Finance Research Seminars Archive
This archive lists past financial research seminars organized by the Department of Finance. The archive provides an overview of previous lectures by renowned international researchers and presents a wide range of topics and advances in financial research. It serves as evidence of our department's ongoing commitment to academic dialogue and excellence.
2025
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 14.02. | Fulvia Fringuellotti Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Payout Restrictions and Bank Risk-Shifting |
| 14.02. | Fabrizio Anfuso Bank of England |
Wrong-Way Risk, Leverage and Counterparty Credit Risk Stress Testing: New Methods and Lessons Learned |
| 21.02. | Johannes Wohlfart University of Cologne |
Mental Models of the Stock Market |
| 28.02. | Nadya Malenko Boston College |
Voting Choice |
| 07.03. | Christoph Schiller Ohio State University Fisher College |
When Values Align: Corporate Philanthropy and Employee Turnover |
| 14.03. | David Berger Duke University |
Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution |
| 21.03. | Anthony Lee Zhang University of Chicago Booth |
Competition in the Cryptocurrency Exchange Market |
| 28.03. | Arpit Gupta New York University Stern |
Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints |
| 11.04. | Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania |
Neoclassical Growth Transitions with Limited Commitment |
| 09.05. | Clemens Sialm University of Texas at Austin |
Information Acquisition by Mutual Fund Investors: Evidence from Stock Trading Suspensions |
| 16.05. | Philip Valta University of Bern |
The Real Effects of Valuation Mistakes: Estimates from Mergers and Acquisitions |
| 23.05 | Farzad Saidi University of Bonn |
Aging at the very top |
| 19.09. | Stavros Panageas UCLA Anderson School of Management |
Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth |
| 26.09. | Arna Olafsson Copenhagen Business School |
What Makes Depositors Tick? Bank Data Insights into Households’ Liquid Asset Allocation |
| 03.10. | Paul Smeets University of Amsterdam |
Bringing Democracy to Finance: A Field Experiment on Pension Fund Members' Preferences for Sustainable Investing |
| 10.10. | Paul Hübner Stockholm School of Economics |
Causal Inference for Asset Pricing |
| 17.10. | Shan Ge New York University |
The Hidden Effects of Climate Risk: Rising Insurance Premiums Increase Mortgage Delinquency and Drive Relocation to Safer Areas |
| 23.10. | Markus Brunnermeier Princeton University |
A Monetary Model with Money and Safe Assets |
| 31.10. | Olivier Scaillet University of Geneva |
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| 07.11. | Jedrzej Bialkowski University of Canterbury |
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| 14.11. | Matti Keloharju Aalto University |
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| 21.11. | Mike Wittry Ohio State University |
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| 28.11. | Erica Jiang USC Marshall School of Business |
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| 05.12. | Matthijs Korevaar Erasmus School of Economics |
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| 11.12. | Dan Greenwald NYU Stern School of Business |
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2024
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 15.01. | Maxence Valentin Cornell University |
Voter-induced Municipal Credit Risk |
| 16.01. | Simon Büchler Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
On the value of market signals: Evidence from commercial real estate redevelopment |
| 19.01. | Francisco Amaral University of Bonn |
Price Uncertainty and Returns to Housing |
| 22.01. | Rebecca A. Jorgensen University of Pennsylvania |
Economic Consequences of Mergers Between Real Estate Agencies and Mortgage Lenders |
| 23.02. | Chendi Zhang University of Exeter |
Temperature Sensitivity, Mispricing, and Predictable Returns Paper |
| 01.03. | Stephan Siegel University of Washington |
