Research Workshops Finance Workshop
In this workshop, advanced topics in finance are discussed in detail and finance research topics are presented. Faculty from other universities are invited to speak at the seminar.
For information concerning the Finance Workshop, please contact email Jennifer Williams or call her at 773.702.5530. When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.
Due to COVID-19, we have decided in accordance with university guidance and for the safety of our community to hold the finance workshop through an online video conference only. We will send out the link in the email announcements.
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tues, Mar 30 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. | Are Stated Expectations Actual Beliefs? New Evidence for the Beliefs Channel of Investment Demand | Christopher Palmer | MIT Sloan |
| Tues, Apr 6 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Banking without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports | Gregor Matvos | Northwestern Kellogg |
| Tues, Apr 13 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds | Mark Egan | HBS |
| Tues, Apr 20 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions? | Juliane Begenau | Stanford |
| Tues, Apr 27 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Technological Innovation and Labor Income Risk |
Lawrence Schmidt | MIT Sloan |
| Tues, May 4 | 1:30–3:00 p.m. | Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing: Evidence from Private Firms | Toni Whited | Michigan Ross |
| Tues, May 11 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Restructuring vs. Bankruptcy |
Jason Donaldson | WUSTL |
| Tues, May 18 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Potential Capital | Janice Eberly | Northwestern Kellogg |
| Tues, May 25 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Nicola Gennaioli | Bocconi | |
| Tues, Jun 1 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving Over the Life Cycle | Jonathan Parker | MIT |
Winter 2021
| Date | Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tues, Jan 12 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. | NO WORKSHOP | ||
| Tues, Jan 19 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Student Loans and Social Mobility | Mehran Ebrahimian | Wharton |
| Tues, Jan 26 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | NO WORKSHOP | ||
| Tues, Feb 2 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | A Macro-Finance Model with Sentiment | Peter Maxted | Harvard |
| Tues, Feb 9 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | The Corporate Supply of (Quasi) Safe Assets | Lira Mota | Columbia |
| Tues, Feb 16 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | NO WORKSHOP | |
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| Tues, Feb 23 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs | Ian Martin | LSE |
| Tues, Mar 2 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Posthumous defense/proposal of Yiran Fan | ||
| Tues, Mar 9 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Limit Order Markets under Asymmetric Information | Ayan Bhattacharya | Chicago Booth |
| Tues, Mar 16 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | A Model of Endogenous Risk Intolerance and LSAPs: Asset Prices and Aggregate Demand in a "Covid-19" Shock Monetary Policy and Asset Price Overshooting: A Rationale for the Wall/Main Street Disconnect |
Alp Simsek | Chicago Booth |