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Seminar series

Students, faculty and industry professionals regularly come together at Department of Finance seminars to learn about state-of-the-art research, discuss ideas and share feedback with researchers from around the country. The events also provide faculty and students with forums for sharpening presentation skills, engaging in interactive collaboration and networking to advance their professional and academic careers.


2025-2026

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Fall 2025
Date Speaker

Friday, September 5, 2025

Sara Easterwood
University of Arizona

Friday, September 19, 2025

Julia Fonseca
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, September 26, 2025

Itzhak Ben-David
The Ohio State University

Friday, October 17, 2025

Felipe Severino
Dartmouth College

Friday, October 24, 2025

Terrance Odean
University of California, Berkeley

Friday, October 31, 2025

Morten Bennedsen
University of Copenhagen and INSEAD

Friday, November 7, 2025

Chad Kendall
University of Miami

Friday, November 14, 2025

David Sraer
University of California, Berkeley

Friday, November 21, 2025

Christophe Spaenjers
University of Colorado, Boulder

Spring 2026
Date Speaker

Friday, March 6, 2026

Yang Song
University of Washington

Friday, March 20, 2026

Paul Fontanier
Yale University

Friday, March 27, 2026

Nikolai Roussanov
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, April 10, 2026

Paige Ouimet
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday, May 1, 2026

Richard Townsend
University of California, San Diego and NBER

Seminar archive

Spring 2025
Date Speaker

Wednesday,
February 12, 2025

Matthew Ringgenberg
The University of Utah
The Economics of Investor Engagement

Friday,
March 21, 2025

Asaf Manela
Washington University in St. Louis
Chronologically Consistent Large Language Models

Friday,
March 28, 2025

Luke Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
Due Diligence and the Allocation of Venture Capital

Friday,
April 4, 2025

Mariassunta Giannetti
Stockholm School of Economics
Beyond ESG: Executive Pay Metrics and Shareholder Support

Friday,
April 11, 2025

Zhi Da
University of Notre Dame
You can only lend what you own: Inferring daily institutional trading from security lending supply

Friday,
April 18, 2025

Nicholas Crouzet
Northwestern University
Intangible Capital, Firm Scope, and Growth

Wednesday,
May 7, 2025

Kristopher Gerardi
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending

Fall 2024
Date Speaker

Friday,
September 13, 2024

Vikas Agarwal
Georgia State University
The Real Effect of Sociopolitical Racial/Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund Manager Performance During AAPI Hate

Friday,
September 27, 2024

David Brown
University of Arizona
Target Date Fund Glide Paths

Friday,
October 4, 2024

Stavros Panageas
University of California, Los Angeles
Growth-Indexed Securities

Friday,
October 11, 2024

Eben Lazarus
University of California, Berkeley
Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals

Friday,
October 25, 2024

Mihai Ion
University of Arizona
Financing Innovation in Drug Development

Friday,
November 1, 2024

Marco Giacoletti
University of Southern California
Mortgage Rates and Rents: Evidence from Local Mortgage Lock-In Effects

Friday,
November 8, 2024

Andra Ghent
University of Utah
Winners and Losers from the Work-from-Home Technology Boon

Friday,
November 15, 2024

Urban Jermann
University of Pennsylvania
Optimal Issuance for Proof‐of‐Stake Blockchains and Ethereum Macro Economy

Friday,
November 22, 2024

Daniel Neuhann
The University of Texas at Austin
Demand-System Asset Pricing: Theoretical Foundations

Friday,
December 6, 2024

Ran Duchin
Boston College
The Economic Effects of Political Polarization: Evidence from the Real Asset Market

Wednesday,
December 11, 2024

Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
Federal Reserve Board
When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

Friday,
December 13, 2024

Tony Zhang
Federal Reserve Board
A Financial New Keynesian Model

Spring 2024
Date Speaker

Friday,
January 19, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Mikhail Simutin
University of Toronto
Closet Active Management of Passive Funds

Friday,
February 2, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 176

Stefano Giglio
Yale University
Risk Preferences Implied by Synthetic Options

Friday,
March 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 176

Robert Richmond
New York University
Understanding the Strength of the Dollar

Friday,
March 15, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Colin Ward
University of Minnesota
Appropriated Growth

Friday,
March 22, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Anastassia Fedyk
University of Kentucky
Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk

Friday,
March 29, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Katharina Lewellen
Dartmouth College
Women in charge: Evidence from hospitals

Wednesday,
April 10, 2024
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
MCRD 256

