Research Workshops Finance Lunch Seminar
In this workshop, advanced topics in finance are discussed in detail and finance research topics are presented by faculty, PhD students, and invited visitors.
The workshop will be held in dual modality. Workshop papers will be posted below when available. Occassionally speakers will choose not to circulate their papers. In such cases, the link will be unavailable.
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Spring 2023
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Mar 22 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets (Appendix) | Viral Acharya | NYU |
| Wed, Mar 29 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Back to the 1980s or Not? The Drivers of Inflation and Real Risks in Treasury Bonds | Carolin Pflueger | University of Chicago |
| Wed, Apr 5 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Zhiguo He | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, Apr 12 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Wenxin Du | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, Apr 19 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Dacheng Xiu | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, Apr 26 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Anthony Zhang | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, May 3 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 10 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 17 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Yueran Ma | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, May 24 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Pascal Noel | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, May 31 | Noon–1:00 p.m. | C02 | Eric Zwick | Chicago Booth |
Winter 2023
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Jan 11 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Asset Pricing with Higher Order Beliefs | Kaushik Vasudevan | Yale |
| Wed, Jan 18 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Wed, Jan 25 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Investor Composition and Overreaction | Spencer Yongwook Kwon | Harvard |
| Wed, Feb 1 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments | Menaka Hampole | Northwestern Kellogg |
| Thu, Feb 2 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Payment Network Competition | Yichuan Lulu Wang | Stanford GSB |
| Wed, Feb 8 | C02 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed, Feb 15 | C02 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed, Feb 22 | Noon - 1:00 pm | C02 | Competition Network: Distress Spillovers and Predictable Industry Returns Internet Appendix for paper |
Winston Dou | Wharton |
| Wed, Mar 1 | C02 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed, Mar 8 | C02 | NO SEMINAR |
Fall 2022
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sep 21 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
NO SEMINAR | |||
| Thu. Sep 22 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
Saieh 203 |
Rent Stickiness and Its Implications for Rent and Vacancy Growth |
Seongjin Park | Finance PhD student |
| Wed. Sep 28 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program |
Nishant Vats | Finance PhD student |
| Thu. Sep 29 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Elections Have Consequences: The Impact of Political Agency on Climate Policy and Asset Prices |
Will Cassidy | Finance PhD student |
| Wed, Oct 5 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Non-fungible cash in the stock market |
Xindi He | Joint PhD student |
| Thu. Oct. 6 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Retail Trading and Asset Prices: The Role of Changing Social Dynamics |
Fulin Li | Joint PhD student |
| Wed, Oct 12 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Perceptions about Monetary Policy |
Carolin Pflueger | UC Harris School |
| Wed. Oct 19 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
C02 | Asset Demand of U.S. Households |
Ralph Koijen | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Oct 26 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
C02 | Does the Investment Hurdle Rate Buffer Destroy Value? |
Bruce Carlin | Chicago Booth / Rice |
| Wed, Nov 2 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed. Nov 9 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Private Sanctions | Luigi Zingales | Chicago Booth |
| Wed. Nov 16 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | When do cross-sectional asset pricing factors span the stochastic discount factor? |
Stefan Nagel | Chicago Booth |
| Wed. Nov 23 | Noon–1:00 p.m | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed. Nov 30 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | America's Missing Entrepreneurs: Does Experience or Liquidity Matter More? |
Eric Zwick | Chicago Booth |
| Wed. Dec 7 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Monetary Policy, Segmentation, and the Term Structure | Rohan Kekre | Chicago Booth |
| Wed. Dec 14 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from the Chonsei System | Anthony Zhang | Chicago Booth |