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Finance Area Seminar Series


Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sept. 1 Mao Ye
Cornell 		Discrete Prices, Discrete Quantities, and the Optimal Nominal Price of a Stock 10:30am
ENT 204
Sept. 8 Jack He
Georgia 		Feedback on Emerging Corporate Policies 10:30am
ENT 204
Sept. 15Alfred Lehar
Calgary 		Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement 10:30am
ENT 017
Sept. 22Yinan Su
Johns Hopkins 		Predicting Volume 10:30am
ENT 204
Oct. 13 Hao Jiang
Michigan State 		Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms 10:30am
ENT 204
Nov. 10 Winston Wei Dou
UPenn Wharton 		AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency 10:30am
ENT 204
Feb. 9 Baozhong Yang
Georgia State 		ChatGPT and Corporate Policies 10:30am
ENT 204
Feb. 23 Xiaomeng Lu
Fudan 		Financial Inclusion via FinTech: From Digital Payments to Platform Investments 10:30am
ENT 204
Apr. 4 Jeremy Moulton
UNC 		Returns to Homeownership and Inequality: Evidence from the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit 04:30pm
ENT 204
Apr. 5 Lukas Schmid
USC 		Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds 10:30am
ENT 204
Apr. 26 Jarrad Harford
Washington
TBA Jessica watcher
SEC & Wharton

Spring 2023
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Mar. 3 Janet Gao
Georgetown
Mar. 10Umit Gurun
UT Dallas
Mar. 24Ran Duchin
Boston College
Mar. 31Jessica Wachter
SEC and Wharton (CANCELLED)
Apr. 7 Simi Kedia
Rutgers
Apr. 14Ayako Yasuda
UC Davis
Apr. 21Sabrina Howell
NYU
Apr. 28Xiaofei Zhao
Georgetown

Fall 2022
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sep. 16Jiacui Li
U of Utah
Sep. 23Yiming Qian
U of Connecticut
Sep. 30Diego Garcia
U of Colorado
Oct. 7 Albert Sheen
SEC
Oct. 14Morten Sorensen
Dartmouth
Oct. 28Miriam Bruhn
World Bank
Nov. 11Minwen Li
FINRA
Nov. 18Michelle Lowry
Drexel
Dec. 2 Senay Agca
George Washington

Spring 2022
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Mar. 4 Julie Wu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (virtual)
Mar. 11 Miriam Bruhn
World Bank (CANCELLED)
Mar. 25 Christian Lundblad
UNC
Apr. 1 Yael Hochberg
Rice
Apr. 15 Michael Ewens
Caltech
Apr. 22 Michelle Lowry
Drexel (CANCELLED)
Apr. 29 Merih Sevilir
Indiana
May. 20 Rich Evans
Darden

Fall 2021
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Oct. 8 Dirk Jenter
LSE (virtual)
Oct. 15 Ed Van Wesep
U of Colorado
Oct. 22 Merih Sevilir
Indiana (CANCELLED)
Oct. 29 Ruediger Fahlenbrach
EPFL (virtual)
Nov. 5 Yael Hochberg
Rice (CANCELLED)
Nov. 12 Mariassunta Giannetti
Stocholm School of Economics (virtual)
Nov. 19 Tarun Ramadorai
Imperial College London (virtual)
Dec. 3 Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Georgetown
Dec. 10 Amit Goyal
University of Lausanne and SFI (virtual)

Spring 2021
No seminars due to COVID-19

Fall 2020
No seminars due to COVID-19

Spring 2020
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Jan 31Irina Stefanescu
FRB 		Revenue Sharing in 401 (k) Plans ENT 017
10:30-12:00
Feb 14Lei Gao
SEC&Iowa State		Strategic signaling via ESG engagement under non-fundamental-driven price pressure ENT 204
10:30-12:00
Feb 28David McLean
Georgetown 		Taking Sides on Return Predictability ENT 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 6Murillo Campello
Cornell 		Title: Personal Income Taxes and Labor Downskilling: Evidence from 27 Million Job PostingsENT 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 13Manju Puri
Duke 		CANCELED ENT 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 27Ed Van Wesep
U of Colorado 		CANCELED ENT 017
10:30-12:00
Apr 3Michelle Lowry
Drexel 		CANCELED ENT 017
10:30-12:00
Apr 17Christian Lundblad
UNC 		CANCELED ENT 017
10:30-12:00



Fall 2019
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sep 20
 
Sep 27 Chris Parsons
U Wash		  
Oct 4 Ricardo Correa
FRB		 Bank Complexity, Governance, and Risk  ENT 204
10:30-12:00
Oct 11 Paolo Fulghieri
UNC		  
Oct 18 Ting Xu
UVA
Oct 25 Jonathan Cohn
UT Austin		  
Nov 1 Reena Aggarwal
Georgetown		  
Nov 8
 
