For further information concerning the Finance Seminars, please contact the seminar organizers, Tray Spilker, Yifan Chen. For more information, contact the Finance Department at (808) 956-6675.
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Feb. 14, 2025 (Fri) | Ray Zhang | Simon Fraser University | The Role of Foreign Institutional Investors in Facilitating Knowledge Diffusion across Geographic Boundaries: Evidence from Cross-Border Patent Citations | D-105 | 3:00 - 4:30pm(Brown Bag) |
| Mar. 10, 2025 (Mon) | Tao Zha | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | The Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Funding Composition: The Role of Deposit Market Regulation | G-102 | 3:00 - 4:30pm(Brown Bag) |
| Mar. 24, 2025 (Mon) | Qihe Tang | University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Modeling and Pricing Event-linked Securities with a Focus on Recovery Risk | G-102 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
| Mar. 28, 2025 (Fri) | Zhaogang Song | Johns Hopkins University- Carey | Inflation, Default, and Corporate Bond Returns | G-103 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
| Apr. 28, 2025 (Mon) | Jack Bao | University of Delaware | Uninsured Deposits, Run Risk, and Bank Stock Returns | G-102 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
| May 5, 2025 (Mon) | Matthew Ringenberg | University of Utah | The Economics of Investor Engagement | G-102 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Nov. 18, 2024 (Mon) | Liang Peng | Penn State University - Smeal | On the Segmentation of Office Space Market: The Abundance Premium | G-102 | 10:30 - 11:45am |
| Nov. 22, 2024 (Mon) | Rainer Alexander Schüssler | University of Rostock | Ensembles of Portfolio Rules | G-102 | 3:00 - 4:30pm(Brown Bag) |
| Dec. 6, 2024 (Fri) | Kewei Hou | Ohio State University - Fisher | Finding Anomalies in China | G-103 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
Past Seminar Speakers
Summer 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Jun. 24, 2024 (Mon) | Jiro Yoshida | Penn State University - Smeal | Equity Financing and Capital Investment in the Presence of the Central Bank Put | G-102 | 11:00 - 12:00pm (Brown Bag) |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Feb. 5, 2024 (Mon) | Brent Ambrose | Penn State University - Smeal | Voter-induced Municipal Credit Risk | G-102 | 10:30 - 11:45am |
| Feb. 20, 2024 (Tue) | Jarrad Harford | University of Washington - Foster | Firm-Level Labor-Shortage Exposure | G-103 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
| Mar. 4, 2024 (Mon) | Martin Grace | Temple University - Fox | Vicarious Learning Networks: Evidence from Insurance Price Filings | G-102 | 10:30 - 11:45am |
| Apr. 5, 2024 (Fri) | David Brown | University of Arizona - Eller | Target Date Fund Glide Paths | G-103 | 3:00 - 4:30pm |
| Apr. 8, 2024 (Mon) | Sumit Agarwal | National University of Singapore | From Efficiency to Excess: Understanding Utility Usage in Green-Certified Homes | G-102 | 10:30 - 11:45am |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Oct. 23, 2023 | Nimesh Patel | UH - Shidler | The Content of Climate Change Disclosures and Market Values | PwC | 11:30am - 12:30pm (brown bag) |
| Nov. 13, 2023 (Mon) | Steve Dimmock | National University of Singapore | Extrapolators and Contrarians: Forecast Bias and Household Equity Trading | G-102 | 10:30 - 12.00pm |
| Nov. 27, 2023 (Mon) | Kee Chung | University at Buffalo (SUNY) | Conservatism and Representativeness Heuristic in Peer Reviews: Evidence from the Finance Literature 1946-2020 | G-102 | 10:30 - 11:45am |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Jan. 27, 2023 (Fri) | Tarun Chordia | Emory University - Goizueta | Biased Expectations & Default Risk in the Municipal Bond Market | D-106 | 3.00 - 4.30pm |
| Feb. 24, 2023 (Fri) | Bing Han | University of Toronto - Rotman | Where Does Money Flow? A Tale of Two Manager Abilities and The Role of Market Volatility | D-106 | 3.00 - 4.30pm |
| Mar. 20, 2023 (Mon) | Yong Chen | Texas A&M - Mays | Capital Concentration of the Bond Fund Industry and Bond Market Fragility | D-204 | 10.30 - 11.45am |
