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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.


2024-2025

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Spring 2025

Wednesday,
Feb. 19, 2025

Tingquan Pan
Arizona State University
ESG Confusion: SRI Funds’ Engagement in Green Window

Wednesday,
Feb. 26, 2025

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
Mental Models and Financial Forecasts

Wednesday,
March 5, 2025

Chris Kazemi
Arizona State University
Sentiment-Induced Misvaluation and Predictability in Financial Markets

Wednesday,
March 19, 2025

Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University
Can we tame the factor zoo? The roles of alternative databases and extraction methods

Wednesday,
April 2, 2025

Rawley Heimer
Arizona State University
The Hidden Costs of Financial Services: Consumer Disputes and Financial Restitution

Wednesday,
April 9, 2025

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
Performance of Factor Models in a Simple Economy

Wednesday,
April 16, 2025

Rasoul Foroughfard
Arizona State University
On the Predictability of Industry Returns

Wednesday,
April 23, 2025

Maziar Kazemi
Arizona State University
Market Timing, Alpha, and Hedge Fund Beta Activity

Fall 2024

Wednesday,
September 4, 2024

Aditya Chaudhry
The Ohio State University
The Impact of Prices on Analyst Cash Flow Expectations: Reconciling Subjective Beliefs Data with Rational Discount Rate Variation

Wednesday,
September 11, 2024

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
What Drives Very Long-Run Cash Flow Expectations?

Wednesday,
October 9, 2024

Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University
Profitability

Wednesday,
October 16, 2024

PhD Student Presentations
Arizona State University
Biwon Lee: Alternative Proxies for the Cost of Capital
Tingquan Pan: ESG Ratings and Asset Holdings
Jens Wiemker: The Relationship of Residential Status and Tenure to Housing Market Expectations: A Comparative Analysis of Homeowners and Renters

Wednesday,
October 23, 2024

Roni Michaely
The University of Hong Kong
Implicit versus Explicit Contracting in Executive Compensation for Environmental and Social Performanc

Wednesday,
October 30, 2024

PhD Student Presentations (Tej Kulkarni and Mingyang Zhang)
Arizona State University
Kulkarni: Investor Flows and Mutual Fund Trading Style
Zhang: The Asymmetric Sentiment Effect

Wednesday,
November 13, 2024

George Aragon
Arizona State University
Investor Attention and Mutual Fund Performance

Seminar archive

Spring 2024

Tuesday,
February 20, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Piotr Orlowski
HEC Montreal
Benchmark Currency Stochastic Discount Factors

Thursday,
February 22, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Luana Zaccaria
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
From Public to Internal Capital Markets: The Effects of Affiliated IPOs on Group Firms

Thursday,
February 29, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Maziar Kazemi
Arizona State University
Investment Betas with Optimal Risk Sharing

Thursday,
March 14, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University
How Should Investors’ Long-Term Returns be Measured?

Thursday,
March 21, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
Estimation Ambiguity

Thursday,
April 11, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Rawley Heimer
Arizona State University
The Wealth Draw-down of the Fabulously Rich: Insights from Private Family Foundations

Thursday,
April 18, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Chris Kazemi
Arizona State University
Sentiment-Induced Misvaluation and Predictability of Market Returns

Thursday,
April 25, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Allison Cole
Arizona State University
Financial Advisors and Retirees' Risk-taking

Thursday,
May 2, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Agustin Hurtado
University of Maryland
The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit

Thursday,
May 9, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Ilona Babenko
Arizona State University
Mega-Donors and Representation of the Wealthy in the Wake of Citizens United

Fall 2023

Thursday,
September 14, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Bo Li
Arizona State University
Stronger Local Housing Cycle: How Credit Expansion and Housing Policy Shape It

Monday,
September 18, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 PM
MCRD 276

Shuhao Ren
Arizona State University
Decoding Anomalies through Alpha Dynamics

Thursday,
September 21, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
The Theory and Practice of Fundamental Valuation

Thursday,
September 28, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
Risk exposures from risk disclosures: What they said and how they said it

Thursday,
October 12, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 170

Michael Barnett
Arizona State University
A Deep Learning Analysis of Climate Change, Innovation, and Uncertainty

Tuesday,
October 17, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Jinfei Sheng
University of California - Irvine
Do Mutual Funds Walk the Talk? Evidence from Fund Risk Disclosure

