Brown Bags Archive

Date

Speaker(s) and Topic
09/15/2025

Chonghao Hao

"How Acquisitions Influence Small-Firm Innovation"

09/22/2025

Yicheng Wang

"Estimating Investor Demand Elasticity with Endogenous Firm Responses: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow Shocks"

10/13/2025

Haolin Wu

"Avoiding the Premium on the Premium? Self-funded Health Benefit Plans and Corporate Financial Decisions"

10/20/2025

Lin Xie

Title TBD

Henry Chen

"Are they really hand-to-mouth? Medicaid Expansion and Stock Market Participation"

10/27/2025

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"Regulatory Divergence and Bank Capital Flows"

11/03/2025

Jing Gao

"Bridging Markets: Equity Investors’ Dual Roles in Corporate Debt Financing"

12/01/2025

Andy Winton

"Slippery Slope or Tip of the Iceberg? A Model of Detected and Undetected Financial Misreporting." (with Xiaoyun Yu)

12/08/2025

Ziming Huang

"Punishment, Competition, and Re-Entry in Credit Ratings: A Dynamic Model with Benchmark-Based Detection"

02/09/2026

Chonghao Hao

"Building to Be Bought: How Acquisition Markets Drive Innovation"

02/16/2026

Murray Frank

"Corporate Governance and the Coordination Channel of Debt Capacity"

02/23/2026

Yicheng Wang

"Estimating Investor Demand Elasticity with Endogenous Firm Responses"

03/02/2026

Salman Arif

"Decomposing returns and the return on private information"

03/25/2026

Lin Xie

"Intangible Investment, Borrowing Constraints, and Loan Renegotiation"

04/01/2026

Shuyan Wang

"Hedge Accounting and Banks’ Interest Rate Risk Management"

04/08/2026

Henry Chen

"The Real Effect of Bank Market Power on Corporate Investment"

04/22/2026

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"Regulatory Divergence and Bank Capital Flows"

04/29/2026

Ziming Huang

"Credit Supply Shocks and Corporate Investment Composition: The Role of Collateral Structure"

Date

Speaker(s) and Topic
09/11/2024

Andy Winton

"What We Talk about When We Talk about Loan (Monitoring)"

09/15/2025

Chonghao Hao

"How Acquisitions Influence Small-Firm Innovation"

09/22/2025

Yicheng Wang

"Estimating Investor Demand Elasticity with Endogenous Firm Responses: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow Shocks"

10/13/2025

Haolin Wu

"Avoiding the Premium on the Premium? Self-funded Health Benefit Plans and Corporate Financial Decisions"

10/20/2025

Lin Xie

Henry Chen

Are they really hand-to-mouth? Medicaid Expansion and Stock Market Participation

10/27/2025

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"Regulatory Divergence and Bank Capital Flows"

11/03/2025

Jing Gao

"Bridging Markets: Equity Investors’ Dual Roles in Corporate Debt Financing"

12/01/2025

Andy Winton

"Slippery Slope or Tip of the Iceberg? A Model of Detected and Undetected Financial Misreporting." (with Xiaoyun Yu)

12/08/2025

Ziming Huang

"Punishment, Competition, and Re-Entry in Credit Ratings: A Dynamic Model with Benchmark-Based Detection"

03/19/2025

Kyle Herkenhoff

"Welfare Costs of Credit Card Oligopoly"

03/26/2025

Adam Zhang

"Marriage and Homeownership in China"

04/02/2025

Jacelly Cespedes

"Financial Technology, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems"

04/09/2025

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"The Mutual Fund Channel of the U.S. Monetary Policy Impact on Emerging Markets"

04/16/2025

Jing Gao

"Equity Spillovers: Institutional Equity Shareholdings and Firms' Debt Financing"

04/23/2025

Yicheng Wang

"Estimating Investor Demand Elasticity with Endogenous Firm Responses: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow Shocks"

Lin Xie

"Uncertainty and Borrowing Constraints"

04/30/2025

Ziming Huang

"Unraveling Convergence in Credit Rating Agencies: Informational Cascades or Rational Observational Learning? (joint work with Jinxuan Li)"

Chonghao Hao

"How Small Firms React When Giants Acquire"

05/07/2025

Haolin Wu

"Avoiding the Premium on the Premium? Self-Funded Health Benefit Plans and Implications for Corporate Financial Decisions"

Date

Speaker(s) and Topic
09/11/2024

Andy Winton

"What We Talk about When We Talk about Loan (Monitoring)"

09/25/2024

Murray Frank

"The Changing Structure of Corporate Profits"

10/09/2024

Leo Stanek

"Who Wins and Who Loses when Firms Stay Private Longer?"

10/16/2024

Ziming Huang

"Diverging Paths: How Information Sources Shape Household Investment Behaviors"

Lin Xie

"Lending Standards and Intangible Investment"

10/23/2024

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"Safety Seeking and the Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy to Lending in Emerging Markets"

10/30/2024

Chonghao Hao

"How Firms React to the Rise of Passive Funds?"

