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Students, faculty and industry professionals regularly come together at W. P. Carey Department of Finance seminars to learn about state-of-the-art research, discuss ideas, and share feedback with researchers from around the country.

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Seminar series

These events also provide faculty and students with forums for sharpening presentation skills, engaging in interactive collaboration and networking to advance their professional and academic careers. Department of Finance seminars are free and open to the public.

2025-2026

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Date	Speaker
Fall 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025	Sara Easterwood University of Arizona Do Investors Have Data Blind Spots? The Role of Data Vendors in Capital Markets
Friday, September 19, 2025	Julia Fonseca University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports
Friday, September 26, 2025	Itzhak Ben-David The Ohio State University Modeling Managers As EPS Maximizers
Friday, October 17, 2025	Felipe Severino Dartmouth College
Friday, October 24, 2025	Terrance Odean University of California, Berkeley
Friday, November 7, 2025	Chad Kendall University of Miami
Friday, November 14, 2025	David Sraer University of California, Berkeley
Friday, November 21, 2025	Christophe Spaenjers University of Colorado, Boulder

Date	Speaker
Spring 2026
Friday, March 6, 2026	Yang Song University of Washington
Friday, March 20, 2026	Paul Fontanier Yale University
Friday, March 27, 2026	Nikolai Roussanov University of Pennsylvania
Friday, April 10, 2026	Paige Ouimet The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, April 17, 2026	Toomas Laarits New York University
Friday, May 1, 2026	Richard Townsend University of California, San Diego and NBER

Seminar archive

Date	Speaker
Spring 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025	Matthew Ringgenberg The University of Utah The Economics of Investor Engagement
Friday, March 21, 2025	Asaf Manela Washington University in St. Louis Chronologically Consistent Large Language Models
Friday, March 28, 2025	Luke Taylor University of Pennsylvania Due Diligence and the Allocation of Venture Capital
Friday, April 4, 2025	Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School of Economics Beyond ESG: Executive Pay Metrics and Shareholder Support
Friday, April 11, 2025	Zhi Da University of Notre Dame You can only lend what you own: Inferring daily institutional trading from security lending supply
Friday, April 18, 2025	Nicholas Crouzet Northwestern University Intangible Capital, Firm Scope, and Growth
Wednesday, May 7, 2025	Kristopher Gerardi Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending

Date	Speaker
Fall 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024	Vikas Agarwal Georgia State University The Real Effect of Sociopolitical Racial/Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund Manager Performance During AAPI Hate
Friday, September 27, 2024	David Brown University of Arizona Target Date Fund Glide Paths
Friday, October 4, 2024	Stavros Panageas University of California, Los Angeles Growth-Indexed Securities
Friday, October 11, 2024	Eben Lazarus University of California, Berkeley Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals
Friday, October 25, 2024	Mihai Ion University of Arizona Financing Innovation in Drug Development
Friday, November 1, 2024	Marco Giacoletti University of Southern California Mortgage Rates and Rents: Evidence from Local Mortgage Lock-In Effects
Friday, November 8, 2024	Andra Ghent University of Utah Winners and Losers from the Work-from-Home Technology Boon
Friday, November 15, 2024	Urban Jermann University of Pennsylvania Optimal Issuance for Proof‐of‐Stake Blockchains and Ethereum Macro Economy
Friday, November 22, 2024	Daniel Neuhann The University of Texas at Austin Demand-System Asset Pricing: Theoretical Foundations
Friday, December 6, 2024	Ran Duchin Boston College The Economic Effects of Political Polarization: Evidence from the Real Asset Market
Wednesday, December 11, 2024	Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva Federal Reserve Board When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets
Friday, December 13, 2024	Tony Zhang Federal Reserve Board A Financial New Keynesian Model