| Mar. 31, 2023 (Fri) | Tracy Yue Wang | University of Minnesota - Carlson | Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Retention | George Hall 344 | 12.00 - 1.30pm |
| Apr. 5, 2023 (Wed) | Chris Veld | Monash University | How Did COVID-19 Affect Stock Market Expectations? | C-103 | 3.00 - 4.00pm (Brown Bag) |
| Jul. 7, 2023 (Fri) | Will Olney | Williams College - Economics | Explaining the Decline in Internal Migration | G-102 | 12.00 - 1.00pm (Brown Bag) |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Sep. 19, 2022 (Mon) | Katsumasa Nishide | Hitotsubashi University | Competition in High Frequency Market Making | D204 | 12.00 - 1.00pm (Brown Bag) |
| Dec. 5, 2022 (Mon) | Patrick Augustin | McGill University - Desautels | Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Financial Markets | D204 | 10.30 - 11.45am |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Jan. 20, 2022 | Albert Zevelev | Baruch College (CUNY) - Zicklin | Does Bankruptcy Protection Affect Asset Prices? Evidence from Changes in Homestead Exemptions | Zoom | Job Market Candidate |
| Jan. 27, 2022 | Yifan Chen | Pennsylvania State University - Smeal | Firm Location and the Value-Growth Premium | Zoom | Job Market Candidate |
| Feb. 1, 2022 | Maxence Valentin | Pennsylvania State University - Smeal | Interest Deductibility, Market Frictions, and Price Discrimination | Zoom | Job Market Candidate |
| Feb. 4, 2022 | Philip Kalikman | Yeshiva University - Sy Syms | Targeted Principal Forgiveness is Effective: Mortgage Modification and Financial Crisis | Zoom | Job Market Candidate |
| Feb. 14, 2022 | Lin William Cong | Cornell University - Johnson | Designing AI Models for Finance
with An Illustration Using Panel Trees | G-102 | 3.00 - 4.30pm |
| Feb. 25, 2022 | Mark Potter | Babson College | Financial Crime | D-204 | Brown Bag |
| Apr. 25, 2022 | Gordon Liao | Uniswap | Automated Market Makers | D-204 | Brown Bag |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Sep. 20, 2021 (Mon) | Feng Zhang | University of Utah - Eccles | Non-Random Survival and Long-Run Firm Performance | Zoom | 10.30 - 11.45am |
| Sep. 27, 2021 (Mon) | Rene Stulz | Ohio State University - Fisher | Is financial globalization in reverse after the 2008 global financial crisis? Evidences from corporate valuations | Zoom | 10.30 - 11.45am |
| Oct. 25, 2021 (Mon) | Turan Bali | Georgetown University - McDonough | In Search of a Factor Model for Optionable Stocks | Zoom | 10.30 - 11.45am |
| Nov. 22, 2021 (Mon) | K.C. John Wei | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Does the speculative frenzy in bitcoin spread to the stock market? | Zoom | 3.30 - 4.45pm |
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Feb. 8, 2021 (Mon) | Vikas Agarwal | Georgia State U. - Robinson | Eponymous Hedge Funds | Zoom | 10.30am |
| Mar. 1, 2021 (Mon) | Jun-Koo Kang | Nanyang Business School | Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China | Zoom | 3.15pm |
| Mar. 22, 2021 (Mon) | Hanming Fang | U. Pennsylvania - Economics | The Collateral Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from China | Zoom | 10.30am |
| Mar. 29, 2021 (Mon) | Jarrad Harford | U. Washington - Foster | Disloyal managers and shareholders’ wealth | Zoom | 10.30am |
| Apr. 12, 2021 (Mon) | Anna Scherbina | Brandeis University | Performance Isn’t Everything: Personal Characteristics and Career Outcomes of Mutual Fund Managers | Zoom | 10.30am |
Fall 2020: Internal Brown Bag Series (Covid)
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Time |
|---|
| Oct. 26, 2020 (Mon) | Nimesh Patel | Alpha by Affiliation | 10.30am - 11.45am |
| Nov. 2, 2020 (Mon) | Jiakai Chen | Regulating Shadow Banks | 12pm - 1.15pm |
| Nov. 9, 2020 (Mon) | Joonho Kim | Do Social Networks Facilitate Informed Trading? Evidence from Alumni Reunion Networks | 2pm - 3.15pm |
| Nov. 16, 2020 (Mon) | Murat Arabaci | Reducing Agency Costs with Average Beta Portfolios | 12pm - 1.15pm |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Jan. 13, 2020 (Mon) | Amir Kermani | U. California - Berkeley Haas | Two Tales of Debt | G102 | 10.30am - 12.00pm |
| Feb 10, 2020 (Mon) | Jeffrey Pai | U. Manitoba | Pricing Temperature Derivatives with a Filtered Historical Simulation Approach | G102 | 10.30am - 12.00pm |
