Guest Seminar 2020-present

Browse the archives below to find information and working papers from past guest seminars hosted by the department of finance.

9/29/2023

Neng Wang, Columbia 

"Strategic Investment under Uncertainty with First- and Second-mover Advantages"

10/13/2023

Toni Whited, Michigan 

"Will Central Bank Digital Currency Disintermediate Banks?"

11/10/2023

Jane Li, Columbia 

"Corporate Bond Multipliers: Substitutes Matter"

12/1/2023

Taha Choukhmane, MIT 

"What Drives Investors’ Portfolio Choices? Separating Risk Preferences from Frictions"

12/8/2023

Jonathan A. Parker, MIT 

"Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving over the Life Cycle"

2/16/2023

Rob Richmond, NYU 

"Understanding the Strength of the Dollars"

2/23/2024

Renee Adams, Oxford 

"Directors Discussing Diversity"

3/1/2024

Hui Chen, MIT 

"Market for Manipulable Information"

3/15/2024

Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Michigan 

"Can Cashless Payments Spur Economic Growth?"

3/29/2024

Winston Dou, Wharton 

"AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency"

4/5/2024

Tony Cookson, Colorado 

"Money to Burn Crowdfunding Wildfire Recovery"

4/19/2024

Max Maksimovic, Maryland 

"What Do Unions Do? Incentives and Investments"

4/26/2024

Vincenzo Quadrini, USC 

"Dynamic Credit Constraints: Theory and Evidence from Credit Line"

9/9/2022

Hongda Zhong, London School of Economics 

"Market Structure of Intermediation"

9/16/2022

Lukas Schmid, University of Southern California

"Government Debt management and inflation with real and nominal bonds"

10/14/2022

Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth

"The ownership structure of U.S. corporations"

11/11/2022

Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania 

"Why Does Oil Matter? Commuting and Aggregate Fluctuations"

11/18/2022

Howard Kung, London Business School 

"Firm Product Concentration and Asset Prices"

3/17/2023

Brian Waters, University of Colorado 

"Social Media, Sentiment, and Smart Money"

4/7/2023

Motohiro Yogo, Princeton 

"Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in a Global Demand System"

4/21/2023

Tarek Hassan, Boston University 

"The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies"

4/28/2023

Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown 

"Price Discovery from Offer Price to Opening Price of Initial Public Offerings*"

9/10/2021

Ben Roth, Harvard Business School

"The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital"

9/17/2021

William Diamond, Wharton 

"The Reserve Supply Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy"

10/1/2021

Simon Gervais, Duke 

"Money Management and Real Investment"

10/8/2021

Michael Weisbach, Ohio State 

"Risk perceptions, board networks, and directors' monitoring"

10/15/2021

Mike Chernov, UCLA 

"The real explanation of nominal bond-stock puzzles"

10/22/2021

Kairong Xiao, Columbia 

"Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation"

10/25/2021

Zhiguo He, Chicago 

"Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction"

11/19/2021

Patrick Bolton, Columbia 

"Leverage Dynamics under Costly Equity Issuance"

3/4/2021

Song Ma, Yale 

"Technological Obsolescence"

4/15/2021

Laura Starks, UT Austin 

"Technological Obsolescence"

4/22/2021

Jesse Schreger, Columbia 

"Sources and Transmission of Country Risk"

4/29/2022

Philipp Schnabl, NYU 

"Credit Crunches and the Great Stagflation"

10/9/2020    

Hanno Lustig, Stanford

"The U.S. Public Debt Valuation Puzzle"

10/23/2020

Gustavo Manso, UC Berkeley

"Recommendations with Feedback"

11/13/2020

Phil Strahan, Boston College

"Who Supplies PPP Loans (And, Does it Matter)? Banks, Relationships and the COVID Crisis."

11/20/2020

Jose-Luis Peydro, Pompeu Fabra

"Expectations and Bank Lending*"

12/11/2020

Wei Xiong, Princeton

"A Model of Cryptocurrencies"

1/22/2021

Amine Ouazad, HEC Montreal

"Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters"

1/29/2021

Yueran Ma, Chicago

"Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis"

2/5/2021

Valentin Haddad, UCLA

"How Competitive is the Stock Market? Theory, Evidence from Portfolios, and Implications for the Rise of Passive Investing”

2/12/2021

Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern

"A Portfolio Approach to Global Imbalances"

2/19/2021

Sydney Ludvigson, NYU

"How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals"

2/26/2021

Ulrike Malmendier, Berkeley

"CEO Stress, Aging, and Death"

3/12/2021

Yufeng Wu, Illinois

"Human Capital Portability and Worker Career"

3/19/2021

Holger Mueller, NYU

"Productivity Spillovers within Firms Across Regions"

3/26/2021

Yunzhi Hu, UNC

"Intermediate Financing without Commitment"

4/16/2021

Amit Seru, Stanford

"Banking Without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Cell Reports"

4/23/2021

Pascal Noel, Chicago

"Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? A New Method For Causal Attribution"

4/30/2021

Michael Fishman, Northwestern

"A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards"

10/04/2019

Constantine Yannelis, Chicago

"Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices"

10/18/2019

Mark Westerfield, U of Washington

"Dynamic Resource Allocation with Hidden Volatility"

10/25/2019

Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm

"Is There a Zero Lower Bound The Effects of Negative Policy Rates on Banks and Firms?"

11/15/2019
 

Moritz Lenel, Princeton

"Monetary Policy, Redistribution, and Risk Premia"

11/22/2019

Pengfei Wang, HKUST

"A Theory of Housing Demand Shocks"

2/7/2020

Christian Opp, U of Rochester

"Large Shareholders and Financial Distress"

2/21/2020

Robert Marquez, UC Davis

"Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk


2/28/2020
 

Shai Bernstein, Stanford

"The Contribution of High Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States"

3/6/2020

Vish Viswanathan, Duke

"Financing Insurance"