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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Spring 2024
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Mar 20 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Firms' Perceived Cost of Capital | Niels Gormsen | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Mar 27 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Expected Returns and Large Language Models | Dacheng Xiu | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Apr 3 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | The Central Bank’s Balance Sheet and Treasury Market Disruptions | Quentin Vandeweyer | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Apr 10 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Corrective Regulation with Imperfect Instruments | Eduardo Dávila | Yale |
| Wed, Apr 17 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Falling Rates and Rising Superstars | Amir Sufi | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Apr 24 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Declining Business Formation and the Rise of Superstar Firms | Victor Lyonnet | Ohio State, Chicago Booth |
| Wed, May 1 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 8 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 15 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Luigi Zingales | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, May 22 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Scott Nelson | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed. May 29 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Prosociality and Layoffs | Ulrike Malmendier | UC Berkeley |
Winter 2024
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Jan 10 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Consuming Values | Jacob Conway | Stanford |
| Wed, Jan 17 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | Regional Banks, Aggregate Effects |
Quinn Maingi | NYU Stern |
| Wed, Jan 24 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | The Digital Banking Revolution: Effects on Competition and Stability | Naz Koont | Columbia |
| Wed, Jan 31 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C02 | The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models | Leland Bybee | Yale |
| Wed, Feb 7 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Thu, Feb 8 | 11:45 am– 1:15 pm |
C03 | Testing the Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Quantitative Easing |
Julia Selgrad | NYU Stern |
| Thu Feb 14 | NO SEMINAR |
Autumn 2023
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu. Sep 21 | 11:30 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. |
C04 | Heterogeneous Impact of the Global Financial Cycle |
Aleksei Oskolkov | Econ PhD student |
| Wed. Sep 27 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Social Inflation |
Sangmin (Simon) Oh | Joint PhD student |
| Thu. Sep 28 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Plan Design, Retirement Portfolios, and Investors’ Welfare | Marco Loseto | Econ PhD student |
| Wed, Oct 4 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Flighty Capital Flows and the Making of Safe Currencies |
Zhiyu Fu | Joint PhD student |
| Thu. Oct. 5 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C02 | Dividend Flow and the Foreign Exchange Rate |
Jingtao Zheng |
Joint PhD student |
| Wed, Oct 11 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Indira Puri | NYU Stern | |
| Thu. Oct 12 | 11:45 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. |
C04 | Are Direct Lenders More Like Banks or Arm’s-Length Investors? Evidence from Loan Agreements and COVID-Related Distress |
Young Soo Jang | Finance PhD student |
| Wed. Oct 18 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
C02 | Leaning against inflation experiences | Stefan Nagel | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Oct 25 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
C02 | Asset Embeddings | Ralph Koijen | Chicago Booth |
| Wed, Nov 1 | Noon–1:00 p.m |
NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed. Nov 8 | Noon–1:00 p.m | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed. Nov 15 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Green Tilts | Lubos Pastor | Chicago Booth |
| Wed. Nov 22 | Noon–1:00 p.m | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Wed. Nov 29 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Money Markets, Collateral and Monetary Policy | Harald Uhlig | University of Chicago |
| Wed. Dec 6 | Noon–1:00 p.m | C02 | Meaning at Work | Luigi Zingales | Chicago Booth |