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Past Seminars

The Finance Group has one of the most active visiting speaker programmes within The University of Warwick. If you have questions regarding the seminars, please contact the Finance Group office on 024 765 75220 or fingroup at wbs dot ac dot uk.

Past Seminar Sessions  

Spring Term 2023/2024

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Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
21/02/2024 2.007 14:00 Ludovic Phalippou Oxford Why are employees upset when a VC is leaving?
28/02/2024 2.007 14:00 Snehal Banerjee San Diego Asymmetric Information, Disagreement, and the Valuation of Debt and Equity
06/03/2024 2.007 14:00 Huan Tang Wharton Financing the Global Shift to Electric Mobility

Autumn Term 2023/24

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
3/10/23 Tuesday 2.003 14:00 Mike Chernov UCLA What do financial markets say about the exchange rate?
11/10/23 1.003 14:00 Karamfil Todorov BIS The Cumulant Risk Premium
18/10/23 1.003 14:00 Carolyn Frydman Kellogg The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets
25/10/23 1.003 14:00 Bruno Biais HEC Private vs public currency
08/11/23 R0.21 14:00 Alexander Wagner Zurich Do Investors Care About Biodiversity?

09/11/23

Thursday

0.006 14:00 Patrick Augustin McGill Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Financial Markets
15/11/23 R0.21 14:00 Fabrice Tourre Cuny Baruch The Art of Timing: Managing Sudden Stop Risk in Corporate Credit Markets
22/11/23 2.007 14:00 Pat Akey INSEAD/University of Toronto Noisy Factors? The Retroactive Impact of Methodological
Changes on the Fama-French Factors
29/11/23 1.007 14:00 Paul Ehling BI Norwegian No Short in Sight
6/12/23 2.007 14:00 Frederico Belo INSEAD Production-based Stochastic Discount Factors

Summer Term 2022/2023

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
26/04/2023 TBC 14:00 Claudia Custodio Imperial Access to Credit, Exports, and Product Quality
03/05/2023 TBC 14:00 (Maria) Cecilia Bustamante UMD Knowledge Cycles and Corporate Investment
10/05/2023 TBC 14:00 Rüdiger Weber WU Vienna Money in the right hands
17/05/2023 TBC 14:00 Urban Jermann Wharton A Macro-Finance Model for Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
24/05/2023 TBC 14:00 Tania Babina Columbia Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry:
Early Evidence from Open Banking„
31/05/2023 2.007 14:00 Johan Hombert HEC Paris Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation
07/06/2023 2.007 14:00 Barney Hartman-Glaser UCLA

Bank Fragility when Depositors are the Asset

14/06/2023 0.006 14:00 Andreas Fuster EPFL
Improving Market-Based Systemic Risk Measures" (joint with Martin Indergand, Eric Jondeau, and Frederic Malherbe).

Spring Term 2022/2023

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
22/02/2023 2.007 14:00 Philipp Krüeger SFI The Sustainability Wage Gap
01/03/2023 2.007 14:00 Merih Sevilir ESMT and Halle Going Public and the Internal Organization of the Firm
08/03/2023 2.007 14:00 Brett Green WUSTL Olin Digital Collateral
15/03/2023 2.007 14:00 Maik Schmeling Goethe University Frankfurt Deciphering Monetary Policy Shocks

Autumn Term 2022/2023

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
05/10/2022 1.003 14:00 Olivier Dessaint INSEAD

The Horizon of Investors’ Information and Corporate

Investment

13/10/2022

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16:00 Boyan Jovanovic NYU

Middlemen in Limit-Order markets

19/10/2022 1.003 14:00 Mireia Giné IESE Innovation: The Bright Side of Common Ownership?
26/10/2022 1.003 14:00 Anthony Neuberger Bayes Arbitrage Bounds on Cross Currency Options
02/11/2022 1.003 14:00 Briana Chang Wisconsin “Financial Market Structure and Risk Concentration”
15/11/2022 1.009 12:00 Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe LSE The Value-Add of Venture Capital Due-diligence: Information Frictions, Startup Growth and Failed Fundraising Campaigns
16/11/2022 1.003 14:00 Norman Schürhoff HEC Lausanne, SFI All-to-All Liquidity in Corporate Bonds
23/11/2022 1.003 14:00 Diana Bonfim Bank of Portugal Fiscal Policy and Credit Supply:
The Procurement Channel
30/11/2022 1.003 14:00 Eben Lazarus MIT Does the Market Understand Time Variation in the Equity Premium?
07/12/2022 1.003 14:00 Vincent Maurin SSE
Can Stablecoins be Stable?