Rethinking the Stock Market Participation Puzzle: A Qualitative Approach |
| 15.03. | Thomas Winberry University of Pennsylvania |
Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions |
| 12.04. | Jonathan Karpoff University of Washington |
The Prevalence and Costs of Undetected Financial Misrepresentation |
| 19.04. | Francesco Celentano HEC Lausanne |
Why Firms Often Don’t Have a CEO Succession Plan |
| 03.05. | Nicola Pavanini Tilburg University |
Leverage Regulation and Housing Inequality |
| 17.05. | Olivier David Zerbib Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
Can Investors Curb Greenwashing? |
| 24.05. | Manju Puri Duke University |
Does Open Banking Expand Credit Access? |
| 31.05. | Kasper Meisner Nielsen Copenhagen Business School |
A Breath of Change: Can Personal Exposures Drive Green Preferences? |
| 20.09. | Travis Johnson University of Texas at Austin |
Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event |
| 27.09. | Nickolay Gantchev University of Warwick |
The Role of Social Value in Contracting |
| 11.10. | Moritz Lenel Princeton University |
Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk |
| 18.10. | Constantin Charles London School of Economics |
Marketwide Memory |
| 25.10. | Gerard Hoberg University of Southern California |
New Technology Sectoral Disruptions |
| 01.11. | Dejanir Silva Purdie University |
Dissecting the Aggregate Market Elasticity |
| 15.11. | Petra Vokata Ohio State University |
Democratizing Private Markets: The Private Equity Performance of Individual Investors |
| 22.11. | Florian Scheuer UZH - Department of Economics |
Putting the "Finance" into "Public Finance": A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation |
| 29.11. | Lakshmi Naaraayanan London Business School |
Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation |
| 06.12. | Roxana Mihet HEC Lausanne |
Data Risk, Firm Growth, and Innovation |
| 13.12. | Lu Liu University of Pennsylvania |
A Macro-Finance Model of Mortgage Structure: Financial Stability & Risk Sharing |
2023
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 25.01. | Matteo Leombroni Stanford University |
Heterogeneous Intermediaries and the Transmission(s) of Monetary Policy |
| 26.01. | Sofonias Korsaye SFI, University of Geneva |
Investor Beliefs and Market Frictions |
| 27.01. | Yucheng Yang Princeton University |
Redistributive Inflation and Optimal Monetary Policy |
| 24.02. | Umut Cetin London School of Economics |
Order routing and market quality: Who benefits from internalization? |
| 10.03. | Quentin Vandeweyer University of Chicago |
Can Stablecoins be Stable? |
| 24.03. | Ugo Panizza Geneva Graduate Institute |
Carbon Policy Surprises and Stock Returns: Signals from Financial Markets |
| 24.03. | Stanislava Nikolova University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Corporate Bond Flipping |
| 21.04. | Elisabeth Kempf Harvard Business School |
The Political Polarization of Corporate America |
| 05.05. | Jonathan Roth Brown University |
Log-like? Identified ATEs defined with zero-valued outcomes are (arbitrarily) scale-dependent |
| 02.06. | Motohiro Yogo Princeton University |
Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in a Global Demand System |
| 26.06. | Christian Hilber London School of Economics |
Why Have House Prices Risen So Much More Than Rents in Superstar Cities? |
| 13.07. | Caroline Flammer Columbia University |
Biodiversity Finance |
| 29.09. | Stephan Luck Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German Hyperinflation Paper |
| 06.10. | Xavier D'Haultfoeuille ENSAE |
Difference-in-Differences Estimators for Treatments Continuously Distributed at Every Period Paper |
| 13.10. | Jan Keil HU Berlin |
"Buy Now, Pay Later" and Impulse Shopping |
| 20.10. | Vardges Levonyan UZH |
Mergers and Market Power |
| 27.10. | Emil Verner Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Failing Banks |
| 03.11. | Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge |
Asset Pricing in a World of Imperfect Foresight |