Date	Speaker
Spring 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Mikhail Simutin University of Toronto Closet Active Management of Passive Funds
Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 176	Stefano Giglio Yale University Risk Preferences Implied by Synthetic Options
Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 176	Robert Richmond New York University Understanding the Strength of the Dollar
Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Colin Ward University of Minnesota Appropriated Growth
Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Anastassia Fedyk University of Kentucky Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk
Friday, March 29, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Katharina Lewellen Dartmouth College Women in charge: Evidence from hospitals
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. MCRD 256	Alon Brav Duke University Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund Performance: Evidence from a Large Sample of Israeli Limited Partners
Friday, April 12, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Ayako Yasuda University of California, Davis Decoding Sustainable Investment Strategies: Bridging Intentions and Actions
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. BAC 313	Ben Matthies University of Notre Dame Measuring the Impact of Remote [Knowledge] Work Using Big Data
Friday, April 19, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 170	Ben Zhang University of Southern California The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States
Friday, April 26, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Anthony DeFusco University of Wisconsin - Madison Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis

Date	Speaker
Fall 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 276	Roni Michaely The University of Hong Kong Voting Rationales
Friday, September 15, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Neng Wang Columbia University Strategic Investment under Uncertainty with First- and Second-mover Advantages
Friday, September 29, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Kerry Back Rice University Dynamic Disclosure Games
Friday, October 13, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Ben Iverson Brigham Young University Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes
Friday, October 20, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Samuel G. Hanson Harvard University Demand-and-Supply Imbalance Risk and Long-Term Swap Spreads
Friday, November 3, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 158	Sang Byung Seo University of Wisconsin - Madison The Risk and Return of Equity and Credit Index Options
Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. MCRD 158	John Graham Duke University Project Development with Delegated Bargaining: The Role of Elevated Hurdle Rates
Friday, December 1, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Shuaiyu Chen Purdue University Market Power in the Securities Lending Market
Friday, December 8, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Geoffrey Tate University of Maryland Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets

Date	Speaker
Fall 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Chris Parsons University of Southern California Propagating Experiences by Competing: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. MCRD 158	Tony Cookson University of Colorado Boulder The Social Signal
Friday, October 21, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Vincent Bogousslavsky Boston College Informed Trading Intensity
Friday, October 28, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Kristoph Kleiner Indiana University Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcies? Not According to Hedge Funds
Friday, November 4, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Scott Yonker Cornell University Do Visceral Factors Affect Risk Taking?
Friday, November 18, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	David Sovich University of Kentucky Does Trade Policy Affect Consumer Credit? The Role of Captive Finance
Friday, December 2, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Asaf Bernstein University of Colorado at Boulder The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth through Amortization
Friday, December 9, 2022 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 170	Mahyar Kargar Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows

Date	Speaker
Spring 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Berk Sensoy Vanderbilt University Diversifying Private Equity
Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Yukun Liu University of Rochester Institutional Investor Attention
Friday, April 7, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 164	Mindy Xiaolan The University of Texas at Austin The Economics of Mutual Fund Marketing
Friday, April 28, 2023 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MCRD 270	Arpit Gupta New York University Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse
Friday, May 5, 2023 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM MCRD 164	Andrei Goncalves Ohio State University The Subjective Risk and Expected Returns of Institutional Investors

Date	Speaker
Spring 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170, Zoom Seminar	Ulrike Malmendier University of California, Berkeley CEO Stress, Aging, and Death
Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Francesco D'Acunto Boston College How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech
Friday, March 25, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Christopher Hennessy London Business School Discretion, Randomisation, and Motivation
Friday, April 1, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Juhani Linnainmaa Dartmouth College Investor Protections and Stock Market Participation: An Evaluation of Financial Advisor Oversight
Friday, April 8, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Caitlin Dannhauser Villanova University Passive investors in primary bond markets
Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Mete Kilic University of Southern California Discounting Less in Bad Times: Shining the Light on Expectations
Friday, April 22, 2022 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. MCRD 170	Stephen A. Karolyi Department of the Treasury (Washington, DC) Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks

Date	Speaker
Fall 2021
Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Zoom Seminar	Alex Edmans London Business School CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field
Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Zoom Seminar	Theresa Kuchler New York University Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Zoom Seminar	Pat Akey University of Toronto Noisy Factors
Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Shrihari Santosh University of Colorado - Boulder Investor Betas
Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170	Lukas Schmid University of Southern California The Risks of Safe Assets
Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 276	Andrew Patton Duke University Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing
Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 170r	Ankit Kalda Indiana University Smart(Phone) Investing? A within investor-time analysis of new technologies and trading behavior.
Friday, December 3, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Zoom Seminar	Sebastien Betermier McGill University What Do the Portfolios of Individual Investors Reveal About the Cross-Section of Equity Returns?
Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Zoom Seminar	Kelly Shue Yale University "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap

