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.

Spring 2019
DateSpeaker

Tuesday,
February 12, 2019
MCRD 176, 12 to 1 p.m.

Andra Ghent
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Risk Retention and Information in the Face of Regulation

Tuesday,
March 26, 2019
MCRD 176, 12 to 1 p.m.

Mark Seasholes
Arizona State University
Indexing: Effects on Prices and Quantities

Monday,
April 8, 2019
MCRD 270, 12 to 1 p.m.

Claudia Custodio
Imperial College London
The Impact of Financial Literacy on Medium and Large Enterprises – Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Mozambique

Tuesday,
April 16, 2019
MCRD 176, 12 to 1 p.m.

Eric Aldrich
University of California, Santa Cruz
Order Protection through Delayed Messaging

Tuesday,
April 23, 2019
MCRD 176, 12 to 1 p.m.

Michael Wymbs
Arizona State University
Mutual Fund Investor Attention

Thursday,
April 25, 2019
MCRD 158, 12 to 1 p.m.

Anthony Rice
Arizona State University
The Politics of Firm Investment
Friday
May 17, 2019
MCRD 170, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.		 Sunil Wahal
Arizona State University
Trading Algorithms

Wednesday,
May 29, 2019
MCRD 158, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

David Schreindorfer
Arizona State University
On Sources of Risk Premia in Representative Agent Models

Fall 2018
DateSpeaker
Wednesday
September 26, 2018
MCRD 164, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.		 Haiyan Pang
ASU Department of Economics, PhD Student
Information Technology Improvement and Small Business Lending
Wednesday
October 3, 2018
BA 199A, 12 to 1 p.m.		 ASU Department of Finance, PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
Ulas Alkan: Who is Attacking Anomalies?
Hamilton Galindo: Leverage and Capital Utilization

Bo Li: Regulatory Cost, Bayesian Screening and Firm's Choice of Market for Equity Finance
Wednesday
October 10, 2018
BA 199A, 12 to 1 p.m.		 ASU Department of Finance, PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
Ariel Lohr: Speed of Trade and Arbitrage
Erica Stewart: Is all of my money really gone? "No, of course not. It's just with somebody else!" -Fund Manager
Fan Zhang: Heterogeneous Impact of Firm Diversification of Firms' Performance: Perspective from Capital Structure and Trade-Off Theory
Wednesday
October 17, 2018
BA 199A, 12 to 1 p.m.		 ASU Department of Finance, PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
Lingyan Yang: Can under-reaction explain momentum?
Darren Woodward: The Volatility of Beta
Wednesday
October 24, 2018
BA 199A, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.		 David Hirshleifer
University of California, Irvine
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Beliefs and Undersaving
Wednesday
November 7, 2018
MCRD 170, 12 to 1 p.m.		 Matt Jaremski
Utah State University
Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust: Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock
Tuesday
November 20, 2018
BA 199A, 12 to 1 p.m.		 Guillaume Vuillemey
HEC – Paris
Completing Markets with Contracts: Evidence from the First Central Clearing Counterparty
Wednesday
December 5, 2018
BA 199A, 12 to 1 p.m.		 Isaac Hacamo
Indiana University

Do the Best Students Make the Best Entrepreneurs?
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Fall 2019
DateSpeaker

Tuesday,
October 1, 2019
BA 365, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Natalia Kovrijnykh
ASU Department of Economics
Topic TBA

Tuesday,
October 8, 2019
MCRD 276, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Stefanos Delikouras
University of Miami
Topic TBA

Tuesday,
November 12, 2019
BA 365, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Sreedhar Bharath
Arizona State University
Topic TBA

Spring 2020
DateSpeaker

Coming soon
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