| 17.11. | Adrien d’Avernas Stockholm School of Economics |
The Central Bank’s Balance Sheet and Treasury Market Disruptions |
| 24.11. | Brian Melzer Dartmouth College |
Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption Disruptions |
| 01.12. | Fabrice Tourré Baruch College |
The Art of Timing: Managing Sudden Stop Risk in Corporate Credit Markets |
| 08.12. | Nam Vera Chau University of Geneva |
An empirical and theoretical approach to Network Effects in Technology Diffusion: Lessons from the Energy Sector |
| 15.12. | Thomas Schmid Hong Kong University |
Do environmental and social targets in executive pay improve ES or simply increase pay? |
2022
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 25.02. | Ines Chaieb University of Geneva |
Who Invests in and What Drives Equity Ownership Around the World |
| 11.03. | Vitaly Orlov University of St. Gallen |
Birth order and fund manager’s trading behavior: Role of sibling rivalry |
| 18.03. | Ralph De Haas KU Leuven |
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab |
| 21.03. | Lukas Roth University of Alberta |
Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement Paper |
| 23.03. | Emilia Garcia-Appendini University of Zurich |
Credit supply and green investments |
| 25.03. | Giuseppe Ugazio University of Geneva |
Moral and Financial Values in the Brain |
| 30.03. | Paul Smeets Maastricht University |
Do preferences for sustainable investments differ across countries? A large-scale experiment in five European countries |
| 29.04. | Alexi Savov NYU |
Credit Crunches and the Great Stagflation |
| 13.05. | Ian Martin LSE |
Sustainability in a Risky World Paper |
| 20.05. | Sebastian Gehricke University of Otago |
In Holdings We Trust: Uncovering the ESG Fund Lemons |
| 03.06. | Manuel Adelino Duke University |
The Environmental Cost of Easy Credit: The Housing Channel |
| 23.09. | Brantly Callaway University of Georgia |
Difference in Differences with Time-Varying Covariates Paper |
| 07.10. | Harrison Hong Columbia University |
Employee Climate Activism |
| 11.10. | Zacharias Sautner Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)Predictable Past of ESG Ratings Paper |
| 21.10. | Tobias Straumann UZH |
Who Paid for Hitler? The United States, Israel, and the ‘German Economic Miracle’ |
| 04.11. | Martin Schmalz University of Oxford |
Do Universal Investors Vote to Curb Climate Change? |
| 18.11. | Johannes Stroebel New York University |
A quantity-based approach to constructing climate risk hedge portfolios |
| 23.11. | Christian Hilber London School of Economics |
Why Have House Prices Risen So Much More Than Rents in Superstar Cities? |
| 02.12. | Toni Berrada University of Geneva |
The Economics of Sustainability Linked Bonds |
| 16.12. | Rudiger Frey WU Vienna |
Steady does it? On the impact of (perceived) tax uncertainty on investment into carbon abatement technologies |
2021
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 26.02. | Olivier Scaillet University of Geneva |
Skill, Scale, and Value Creation in the Mutual Fund Industry |
| 05.03. | Dirk Niepelt University of Bern |
Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, equivalence, and politics Paper |
| 12.03. | Ricardo Reis LSE |
The constraint on public debt when r < g but g < m Paper |
| 19.03. | Michaela Pagel Columbia Business School |
Does Saving Cause Borrowing? |
| 16.04. | Christos Makridis Arizona State University |
Split Personalities? Behavioral Effects of Temperature on Financial Decision-making |
| 23.04. | Dmitriy Sergeyev Bocconi University |
Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World |
| 30.04. | Florian Weigert University of Neuchâtel |
Hedge Funds and the Positive Idiosyncratic Volatility Effect |
| 07.05. | Pierre Collin-Dufresne EPF Lausanne |
How integrated are credit and equity markets? Evidence from index options |
| 28.05. | Julien Cujean University of Bern |
The Low-Minus-High Portfolio and the Factor Zoo |
| 24.09. | Bruno Biais HEC Paris |
Committee-based Blockchains as Games Between Opportunistic players and Adversaries |