Alon Brav
Duke University
Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund Performance: Evidence from a Large Sample of Israeli Limited Partners

Friday,
April 12, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Ayako Yasuda
University of California, Davis
Decoding Sustainable Investment Strategies: Bridging Intentions and Actions

Wednesday,
April 17, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
BAC 313

Ben Matthies
University of Notre Dame
Measuring the Impact of Remote [Knowledge] Work Using Big Data

Friday,
April 19, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 170

Ben Zhang
University of Southern California
The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States

Friday,
April 26, 2024
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Anthony DeFusco
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis

Fall 2023
Date Speaker

Wednesday,
August 30, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 276

Roni Michaely
The University of Hong Kong
Voting Rationales

Friday,
September 15, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Neng Wang
Columbia University
Strategic Investment under Uncertainty with First- and Second-mover Advantages

Friday,
September 29, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Kerry Back
Rice University
Dynamic Disclosure Games

Friday,
October 13, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Ben Iverson
Brigham Young University
Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes

Friday,
October 20, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Samuel G. Hanson
Harvard University
Demand-and-Supply Imbalance Risk and Long-Term Swap Spreads

Friday,
November 3, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 158

Sang Byung Seo
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Risk and Return of Equity and Credit Index Options

Thursday,
November 30, 2023
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
MCRD 158

John Graham
Duke University
Project Development with Delegated Bargaining: The Role of Elevated Hurdle Rates

Friday,
December 1, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Shuaiyu Chen
Purdue University
Market Power in the Securities Lending Market

Friday,
December 8, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Geoffrey Tate
University of Maryland
Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets

Fall 2022
Date Speaker

Friday,
October 7, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Chris Parsons
University of Southern California
Propagating Experiences by Competing: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate

Wednesday,
October 19, 2022
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
MCRD 158

Tony Cookson
University of Colorado Boulder
The Social Signal

Friday,
October 21, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Vincent Bogousslavsky
Boston College
Informed Trading Intensity

Friday,
October 28, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Kristoph Kleiner
Indiana University
Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcies? Not According to Hedge Funds

Friday,
November 4, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Scott Yonker
Cornell University
Do Visceral Factors Affect Risk Taking?

Friday,
November 18, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

David Sovich
University of Kentucky
Does Trade Policy Affect Consumer Credit? The Role of Captive Finance

Friday,
December 2, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Asaf Bernstein
University of Colorado at Boulder
The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth through Amortization

Friday,
December 9, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 170

Mahyar Kargar
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows

Spring 2023
Date Speaker

Friday,
March 3, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Berk Sensoy
Vanderbilt University
Diversifying Private Equity

Friday,
March 31, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Yukun Liu
University of Rochester
Institutional Investor Attention

Friday,
April 7, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 164

Mindy Xiaolan
The University of Texas at Austin
The Economics of Mutual Fund Marketing

Friday,
April 28, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
MCRD 270

Arpit Gupta
New York University
Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

Friday,
May 5, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
MCRD 164

Andrei Goncalves
Ohio State University
The Subjective Risk and Expected Returns of Institutional Investors

Spring 2022
Date Speaker

Friday,
March 4, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170, Zoom Seminar

Ulrike Malmendier
University of California, Berkeley
CEO Stress, Aging, and Death

Friday,
March 18, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Francesco D'Acunto
Boston College
How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech

Friday,
March 25, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Christopher Hennessy
London Business School
Discretion, Randomisation, and Motivation

Friday,
April 1, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Juhani Linnainmaa
Dartmouth College
Investor Protections and Stock Market Participation: An Evaluation of Financial Advisor Oversight

Friday,
April 8, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Caitlin Dannhauser
Villanova University
Passive investors in primary bond markets

Friday,
April 15, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Mete Kilic
University of Southern California
Discounting Less in Bad Times: Shining the Light on Expectations

Friday,
April 22, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
MCRD 170

Stephen A. Karolyi
Department of the Treasury (Washington, DC)
Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks

Fall 2021
Date Speaker

Friday,
October 8, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Zoom Seminar

Alex Edmans
London Business School
CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field

Friday,
October 15, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Zoom Seminar

Theresa Kuchler
New York University
Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Friday,
October 22, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Zoom Seminar

Pat Akey
University of Toronto
Noisy Factors

Friday,
October 29, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Shrihari Santosh
University of Colorado - Boulder
Investor Betas

Friday,
November 5, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170

Lukas Schmid
University of Southern California
The Risks of Safe Assets

Friday,
November 12, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 276

Andrew Patton
Duke University
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing

Friday,
November 19, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 170r

Ankit Kalda
Indiana University
Smart(Phone) Investing? A within investor-time analysis of new technologies and trading behavior.

