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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.

2021-2022
2020-2021

Date	Speaker
Spring 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170, Zoom Seminar	Ulrike Malmendier University of California, Berkeley CEO Stress, Aging, and Death
Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Francesco D'Acunto Boston College How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech
Friday, March 25, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Christopher Hennessy London Business School Discretion, Randomisation, and Motivation
Friday, April 1, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Juhani Linnainmaa Dartmouth College Investor Protections and Stock Market Participation: An Evaluation of Financial Advisor Oversight
Friday, April 8, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Caitlin Dannhauser Villanova University Passive investors in primary bond markets
Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Mete Kilic University of Southern California Discounting Less in Bad Times: Shining the Light on Expectations
Friday, April 22, 2022 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., MCRD 170	Stephen A. Karolyi Department of the Treasury (Washington, DC) Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks

Date	Speaker
Fall 2021
Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Zoom Seminar	Alex Edmans London Business School CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field
Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Zoom Seminar	Theresa Kuchler New York University Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Zoom Seminar	Pat Akey University of Toronto Noisy Factors
Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.,MCRD 170	Shrihari Santosh University of Colorado - Boulder Investor Betas
Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170	Lukas Schmid University of Southern California The Risks of Safe Assets
Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 276	Andrew Patton Duke University Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing
Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., MCRD 170r	Ankit Kalda Indiana University Smart(Phone) Investing? A within investor-time analysis of new technologies and trading behavior.
Friday, December 3, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Zoom Seminar	Sebastien Betermier McGill University What Do the Portfolios of Individual Investors Reveal About the Cross-Section of Equity Returns?
Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Zoom Seminar	Kelly Shue Yale University "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap

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

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