Nov 22 Jonathan Karpoff
U Wash		  



Spring 2019
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Mar 08 Neng Wang
Columbia		 Rare Disasters, Financial Development, and Sovereign Debt  ENT 204
1:30-3:00
Mar 15 Taylor Begley
WashU		 Small bank lending amidst the ascent of fintech and shadow banking: a sideshow? ENT 204
1:30-3:00
Mar 22
TBA
10:30-12:00
Apr 05 Jose Berrospide
FRB		 The Effects of Bank Capital Buffers on Bank Lending and Firm Activity: What Can We Learn from Five Years of Stress-Test Results? ENT
1:30-3:00
April 12 Filip Zikes
FRB		 TBA
1:30-3:00
April 19 Kewei Hou
OSU		 q5 ENT
1:30-3:00
April 26 Antoinette Schoar
MIT		 canceled
10:30-12:00

TBA
10:30-12:00


Fall 2018
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Aug 31 Kai Li
UBC Sauder		 Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning Enterprise Hall 204
10:30-12:00
Sep 21 Douglas Cumming
York		 Market Manipulation and Innovation TBA
10:30-12:00
Sep 28 Anzhela Knyazeva
SEC		 Soft and hard information and signal extraction in securities crowdfunding TBA
10:30-12:00
Oct 12 Geoff Tate
Maryland		 Friends during Hard Times: Evidence from the Great Depression TBA
10:30-12:00
Oct 19 Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
IMF		 CANCELED TBA
10:30-12:00
Oct 26 Tong Yao
SEC/Iowa		 Should Corporate Pensions Invest in Risky Assets? TBA
10:30-12:00
Nov 09 Mara Faccio
Purdue		 Business Groups and Firm-specific Stock Returns ENT 017
10:30-12:00
Nov 16 Meghana Ayyagari
GWU		 Who are America's Star Firms TBA
10:30-12:00




Spring 2018
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Mar 02 Chaojun Wang
Wharton		 Core-Periphery Trading Networks Enterprise Hall 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 09 Scott Wentland
U.S. BEA 		Mitigating Agency Costs in the Housing Market Enterprise 017
10:30-12:00
Mar 30 Jiasun Li
George Mason 		Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Apr 06 Deniz Anginer
World Bank 		It’s personal, not Strictly business: Manager entrenchment through personal relationships Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Apr 27 Sita Slavov
George Mason SCHAR		 Leaving Big Money on the Table: Arbitrage Opportunities in Delaying Social Security Enterprise 017
10:30-12:00
May 04 Anh Pham
George Mason SCHAR		 Oil Price Declines Could Hurt Financial Markets and a Possible Explanation Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00




Fall 2017
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sep 01 Jim Schallheim
Univ. of Utah		 Small Business Finance: What Determines Yields on Equipment Leases? Enterprise Hall 204
10:30-12:00
Oct 20 Haluk Unal
 The Dark Side of Banks' Nonbank Business: Internal Dividends in Bank Holding Companies Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00

Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00

Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00




Spring 2017
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Feb 24 Martin Szydlowski
Univ. of Minnesota		 The Market for Conflicted Advice Enterprise Hall
10:30-12:00
Mar 10 Vojislav Maksimovic
Univ. of Maryland		 Dumber but perhaps not fewer? Human Capital, Competition and Entrepreneurial Success in Manufacturing Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 24 Philip Strahan
Boston College		 Funding Liquidity Without Banks: Evidence From a Shock To The Cost of Very Short-Term Debt Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Mar 31 Vladimir Ivanov
SEC		 Reducing Uncertainty Through a Two-stage IPO Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Apr 07 Manju Puri
Duke (visiting FRB)		 CANCELED
Apr 14 Doron Levit
Wharton		 Talking Behind-the-Scenes: A Theory of Shareholder Engagement Enterprise 204
13:30-15:00
Apr 21 John Zhu
Wharton		 Renegotiation of Dynamically Incomplete Contracts Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
Apr 28 Maria Cecilia Bustamante
Univ. of Maryland 		Does Firm Investment respond to Peers Investment? Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00
May 05 Jarrad Harford
Univ. of Washington		 International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves Enterprise 204
10:30-12:00




Fall 2016
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sept 2


Sept 9 Fei Xie
Delaware		 Career Concerns and Strategic Effort Allocation by Analysts 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Sept 16 Ivan Ivanov
FRB		 The Effect of Supervisory Loan Rating on Syndicated Lending 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Sep 23 Mitchell Berlin
Philadelphia Fed		 Learning and Contractual Evolution: The Case of Leveraged Loans 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Sep 30 Amiyatosh Purnanandam
Univ. of Michigan		 Bank Risk Dynamics and Distance to Default 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Oct 7 Paige Ouimet
UNC		 RESCHEDULED
Oct 14

