Chicago Booth Asset Pricing Working Group

The Chicago Booth Asset Pricing Working Group is a weekly session in which students present their preliminary work and explore cutting edge topics in asset pricing.

The group is open to PhD students and faculty.

• Faculty Advisors: Stefan Nagel and Ralph Koijen

• Student Coordinator (2026-27): Aditya Dhar and Laurenz De Rosa
• Past Coordinators:
  • 2025-26: Joe Kupferberg and Francisco Ruela
  • 2023-25: Federico Mainardi and Filippo Cavaleri
  • 2022-23: Federico Mainardi and Sangmin Oh
  • 2021-22: Aditya Chaudhry

Schedule & Topics

Fall 2026

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Summer 2026

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Spring 2026

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Winter 2026

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Fall 2025

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Summer 2025

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Spring 2025

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Winter 2025

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Fall 2024

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Summer 2024

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Spring 2024

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Winter 2024

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Fall 2023

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Summer 2023

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Spring 2023

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Winter 2023

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Fall 2022

• Topics: Private Assets / Revisiting CX Asset Pricing
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Summer 2022

• Topics: Network models / Text data in asset pricing
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Spring 2022

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas / Economics of Sanctions
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Winter 2022

• Topics: Inflation Risk / DeFi and Stablecoins
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Fall 2021

• Topics: Preliminary Project Ideas
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Summer 2021

• Topics: Curriculum Paper Presentations / Granularity in Finance
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Spring 2021

• Topics: Fiscal Theory & Inflation / Monetary Policy & International Finance / Concentration, Market Power, and Investment
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