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 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 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Suproteem Sarkar | Booth |
| Wed, April 15 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Kaushik Vasudevan | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 22 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits | Taisiya Sikorskaya | Booth |
| Wed, Apr 29 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Andrew Lo | MIT |
| Wed, May 5 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May 13 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, May20 | Noon - 1:00pm | C02 | TBD | Carolin Plueger | 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 |
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 |
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| Wed, Nov 26 | NO SEMINAR | ||||
| Wed, Dec 3 | Noon– 1:00 pm |
C02 | Mental Models and Financial Forecasts | Francesca Bastianello |
Booth |