Carlson School Atrium

Finance Department Junior Conference

Welcome to the official page for the Finance Department Junior Conference at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

Hosted annually by the Finance Department, this conference is a premier platform dedicated to showcasing cutting-edge research from the next generation of finance scholars. We bring together highly accomplished junior faculty from leading institutions to present and discuss their latest working papers on a diverse range of theoretical and empirical finance topics.

Here you can find details on the conference's format, including the schedule, list of distinguished presenters, and the innovative research papers being featured. We invite our faculty, PhD students, and visiting scholars to explore the information and engage with the presenters.

Friday, October 17th 2025

1:00 p.m.

Agustin Hurtado (University of Maryland) – “Information Sharing Regimes and Financial Inclusion” (with Fritz Foley, Andres Liberman, and Alberto Sepulveda)

1:50 p.m.

Magnus Irie (Princeton University) – “Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance and Top Wealth Inequality”

2:40 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:10 p.m.

Lu Liu (University of Pennsylvania) – “Unlocking Mortgage Lock-In: Evidence from a Spatial Housing Ladder Model” (with Julia Fonseca and Pierre Mabille)

4:00 p.m.

Sébastien Plante (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – “Pricing of Corporate Bonds: Evidence from a Century-Long Cross-Section” (with Mohammad Ghaderi, Nikolai Roussanov, and Sang Byung Seo)

Saturday, October 18th 2025

9:15 a.m.

Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota) – “Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems” (with Carlos Burga, Carlos Parra, and Bernardo Ricca)

10:05 a.m.

Erik Mayer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – “Nepo Credit: The Effect of Borrowed Credit Histories” (with Alex Butler, Alan Crane, and Asli Uyanik)

10:55 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:10 a.m.

Julie Zhiyu Fu (Washington University in St. Louis) – “A Bound on Price Impact and Disagreement” (with Philippe van der Beck and Lorenzo Bretscher)

Speakers

Jacelly Cespedes

Jacelly Cespedes

Assistant Professor - University of Minnesota

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A close-up portrait of Zhiyu Fu smiling indoors. She is wearing a pearl necklace and large, rectangular-framed glasses.

Zhiyu Fu

Assistant Professor - Washington University in St. Louis

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A professional headshot of Agustin Hurtado on a white background. He is wearing a navy blazer, a light blue striped button-down shirt, and has a white pocket square.

Agustin Hurtado

Assistant Professor - University of Maryland

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A headshot of Magnus Irie outdoors. He is wearing a navy suit, a patterned tie, and round glasses, smiling with trees and a brick wall in the background.

Magnus Irie

Assistant Professor - Princeton University

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Lu Liu smiling in a gray suit and white turtleneck against a dark background.

Lu Liu

Assistant Professor - University of Pennsylvania

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A professional headshot of Erik Mayer standing in a well-lit indoor space, wearing a charcoal gray suit jacket and an open-collar white shirt.

Erik Mayer

Assistant Professor - University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Sebastien Plante smiling in a light blue collared shirt and glasses against a dark grey background.

Sébastien Plante

Assistant Professor - University of Wisconsin - Madison

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