| 08.10. | Marcin Kacperczyk Imperial College London |
Carbon Emissions and the Bank-Lending Channel Paper |
| 22.10. | Toni Whited University of Michigan |
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition |
| 05.11. | Giulia Livieri Scuola Normale Superiore |
Analysis of bank leverage via dynamical systems and deep neural networks |
| 19.11. | Philippe Bacchetta HEC Lausanne |
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds |
| 03.12. | Kathy Yuan LSE |
Dynamic Asset-Backed Security Design Paper |
| 17.12. | Yann Koby Brown University |
Low Rates and Bank Loan Supply: Theory and Evidence from Japan |
2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 21.02. | Neeltje Van Horen Bank of England |
All You Need is Cash: Corporate Cash Holdings and Investment after the Financial Crisis |
| 28.02. | Andrew Ellul Indiana University |
Access to Public Capital Markets and Employment Growth |
| 06.03. | Johan Walden University of California at Berkeley |
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Beliefs and Undersaving |
| 25.09. | Amir Sufi Chicago Booth |
The Saving Glut of the Rich |
| 02.10. | Fabio Trojani University of Geneva |
Smart Stochastic Discount Factors |
| 09.10. | Lore Vandewalle Graduate Institute Geneva |
Access to Banking, Savings and Consumption Smoothing in Rural India |
| 16.10. | Delia Coculescu UZH |
On the value of cooperation in risk sharing |
| 23.10. | Isil Erel Ohio State University |
Does FinTech Substitute for Banks? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program |
| 30.10. | Andreas Fuster Swiss National Bank |
Mortgage Credit Supply During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 06.11. | Tim Eisert Erasmus University |
The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies |
| 13.11. | Tobias Berg Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Leverage and Risk-Taking |
| 20.11. | Roni Michaely University of Geneva |
Financing Payouts |
| 27.11. | Norman Shürhoff HEC Lausanne |
Self-inflicted debt crises |
| 04.12. | Jürgen Huber University of Innsbruck |
What Drives Risk Perception? A Global Survey with Financial Professionals and Lay People |
| 11.12. | Jean-Charles Rochet UZH / University of Geneva |
Taxing Financial Transactions |
| 18.12. | Markus Pelger Stanford University |
Deep Learning in Asset Pricing |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 22.02. | Luca Gelsomini ICEF Moscow |
Dynamic Trading and the Voluntary Disclosure of Information |
| 01.03. | Michael Wolf University of Zurich |
Efficient Sorting: A More Powerful Test for Cross-Sectional Anomalies |
| 08.03. | Miguel Ferreira Nova School of Business and Economics |
Entrepreneurship and Regional Windfall Gains: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery |
| 15.03. | Daxeng Xiu Chicago Booth |
Predicting Returns using Text Data |
| 22.03. | Oliver Boguth Arizona State University |
Competition, No-Arbitrage, and Systematic Risk |
| 29.03. | Andreas Schrimpf BIS |
The FOMC Risk Shift |
| 12.04. | Enrico Sette Bank of Italy |
The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption |
| 26.04. | Vicente Cuñat LSE |
Active Owners and Firm Policies |
| 03.05. | Hannes Wagner Bocconi |
Corporate Governance Through Voice and Exit |
| 10.05. | Felix von Meyerinck University of St. Gallen |
As California goes, so goes the nation? Board gender quotas and the legislation of non-economic values |
| 17.05. | Francesco D'Acunto Boston College |
Crowdsourcing Financial Information to Change Spending Behavior |
| 24.05. | Yacine Ait-Sahalia Princeton |
Implied Stochastic Volatility Models |
| 20.09. | Bruno Biais Toulouse School of Economics |
Variation margins, fire sales, and information constrained optimality |
| 27.09. | Shmuel Baruch University of Utah |
The Distortion in Prices due to Passive Investing |
| 04.10. | Ludovic Phalippou Saïd Business School |
How Alternative Are Private Markets? |
| 11.10. | Ragnar Juelsrud Norges Bank |
Granular Credit Risk |
| 18.10. | Paul Ehling Norwegian Business School |
