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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
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: TBA
April 11
Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Topic: TBA
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: TBA
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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”
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
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
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
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 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
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