Department of Finance

Brown Bag Seminars

Brown Bag Seminars provide students and faculty with the chance to present current working papers and receive critical feedback from their colleagues, mentors and peers. This enables them to improve and enhance their methodology, writing and presentation skills before submitting the works for publication in elite journals and for presentation at important conferences.

2016-2017 Finance Brown Bag Series

Date Speaker Title Location/Time
Tuesday
August 30, 2016		 Ilona Babenko
Arizona State University		 Do CEOs affect employees' political choices? MCRD 158
12:00-1:00 PM
Tuesday
September 13, 2016		 Jessie (Jiaxu) Wang
Arizona State University		 Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts MCRD 158
12:00-1:00 PM
Tuesday
September 20, 2016		 Sean Flynn
Arizona State University		 Debt Structure and Financial Flexibility MCRD 158
12:00-1:00 PM
Tuesday
September 27, 2016		 DuckKi Cho
Arizona State University		 Downward Wage Rigidity and Corporate Investment MCRD 158
12:00-1:00 PM
Tuesday
October 4, 2016		 David Schreindorfer
Arizona State University		 Misallocation Cycles MCRD 258
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Monday
October 24, 2016		 Xing Huang
Michigan State University		 Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds MCRD 156
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Monday
October 31, 2016		 Zhongjin Lu
University of Georgia		 The Risk Premium for Exposure to Time-Variation in Disaster Risk MCRD 156
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Tuesday
November 1, 2016		 Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University		 Do Stocks Outperform T-Bills? A Set of Empirical Findings in Search of Meaning BA 199A
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Tuesday
November 8, 2016		 Giulio Girardi
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission		 Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry MCRD 156
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Wednesday
December 7, 2016		 Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University		 The Profitability and Investment Premium: Pre‐1963 Evidence MCRD 158
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Thursday
February 16, 2017		 Oliver Boguth
Arizona State University		 Asymmetric Taxation and the Demand for Idiosyncratic Volatility BAC 570
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Tuesday
February 28, 2017		 Laura Lindsey
Arizona State University		 Angels, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Investor Accreditation Rules BAC 570
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Tuesday
March 14, 2017		 Davidson Heath
University of Utah		 What's a Brand Worth? Trademark Protection, Profits and Product Quality MCRD 156
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Thursday
April 6, 2017		 Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University		 Characteristics, Factors, and Stocks' Exposure to Aggregate Risks BAC 570
10:30-11:30 AM
Tuesday
April 11, 2017		 Mark Kamstra
York University		 Momentum, Reversals, and other Puzzles in Fama-MacBeth Cross-Sectional Regressions BAC 570
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Thursday
April 13, 2017		 Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University		 The Nature of Household Labor Income Risk MCRD 176
10:30-11:30 AM
Tuesday
May 2, 2017		 Jessie (Jiaxu) Wang
Arizona State University		 Labor Scarcity, Finance, and Innovation: Evidence from Antebellum America BAC 570
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Friday
May 12, 2017		 Patrice Fontaine
De Vinci Research Center		 Liquidity Provision, Commonality and High-Frequency Trading BAC 570
10:00-11:00 AM

For more information, please contact Dr. Jessie Wang.


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