Finance Seminar Series
Seminar Schedule
2025
Spring 2025
January 17
Emanuele Colonnelli, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: “Startups in Africa”
January 31
Elena Simintzi, Associate Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: “Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel”
February 7
Efraim Benmelech, Henry Bullock Professor of Finance & Real Estate; Director of the Crown Family Israel Center for Innovation; Co-Director of the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Topic: “Debt and Assets”
April 4
Vincent Bogousslavsky, Associate Professor of Finance
Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Topic: “Unpacking Retail Trading Costs: The Role of Options Trading and Limit Order Usage”
April 11
Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Topic: “Causal Inference for Asset Pricing”
April 18
Markus Pelger, Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering
Stanford University
Topic: “Shrinking the Term Structure”
April 25
Mikhail Simutin, Professor of Finance and Associate Director of Research at the International Centre for Pension Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Topic: “Noisy Factors? The Retroactive Impact of Methodological Changes on the Fama-French Factors”
Fall 2025
Forthcoming
2024
Spring 2024
February 2
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Professor of Finance, Goldyne and Irwin Hearsh Chair in Money and Ban
University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: NA
March 15
Russell James
Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, University of Kentucky
Topic: NA
April 12
Vikas Agarwal, Distinguished University Professor of the University System of Georgia & Bank of America Distinguished Chair and Professor of Finance
J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Topic: NA
April 19
Alberto Rossi, Hachigian Family Professor and Director, Future of Work Initiative
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Topic: NA
April 26
Quentin Vandeweyer, Assistant Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: NA
May 3
Azi Ben-Rephael, Associate Professor
Rutgers University
Topic: NA
Fall 2024
September 13
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Michael Stark Professor of Finance
University of Michigan
Topic: “The Economics of Market-Based Deposit Insurance”
September 27
Christine Parlour, Professor and Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: “Market Power and the Bitcoin Protocol”
October 25
Yiming Qian, Professor and the Toscano Family Chair in Finance
University of Connecticut
Topic: “Corporate Finance”
November 15
Ron Kaniel, Jay S. and Jeanne P. Benet Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School
Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Topic: “Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation, and Investments”
November 22
Ting Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Rottman School of Management
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Topic: “Entrepreneurial Finance”
2023
Spring 2023
March 31
Clemens Sialm, Professor of Finance
University of Texas at Austin
Topic: NA
April 14
Julian Reif, Associate Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Data Science
Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Topic: NA
April 17
Ralph Koijen, AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: NA
April 28
Neil Bhutta, Special Advisor – Consumer Finance Institute
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Real Estate)
Topic: NA
Fall 2023
September 1
Andrey Malenko, Professor and Hillenbrand Family Faculty Fellow
Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Topic: “Voting Choice”
September 15
Cecilia Bustamante, Associate Professor
Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Topic: “Dynamic Carbon Emission Management”
September 22
Russell Wermers, Paul J. Cinquegrana ’63 Endowed Chair in Finance
Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Topic: “Scale Economies, Bargaining Power, and Investment Performance: Evidence from Pension Plans”
September 29
Paul Carillo, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
George Washington University
Topic: “The Spatial Distribution the Homeownership Racial Gap”
October 6
Guofu Zhou, Professor of Finance
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
Topic 1: “Did Retail Traders Take Over Wall Street? A Tick-by-Tick Analysis of GameStop’s Price Surge”
Topic 2: “How Accurate Are Survey Forecasts on the Market?”
November 10
Dacheng Xiu, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: NA
November 17
Lauren Cohen, L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration
Harvard University
Topic: NA
2022
Spring 2022
January 28
Arpit Gupta, Associate Professor
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (Real Estate)
Topic: NA
February 4
Samuel Hartzmark, Professor of Finance
University of Chicago
Topic: NA
February 11
Paul Willen, Principal Economist and Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Real Estate)
Topic: NA
February 25
Audra Boone, Professor
Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University
Topic: NA
April 1
Sergey Chernenko, Associate Professor of Management
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Topic: NA
April 8
Eric Budish, Paul G. McDermott Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship and Centel Foundation
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: NA
April 15
Christian Redfearn, Associate Professor
Sol Price School of Public Policy,University of Southern California (Real Estate)
Topic: NA
April 22
Sophie Shive, Associate Professor
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Topic: NA
May 6
Wenxin Du, Professor of Finance
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Topic: NA
Fall 2022
September 6
Kairong Xiao, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business
Columbia University
Topic: NA
September 9
Mahyar Kargar, Assistant Professor of Finance
Gies College of Business, Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Topic: NA
September 23
Huseyin Gulen, Professor of Management
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Topic: NA
September 30
Giorgo Sertsios, Sheldon B. Lubar Associate Professor of Finance
Lubar College of Business, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Topic: NA
October 7
Aymeric Bellon, Assistant Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: NA
October 14
Daniel Hartley
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Real Estate)
Topic: NA
October 18
Peter Christensen, Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Real Estate)
Topic: NA