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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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 | TBD | Wei Jiang | Emory |
| Tues, Apr 14 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | TBD | Christine Laudenbach | Goethe University |
| Tues, Apr 21 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | TBD | David Sraer | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Apr 28 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | TBD | 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 | TBD | Jessica Wachter | Wharton |
| Tues, May 19 | 1:20-2:50pm | C03 | TBD | 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 |
Fall 2025
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues, Sep 23 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | Saieh 146 | Valuing Local Climate Policy: Evidence from Firm Behavior and Financial Markets | Joanna Harris | Joint PhD student |
| Tues, Sep 30 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | Financing Intangibles |
Bianca He | Finance PhD student |
| Tues, Oct 7 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | Complementarity of Bank and Market Debt in Dynamic Debt Structure | Jessica Li | Finance PhD student |
| Tues, Oct 14 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | The Subjective Belief Factor |
Sean Myers | Wharton |
| Tues, Oct 21 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | Causal Inference for Asset Pricing | Valentin Haddad | UCLA |
| Tues, Oct 28 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance | Arvind Krishnanmurthy | Stanford |
| Tues, Nov 4 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | The Economics of Biodiversity Loss | Johannes Stroebel | NYU Stern |
| Tues, Nov 11 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | International Currency Competition | Chris Clayton | Yale |
| Tues, Nov 18 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | A Unifying Framework for Robust and Efficient Inference with Unstructured Data | Melissa Dell | Harvard |
| Tues, Nov 25 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | NO WORKSHOP | ||
| Tues, Dec 2 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. |
C03 | Forecasting Crashes with a Smile | Ian Martin | LSE |
| Tues. Dec 9 | 1:20–2:50 p.m. | C03 | NO WORKSHOP |