Guest Seminar 2020-present
Browse the archives below to find information and working papers from past guest seminars hosted by the department of finance.
Browse the archives below to find information and working papers from past guest seminars hosted by the department of finance.
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 09/13/2024 | Atif Mian, Princeton University "Dynamics of the Long Term Housing Yield: Evidence from Natural Experiments" |
| 09/20/2024 | Shohini Kundu, UCLA "The Economics of Market-Based Deposit Insurance" |
| 09/27/2024 | Kilian Huber, University of Chicago "Corporate Discount Rates and Investment" |
| 10/04/2024 | Maryam Farboodi, MIT "Information and Market Power in DeFi Intermediation" |
| 10/11/2024 | Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania "The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector" |
| 11/08/2024 | Samuel Antill, Harvard University "Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy" |
| 11/15/2024 | Cecilia Parlatore, NYU "Information Span in Credit Market Competition" |
| 11/22/2024 | Daniel Chen, Princeton University "Optimal Exchange Design" |
| 03/21/2025 | Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota "Welfare Costs of Credit Card Oligopoly" |
| 03/28/2025 | Nadya Malenko, Boston College "Voting Choice" |
| 04/04/2025 | Francisco Gomes, London Business School "Stock Market Participation and Portfolio Shares Over the Life Cycle" |
| 04/18/2025 | Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University "China’s Overseas Lending in Global Finance Cycle" |
| 04/25/2025 | Manuel Adelino, Duke University "The Heterogeneous Effects of Household Debt Relief" |
| 05/02/2025 | David Scharfstein, Harvard University "Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit" |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 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" |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 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*" |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 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" |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 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" |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| 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" |