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Seminar Speaker Series

McCombs School of Business McCombs School of Business

Overview

The Seminar Speaker Series invites leading academics to present their research at the McCombs School of Business. Seminars are Thursdays at 11:00 AM unless otherwise indicated. These seminars are open to faculty and Ph.D. students.

Speaker Series Archives

Spring 2020

Spring 2020

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
03/05 Uday Rajan
 Michigan
 Legacy Events 3.202
 Robust Security Design 
03/12 Nicolae Garleanu
 Berkeley
 Legacy Events 3.202
 Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth
03/23 John Asker
UCLA
Legacy Events 3.202
 Canceled due to COVID-19
03/26
Constantine Yannelis
Chicago
Legacy Events 3.202
 Canceled due to COVID-19
04/02
Peter Koudjis
Stanford
Legacy Events 3.202
 Canceled due to COVID-19
04/09
Farzad Saidi
Boston U.
Legacy Events 3.202
Canceled due to COVID-19
04/16
TBD
N/A
 Legacy Events 3.202
Canceled due to COVID-19
04/30
Nick Bloom
Stanford
Legacy Events 3.202
Canceled due to COVID-19
05/01
Will Cong
Cornell
Legacy Events 3.202
Canceled due to COVID-19
         
         
         

 

Fall 2019

FALL 2019

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
08/29 Alex Gorbenko
 University of Southern California
 Legacy Events 3.202
 Venture Capital Contracts
09/05 Ralph Boleslavsky
 University of Miami
 Legacy Events 3.202 Faking It
09/12 Narayana Kocherlakota
 University of Rochester
 Legacy Events 3.202 21st Century Macro
09/19 Itay Goldstein
 Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
 Legacy Events 3.202 Commodity Financialization and Information Transmission
09/26 Emanuele Colonnelli
 Booth, University of Chicago
 Legacy Events 3.202 Corruption and Firms
10/03 Andrea Prat
 Columbia University
 Legacy Events 3.202 Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics
10/10 Matt Backus
 Columbia University
 Legacy Events 3.202 Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017
10/17 Margarita Tsoutsoura
 Cornell University
 Legacy Events 3.202
Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating Analysts
10/24 Lars Lochstoer
 University of California, Los Angeles
 Legacy Events 3.202 Volatility Expectations and Returns
10/31 Sean Higgins
 Kellogg, Northwestern University
 Legacy Events 3.202 Financial Technology Adoption
11/07
Heski Bar Isaac
University of Toronto
Legacy Events 3.202 Outplacement, Training, and Recruitment: A model of adverse selection with general skills and match specific components.
11/14 Kilian Huber
Booth, University of Chicago
Legacy Events 3.202
 
11/21 Wenxin Du
Booth, University of Chicago
Legacy Events 3.202
Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks
12/05
Cami Kuhnen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Legacy Events 3.202
Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior

Spring 2019

SPRING 2019

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
02/26 Jason Donaldson
 Washington University, St. Louis Legacy Events 3.202
 Netting
03/07 Motohiro Yogo
 Princeton University Legacy Events 3.202 The Fragility of Market Risk Insurance
03/14 Gary Gorton
 Yale University
 Legacy Events 3.202 Social Progress and Corporate Culture
03/28 Lukas Schmid Duke University Legacy Events 3.202 Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation
04/04 Jules van Binsbergen University of Pennsylvania Legacy Events 3.202 Real Anomalies and Exactly Solved Economies with Heterogeneity
04/11 Alan Moreira University of Rochester Legacy Events 3.202 Liquidity Creation as Volatility Risk
04/18 Johannes Stroebel New York University Legacy Events 3.202 Peer Effects in Product Adoption
04/25 Andres Liberman New York University Legacy Events 3.202 The Equilibrium Effects of Information Deletion: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets
05/02 Dimitri Vavanos London School of Economics Legacy Events 3.202 Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices
05/09 Andrea Eisfeldt University of California, Los Angeles Legacy Events 3.202 The Cross Section of MBS Returns

Fall 2018

Fall 2018

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
9/20 Anthony DeFusco
 Northwestern Kellogg Legacy Events 3.202 Regulating Household Leverage
9/27 Nadya Malenko
 Boston College
 Legacy Events 3.202 Deadlock on the Board
10/4 Matteo Benetton University of California, Berkeley Legacy Events 3.202 Leverage Regulation and Market Structure
10/25 Giorgia Piacentino Columbia Legacy Events 3.202 Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
11/1 Scott Nelson Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Legacy Events 3.202 Private Information and Price Regulation in the US Credit Card Market
11/8 Jonathan Berk Stanford University Legacy Events 3.202 Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions
11/15 Christopher Palmer MIT Sloan Legacy Events 3.202 The Capitalization of Consumer Financing into Durable Goods Prices
12/6 Philipp Schnabl NYU Stern Legacy Events 3.202 Banking on Deposits: Maturity Transformation without Interest Rate Risk

Spring 2018

Spring 2018

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
3/1 Arvind Krishnamurthy
 Stanford University Big Bend Conference Room 2.564 Foreign Safe Asset Demand and the Dollar Exchange Rate
3/8 Christine Parlour
 University of California, Berkeley
 Big Bend Conference Room 2.564 Making Money: Commercial Banks, Liquidity Transformation and the Payment System
3/22 Gary Gorton Yale University CBA Events Room 3.304 Good Booms, Bad Booms
3/27 Pablo Kurlat Stanford University Legacy Events 3.202 The Social Value of Financial Expertise
4/5  Jeffrey Wurgler New York University Legacy Events 3.202

 Financing Climate Change Solutions: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds
4/12 Adriano Rampini Duke University Legacy Events 3.202
 Financing Durable Assets
4/19  Saki Bigio University of California, Los Angeles Legacy Events 3.202
 Optimal Debt-Maturity Management 
4/26 Daniel Paravisini London School of Economics Legacy Events 3.202
 How Sensitive is Young Firm Investment to the Cost of Outside Equity? 
5/3 Kelly Shue Yale University Legacy Events 3.202
 Can the Market Multiply and Divide? Non-Proportional Thinking in Financial Markets