GMU Finance Seminar Series
Spring 2023
Mar. 3 Janet Gao, Georgetown
Mar. 10 Umit Gurun, UT Dallas
Mar. 24 Ran Duchin, Boston College
Mar. 31 Jessica Wachter, SEC & Wharton (CANCELLED)
Apr. 7 Simi Kedia, Rutgers
Apr. 14 Ayako Yasuda, UC Davis
Apr. 21 Sabrina Howell, NYU
Apr. 28 Xiaofei Zhao, Georgetown
Fall 2022
Sept. 16 Jiacui Li, U of Utah
Sept. 23 Yiming Qian, U of Connecticut
Sept. 30 Diego Garcia, U of Colorado
Oct. 7 Albert Sheen, SEC
Oct. 14 Morten Sorensen, Dartmouth
Oct. 28 Miriam Bruhn, World Bank
Nov. 11 Minwen Li, FINRA
Nov. 18 Michelle Lowry, Drexel
Dec. 2 Senay Agca, George Washington
Spring 2022
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
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
Jan. 31 Irina Stefanescu, FRB
Feb. 14 Lei Gao, SEC & Iowa State
Feb. 28 David McLean, Georgetown
Mar. 6 Murillo Campello, Cornell
Mar. 13 Manju Puri, Duke (CANCELLED)
Mar. 27 Ed Van Wesep, U of Colorado (CANCELLED)
Apr. 3 Michelle Lowry, Drexel (CANCELLED)
Apr. 17 Christian Lundblad, UNC (CANCELLED)
Fall 2019
Sept. 27 Chris Parsons, U Wash
Oct. 4 Ricardo Correa, FRB
Oct. 11 Paolo Fulghieri, UNC
Oct. 18 Ting Xu, UVA
Oct. 25 Jonathan Cohn, UT Austin
Nov. 1 Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown
Nov. 22 Jonathan Karpoff, U Wash
Spring 2019
Mar 8 Neng Wang Columbia
Mar 15 Taylor Begely WashU
April 5 Jose Berrospide FRB
April 12 Filip Zikes FRB
April 19 Kewei Hou OSU
April 26 Antoinette Schoar, MIT (cancelled)
Fall 2018
Aug. 31 Kai Li, UBC Sauder
Sept. 21 Douglas Cumming, York
Sept. 28 Anzhela Knyazeva, SEC
Oct. 12 Geoff Tate, U of Maryland
Oct. 19 Maria Soledad Peria, IMF (cancelled)
Oct. 26 Tong Yao, SEC / U of Iowa
Nov. 9 Mara Faccio, Purdue
Nov. 16 Meghana Ayyagari, GWU
Spring 2017
Feb. 24 Martin Szydlowski, Univ. of Minnesota
Mar. 10 Vojislav Maksimovic, U of Maryland
Mar. 24 Philip Strahan, BC
Mar. 31 Vladimir Ivanov, SEC
Apr. 14 Doron Levit, Wharton
Apr. 21 John Zhu, Wharton
Apr. 28 Maria Cecilia Bustamante, U of Maryland
May. 5 Jarrad Harford, U of Washington
Fall 2016
Sept. 9 Fei Xie, University of Delaware
Sept. 16 Ivan Ivanov, FRB
Sept. 23 Mitchelle Berlin, FRB Philadelphia
Sept. 30 Amiyatosh Purnanandam, U of Michigan
Oct. 21 Michel Robe, American
Oct. 28 Paige Ouimet, UNC
Nov. 4 Gergana Jostova, GWU
Nov. 11 Evgeny Lyandres, BU
Spring 2016
Mar. 11 Itay Goldstein, Wharton
Mar. 18 Mike Gallmeyer, UVA
Mar. 25 Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
Apr. 8 Francisco Palomino, FRB
Apr. 15 Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Worldbank
Apr. 22 Greg Brown, UNC
Apr. 29 Josh Lerner, Harvard
Fall 2015
Sept. 18 Anna Scherbina, UC Davis
Sept. 25 Valentina Bruno, American
Oct. 2 Jennie Bai, Georgetown
Oct. 9 Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
Oct. 23 Liu Yang, University of Maryland
Nov. 6 Rich Mathews, University of Maryland
Nov. 13 Xiaohui Gao, University of Maryland
Nov. 20 Oguzhan Karakas, Boston College
Spring 2015
Jan. 30 Jerome Taillard, Boston College
Feb. 13 Jeffrey Wurgler, NYU
Feb. 27 Jeffrey Harris, American
Mar. 27 Jason Sturgess, DePaul
Apr. 10 Jess Cornaggia, Georgetown
Apr. 24 Peter Iliev, Penn State
Fall 2014
Sept. 12 Joseph Nichols, FED
Oct. 3 Francisco Covas, FED
Oct. 24 Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
Nov. 14 Doriana Ruffino, FED
Dec. 5 Turan Bali, Georgetown
Spring 2014
Jan. 31 Clara Vega, Fed
Feb. 14 Hong Yan, University of South Carolina
Mar. 14 Rose Liao, Rutgers
Mar. 28 Mike Faulkender, University of Maryland
Apr. 11 Francisco Covas, Fed
May. 2 Pedro Matos, University of Virginia
Fall 2013
Sept. 6 Dalida Kadyrzhanova, University of Maryland
Sept. 20 Stephen Christophe, George Mason University
Sept. 27 Jerry Hanweck, George Mason University
Oct. 4 Anthony Sanders, George Mason University
Oct. 25 George H. K.Wang, George Mason University
Nov. 8 Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
Nov. 15 Christo Pirinsky, George Washington University
GMU FAIRFAX campus map: Enterprise Hall (Building reference number 17 in the map) is located in front of Shenandoah Parking Deck Building (reference number 43).
If you have any questions regarding the seminar series please contact faculty coordinator: Bo Hu, Lin Sun, and Lei Gao
Questions related to travel, location or reimbursements should be sent to: Chavonne Cowan