11/06/2024

Yicheng Wang

"Mutual Fund Flow Shocks, Equity Issuance, and Resource Allocation"

11/13/2024

Jing Gao

"Institutional equity holding and firms' debt financing"

11/20/2024

Haolin Wu

"Why do firms self-fund their employer sponsored health benefit plans?"

12/11/2024

Erik Loualiche

"Causal Inference for Asset Pricing"

03/19/2025

Kyle Herkenhoff

"Welfare Costs of Credit Card Oligopoly"

03/26/2025

Adam Zhang

"Marriage and Homeownership in China"

04/02/2025

Jacelly Cespedes

"Financial Technology, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems"

04/09/2025

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"The Mutual Fund Channel of the U.S. Monetary Policy Impact on Emerging Markets"

04/16/2025

Jing Gao

"Equity Spillovers: Institutional Equity Shareholdings and Firms' Debt Financing"

04/23/2025

Yicheng Wang

"Estimating Investor Demand Elasticity with Endogenous Firm Responses: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow Shocks"

Lin Xie

"Uncertainty and Borrowing Constraints"

04/30/2025

Ziming Huang

"Unraveling Convergence in Credit Rating Agencies: Informational Cascades or Rational Observational Learning? (joint work with Jinxuan Li)"

Chonghao Hao

"How Small Firms React When Giants Acquire"

05/07/2025

Haolin Wu

"Avoiding the Premium on the Premium? Self-Funded Health Benefit Plans and Implications for Corporate Financial Decisions"

Date

Speaker(s) and Topic
09/19/2023

Andy Winton

"Slippery Slope or Tip of the Iceberg? A Model of Detected and Undetected Financial Misreporting"

09/26/2023

Yu Li

"Risk Premium for All the Consumers: A Tale of Necessity Inflation"

10/03/2023

Haolin Wu

"Investment, Labor and Corporate Cash Flow: Evidence from Employer Sponsored Self-funding Health Plan"

10/10/2023

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"A shift in dollar savings: The rise of mutual funds and its consequences for emerging markets"

10/17/2023

Yicheng Wang

"Mutual fund flows and equity issuance"

10/24/2023

Yu Li

"Risk for Price: Using Generalized Demand System for Asset Pricing "

11/14/2023

Jing Gao

"Institutional shareholding and firm debt financing"

11/28/2023

Chonghao Hao

"Do Insiders Trade On Stock Market Bubble?"

Ruoxi Tian

"The Value Impact of Corporate Environmental Violations"

12/05/2023

Jacelly Cespedes

"The Unintended Consequence of the Community Reinvestment Act Amid the Rise of Shadow Banks"

12/12/2023

Erik Loualiche

"State and Local Government q"

02/07/2024

Jing Gao

"Digital Prowess: ICT Human Capital, Remote Work, and Asset Prices"

02/21/2024

Leo Stanek

"A Structural Model of Welfare Changes From Fewer Public Firms"

02/28/2024

Andrew Sinclair, Caltech

"Implicit Government Guarantees"

04/03/2024

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"A theory of mutual fund emergence in dollar savings of emerging markets"

04/10/2024

Yicheng Wang

"Firm Pricing Index"

Haolin Wu

"Healthcare Cost and Risk Management"

04/17/2024

Jing Gao

"Institutional ownership and firms' debt financing "

04/24/2024

Ruoxi Tian

"The Value Impact of Corporate Environmental Violations"

05/01/2024

Chen Yao, CUHK

"Managerial Learning and Trading Mechanism: Closing vs. Intraday Prices"

Date

Speaker(s) and Topic
09/28/2022

Bruno Pellegrino

"Product Differentiation and Oligopoly:a Network Approach"

10/04/2022

Haolin Wu

"Tax-loss Carryforward and R&D Investment"

Jing Gao

"Oligopolistic competition under competitor uncertainty"

10/11/2022

Julian Fernandez

"Exchange Rate Uncertainty and the Interest Rate Parity"

10/18/2022

Rouxi Tian

"Does the entrant of ESG rating agencies affect incumbents' rating quality?"

10/26/2022

Yu Li

"Risk for the Poor: Asset Pricing of Consumption Distribution"

10/28/2022

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"(Unobserved) Heterogeneity in the bank lending channel "

11/02/2022

Tracy Wang

"Political Divide and the Composition of Households' Equity Portfolios"

11/09/2022

Yuchen Chen

"Monetary policy, debt Structure, and credit reallocation "

11/16/2022

Murray Frank

"Federal Funds and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel"

11/30/2022

Alexandre Pecora

"Does Fintech Lending Lower Financing Costs? Evidence From An Emerging Market"

12/07/2022

Jash Jain

"Adding Fuel to Fire: Do Rising Healthcare Costs Weaken Firms?"

03/15/2023

Bryan Gutierrez Cortez

"Runnable Pensions"

03/22/2023

Haolin Wu

"Financing the Downward Spiral"

Yicheng Wang

"Fund-Flow-Induced Equity Issuance"

04/05/2023

Ruoxi Tian

"Can competition improve the information quality of ESG ratings?"

Jing Gao

"Firms' financing choices with dispersed investor opinions"

04/12/2023

Yu Li

"Risk Premium for the Low-income Households: Bank Balance-Sheet Channel of Consumer Credit"