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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

Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019

Fall 2021

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Location	Paper
08/26	Isil Erel		Legacy Events 3.202
09/02	Gordon Phillips		Legacy Events 3.202
09/09			Legacy Events 3.202
09/16	Simon Board		Legacy Events 3.202
09/23			Legacy Events 3.202
09/30	Annette Vissing-Jorgensen		Legacy Events 3.202
10/07	Chris Phelan		Legacy Events 3.202
10/14	Sebnem Kalemi-Ozkan		Legacy Events 3.202
10/21	Marcus Opp		Legacy Events 3.202
10/28			Legacy Events 3.202
11/04	Andra Ghent		Legacy Events 3.202
11/11	Snehal Banerjee		Legacy Events 3.202
11/18	Lauren Cohen		Legacy Events 3.202
12/02	Joel Peress		Legacy Events 3.202

Spring 2021

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Location	Paper
01/21	Jialan Wang	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Zoom Seminar	"Bankruptcy and the Covid-19 Crisis"
01/28	Matteo Maggiori	Stanford University	Zoom Seminar	"Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens"
02/04	Andrei Shleifer	Harvard University	Zoom Seminar	"Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market Puzzles"
02/11	Leonid Kogan	MIT	Zoom Seminar	"Common Fund Flows: Flow Hedging and Factor Pricing"
02/25	Jeremy Stein	Harvard University	Zoom Seminar	"A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates"
03/04	Paige Ouimet	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Zoom Seminar	"The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment"
03/11	Tarun Ramadorai	Imperial College	Zoom Seminar	"Who Owns What? A Factor Model for Direct Stockholding"
03/25	Victoria Ivashina	Harvard University	Zoom Seminar	"Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru"
04/01	Jerry Hoberg	University of Southern California	Zoom Seminar	"Life Cycles of Firm Disclosures"
04/08	Darrell Duffie	Stanford University	Zoom Seminar	"Reserves Were Not So Ample After All"
04/15	Yueran Ma	University of Chicago	Zoom Seminar	"Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis"
04/22	Heather Tookes	Yale University	Zoom Seminar	"Misconduct Synergies"
04/29	Ralph Koijen	University of Chicago	Zoom Seminar	"In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis"
05/06	Zhi Da	University of Notre Dame	Zoom Seminar	"Another Presidential Puzzle? Presidential Economic Approval Rating and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
05/13	Ulrike Malmendier	University of California - Berkeley	Zoom Seminar	"CEO Stress, Aging, and Death"

Fall 2020

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Location	Paper
08/27	Briana Chang	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Zoom Seminar	"OTC Market Structure under Reforms"
09/03	Claudia Robles-Garcia	Stanford University	Zoom Seminar	"Competition and Incentives in Mortgage Markets: The Role of Brokers"
09/10	Constantine Yannelis	University of Chicago	Zoom Seminar	"Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices"
09/17	Ian Martin	London School of Economics	Zoom Seminar	"Sentiment and speculation in a market with heterogeneous beliefs"
09/24	Natalie Bachas	Princeton University	Zoom Seminar	"Market Power in Small Business Lending"
10/01	Peter Koudijs	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Zoom Seminar	"Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure"
10/08	Zhengyang Jiang	Northwestern University	Zoom Seminar	"Dollar Safety and the Global Financial Cycle"
10/15	Markus Brunnermeier	Princeton University	Zoom Seminar	"International Monetary Theory: A Risk Perspective"
10/22	Olivier Wang	New York University	Zoom Seminar	"Banks, Low Interest Rates, and Monetary Policy Transmission"
10/29	Nick Bloom	Stanford University	Zoom Seminar	"Skewed Business Cycles"
11/12	Amit Seru	Stanford University	Zoom Seminar	"Banking Without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports"
11/19	Janice Eberly	Northwestern University	Zoom Seminar	"Rents and Intangible Capital: A Q+ Framework"

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