Tax Collection from Realized Capital Gains on Equity |
| 25.10. | Lukas Schmid Duke University |
The Risks of Safe Assets |
| 01.11. | Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr Federal Reserve Board |
Institutional Investors, the Dollar, and U.S. Credit Conditions |
| 08.11. | Federico Bandi Johns Hopkins University |
Spectral Factor Models |
| 15.11. | Jörgen Haug NHH |
Options and Risk |
| 22.11. | Heinz Zimmerman University of Basel |
Steady state analysis of market fundamentals: An exploration |
| 29.11. | Michael Hasler University of Texas at Dallas |
Does the CAPM Predict Returns? |
| 06.12. | Jules van Binsbergen Wharton School |
Risk-Free Interest Rates |
| 13.12. | Marco Di Maggio Harvard Business School |
Second Chance: Life without Student Debt |
| 20.12. | Matteo Crosignani University of Michigan |
Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation: Evidence from Europe |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 23.02 | Alexandra Niessen-Rünzi University of Mannheim |
Mutual Fund Shareholder Letters: Flows, Performance, and Managerial Behavior |
| 02.03 | Christoph Herpfer Emory Goizueta Business School |
The Real Effects of Banker Networks |
| 09.03 | Ilaria Piatti University of Oxford |
Rationality and Subjective Bond Risk Premia |
| 16.03 | Laurent Frésard USI |
Technological Changes and the Evolution and IPO and Acquisition Activities |
| 23.03 | Luc Laeven European Central Bank |
Safe Asset Shortages: Evidence from the European Government Bond Lending Market |
| 13.04 | Albert Menkveld VU Amsterdam |
A Network Map of Information Percolation |
| 20.04 | Yishay Yafeh Jerusalem School of Business Administration |
The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Tunneling |
| 27.04 | Juhani Linnainmaa USC Marshall School of Business |
Factor Momentum |
| 04.05 | Michelle Lowry Drexel University |
Mutual Fund Investments in Private Firms |
| 11.05 | Michael Fleming Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Intraday Pricing and Liquidity Effects of U.S. Treasury Auctions |
| 18.05 | Adair Morse UC Berkeley |
Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era |
| 25.05 | Ed deHaan University of Washington |
Why do individual investors disregard accounting information? The roles of information awareness and acquisition costs |
| 28.05 | John Griffin University of Texas at Austrin |
Is Bitcoin really Un-Tethered? |
| 01.06 | Byoung-Hyoun Hwang Cornell University |
The Emergence of “Social Executives” and Its Consequences for Financial Markets |
| 21.09 | Simi Kedia Rutgers University |
Primary Market Allocations in Corporate Bonds |
| 28.09 | Felix Matthys ITAM |
The Volatility and Uncertainty Disconnect: Optimal Portfolio Choice and Asset Prices |
| 05.10 | Joshua White Vanderbilt University |
Trade Secrets Protection and Antitakeover Provisions |
| 12.10 | Sydney Ludvigson New York University |
Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response? |
| 19.10 | Elena Carletti Bocconi University |
Banks as Patient Lenders: Evidence from a Tax Reform |
| 26.10 | Pedro Matos University of Virginia |
Multi-Class Shares Around the World: The Role of Institutional Investors |
| 02.11 | Kaveh Majlesi Lund University |
Stock Market Returns and Consumption |
| 09.11 | Eliza Wu University of Sidney |
Creditor Control Rights and the Non-Synchronicity of Global Corporate CDS Excess Returns |
| 16.11 | Peter Zweifel University of Zurich |
Adopting Solvency III? |
| 23.11 | Anna Pavlova London Business School |
The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy |
| 30.11 | Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School of Economics |
Liability Structure and Risk-Taking: Evidence from the Money Market Fund Industry |
| 07.12 | Pascal Gantenbein University of Basel |
Family Firms, Minority Investor Protection and Firm Performance |
| 14.12 | Ye Li Ohio State University |
Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation |
2017
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24.02 | Holger Kraft Goethe University Frankfurt |