Friday,
December 3, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Zoom Seminar

Sebastien Betermier
McGill University
What Do the Portfolios of Individual Investors Reveal About the Cross-Section of Equity Returns?

Friday,
December 10, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Zoom Seminar

Kelly Shue
Yale University
"Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap

Spring 2021
Date Speaker

Friday,
January 29, 2021
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Karsten Müller
Princeton University
Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Monday,
February 1, 2021
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Jian Li
The University of Chicago
The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity: An Examination of the Corporate Bond Market

Tuesday,
February 2, 2021
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Mehran Ebrahimian
University of Pennsylvania
Student Loans and Social Mobility

Friday,
February 26, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Jessica Jeffers
University of Chicago
Labor Reactions to Credit Deterioration: Evidence from LinkedIn Activity

Friday,
March 26, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Maryam Farboodi
MIT
Expectations and Bank Lending

Friday,
April 16, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Wei Dou
University of Pennsylvania
Competition Network, Distress Propagation, and Stock Returns

Friday,
April 30, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Alberto Manconi
Bocconi University
Are Star Law Firms Also Better Law Firms?

Friday,
May 7, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Lawrence Jin
California Institute of Technology
Model‐free and Model‐based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior

Friday,
May 14, 2021
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Emil Verner
MIT
The Anatomy of the Consumption Response to a Household Foreign Currency Debt Crisis

Fall 2020
Date Speaker

Friday,
September 11, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Ralph Koijen
The University of Chicago
In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis

Friday,
September 25, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Mikhail Chernov
UCLA
A no-arbitrage perspective on global arbitrage opportunities

Friday,
October 9, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Rui Albuquerque
Boston College
Value Creation in Shareholder Activism: A Structural Approach

Friday,
October 16, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Darrell Duffie
Stanford University
Reserves Were Not So Ample After All: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury Repo Market

Friday,
November 6, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Jean-Edouard Colliard
HEC Paris
Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks

Friday,
November 13, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Seminar

Jessica Wachter
University of Pennsylvania
A retrieved-context theory of financial decisions

Spring 2020
Date Speaker

Thursday,
January 9, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 258

Geoffery Zheng
UCLA
Wealth Shares in the Long Run

Friday,
January 10, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 264

Tuomas Tomunen
Columbia University
Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk

Friday,
January 17, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 176

Lakshmi Naaraayanan
HKUST
Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

Monday,
January 20, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 158

Huan Tang
HEC Paris
The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers

Tuesday,
January 21, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 422

Jonathan Wallen
Stanford University
Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets

Wednesday,
January 29, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 276

Joseph Kalmenovitz
New York University
Incentivizing Financial Regulators

Friday,
January 31, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 258

Nuno Clara
London Business School
Demand Elasticities, Nominal Rigidities and Asset Prices

Wednesday,
February 26, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 276

Paul Décaire
University of Pennsylvania
Capital Budgeting and Idiosyncratic Risk

Friday,
March 6, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 158

Gregory Buchak
Stanford University
Financing the Gig Economy

Friday,
May 1, 2020
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 176

Florian Schulz
University of Washington
Topic TBA

Fall 2019
Date Speaker

Friday,
September 20, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 164

Andrey Malenko
Boston College
Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty

Friday,
September 27, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 164

Arpit Gupta
New York University
Valuing Private Equity Investments Strip by Strip

Friday,
October 4, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 164

Kewei Hou
The Ohio State University
Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective

Friday,
October 18, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
MCRD 164

Rawley Heimer
Boston College
Personal Wealth and Self-Employment

Friday,
November 1, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
BA 257

Andrea Rossi
The University of Arizona
Unsmoothing Returns of Illiquid Assets

Friday,
November 8, 2019
3:15 to 4:45 p.m.
BA 199A

George Korniotis
University of Miami
Do Fundamentals Drive Cryptocurrency Prices?

Friday,
November 15, 2019
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
BA 257

Scott Yonker
Cornell University
Friends with Bankruptcy Protection Benefits

Friday,
November 22, 2019
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
MCRD 158

Alejandro Rivera
University of Texas at Dallas
Extrapolation Bias and Dynamic Liquidity Management
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