Oct 21 Michel Robe
American		 Financialization, Intraday Institutional Trading, and Commodity Market Quality 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Oct 28 Paige Ouimet
UNC
Nov 4

Nov 11 Evgeny Lyandres
BU
Nov 18 Maria Cecilia Bustamante
Univ. of Maryland




Spring 2016
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Feb 26

Mar 11 Itay Goldstein
Wharton		 Commodity Financialization: Risk Sharing and Price Discovery in Commodity Futures Markets 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Mar 18 Michael Gallmeyer
UVA		 Disagreement about Inflation and the Yield Curve 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Mar 25 Uday Rajan
Michigan
Apr 1

Apr 8 Francisco Palomino
FRB
Apr 15 Asli Demirguc-Kunt
World Bank		 What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Apr 22 Greg Brown
UNC		 Do Private Equity Funds Game Returns 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Apr 29 Josh Lerner
Harvard		 Pay Now or Pay Later?: The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204




Fall 2015
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sept 18 Anna Scherbina
UC Davis		 Economic Linkages Inferred from News Stories and the Predictability of Stock Returns 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Sep 25 Valentina Bruno
American		 Global dollar credit and carry trades: a firm-level analysis 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Oct 2 Jennie Bai
Georgetown		 The Great Wall of Debt: The Cross Section of Chinese Local Government Credit Spreads 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Oct 9 Dirk Hackbarth
Boston University		 Corporate Investment and Financing Dynamics 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Oct 23 Liu Yang
University of Maryland		 The Human Factor in Acquisitions: Cross-Industry Labor Mobility and Corporate Diversification 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Nov 6 Rich Mathews
University of Maryland		 Wolf Pack Activism 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Nov 20 Oguzhan Karakas
Boston College		 Staggered Boards and Private Benefits of Control 1.30 - 3.00
Enterprise 204
Dec 4 Michael Gallmeyer
UVA		  




Spring 2015
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Jan 30 Jerome Taillard
Boston College		 Did Government Regulations Lower Credit Rating Quality?  
Feb 13 Jeffrey Wurgler
NYU		    
Feb 27 Jeffrey Harris
American University		 Interconnectedness in the Interbanking Market 10:30 - 12:00
ENT 204
March 13 Spring Break
March 27 Jason Sturgess
DePaul University 		 On the Performance of Financial Analysts  
April 10 Jess Cornaggia
Georgetown University		 Credit Ratings and the Cost of Municipal Financing  
April 24 Peter Iliev
Pennsylvania State University		 The Real Effects of Equity Issuance Frictions  




Fall 2014
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sept 12 Joseph Nichols
Federal Reserve Board of Gov.		 The Upgrade and Downgrade of CMBS Credit Ratings  
Oct 3 Francisco Covas
Federal Reserve Board of Gov.		 Bank Liquidity Capital Regulation and General Equilibrium 10:30 - 12:30
Deans Outer Conference
Oct 17   FMA weekend  
Oct. 24 Elena Loutskina
University of Virginia		 Exporting Liquidity: Branch Banking and Financial Integration 10:30-12:00
Dean's Outer Conference
Nov 14 Doriana Ruffino
Federal Reserve Board of Gov.		    
Dec 5 Turan Bali
Georgetown University		 Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Expected Stock Returns  




Spring 2014
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Jan 31 Clara Vega
Fed Board of Governors		 Understanding the Role of Managerial Textual Content in the Price Formation Process  
Feb 14 Hong Yan
University of South Carolina		 Credit Default Swaps and Bank Risk Taking  
Feb 28      
March 14 Rose Liao
Rutgers		 The Economic Value of Investor Relations  
March 28 Mike Faulkender
University of Maryland		 Debt and Taxes at Multinational Corporations  
April 11 Francisco Covas
Fed Board of Governors		    
April 25      
May 2 Pedro Matos
University of Virginia		 Foreign Portfolio Investment and Corporate Innovation  




Fall 2013
Date Speaker Paper Time & Place
Sept 6 Dalida Kadyrzhanova
University of Maryland		 Rising Intangible Capital, Shrinking Debt Capacity, and the US Corporate Savings Glut 1:30 - 3:00
Enterprise 204
Sept 20 Stephen Christophe
George Mason University		 Why Investors Want to Know the Size of Your Shorts  
Sept 27 Jerry Hanweck
George Mason University		    
Oct 4 Anthony Sanders
George Mason University		 Credit Risk and Subordination Levels in Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities (CMBS)  
Oct 25 George H. K.Wang
George Mason University		 Are Algorithmic Trades Informed? An Empirical Analysis of Algorithmic Trading around Earnings Announcements  
Nov 8 Rohan Williamson
Georgetown University		    
Nov 15 Christo Pirinsky
George Washington University