Predictors and Portfolios over the Life Cycle: Skill vs. Luck |
| 03.03 | Gregor Matvos University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct |
| 10.03 | Cars Hommes University of Amsterdam |
Coordination on Bubbles in Large-Group Asset Pricing Experiments |
| 17.03 | Martin Kanz World Bank |
Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards |
| 24.03 | Olesya Grishchenko Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-Run and Long-Run Risks |
| 07.04 | Alexander Hillert Goethe University Frankfurt |
The Value of Visibility |
| 21.04 | Mike Burkart LSE |
Activism and Takeovers |
| 28.04 | Alberto Manconi Universita Bocconi |
Canary in a Coalmine: Securities Lending Predicting the Performance of Securitized Bonds |
| 05.05 | Marie Kratz ESSEC Business School |
Procyclicality of Empirical Measurements of Risk in Financial Markets |
| 12.05 | Angelo Ranaldo University of St. Gallen |
Explaining the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis with Short-Term Rates |
| 19.05 | Thierry Foucault HEC Paris |
Corporate Strategy, Conformism, and the Stock Market |
| 26.05 | Yuri Tserlukevich Arizona State University |
Embracing Risk: Hedging Policy for Firms with Real Options |
| 30.05 | John Geanakoplos Yale University |
Leverage Cycles, Credit Surfaces and Doom Triangles |
| 02.06 | David Lando Copenhagen Business School |
Generalized Recovery |
| 22.09 | Stefan Zeisberger Radboud University / UZH |
Understanding and Improving Investor Risk Perception with Digital Support |
| 29.09 | Simone Manganelli European Central Bank |
Deciding with Judgment |
| 06.10 | Rainer Haselmann Goethe-University Frankfurt |
The Political Economy of Bank Bailouts |
| 13.10 | Maxim Ulrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
A No‐Arbitrage Heteroscedastic Macroeconomic Model for Equity, Dividend and Bond Yields |
| 20.10 | Javier Suarez CEMFI |
Equity versus Bail-in Debt in Banking: An Agency Perspective |
| 27.10 | Bill Ziemba University of British Columbia |
Stock Market Crashes |
| 03.11 | Clifton Green Emory University |
Wisdom of the Employee Crowd: Employer Reviews and Stock Returns |
| 10.11 | Roland Füss University of St. Gallen |
Office Market Interconnectedness and Systemic Risk Exposure |
| 17.11 | Jiekun Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Informing the Market: The Effect of Modern Information Technologies on Information Production |
| 24.11 | Stijn Claessens Bank for International Settlements |
Bank Capital, Portfolio Rating Change and Loan Conditions |
| 01.12 | Ulf Axelson LSE |
Sequential Credit Markets |
| 05.12 | Martin Lettau UC Berkeley |
Estimating Latent Asset Pricing Factors |
| 08.12 | Elise Gourier Queen Mary University of London |
How Alternative Are Alternative Investments? The Case of Private Equity Funds |
| 15.12 | David Cicero Auburn University |
Local Investors’ Preferences and Capital Structure |
2016
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 26.02 | Sanjay Banerji University of Nottingham |
Collusion, Incentives and Reputation: The role of Experts in Corporate Governance |
| 04.03 | Paul Schneider USI |
An Anatomy of the Equity Premium |
| 11.03 | Damir Filipovic EPF Lausanne |
Linear-Rational Term Structure Models |
| 18.03 | Mitchell Petersen Northwestern University |
Understanding Precautionary Cash at Home and Abroad |
| 08.04 | Mete Soner ETH Zurich |
Optimal Dividends with Random Profitability |
| 15.04 | Fabio Trojani University of Geneva |
(Almost) Model-Free Recovery |
| 22.04 | Alberto Plazzi USI Lugano |
Birds of a Feather – do Hedge Fund Managers Flock Together? |
| 29.04 | Thomas Hellmann University of Oxford |
Fostering Entrepreneurship: Backing Founders or Investors? |
| 13.05 | Hank Bessembinder Arizona State University |
Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds |
| 20.05 | David Sraer UC Berkeley |
Aggregate Effects of Collateral Constraints |
| 27.05 | Gilles Chemla Imperial College London |
