tariffs and Free Trade Agreements (F1, D6)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Roc Armenter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Ethics of Research in Economics (Z0, B4)

Panel Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: òòò½Íø & Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
  • Moderators:
    Jose Fernandez, University of Louisville
  • Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Virginia Military Institute

Using AI to Measure Economic Dynamics (A1, E6)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Martin Uribe, Columbia University and NBER

Work Requirements in Transfer Programs (J2, J3)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: òòò½Íø
  • Chair: Tom Buchmueller, University of Michigan

Crypto in (Real) Financial Market (G0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • Zhiguo He, Stanford University

Effects of Corporate Board Mandates (G3)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • David Matsa, Northwestern University

Fixed Income (G1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • Yoshio Nozawa, University of Toronto

Insurance Shocks (G2)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • James Choi, Yale University

Investor Beliefs and Behavior (G4)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • Clifton Green, Emory University

Real Estate and Housing Finance (G0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association
  • Gonzalo Maturana, Emory University

Special Session I (G0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Finance Association

Homeownership (R2)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
  • Chair: Christian Hilber, London School of Economics

Sustainability, Real Estate, and Mortgages (G2, Q5)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
  • Chair: Piet Eichholtz, Maastricht University

Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion (I2, P0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Association for Comparative Economic Studies & Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics
  • Chairs:
    Sascha O. Becker, University of Warwick
  • Ruixue Jia, University of California-San Diego

Labor, Security and Power Dynamics in the Labor Market (J0, B5)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center
Hosted By: Association for Evolutionary Economics & Association for Social Economics
  • Chair: Valerie Kepner, King's College

Charitable Giving and Social Justice (H0, I3)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics
  • Chair: Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College

Water (Q5, Q2)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • Chair: Sheila Olmstead, Cornell University

How Does DeFi Fit Into the Future of Finance? (G2, K2)

Panel Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Hosted By: Association of Financial Economists
  • Moderators:
    Kose John, New York University
  • Fahad Saleh, University of Florida

Issues in Applied Macroeconomics & Finance (E0, G0)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies
  • Chair: Usha Nair-Reichert, Georgia Institute of Technology

Innovation, Growth and Industrial Policies (O3, E2)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Chinese Economists Society
  • Chair: Yong Wang, Peking University

Innovation and the Diffusion of Ideas (N3, O1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Cliometric Society
  • Chair: Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado

Causal Inference in Macroeconometrics (C2, E6)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Econometric Society
  • Chair: Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, Princeton University

Finance and Society (G20)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Econometric Society
  • Chair: Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania

Signaling and Information Design (D8)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Hosted By: Econometric Society
  • Chair: Ian Ball, Massachusetts Institute of Technology