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QME Conference 2026

Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME) Conference 2026 is the 24th annual event, co-sponsored by the Chicago Booth Kilts Center for Marketing and hosted by WashU Olin. The conference focuses on empirical and theoretical issues in marketing and economics and includes both in-person sessions at the business school in St. Louis and a virtual option. Attende…

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71Speakers
0Sponsors
19On the bill · sessions
43Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at QME, in alphabetical order.
Adam Schultz
Alan Montgomery
Professor of Marketing and Head of PhD Program · Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Alon Brav
The Peterjohn-Richards Professor of Business Administration · Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Amir Sufi
The Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy · The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Andrew Karolyi
Dean and The Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management · S.C. Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
Anna Costello
Professor of Accounting, University of Chicago Booth School of Business · University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Ann L. McGill
The Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science · University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Ann McGill
Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science · University of Chicago Booth School of Business
April Klein
KPMG Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting · Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU
Benjamin Converse
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Psychology · Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia
Bernard Yeung
The Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management · National University of Singapore Business School
Beverly Walther
The Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting · Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Brad M. Barber
Professor Emeritus of Finance · Graduate School of Management, UC Davis
Brian T. Melzer
Associate Professor of Business Administration · Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Brian Viard
Associate Professor of Strategy and Economics · Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Cade Massey
Professor of the Practice; Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics · Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Campbell Harvey
The J. Paul Sticht Professor of Finance · Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Christine Cuny
Associate Professor of Accounting · Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU
Christopher Polk
Professor of Finance · Department of Finance, London School of Economics
Cliff Asness
Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer · AQR Capital Management
Colin Camerer
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, California Institute of Technology · California Institute of Technology
Damian Kozbur
Professor of Econometrics · Department of Economics, University of Zurich
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Agenda

Selected from 19 sessions on the bill.
  • 11:00-12:33 p.m. Saturday, May 13

    Plenary Session (three speakers)

  • 1:15-3:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Plenary Session (three speakers)

  • 1:30-3:00 p.m. Saturday, May 13

    Breakout Session: Small group session (Finance only)

    Finance
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Behavioral Marketing

    Marketing – Behavioral Marketing Breakout
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Behavioral Science

    Behavioral Science
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Econometrics and Statistics

    Econometrics and Statistics
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Economics

    Economics
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Finance

    Finance
  • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Friday, May 12

    Breakout Session: Management Science/Operations Management

    Management Science/Operations Management
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 43 companies, parsed from the program.

43 companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
43Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

15% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite23%
  • Director / Head of913%
  • Manager / Lead11%
  • Marketing / Brand913%
  • Other roles5070%

Of 71 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01University of Chicago Booth School of Business13V
  2. 02Fuqua School of Business, Duke University3V
  3. 03Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University3V
  4. 04Anderson School of Management, UCLA2V
  5. 05AQR Capital Management2V
  6. 06Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley2V
  7. 07Harvard Business School2V
  8. 08Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU2V
  9. 09London Business School2V
  10. 10Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2V
  11. 11Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania2V
  12. 12Anderson School of Management, UC Los Angeles1V
  13. 13Brigham Young University1V
  14. 14Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.