Sydney C Ludvigson
New York University
Keynote Speakers
Sydney Ludvigson is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University, and a Co-Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Asset Pricing Program.
Her research centers on the interplay between asset markets and macroeconomic activity, with applications to role of monetary policy in stock market fluctuations, the measurement and analysis of systematic and demonstrable errors in macroeconomic expectations by both professional forecasters households, the use of machine learning and AI algorithms to measure errors in human judgement, the pricing and risk premia of stock, bond, and housing markets, the role of heterogeneity and wealth inequality in housing and stock market valuations, and the dynamic causal effects of uncertainty for business cycle fluctuations.
Marco Pagano
University of Naples Federico II
Marco Pagano is Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Naples Federico II, where He directs the Naples Ph.D. in Economics.
He is Research Fellow of the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (EIEF), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). His research is in the area of finance, chiefly banking, corporate finance and market microstructure. He also works at the interface between finance and macro, law and labor economics.