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" |