Summer Term 2021/2022

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
27/04/2022

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16:00 Stavros Panageas UCLA

A Long and a Short Leg Make For a Wobbly

Equilibrium

04/05/2022 3.006 14:00 Cecilia Parlatore NYU Stern School of Business Designing Stress Scenarios
10/05/2022

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14:00 Marcin Kacperczyk Imperial “Carbon Emissions and the Bank Lending Channel”
11/05/2022 3.006 14:00 Per Stromberg SSE A Theory of Liquidity in Private Equity
17/05/2022

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16:00 Fahad Saleh Wake Forest University Equilibrium Staking Levels in a Proof-of-Stake Blockchain
18/05/2022

3.006

14:00 Micheal Weber Chicago Booth

Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels

25/05/2022 3.006 14:00 Adriano Rampini Duke University Collateral and Secured Debt
01/06/2022

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16:00 Anna Cieslak Duke University Policymakers’ Uncertainty
08/06/2022 3.006 14:00 Michaela Pagel Columbia Business School

Consumption out of Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention

15/06/2022 3.006 14:00 Maryam Farboodi Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Valuing Financial Data

29/06/2022

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16:00 Alex Hsu Georgia Tech Monetary Policy, Market Risk Premium, and Firm Investment

Spring Term 2021/2022

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
23/02/2022

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16:00 Claire Celerier

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

'The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Minorities:
Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank'
02/03/2022

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14:00 Farzad Saidi University of Bonn 'Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate Control'
09/03/2022

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16:00 Zhiguo He University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Agency MBS as Safe Assets
16/03/2022

WBS 3.006

14:00 Matthieu Bouvard Toulouse School of Economics & TSM Research Financial Innovation, Aggregate Liquidity, and Coordination Failures

Autumn Term 2021/2022

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
6/10/21

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16:00 Lubos Pastor The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 'Dissecting Green Returns'
14/10/21

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16:00 Manju Puri Duke University 'Private Equity and Financial Stability:
Evidence from Failed-Bank Resolution in the Crisis'
20/10/21

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16:00 Kyle Herkenhoff University of Minnesota “Can the unemployed borrow? Implications for public insurance”
27/10/21

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14:00 Vicente Cunat
London School of Economics 'The systemic governance influence
of universal owners:
evidence from an expectation document'
10/11/21

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16:00 Kelly Shue Yale University “Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap∗
17/11/21

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16:00 Giorgia Piacentino Columbia University 'Collateral Reallocation'
24/11/21

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16:00 Andreas Stathopoulos University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 'Portfolio Home Bias and External Habit Formation'
1/12/21

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16:00 Isil Erel Ohio State University

'Specialized Investments and Firms’ Boundaries: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents'

8/12/21

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16:00 Gary Gorton Yale School of Management 'Making Money'

Summer Term 2020/2021

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper

28/04/2021

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16:00

David Schoenherr

Princeton University

Financial Access and Labor Market
Outcomes: Evidence from Credit Lotteries

05/05/2021

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16:00

Andrey Malenko

University of Michigan

Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice

12/05/2021

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16:00

Christian Opp

University of Rochester

Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Debt Chains

19/05/2021

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14:00

Bruno Biais

Gillmore Centre Seminar for Financial Technology Committee based blockchains as games between opportunistic players and adversaries 

26/05/2021

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16:00

Liyan Yang Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Whoever Has Will Be Given More: Information Sharing in Financial Markets

01/06/2021

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16:00

Song Ma

Yale University

Obsolete Firms

09/06/2021

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Postponed

Michael Weber

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 

16/06/2021

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Postponed

Alex Hsu

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

23/06/2021

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14:00

Daniel Streitz

Copenhagen Business School Corporate Loan Spreads and Economic Activity∗
           

Spring Term 2020/2021

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
17/02/2021 Zoom 14:00 Roni Michaely University of Geneva and Swiss Finance Institute "Propagation of Political Information"
24/02/2021 Zoom 14:00 Roberto Reno University of Verona "V-shapes"
03/03/2021 Zoom 14:00 Lasse Heje Pedersen AQR, CBS, NYU "Game On: Social Networks and Markets"
10/03/2021 Zoom 14:00 Toni Ahnert Bank of Canada, CEPR "Bank Runs, Bank Competition and Opacity"
17/03/2021 Zoom 14:00 Victoria Vanasco CREI Barcelona "Security Design in Non-Exclusive Markets with Asymmetric Information"
           