1. The Paradox of Policy-Relevant RCTs and Natural Experiments 2. Bayesian Expectancy Invalidates Randomized Controlled Medical Trials |
| 03.06 | William Megginson University of Oklahoma |
Institutional Bidding in Ipo Allocation: Evidence from China |
| 23.09 | Yasushi Hamao University of Southern California |
Selective Disclosure: The Case of Nikkei Preview Articles |
| 30.09 | Nils Herger Study Center Gerzensee |
Interest parity conditions during the classical gold standard (1880-1914) -Evidence from the investment demand for bills of exchange in Europe |
| 03.10 | Xavier Giroud MIT Sloan School of Management |
Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks |
| 07.10 | Allaudeen Hameed National University of Singapore |
Slow Trading and Stock Return Predictability |
| 14.10 | John Kuong INSEAD |
Servicing Securitisation through Excessive Foreclosure |
| 21.10 | Philip Valta University of Bern |
Debt in Political Campaignss |
| 26.10 | Werner Hildenbrand University of Bonn |
Piketty's chain of argument in Le Capital au XXIe siècle |
| 28.10 | Eric Swanson UC Irvine |
Measuring the Effects of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance and Asset Purchases on Financial Markets |
| 04.11 | Axel Buchner University of Passau |
The Alpha and Beta of Private Equity Investments |
| 11.11 | Elisa Luciano University of Torino |
Equilibrium bid-ask spreads and the effect of competitive trading delays |
| 18.11 | Christian Wagner Copenhagen Business School |
What is the Expected Return on a Stock? |
| 25.11 | Semyon Malamud EPF Lausanne |
Intermediation Markups and Monetary Policy Passthrough |
| 02.12 | Nina Boyarchenko Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Credit Risk Hedging |
| 09.12 | Brian Bushee Wharton |
Linguistic Complexity in Firm Disclosures: Obfuscation or Information? |
| 16.12 | Philippe Müller LSE |
International Illiquidity |
2015
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 20.02 | Laurent Fresard University of Maryland |
Extending Industry Specialization, Intangibles, and Cross-Border Acquisitions |
| 27.02 | Fabio Braggion Tilburg University |
The Economic Impact of a Banking Oligopoly: Britain at the turn of the 20th century |
| 06.03 | Carol Alexander University of Sussex |
1. Trading and Investing in Volatility Products 2. Home-grown Diversification with Volatility Products |
| 13.03 | Sergei Guriev Sciences Po, Paris |
Expropriation Risk, Corporate Transparency, and Growth |
| 20.03 | Hendrik Hakenes University of Bonn |
Separating Trading and Banking: Consequences for Financial Stability |
| 27.03 | Hans-Joachim Voth University of Zurich |
Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending |
| 27.03 | Ralph Koijen London Business School |
An Equilibrium Model of Institutional Demand and Asset Prices |
| 17.04 | Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal University of Luxembourg |
What matters for Investor Activism: An Investigation of Activists' Incentives vs. Activist Types |
| 24.04 | Carole Gresse Université Paris-Dauphine |
Effects of Lit and Dark Market Fragmentation on Liquidity |
| 08.05 | Loriano Mancini EPF Lausanne |
The Euro Interbank Repo Market |
| 22.05 | Thomas Noe Said Business School, Oxford |
The Separation of Firm Ownership and Management: A Reputational Perspective |
| 29.05 | Yuhai Xuan Harvard Business School |
The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals |
| 18.09 | Umit Gurun University of Texas, Dallas |
Price of Publicity |
| 25.09 | Bill Wilhelm University of Virginia |
Investment-Banking Relationships: 1933-2007 |
| 02.10 | Farzad Saidi University of Cambridge |
The Informational Value of Patents in Banking Relationships |
| 02.10 | Suresh Sundaresan Columbia University |
Bank Liability Structure |
| 09.10 | Mariana Khapko University of Toronto |
Asset Pricing with Dynamically Inconsistent Agents |
| 16.10 | Annette Vissing-Jorgensen UC Berkeley |
Stock Returns over the FOMC Cycle |
| 23.10 | Andrea Vedolin LSE |
Policy Announcements in FX Markets |
| 30.10 | Dong Lou LSE |
A Tug of War: Overnight Versus Intraday Expected Returns |
