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. 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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Winter 2026

Date	Time	Room	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Wed, Jan 7	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	Firms' Foreign Exchange Hedging	Nicolas Hommel	Princeton
Wed, Jan 14	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	How do Barbarians Get to the Gates? Private Equity Careers, Styles, and Returns	Blake Jackson	University of Florida
Wed, Jan 21	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	Synthetic Dollar Funding	Umang Khetan	University of Iowa
Wed, Jan 28	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	Patenting and Information Disclosure	Xizhao Wang	Northwestern
Wed, Feb 4	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	Dilutive Financing	Hanjoon Ryu	Duke
Wed, Feb 11			NO SEMINAR
Wed, Feb 18	Noon-1:00 pm	C02
Wed, Feb 25			NO SEMINAR
Wed, Mar 4			NO SEMINAR

Fall 2025

Date	Time	Room	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Wed, Sep 24	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	Saieh 146	When AI Meets Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Commercialization of ChatGPT	Edoardo Marchesi	Finance student
Wed, Oct 1	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	The Economic Consequences of Lower Retail Trading Costs	Ching-Tse Chen	Finance PhD student
Wed, Oct 8	11:45 am– 1:15 pm	C02	The Fiscal Origins of Safe Assets and Risk Concentration	Filippo Cavaleri	Joint PhD student
Wed, Oct 15	Noon– 1:00 pm	C02	Earnings Instability	Pascal Noel	Booth
Wed, Oct 22	11:45am– 1:15 pm	C02	Financially Sophisticated Firms	Lira Mota	MIT
Wed, Oct 29	Noon– 1:00 pm	C02	When Is Less More? Bank Arrangements for Liquidity vs Central Bank Support	Raghuram Rajan	Booth
Wed, Nov 5			NO SEMINAR
Wed, Nov 12	Noon– 1:00 pm	C02	Markets for Good, Markets for Risk	Anthony Lee Zhang	Booth
Wed, Nov 19			NO SEMINAR
Wed, Nov 26			NO SEMINAR
Wed, Dec 3	Noon– 1:00 pm	C02	Mental Models and Financial Forecasts	Francesca Bastianello	Booth

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