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. These seminars are free and open to the public.

2019-2020
2018-2019

Date	Speaker
Spring 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020 MCRD 258, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Geoffery Zheng UCLA Wealth Shares in the Long Run
Friday, January 10, 2020 MCRD 264, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Tuomas Tomunen Columbia University Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk
Friday, January 17, 2020 MCRD 176, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Lakshmi Naaraayanan HKUST Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap
Monday, January 20, 2020 MCRD 158, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Huan Tang HEC Paris The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 MCRD 422, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Jonathan Wallen Stanford University Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 MCRD 276, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Joseph Kalmenovitz New York University Incentivizing Financial Regulators
Friday, January 31, 2020 MCRD 258, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Nuno Clara London Business School Demand Elasticities, Nominal Rigidities and Asset Prices
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 MCRD 276, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Paul Décaire University of Pennsylvania Capital Budgeting and Idiosyncratic Risk
Friday, March 6, 2020 MCRD 158, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Gregory Buchak Stanford University Financing the Gig Economy
Friday, May 1, 2020 MCRD 176, 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Florian Schulz University of Washington Topic TBA

Date	Speaker
Fall 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Andrey Malenko Boston College Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty
Friday, September 27, 2019 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Arpit Gupta New York University Valuing Private Equity Investments Strip by Strip
Friday, October 4, 2019 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Kewei Hou The Ohio State University Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective
Friday, October 18, 2019 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Rawley Heimer Boston College Personal Wealth and Self-Employment
Friday, November 1, 2019 BA 257, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Andrea Rossi The University of Arizona Unsmoothing Returns of Illiquid Assets
Friday, November 8, 2019 BA 199A, 3:15 to 4:45 p.m.	George Korniotis University of Miami Do Fundamentals Drive Cryptocurrency Prices?
Friday, November 15, 2019 BA 257, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Scott Yonker Cornell University Friends with Bankruptcy Protection Benefits
Friday, November 22, 2019 MCRD 158, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.	Alejandro Rivera University of Texas at Dallas Extrapolation Bias and Dynamic Liquidity Management

Date	Speaker
Spring 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019 MCRD 170 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.	Mara Faccio Purdue University Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry
Friday, March 1, 2019 MCRD 158, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.	Cecilia Bustamante University of Maryland Supply Chain Bargaining and Asset Prices
Friday, March 15, 2019 MCRD 158, 2 to 3:30 p.m.	Philip Bond University of Washington Silence is safest: non-disclosure when the audience's preferences are uncertain
Monday, March 18, 2019 MCRD 176, 9 to 10:30 a.m	Marcin Kacperczyk Imperial College, London Becker Meets Kyle: Inside Insider Trading
Friday, March 29, 2019 MCRD 158, 2 to 3:30 p.m	John Campbell Harvard University The Cross-Section of Household Preferences
Thursday, April 4, 2019 MCRD 158, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Christian Opp University of Pennsylvania Large Shareholders and Financial distress
Friday, April 12, 2019 MCRD 158, 2 to 3:30 p.m	Guillermo Ordonez University of Pennsylvania Retirement in the Shadow (Banking)
Friday, April 19, 2019 MCRD 158, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Ian Martin London School of Economics Sentiment and speculation in a market with heterogeneous beliefs
Friday, April 26, 2019 MCRD 158, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Steven Kaplan University of Chicago Are CEOs Different? Characteristics of Top Managers
Friday, May 3, 2019 MCRD 258, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Christopher Malloy Harvard University IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

Date	Speaker
Fall 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Bruce Carlin University of California at Los Angeles The Real Effects of Fed Intervention: Revisiting the 1920-1921 Depression
Friday, September 28, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Jerry Hoberg University of Southern California Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs
Friday, October 5, 2018 MCRD 176, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	David McLean Georgetown University Analysts and Anomalies
Friday, October 26, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Edward Van Wesep University of Colorado Compensation in high finance: A theory of periodic labor markets and guaranteed bonuses
Friday, November 2, 2018 MCRD 158, 2 to 3:30 p.m.	Manuel Adelino Duke University Perception of House Price Risk and Homeownership
Friday, November 9, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Daniel Wolfenzon Columbia University Do firms respond to gender pay gap transparency?
Friday, November 16, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Michelle Lowry Drexel University Investors' Attention to Corporate Governance
Friday, November 30, 2018 MCRD 164, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Paul Schultz University of Notre Dame How Wall Street Investors Rescued the Market for Single Family Homes
Monday, December 3, 2018 BA 265, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.	Michael Ewens California Institute of Technology The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs

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