Date	Speaker
Spring 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Karsten Müller Princeton University Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Monday, February 1, 2021 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Jian Li The University of Chicago The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity: An Examination of the Corporate Bond Market
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Mehran Ebrahimian University of Pennsylvania Student Loans and Social Mobility
Friday, February 26, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Jessica Jeffers University of Chicago Labor Reactions to Credit Deterioration: Evidence from LinkedIn Activity
Friday, March 26, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Maryam Farboodi MIT Expectations and Bank Lending
Friday, April 16, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Wei Dou University of Pennsylvania Competition Network, Distress Propagation, and Stock Returns
Friday, April 30, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Alberto Manconi Bocconi University Are Star Law Firms Also Better Law Firms?
Friday, May 7, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Lawrence Jin California Institute of Technology Model‐free and Model‐based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior
Friday, May 14, 2021 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Emil Verner MIT The Anatomy of the Consumption Response to a Household Foreign Currency Debt Crisis

Date	Speaker
Fall 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Ralph Koijen The University of Chicago In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
Friday, September 25, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Mikhail Chernov UCLA A no-arbitrage perspective on global arbitrage opportunities
Friday, October 9, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Rui Albuquerque Boston College Value Creation in Shareholder Activism: A Structural Approach
Friday, October 16, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Darrell Duffie Stanford University Reserves Were Not So Ample After All: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury Repo Market
Friday, November 6, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Jean-Edouard Colliard HEC Paris Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks
Friday, November 13, 2020 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Zoom Seminar	Jessica Wachter University of Pennsylvania A retrieved-context theory of financial decisions

Date	Speaker
Spring 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 258	Geoffery Zheng UCLA Wealth Shares in the Long Run
Friday, January 10, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 264	Tuomas Tomunen Columbia University Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk
Friday, January 17, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 176	Lakshmi Naaraayanan HKUST Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap
Monday, January 20, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 158	Huan Tang HEC Paris The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 422	Jonathan Wallen Stanford University Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 276	Joseph Kalmenovitz New York University Incentivizing Financial Regulators
Friday, January 31, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 258	Nuno Clara London Business School Demand Elasticities, Nominal Rigidities and Asset Prices
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 276	Paul Décaire University of Pennsylvania Capital Budgeting and Idiosyncratic Risk
Friday, March 6, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 158	Gregory Buchak Stanford University Financing the Gig Economy
Friday, May 1, 2020 9:45 – 11:15 a.m. MCRD 176	Florian Schulz University of Washington Topic TBA

Date	Speaker
Fall 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. MCRD 164	Andrey Malenko Boston College Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty
Friday, September 27, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. MCRD 164	Arpit Gupta New York University Valuing Private Equity Investments Strip by Strip
Friday, October 4, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. MCRD 164	Kewei Hou The Ohio State University Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective
Friday, October 18, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. MCRD 164	Rawley Heimer Boston College Personal Wealth and Self-Employment
Friday, November 1, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. BA 257	Andrea Rossi The University of Arizona Unsmoothing Returns of Illiquid Assets
Friday, November 8, 2019 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. BA 199A	George Korniotis University of Miami Do Fundamentals Drive Cryptocurrency Prices?
Friday, November 15, 2019 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. BA 257	Scott Yonker Cornell University Friends with Bankruptcy Protection Benefits
Friday, November 22, 2019 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. MCRD 158	Alejandro Rivera University of Texas at Dallas Extrapolation Bias and Dynamic Liquidity Management

Brown Bag Seminars

Brown Bag Seminars provide students and faculty with the chance to present current working papers and receive critical feedback from their colleagues, mentors and peers. This enables them to improve and enhance their methodology, writing and presentation skills before submitting the works for publication in elite journals and for presentation at important conferences.

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