Thursday,
October 19, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
MCRD 164

Tej Kulkarni
Arizona State University
Bank Investment Portfolio and Capital

Mingyang Zhang
Arizona State University
Asset Pricing with Precautionary Savings in Goods

Thursday,
October 26, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
MCRD 164

Rasoul Foroughfard
Arizona State University
Net Buyback Dynamics and Risk

Thursday,
November 2, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Kristy Jansen
University of Southern California
Pension Liquidity Risk

Friday,
November 17, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Mark Seasholes
Arizona State University
Teaching the Portfolio Improvement Rule and CAPM

Thursday,
December 7, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MCRD 164

Shasta Shakya
Arizona State University
Reputational Spillovers between Board Directors

Spring 2023
Date Speaker

Thursday,
February 16, 2023
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MCRD 170

Shuhao Ren
Arizona State University
Multiperiod Alphas and Anomalies

Wednesday,
February 22, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 422

Marcus Opp
Stockholm School of Economics
Socially Optimal Eligibility Criteria for ESG Funds

Wednesday,
March 22, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Olivier Dessaint
INSEAD
The Horizon of Investors' Information and Corporate Investment

Wednesday,
March 29, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Anthony Rice
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Political Culture and Financial Misconduct

Wednesday,
April 5, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University
Mutual Fund Flows and Investor Disappointment

Wednesday,
April 12, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
forthcoming

Wednesday,
April 19, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Jason Sandvik
University of Arizona
Employee Responses to Increased Pay Transparency: An Examination of Glassdoor Ratings and the CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure

Wednesday,
April 26, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

George Aragon
University of Arizona
ESG-Driven Flows and Value Added

Fall 2022
Date Speaker

Wednesday,
April 19, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 258

Jason Sandvik
University of Arizona
forthcoming

Friday,
April 21, 2022
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
MCRD 164

Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University
R&D, Expected Profitability, and Expected Returns

Wednesday,
September 7, 2022
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
MCRD 276

Michael Barnett
Arizona State University
Does Climate Change Impact Sovereign Bond Yields?

Wednesday,
September 28, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 276

Christoph Schiller
Arizona State University
Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals

Wednesday,
October 5, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 276

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
On a Spending Spree: The Real Effects of Heuristics in Managerial Budgets

Wednesday,
October 12, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 164

Maziar Kazemi
Arizona State University
Identification of Factor Risk Premia

Wednesday,
October 26, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 270

Jing Wu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Labor Coordination and Division: Human Capital Investment in Supply Chains

Tuesday,
November 1, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 276

Ulas Alkan
Arizona State University
Market Timing in Corporate Finance Decisions: Evidence from Stock Market Anomalies

Wednesday,
November 2, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MCRD 270

Rasoul Foroughfard: How Do Different Payouts Signal Future? Dividends Predict Prices While Net Buybacks Predict Cash Flows,
Jonathan Keen: Mergers and Acquisitions, Diversification, and Downside Risk and
Chris Kazemi: Pricing the Mispricing: Evidence from the Closed-End Fund Puzzle
ASU Doctoral Student Presentations

Wednesday,
November 9, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 270

Spyridon Lagaras
University of Pittsburgh
The Labor Effects of Judicial Bias in Bankruptcy

Wednesday,
November 16, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 270

Yuri Tserlukevich
Arizona State University
Corporate Hedging, Contract Termination Rights, and Basis Risk

Wednesday,
November 30, 2022
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 270

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
Dogs and Cats Living Together: A Defense of Cash-Flow Predictability

Spring 2022
Date Speaker

Wednesday,
March 2, 2022
11 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 456

Gregory Weitzner
Bank Loan Markups and Adverse Selection

Wednesday,
March 16, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 158

Roberto Pinto
Do Low Interest Rate Policies Jeopardize Your Retirement?

