Faculty Research Seminars

Feb. 26, 2021
Speaker: Dong Lou, Associate Professor of Finance, LSE
Department of Finance

March 26, 2021
Speaker: Tracy Yue Wang, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota
Department of Finance

April 2, 2021
Speaker: Richard Evans, Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
Department of Finance

April 9, 2021
Speaker: Chris Yung, Associate Professor of Commerce, University of Virginia
Department of Finance
Speaker: Wayne Guay, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Accounting
Department of Accounting

April 16, 2021
Speaker: Alon Brav, Professor of Finance, Duke
Department of Finance
Speaker: Nemit Shroff, MIT Associate Professor, Accounting
Department of Accounting

April 23, 2021
Speaker: Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
Department of Finance
Speaker: Omri Even-Tov, Berkeley, Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting

April 30, 2021
Speaker: Holger Mueller, Professor of Finance, NYU
Department of Finance
Speaker: Iman Sheibany, University of Utah, Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting

May 14, 2021
Speaker: Xiaoxia Peng, University of Utah, Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting

Sept. 24, 2021
Speaker: Itzhak Ben-David, OSU
Department of Finance

Sept. 24, 2021
Speaker: Emmanuel T. De George, University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, Assistant Professor | Department of Accounting
Department of Accounting

Oct. 6
Speaker: Robert Garlick, Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University, Title: “Aspirations, Assets, and Anti-poverty Policies”
Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis

Oct. 8
Speaker: Stefan Nagel, Professor of Finance, Chicago
Department of Finance

Oct. 13
Speaker: Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Penn State
Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis

Oct. 20
Speaker: Jesse Shapiro, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, Brown University
Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis

Oct. 21
Speaker: Professor Troup Howard (w/Carlos F. Avenancio-Leon), Assistant Professor, University of Utah – Finance Department
Title: “The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation”
Department of Management

Oct. 22
Speaker: Alex Edmans, LBS
Department of Finance

• Jan. 17, 2020
  Engineering Social Learning: Information Design of Time-Locked Sales Campaigns for Online Platforms
  Speaker: Shouqiang Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Operations Management, University of Texas at Dallas
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Jan. 27, 2020
  The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure Dissemination on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the Implementation of the EDGAR System 
  Speaker: Enrique Gomez, Job Candidate, University of Georgia
  School of Accounting
• Jan. 31, 2020
  Speaker: Alex Chinco, Assistant Professor of Finance, UIUC
  Department of Finance
• Jan. 31, 2020
  Speaker: Russ Coff, Professor of Finance, Wisconsin School of Business
  Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
• Feb. 3, 2020
  Economic Consequences of Public Pension Accounting Rule Changes: Evidence from Housing Markets and Local Economies
  Speaker: Haoqing (Grace) Fan, Job Candidate, INSEAD
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 4, 2020
  Accounting Conservatism, Debt Contracting, and Discretionary Information Acquisition
  Speaker: Christian Laux, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 7, 2020
  Find and Replace: R & D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products
  Speaker: Josh Krieger, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
• Feb. 7, 2020
  Speaker: Matias Sokolowski , Job Candidate, Emory University
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 12, 2020
  The Real Effects of Covenants on Investment Productivity
  Speaker: Christopher Rigsby, Job Candidate, Northwestern
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 14, 2020
  Does Reduced Mandatory Disclosure Increase Price Efficiency?
  Speaker: Jedson Pinto, Job Candidate, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 14, 2020
  Speaker: Jeff Macher, Professor of Strategy, Economics and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown
  Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
• Feb. 21, 2020
  Speculation Sentiment
  Speaker: Shaun Davies, Assistant Professor of Finance, CU Boulder
  Department of Finance
• Feb. 21, 2020
  Speaker: Zeke Hernandez, Professor, Wharton
  Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
• Feb. 25, 2020
  Are Critics Right About Quarterly Earnings Guidance? An Examination of Quarterly Earnings Guidance and Managerial Myopia
  Speaker: Claire Stratton Quinto, Job Candidate, University of Oregon
  School of Accounting
• Feb. 27, 2020
  Speaker: Heather Tookes, Professor of Finance, Yale
  School of Finance
• Feb. 27, 2020
  Family Structure and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the Utah Population Database
  Speaker: Tom Maloney, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, College of Social and Behavorial Sciences, University of Utah
  Department of Management
• Feb. 28, 2020
  Hidden Cost of Private Equity Investment
  Speaker: Mark Jansen, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Utah
  Department of Finance
• Feb. 28, 2020
  Speaker: Peeyush Taori, Job Candidate, London Business School
  School of Accounting
• March 4, 2020
  Speaker: Laurent Bouton, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
  Business Economics Group 
  Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• March 6, 2020
  Speaker: Brett Green, Associate Professor of Finance, Washington University
  Department of Finance
• March 19, 2020
  Speaker: Matthew Spiegel, Professor of Finance, Yale
  Department of Finance
• March 26, 2020
  Speaker: Tracy Yue Wang, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 11, 2020
  How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
  Speaker: Wei Jiang, Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 18, 2020
  In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
  Speaker: Ralph Koijen, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 25, 2020
  Monetary Transmission through Bank Balance Sheet Synergies
  Speaker: William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania
  Department of Finance
• Oct. 2, 2020
  Speaker: Gil Sadka, Associate Professor of Accounting, UT Dallas
  School of Accounting
• Oct. 5 , 2020
  Speaker: Daniel Effron, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, London School of Business
  Department of Management
• Oct. 16, 2020
  Speaker: Qi Chen, Professor, Duke University
  School of Accounting
• Oct. 16, 2020
  EPS-Sensitivity and Mergers Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
  Speaker: Jarrad Harford, Professor of Business Administration, University of Washington
  Department of Finance
• Oct. 16, 2020
  Speaker: Anita Woolley, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business
  Department of Management
  