| Feb 28, 2020 (Fri) | David Cimon | Wilfrid Laurier U. | Cyber Risk in Financial Markets | D204 | 3.30pm - 4.30pm |
| Mar. 6, 2020 (Fri) | Warren Bailey | Cornell U. Johnson | Does the Stock Market Benefit the Economy? | D204 | 3.00 - 4.30pm |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Oct. 14, 2019 (Mon) | Michael Sherris | UNSW Business School | Portfolio Management with Targeted Constant Market Volatility | G102 | 10.30am - 12.00 pm |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Feb. 22, 2019 (Fri) | Kai Li | U. British Columbia Sauder | The Myth about Public versus Private Enforcement of Securities Laws – Evidence from Chinese Comment Letters | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Feb. 25, 2019 (Mon) | Alexandre Jeanneret | HEC Montreal | A Credit-Based Theory of the Currency Risk Premium | G102 | 10:00 - 11:30 am |
| Mar. 1, 2019 (Fri) | Zhi Da | Notre Dame Mendoza | Leverage Networks and Market Contagion | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Mar. 18, 2019 (Mon) | Anthony Saunders | NYU Stern | International Lending: The Role of Creditor Laws and Self Selection | G102 | 10:00 - 11:30 am |
| May 20, 2019 (Mon) | Peter Swan | U. New South Wales | Smart Money?: The Trading Performance of Hedge Funds in a Zero-Sum Contest | G102 | 10:00 - 11:30 am |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Oct 19, 2018 (Fri) | Uday Rajan | U. Michigan Ross | Robust Security Design | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Oct. 26, 2018 (Fri) | Christian Lundblad | UNC Kenan-Flagler | Crowded Trades and Tail Risk | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Nov 2, 2018 (Fri) | Mark Grinblatt | UCLA Anderson | Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and Momentum | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Nov 9, 2018 (Fri) | Jonathan Karpoff | U. Washington Foster | The Lifecycle Effects of Firm Takeover Defenses | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Nov. 20, 2018 (Tue) | Ran Duchin | U. Washington Foster | Dissecting Conglomerates | D102 | 3:00 - 4:20 pm |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Feb 16, 2018 (Fri) | Mark Browne | St. John's Tobin | Does National Flood Insurance Program Participation Induce Housing Development? | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Feb 23, 2018 (Fri) | Wayne Ferson | USC Marshall | Holdings-based Fund Performance Measures: Estimation and Inference | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Mar 19, 2018 (Mon) | Hui Guo | U. Cincinnati Lindner | On the Stock Market Variance-Return or Price Relations: A Tale of Two Variances | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Mar 23, 2018 (Fri) | Russ Wermers | U. Maryland Smith | Picking Funds with Confidence | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Apr 9, 2018 (Mon) | Bohui Zhang | UNSW Business School | Panda Games: Corporate Disclosure in the Eclipse of Search | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
| Apr 13, 2018 (Fri) | Kenneth Ahern | USC Marshall | Do Proxies for Informed Trading Measure Informed Trading? Evidence From Illegal Insider Trades | G102 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Paper | Room | Time |
|---|
| Oct. 6, 2017 (Fri) | Dong Hyun Ahn | Seoul National University | The More Efficient, The More Vulnerable! | D204 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm |
AY 2016 - 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
|---|
| Sept. 2016 | David Ng | Cornell University - Johnson |
| Sept. 2016 | Ben Marshall | Massey University |
| Mar. 2017 | Kai Li | University of British Columbia - Sauder |
| May 2017 | Warren Bailey | Cornell University - Johnson |
AY 2015 - 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
|---|
| Oct. 2015 | Zhi Da | University of Notre Dame - Mendozza |
| Dec. 2015 | Allandeen Hameed | National University of Singapore |
| Jan. 2016 | KC John Wei | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Mar. 2016 | Hitoshi Takehara | Waseda University |
| Mar. 2016 | Tong Yu | University of Cincinnati - Lindner |
| Apr. 2016 | Patrick Brockett | University of Texas at Austin - McCombs |