Friday,
May 13, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 158

Sreedhar Bharath

Fall 2021
Date Speaker

Wednesday,
October 13, 2021
11 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
MCRD 164

Christoph Schiller
Arizona State University
Corporate Philanthropy and Employee Retention: Evidence from A Million Inventors

Wednesday,
October 20, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
BAC 323

David Schreindorfer
Arizona State University
Volatility and the Pricing Kernel

Wednesday
November 17, 2021
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
MCRD 164

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
The Cost of ESG Investing

Wednesday
December 1, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
MCRD 164

Paul Decaire
Arizona State University

Spring 2021
Date Speaker

Friday,
March 19, 2021
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University
Manager Selection in Private Equity

Friday,
April 23, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Denis Sosyura and Paul Decaire
Arizona State University
CEO Pet Projects

Wednesday
May 5, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Lingyan Yang
Arizona State University
New Evidence on Capital Reallocation

Wednesday
May 19, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University
Flow Diversification

Thursday
June 24, 2021
11 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Seth Pruitt and George Aragon
Arizona State University
Holdings-Based Expected Returns

Fall 2020
Date Speaker

Friday,
September 18, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Yuri Tserlukevich
Arizona State University
Debt Financing and Risk Management

Wednesday,
September 23, 2020
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Seth Pruitt
Arizona State University
Modeling Corporate Bond Returns

Friday,
October 2, 2020
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Jessie Wang
Arizona State University
It's Not Who You Know—It's Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance

Tuesday,
October 13, 2020
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Ilona Babenko
Arizona State University
Regulating CEO Pay: Evidence from the Non-Profit Revitalization Act

Friday,
October 30, 2020
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Eisa Alloughani and Shuhao Ren
Arizona State University
Eisa Alloughani: Trading on Private Information: An Analysis of Informed Party Trading
Shuhao Ren: News Complexity and Short Sellers

Thursday,
November 12, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Tyler Beason
Arizona State University
Cash Flows in Equilibrium Asset Pricing Models

Tuesday,
November 17, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Anthony Rice
Arizona State University
Partisan Investment Cycles

Friday,
November 20, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Michael Barnett
Arizona State University
The Impact of Geoscientific and Economic Uncertainty on Social Valuation

Monday,
November 23, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Goeun Choi
Arizona State University
Political Beta and Long-Run Stock Performance

Tuesday,
November 24, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Michael Wymbs
Arizona State University
Mutual Fund Investor Attention

Tuesday,
December 1, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Laura Lindsey
Arizona State University
Mistake-based Discrimination in Early-stage Finance: Evidence from Security Choice

Friday,
December 4, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Ulas Alkan and Sreedhar Bharath
Arizona State University
Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Bubbles

Tuesday,
December 8, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Paul Decaire and Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University
Discount Rate Uncertainty and Capital Investment

Friday,
December 11, 2020
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Zoom Brown Bag Seminar

Oliver Boguth
Arizona State University
Information Flow, Noise, and the Irrelevance of FOMC Announcements Returns

Brown Bag Seminar archive

Fall 2019
Date Speaker

Tuesday,
September 24, 2019
BA 365, 12 to 1 p.m.

Jessie Jiaxu Wang
Arizona State University
Central Counterparty and the Design of Collateral Requirements

Tuesday,
October 1, 2019
BA 365, 12 to 1 p.m.

Natalia Kovrijnykh
ASU Department of Economics
Is There Too Much Benchmarking of Asset Managers

Tuesday,
October 8, 2019
MCRD 276, 12 to 1 p.m.

Stefanos Delikouras
University of Miami
Asset Pricing with and without Garbage: Resurrecting Aggregate Consumption

Tuesday,
November 12, 2019
BA 365, 12 to 1 p.m.

Sreedhar Bharath
Arizona State University
Destructive Creation in the US Banking Market

Spring 2020
Date Speaker
Tuesday,
February 11, 2020
MCRD 276, 12 to 1:15 p.m.

Hendrik Bessembinder
Arizona State University
Mutual Fund Performance at Long Horizons
Tuesday,
February 25, 2020
MCRD 276, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Derek Lemoine
University of Arizona
What Were the Odds? Estimating the Market's Probability of Uncertain Events

Wednesday,
March 25, 2020
Zoom Video Teleconference, 2 to 3 p.m.

Christoph Schiller
Arizona State University
Climate Change and Adaptation in Global Supply-Chain Networks

Friday,
April 10, 2020
Zoom Video Teleconference, 2 to 3 p.m.

Jessie Wang
Arizona State University
Workplace Automation and Corporate Financial Policy
Tuesday,
May 5, 2020
Zoom Video Teleconference, 2 to 3 p.m.

Michael Wymbs
Arizona State University
Mutual Fund Investor Attention
Brown Bag Seminar archive
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