Seminars
Finance & Economics Department
Research presentations by speakers from universities around the world focused on finance and economics.
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 2/5/2025 | Tony Cookson - UC Boulder | Market Signals from Social Media |
| 2/14/2025 | Lawrence Jin - Cornell | Model-free and Model-based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior |
| 2/19/2025 | Slava Fos - Boston College | Local Monetary Policy |
| 2/28/2025 | Effi Benmelech - Northwestern | Bank Branch Density and Bank Runs |
| 3/5/2025 | Agustin Hurtado - Maryland | The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit |
| 3/14/2025 | Erik Mayer - Wisconsin | Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending |
| 3/28/2025 | Nicola Cetorelli - NY Fed | TBD |
| 4/4/2025 | Marco Giacoletti - USC | TBD |
| 4/11/2025 | Baozhong Yang - Georgia State | TBD |
| 4/18/2025 | Chong Huang - UC Irvine | TBD |
| 4/25/2025 | Paolo Volpin - Drexel | TBD |
| 5/2/2025 | Alberto Rossi - Georgetown | TBD |
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 9/25/2024 | Mehrdad Samadi - Federal Reserve Board | Equity Premium Events |
| 10/4/2024 | Vimal Balasubramaniam - Queen Mary University of London | Unshrouding Product-specific Attributes through Financial Education |
| 10/18/2024 | J Jiacui Li - University of Utah | Price Multipliers are Larger at More Aggregate Levels |
| 11/4/2024 | Nitish Kumar - University of Florida | ESG Lending |
| 11/15/2024 | Deniz Aydin - Washington University in St. Louis | Precautionary Debt Capacity |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 2/9/2024 | Harrison Hong - Columbia | Green Stakeholders in Two-Sided Market |
| 3/1/2024 | Ben Keys - Wharton | Credit When You Need It |
| 3/29/2024 | Kelly Shue - Yale | Coarse Thinking: Interest Rates |
| 4/5/2024 | Taha Choukhmane - MIT | What Drives Investors’ Portfolio Choices? Separating Risk Preferences from Frictions |
| 4/12/2024 | David McLean - Georgetown | Behavioral Biases and Financial Advisor Misconduct |
| 4/19/2024 | Scott Yonker - Cornell | What Drives Racial Diversity on U.S. Corporate Boards? |
| 4/26/2024 | Michael Ewens - Columbia | Irreplaceable Venture Capitalists |
Fall 2023
Date | Speaker | Topic |
10/6/2023 | Kristoph Kleiner - Indiana | Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases? Not According to Hedge Funds |
10/13/2023 | Aditya Chaudhry - Ohio State | How Much Do Subjective Growth Expectations Matter for Asset Prices? |
10/20/2023 | Jaewon Choi - UIUC | Does Foreign Institutional Capital Promote Green Growth for Emerging Market Firms? |
10/27/2023 | Eva Steiner - Penn State | |
11/10/2023 | Clifton Green - Emory | |
12/1/2023 | Matthew Baron - Cornell | |
12/8/2023 | Stas Nikilova - Nebraska |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 02/24/2023 | Shan Ge - New York University - Stern School of Business | The Costs of Hedging Disaster Risk and Home Prices in the Face of Climate Change |
| 03/03/2023 | Kai Li - University of British Columbia | The Eco Gender Gap in Boardrooms |
| 03/10/2023 | David Solomon - Boston College - Carroll School of Management | Marketwide Predictable Price Pressure |
| 03/31/2023 | Jianqing Fan - Princeton | Structural Deep Learning in Conditional Asset Pricing |
| 04/05/2023 | Russel Wong - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Leverage the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence |
| 04/07/2023 | Robert Richmond - New York University - Stern School of Business | Understanding the Strength of the Dollar |
| 04/12/2023 | Andrei Goncalves - Ohio State University – Fisher College of Business | The Subjective Risk and Return Expectations of Institutional Investors |
| 04/28/2023 | Lin William Cong - Cornell University | Building AI Models for Finance: Goal-Oriented Search |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/30/2022 | Lawrence Schmidt - MIT | Market Factor Measurement Error and a Re-evaluation of the Market Risk-Return Trade-off |
| 10/7/2022 | Moto Yogo - Princeton University | Financial Inclusion Across the United States |
| 10/28/2022 | Ran Duchin - Boston College | Sustainability or Greenwashing: Evidence from the Asset Market for Industrial Pollution |
| 11/4/2022 | Alan Moreira - Rochester – Simon School of Business | Whatever It Takes? The Impact of Conditional Policy Promises |
| 11/11/2022 | Jose Barrero - ITAM | Why Working From Home Will Stick |
| 12/2/2022 | Xing Huang - Olin Business School Washington Univ St. Louis | The Actual Retail Price of Equity Trades |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speakers | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2/25/2022 | Lasse Pedersen - Copenhagen Business School | Is There a Replication Crisis in Finance? |
| 3/4/2022 | Yixin Chen - Rochester – Simon Business School | Firm Characteristics and Stock Price Levels: A Long-Term Discount Rate Perspective |
| 3/11/2022 | Francesco D'acunto - Boston College | How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech |
| 4/1/2022 | Ralph Koijen - Chicago Booth | Aggregate Lapsation Risk |
| 4/8/2022 | Hendrik Bessembinder - Arizona State | Mutual Fund Underperformance at Long Horizons |
| 4/29/2022 | Yueran Ma - Chicago Booth | Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory |
| 5/6/2022 | Nadya Malenko - Michigan – Ross School of Business | Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice |
| 5/13/2022 | Benjamin Golez - Notre Dame | Equity Term Structure Response to FOMC Announcements |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speakers | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 10/1/2021 | Justin Birru - OSU | Disentangling Anomalies: Risk Versus Mispricing |
| 10/8/2021 | Kewei Hou - OSU | Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective |
| 10/15/2021 | Philipp Schnabel - NYU-Stern | The Rise of Finance Companies and FinTech Lenders in Small Business Lending |
| 10/29/2021 | Xavier Giroud - Columbia Business School | Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers |
| 11/5/2021 | Markus Pelger - Stanford | Deep Learning Statistical Arbitrage |
| 11/12/2021 | Sean Myers - Wharton | Which Subjective Expectations Explain Asset Prices? |
| 11/19/2021 | Sydney Ludvigson - NYU | How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals |