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.

2020-2021
2019-2020

Date	Speaker
Spring 2021
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

Date	Speaker
Fall 2020
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

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

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