- Bankruptcy and Financial Distress (Douglas Baird)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Thomas Hellmann)
- Interaction Between Financial and Labor Markets (Jonathan Berk)
- Delegated Fund Management and Asset Prices (Dimitri Vayanos)
Philippe Bacchetta (Université de Lausanne and CEPR), Per Strömberg (Stockholm School of Economics, SIFR and CEPR) and Pietro Veronesi (Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago and CEPR)