Brown Bag Series
The Finance Group hold regular short lunch time Brown Bag sessions, offering the opportunity to internal academic staff to present their research. If you have questions regarding the sessions, please contact the Finance Group Office on 024 765 75220 or fingroup at wbs dot ac dot uk.
Brown Bag Sessions are held on Tuesdays, 12:00-13:00 and 13:00-14:00
(unless otherwise stated)
Autumn Term 2021/22 Schedule
| Date | Time | Room | Title | Speaker |
| 12/10/21 | 12:00 | 1.301 |
Sustainability or Performance? Ratings and Fund Managers' Incentives |
Nick Gantchev |
| 9/11/21 | 12:00 | 1.301 | Cross-Ownership and Corporate Debt Structure | Xu Li |
| 16/11/21 | 12:00 | 1.301 | Behavioural Nudges and Credit Repayment" | Giorgia Barboni |
| 23/11/21 | 12:00 | 1.301 | Technology Diffusion and Asset Returns | Ajay Venkataraman |
| 7/12/21 | 12:00 | 1.301 | Model-Free Market Integration | Alex Dickerson |
Summer Term 2020/2021 Schedule
| Date | Time | Room | Title | Speaker |
| 2/6/21(Wednesday) | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Supply Shocks in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy: Evidence and Theory" | Francesco Saverio Gaudio |
| 15/6/21 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | Asset Prices around FOMC Meetings | Rodrigo Barria |
| 15/6/21 | 14:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Demand-supply imbalance risk and long-term swap spreads" | Gyuri Venter |
Spring Term 2020/2021 Schedule
|
Date |
Time |
Room |
Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2021 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | “It Depends Who You Ask: Context Effects in the Perception of Stock Returns” | Costas Antoniou |
| 09/03/2021 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Investor Emotions and the Cross-section of Stock Returns" |
Mohammad Shehub Bin Hasan |
| 09/03/2021 | 14:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Momentum crashes and skewness risk", with Ivan Petrella and Daniele Bianchi (Queen Mary University). |
Andrea De Polis |
Autumn Term 2020/21 Schedule
|
Date |
Time |
Room |
Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13/10/2020 | 13:00 | Zoom | "Policy Uncertainty, Multinational Firms, and Reallocation" | Arkodipta Sarkar Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) |
| 20/10/2020 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | “Institutional herding and corporate debt issuance'' | Xu Li |
| 27/10/2020 | 12:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Do Trump Tweets shake FX markets?" | My Nguyen |
| 03/11/2020 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Lying in Financial Markets" | John Thanassoulis |
| 10/11/2020 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Dividend Momentum and Stock Return Predictability" | Ivan Petrella |
| 10/11/20 | 14:00 |
Microsoft Teams |
"Empirical Evidence from Acquiring Public versus Private Targets" | Siti Farida |
| 17/11/2020 | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Culture and the Prevalence of Family Firms" | Song Yuan |
| 24/11/2020 | 14:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Understanding the Covariance between Corporate Bonds and Stocks: The Role of Default Risk" |
Alex Dickerson |
| 09/12/2020 (WED) | 13:00 | Microsoft Teams | "Asset-Driven Insurance Pricing" | Benjamin Knox (CBS) |