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
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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