Autumn Term 2020/2021

Date Room Time (UK) Speaker Institution Title of Paper
07/10/2020   16:00 Jessica Jeffers The University of Chicago Booth School of Business "Does Antitrust Enforcement Affect Industry Dynamics? Evidence from 40 Years of US DOJ Lawsuits"
14/10/2020   13:00 Frederic Malherbe University College London "Banking Unions and the Cross-border Effects of Bank Capital Regulation"
21/10/2020   11:00 Shiyang Huang University of Hong Kong "The Smart Beta Mirage"
28/10/2020   13:00 Emanuel Moench Deutsches Bundesbank "Fundamental Disagreement about
Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of
Interest Rates"
04/11/2020   13:00 Riccardo Sabbatucci Stockholm School of Economics "Smart Beta Made Smart"
11/11/2020   16:00 Rich Mathews Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland "Skill versus Reliability in Venture Capital∗"
18/11/2020   13:00 Renee Adams Said Business School, University of Oxford "Gendered Prices"
25/11/2020   16:00 Elena Simintzi Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina "The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment"
02/12/2020   16:00 Jacopo Ponticelli Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University "Household Credit as Stimulus? Evidence from Brazil"
08/12/2020   13:00 Marieke Bos Stockholm School of Economics "Corporate Restructurings and Employees’ Mental Health"
           

Summer Term 2019/2020

Date 2020 Room Speaker Institution Title of Paper
05/05/2020 Zoom 14:00 Paul Whelan Copenhagen Business School "The Overnight Drift"
06/05/2020 Zoom 16:00 Lukas Kremens University of Washington "Currency Redenomination Risk: Eurozone exits and the urge to take back control"
13/05/2020 Zoom 13:00 Anastasia Girshina Stockholm School of Economics "Wealth, savings, and returns over the life cycle: the role of education"
20/05/2020 Zoom 13:00 Augustin Landier HEC Paris "ESG Investing: How to Optimize Impact?"
27/05/2020 Zoom 13:00 Ilaria Piatti Oxford "Risk Premia on Foreign Bonds"
03/06/2020 Zoom 13:00 Francesco Manaresi Bank of Italy

"Born in Hard Times: Startups Selection and Intangible Capital During the Financial Crisis"

09/06/2020 Zoom 13:00 Mamdouh Medhat Cass Business School "Short-term Momentum"
10/06/2020 Zoom 13:00 Olga Obizhaeva Stockholm School of Economics "Fundraising in the Hedge Fund Industry"
17/06/2020 Zoom 13:00 Giorgio Sertsios Universidad de los Andes "Ownership Concentration and Firm Value:
New Evidence from Owner Stakes in IPOs"

Spring Term 2019/2020

Date 2020 Room Speaker Institution Title of Paper
25/02/2020   Boris Nikolov University of Lausanne TBC
04/03/2020   Mariassunta Gianetti Stockholm School of Economics TBC

Autumn Term 2019/2020

Date 2019 Room Speaker Institution Title of Paper
02/10/2019 0.006 Nick Gantchev Southern Methodist University "The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy"
09/10/2019 0.006 Martin Oehmke LSE "A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment∗"
16/10/2019 0.006 Mahendrarajah Nimalendran University of Florida "Informational Value of U.S. Securities Registration:
Evidence from Secondary Public Offerings, 1996-2016"
23/10/2019 0.006 Samuel Hanson Harvard "A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premiums and
Exchange Rates"
30/10/2019 0.006 Nina Boyarchenko Fed NY

"Multimodality in Macro-Financial Dynamics"

06/11/2019 0.006 Jean-Sébastien Fontaine Bank of Canada

"Long Run Impact of Macro News on Treasury Bond Yields"

13/11/2019 0.006 Tobias Berg Frankfurt School of Finance & Management "Handling Spillover Effects in Empirical Research:
An Application using Credit Supply Shocks"
20/11/2019 0.006 Frederico Belo INSEAD "Priceless Consumption*"
25/11/2019 0.006 Adrien Matray Princeton "Higher Dividend Taxes, No Problem!
Evidence from Taxing Entrepreneurs in France"
04/12/2019 0.006 Matthew Ringgenberg Utah TBC

Summer Term 2018/2019

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Autumn Term 2018/2019


Summer Term 2017/2018

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Summer Term 2016/2017

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Summer Term 2015/2016

Spring Term 2015/2016

Autumn Term 2015/2016