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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Fall 2026
| Date | Times | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sep 23 | 11:45am - 1:15pm | C06 | TBD | Monica Barbosa, Joint PhD student | Booth |
| Wed, Sep 30 | 11:45am - 1:15pm | C02 | TBD | Judy Yue, Joint PhD student | Booth |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 11:45am - 1:15pm | C02 | TBD | Sixun Tang, Joint PhD student | Booth |
| Wed, Oct 14 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Eric Zwick | Booth |
| Wed, Oct 21 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Julia Selgrad | Booth |
| Wed, Oct 28 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Brent Neiman | Booth |
| Wed, Nov 4 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, Nov 11 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | NO SEMINAR | |
| Wed, Nov 18 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Suproteem Sarkar | Booth |
| Wed, Dec 2 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Leland Bybee | Booth |
Spring 2026
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Mar 25 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | Learning and the Emergence of Nonlinearity in Financial Markets | Ian Dew-Becker | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 1 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | FinTech Brings a Bias from Psychology Labs to a Two-trillion-dollar Market | Hongjun Yan | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 8 | 11:45-1:15pm | C02 | Financial Regulation and AI: A Faustian Bargain? | Antonio Coppola | Stanford |
| Wed, April 15 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | Policy by Committee | Kaushik Vasudevan | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 22 | Noon - 1:00pm | C03 | The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits | Taisiya Sikorskaya | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 29 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | The Efficient Frontier of Biomedical Innovation | Andrew Lo | MIT |
| Wed, May 5 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 13 | Noon - 1:00pm | C03 | Risk and Return in Government Bonds | Carolin Pflueger | Booth |
| Wed, May20 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | Returns to Intelligence | Suproteem Sarkar | Booth |
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 | Stefan Nagel | Chicago Booth | |
| Wed, Feb 25 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, Mar 4 | NO SEMINAR |