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