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. Workshop papers will be posted below when available. Occasionally speakers will choose not to circulate their papers. In such cases, the link will be unavailable.
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Fall 2026
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues, Sep 29 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | TBD | Lauren Mostrom, Finance PhD Student | Booth |
| Tues, Oct 6 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | TBD | Lewei He, Joint PhD Student | Booth |
| Tues, Oct 13 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | Gambling for Goals | Spencer Kwon | Brown |
| Tues, Oct 20 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | TBD | Christopher Stewart | Booth |
| Tues, Oct 27 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | Financial Liberalizations, Booms, and Crashes | Emil Verner | MIT |
| Tues, Nov 3 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk | Dimitris Papanikolaou | Northwestern |
| Tues, Nov 10 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | TBD | Yueran Ma | Booth |
| Tues, Nov 17 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | Actively Passive: The Rise of Market Volatility | Tyler Muir | UCLA Anderson |
| Tues, Dec 1 | 1:20 - 2:50pm | C03 | Estimating demand for AI Products | Mark Egan | HBS |
Spring 2026
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues, Mar 24 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? | Maryam Farboodi | MIT |
| Tues, Mar 31 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | Access to Capital and the IPO Decision: An Analysis of US Private Firms | Gregory Weitzner | McGill |
| Tues, Apr 7 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | How do U.S. Firms Withstand Foreign Industrial Policies? | Wei Jiang | Emory |
| Tues, Apr 14 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | Rethinking the Stock Market Participation Puzzle: A Qualitative Approach | Christine Laudenbach | Goethe University |
| Tues, Apr 21 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: Sufficient Statistics with Heterogeneous Firms | David Sraer | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Apr 28 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | When Cash Flows Turn Negative: Liquidity-Driven Selling by Pension Funds | Josh Rauh | Stanfod |
| Tues, May 5 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | Central Bank Magic | Jeremy Stein | Harvard |
| Tues, May 12 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | What Small Firms Don't do with Cash Windfalls | Eric Zwick | Booth |
| Tues, May 19 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | The Prestakes of Stock Market Investing | Sydney Ludvigson | NYU |
Winter 2026
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues, Jan 6 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | How Network Hiring by Entrepreneurs Shapes Firm Formation and Performance | John Bonney | Stanford |
| Tues, Jan 13 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | The Original Sin Revisited: Investor Composition and Sovereign Risk | Sage Belz | Harvard |
| Tues, Jan 20 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | Risk-based Interest Rate Expectations | Robert Rogers | LSE |
| Tues, Jan 27 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | Analysts' Belief Formation in Their Own Words |
Barry Ke | Yale |
| Tues, Feb 3 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | Bias and Predictability in Analysts' Beliefs |
Federico Bastianello | LBS |
| Tues, Feb 10 | NO WORKSHOP | ||||
| Tues, Feb 17 | 1:20-2:50 p.m. | C03 | The Lending Technology of Direct Lenders in Private Credit | Amir Sufi | Chicago Booth |
| Tues, Feb 24 | 1:20-2:50 p.m. | C03 | Timing Risk and Asset Prices |
Indira Puri | NYU Stern |
| Tues, Mar 3 | 1:20-2:50 p.m. | C03 | Why Do Firms Pay Different Interest Rates on Their Bank Loans? | Anil Kashyap | Chicago Booth |