Finance Events

Upcoming Seminars

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Past Seminars and Symposiums

Camelia M. Kuhnen, Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior
Thursday, May 30, 2019 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Arpit Gupta, Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University
Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
Thursday, May 16, 2019 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Gustavo Manso, Professor of Finance and William A. and Betty H. Hasler Chair in New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Recommendations with Feedback
Thursday, April 4, 2019 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Mark Jansen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance
Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Laura Lindsey, Associate Professor of Finance, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital
Thursday, December 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM | Baxter B125

Alex Imas, William S. Dietrich II Assistant Professor in Behavioral Economics, Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Thursday, November 29, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Justin Birru, Associate Professor, Fisher School of Business, Ohio State University
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Thursday, October 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Terrance Odean, Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Learning Fast or Slow
Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Chad Kendall, Assistant Professor, Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference?
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Arthur Korteweg, Dean's Associate Professor in Business Administration & Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Venture Capital Contracts
Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Jarrad Harford, Professor of Finance, Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics, Paul Pigott-PACCAR Professor in Business Administration, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves
Thursday, May 3, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Andrea Buffa, Assistant Professor of Finance, Boston University
Institutional Investors, Heterogeneous Benchmarks and the Comovement of AssetPrices
Thursday, April 19, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Xing Huang, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds?
Thursday, April 12, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Samuel Hartzmark, Assistant Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Reconsidering Returns
Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Robert Engle, Michael Armellino Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Thursday, March 1, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Alexander Lipton, Founder and CEO, StrongHold Labs; Connection Science Fellow, MIT
Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 4:00 pm PM | Baxter B125

Tarun Chordia, Professor of Finance, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
p-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies
Thursday, November 16, 2017 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Bernard Herskovic, Assistant Professor of Finance, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
Acquiring Information Through Peers
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

John Zhu, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Renegotiation of Dynamically Incomplete Contracts
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Cary Frydman, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC
The Role of Salience and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An ExperimentalInvestigation
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Nicolae Gârleanu, Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Juhani Linnainmaa, Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC
The History of the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Song Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, School of Management, Yale University
Agency, Incentives, and Motivating Innovation
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis
Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Monday, October 10, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Huseyin Gulen, Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Extrapolation Bias and the Predictability of Stock Returns by Price-ScaledVariables
Monday, September 26, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Joseph Gerakos, Associate Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Prediction Versus Inducement and the Informational Efficiency of Going ConcernOpinions
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University
High Frequency Market Making
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Alex Gorbenko, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
Auctions with Endogenous Initiation
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

John Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
A New Approach to Monetary Policy
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, University of California, Irvine
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Yuliy Sannikov, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running, and Relationship Banking
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University
Retail Short Selling and Stock Prices
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of Finance, Rady School of Management, UCSD
What's in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education BondMarkets
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Peter Feldhutter, Assistant Professor of Finance, London Business School
The Credit Spread Puzzle in the Merton Model – Myth or Reality?
Monday, May 18, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Caltech + Finance Symposium
Friday, May 1, 2015 | 10:00 AM | BBB 24

Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Monday, April 13, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Misspecified Recovery
Monday, March 30, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Intangible capital and the investment-q relation
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding BiomedicalInnovation
Friday, December 5, 2014 | 12:00 PM | Baxter B125

Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, andIntelligence
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Neng Wang, Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Columbia Business School
A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of RiskyHuman Capital
Monday, November 17, 2014 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Malamud Semyon, Assistant Professor of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute
Price Discovery Through Options
Thursday, October 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM | Baxter B125

Peter Carr, Global Head of Market Modeling, Morgan Stanley
Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Thursday, October 9, 2014 | 11:00 AM | Dabney 110 (Treasure Room)