| 06.11 | Paul Embrechts ETH Zurich |
Model Risk, Solvency and Risk Aggregation |
| 13.11 | Fabrizio Zilibotti UZH |
Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms |
| 20.11 | Rajkamal Iyer MIT |
The Run for Safety: Financial Fragility and Deposit Insurance |
| 27.11 | Isabel Schnabel University of Mainz |
Banks‘ Trading after the Lehman Crisis - Flight to Liquidity but no Fire Sales |
| 04.12 | Darrell Duffie Stanford University / EPFL |
Size Discovery |
| 11.12 | Gaizka Ormazabal University of Navarra |
Are Directors More Likely to Relinquish Their Riskiest Directorships after the Crisis? |
| 18.12 | Antoinette Schoar MIT |
Are Credit Card Issuers Screening for Behavioral Biases |
2014
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 21.02 | Per Mykland University of Chicago |
Sequential Cross-Validation in High Frequency Data |
| 28.02 | Pierre-Olivier Weill UCLA |
The Market for OTC Credit Derivatives |
| 07.03 | Josef Falkinger University of Zurich |
In Search of Economic Reality under the Veil of Financial Markets |
| 14.03 | Gilles Zumbach Fundo (Lausanne) / swissQuant (Zurich) |
A Mean/Variance Approach to long Term Fixed Income Portfolio Allocation |
| 21.03 | George Skiadopoulos University of Piraeus |
Jumps in Option Prices and their Determinants: Real-time Evidence from the E-mini S and P 500 Option Market |
| 28.03 | Colin Mayer Oxford University |
The Ownership of Japanese Corporations in the 20th Century |
| 04.04 | Branko Urosevic University of Belgrade |
Globalization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Contagion |
| 11.04 | Ilya Strebulaev Stanford University |
Financing as a Supply Chain: The Capital Structure of Banks and Borrowers |
| 09.05 | Pierre Lasserre Université du Québec à Montréal |
Alternative and Indefinitely Repeated Investments: Species Choice and Harvest Age in Forestry |
| 16.05 | Michael Magill University of Southern California Martine Quinzii University of California, Davis |
Prices and Investment with Collateral and Default |
| 23.05 | Ralph De Haas EBRD |
Bank Lending and Firm Innovation - Evidence from Russia |
| 16.06 | Tobias Moskowitz University of Chicago |
Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies |
| 11.07 | Hersh Shefrin Santa Clara University |
Investors’ Judgments, Asset Pricing Factors, and Sentiment |
| 19.09 | Claire Célérier IBF |
What Drives Financial Complexity? A Look into the Retail Market for Structured Products |
| 26.09 | Luc Renneboog Tilburg University |
Finance and Society: On the Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility |
| 03.10 | Marc Oliver Rieger University of Trier |
How to diversify with Options and Structured Products? |
| 10.10 | Jose Luis Peydro Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Cross-Border Liquidity, Relationships and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Euro Area Interbank Crisis |
| 17.10 | Michael Weber University of Chicago |
Nominal Rigidities and Asset Pricing |
| 24.10 | Walter Torous MIT |
Second Mortgages: Valuation and Implications for the Performance of Structured Mortgage Products |
| 31.10 | Daniel Paravisini LSE |
Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending |
| 07.11 | Boris Vallée Harvard Business School |
Political Incentives and Financial Innovation: The Strategic Use of Toxic Loans by Local Governments |
| 14.11 | Eric Jondeau HEC Lausanne |
Long-Term Portfolio Management with a Structural Macroeconomic Model |
| 21.11 | Phil Dybvig Washington University |
Tobin's q Does Not Measure Firm Performance: Theory, Empirics, and Alternatives |
| 28.11 | Sébastien Lleo NEOMA Business School |
Does the Bond-Stock Earnings Yield Differential Model Predict Equity Market Corrections Better Than High P/E Models? |
| 05.12 | Thorsten Beck Cass Business School |
Informality and Access to Finance: Evidence from India |
| 12.12 | David Oesch University of Zurich |
Understanding Director Elections: Determinants and Consequences |
| 19.12 | Galina Hale Federal Reserve Bank SF |
The Rise in Home Currency Issuance |