• Oct. 23, 2020
  Quantifying and Nudging Collective Intelligence
  Speaker: Anita Woolley, Carnegie Mellon
• Oct. 30, 2020
  Speaker: Haijin Lin, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Houston
  School of Accounting
• Oct. 30, 2020
  Speaker: Russ Wermers, Professor of Finance, University of Maryland
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 6, 2020
  Speaker: Lauren Cohen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 6, 2020
  Speaker: Ines Black, Assistant Professor Duke University
  Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
• Nov. 11, 2020
  Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era
  Speaker: Rich Patterson, Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point
  Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Nov. 13, 2020
  Speaker: Dushyant Vyas, Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto
  School of Accounting
• Nov. 13, 2020
  Speaker: Song Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 18, 2020
  Brexit, Compromise Under Threat
  Speaker: Helios Herrera, Professor of Economics at Warwick University
  Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Dec. 2, 2020
  Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the US
  Speaker: Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School
  Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Dec. 4, 2020
  Speaker: Eric So, Associate Professor of Accounting, MIT
  Department of Finance
• Dec. 9, 2020
  Speaker: Hulya Eraslan, Professor of Economics at Rice University
  Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis

• Jan. 7, 2019
  Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities
  Speaker: Anya Nakhmurina, University of Chicago
  School of Accounting
• Jan. 16, 2019
  Changing the channel: The relation between information complexity and disclosure channel richness
  Speaker: A. Nicole Skinner, University of Colorado
  School of Accounting
• Jan. 23, 2019
  Accounting Quality Benefits of Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from the Banking Industry
  Speaker: Hailey Ballew, Ohio State
  School of Accounting
• Mar. 22, 2019
  A Tale of Two Courts: Determinants and Consequences of the SEC’s Choice of Enforcement Venue After the Dodd-Frank Act
  Speaker: Xin Zheng, University of British Columbia
  School of Accounting
• Aug. 30, 2019
  The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness
  Speaker: Sharad Goel, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Aug. 30, 2019
  Investor agreement – Implications for the pricing of idiosyncratic risk
  Speaker: Judson Caskey, Associate Professor, Accounting, UCLA
  School of Accounting
• Sep. 6, 2019
  Executives in Politics
  Speaker: Ilona Babenko, Associate Professor of Finance, ASU
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 10, 2019
  The Role of Financial Conditions in Portfolio Choices: The Case of Insurers
  Speaker: Michael Weisbach, Professor of Finance, OSU
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 11, 2019
  Place-Based Redistribution
  Speaker: Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Sep. 18, 2019
  Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application
  Speaker: Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Sep. 19, 2019
  Civic Honesty around the Globe
  Speaker: David Tannenbaum, Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business
  Department of Management
• Sep. 20, 2019
  Is Positive Sentiment in Corporate Annual Reports Informative? Evidence from Deep Learning
  Speaker: Anup Agrawal, Professor of Finance, Alabama
  Department of Finance
• Sep. 20, 2019
  Consumer Trust in Social Responsibility Communications: The Role of Supply Chain Visibility 
  Speaker: Tim Kraft, MIT
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Sep. 25, 2019
  The Return to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap
  Speaker: Lars Lefgren, Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Sep. 27, 2019
  Evaluating Price Informativeness and its Determinants
  Speaker: Steven Monahan, Associate Professor, INSEAD
  School of Accounting
• Sep. 27, 2019
  Peer Recognition Increases Content Generation but Reduces Content Novelty
  Speaker: Yili Hong, Associate Professor of Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Oct. 4, 2019
  Randomness does not break the curse of dimensionality unless the dynamic program is trivial
  Speaker: Robert Bray, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Oct. 16, 2019
  Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration
  Speaker: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Research Director, California Policy Lab, UCLA
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Oct. 18, 2019
  How Alternative Are Private Markets?
  Speaker: Ludovic Phallippou, Professor of Financial Economics, Oxford
  Department of Finance
• Oct. 18, 2019
  Lifting the Banking Veil: Credit Standards Harmonization through Lending Transparency
  Speaker: Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Professor of Accounting, University of Southern California
  School of Accounting
• Oct. 23, 2019
  Modular Organization
  Speaker: Niko Matouschek, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Oct. 29, 2019
  Leveraged Investment Products: Monthly Rebalancing Boosts Performance, But Tail Risk Looms
  Speaker: Matthew S. Crouse, Professor of Finance, Westminster College
  Department of Finance
• Oct. 30, 2019
  Guns and Violence: The Enduring Impact of Crack Cocaine Markets on Young Black Males
  Speaker: Craig Garthwaite, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Nov. 1, 2109
  Executive Accountants and the Reliability of Financial Reporting
  Speaker: Adrienne Rhodes, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M
  School of Accounting
• Nov. 1, 2019
  The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles
  Speaker: Adam Looney, Visiting Professor, QAMO
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 6, 2019
  Taxes and Dual Labor Margins: A Macroeconomic Perspective
  Speaker: Brendan Epstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Nov. 8, 2019
  Unintended Consequences of Minimum Annuity Laws: An Experimental Study
  Speaker: Orly Sade, Associate Professor of Finance, Hebrew University
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 8, 2019
  When Ignorance is Not Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Sub-tier Supply Network Structure on Firm Risk
  Speaker: Ravi Anupindi, Professor of Technology & Operations, Michigan Ross
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Nov. 13, 2019
  How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
  Speaker: Ryan McDevitt, Associate Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Nov. 15, 2019
  Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
  Speaker: Anastassia Fedyk, Assistant Professor of Finance, UC Berkeley
  Department of Finance
• Nov. 15, 2019
  When do Appointments of Corporate Sustainability Executives affect Shareholder Value?
  Speaker: Ravi Subramanian, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Georgia Tech
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Nov. 18, 2019
  Gendered Norms for Intimate Interracial Contact
  Speaker: Amelia Stillwell, PhD Candidate, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
  Department of Management
• Dec. 2, 2019
  The Dissemination and Pricing of Street Earnings
  Speaker: Eric Weisbrod, Assistant Professor, University of Miami
  School of Accounting
• Dec. 3, 2019
  Decreasing Returns or Reversion to the Mean? The Case of Private Equity Fund Growth
  Speaker: Andrea Rossi, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
  Department of Finance
• Dec. 11, 2019
  Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications
  Speaker: Matthew Smith Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis, US Treasury
  Business Economics Group | Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis

• Feb. 16, 2018
  Advice is Cheap: Information Is Not!
  Speaker: Curtis Taylor, Professor of Economics, Duke
  Department of Finance
• March 2, 2018
  Is the Chinese Corporate Anti-Corruption Campaign Genuine?
  Speaker: John Griffin, Professor of Finance, UT Austin
  Department of Finance
• March 7, 2018
  Altruism and strategic giving in children and adolescents
  Speaker: John Griffin, Professor of Finance, UT Austin
  Department of Finance
• March 9, 2018
  The Effect of Investor Inattention on Voluntary Disclosure
  Speaker: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
  School of Accounting
• March 9, 2018
  Product Market Dynamics and Mergers and Acquisitions: Insights from the USPTO Trademark Data
  Speaker: Kai Li, Professor of Finance, UBC
  Department of Finance
• March 27, 2018
  Speed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion
  Speaker: Michael Hertzel, Professor of Finance, ASU
  Department of Finance
• March 30, 2018
  Exploratory Tradings
  Speaker: Adam Clark-Joseph, Assistant Professor of Finance, UIUC
  Department of Finance
• March 30, 2018
  Trade Secrets and Cost Structure
  Speaker: Xue Wang, Professor, The Ohio State University
  School of Accounting
• April 3, 2018
  A Growing Disparity in Earnings Disclosure Mechanisms: The Rise of Concurrently Released Earnings Announcements and 10-Ks
  Speaker: Salman Arif, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
  School of Accounting
• April 6, 2018
  “Ghost in the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Misstatements,”with E. Cheynel, E. Floyd and T. Pan
  Speaker: Jeremy Bertomeu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Rady of School Management, UCSD
  School of Accounting
• April 11, 2018
  The world is flat: Existing tax benefit systems approximate a linear one
  Speaker: Andreas Peichl, Professor of Management and Public Finance, University of Munich
  Department of Finance
• April 13, 2018
  Preferences for Power
  Speaker: Elena Pikulina, Assistant Professor of Finance, UBC
  Department of Finance
• April 20, 2018
  Examining Salesperson Effort Allocation in Teams: A Randomized Field Experiment
  Speaker: Noah Lim, Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  Department of Marketing
• April 26, 2018
  A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy
  Speaker: Carolin Pflueger, Assistant Professor of Finance, UBC
  Department of Finance
• April 27, 2018
  Bank Transparency and Deposit Flows
  Speaker: Rahul Vashishtha, Associate Professor of Accounting, Duke University
  School of Accounting
• Aug. 31, 2018
  A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways
  Speaker: Soo-Haeng Cho, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  Department of Operations & Information Systems
• Sep. 25, 2018
  Initial Coin Offerings: Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market
  Speaker: Daniele Macciochi, University of Utah
  School of Accounting
• Dec. 12, 2018
  Inside Debt and Agency Conflicts: Evidence from the Financial Crisis
  Speaker: Peter Demerjian, Washington University
  School of Accounting
• Dec. 14, 2018
  Industry Tournament Incentives and Debt Contractings
  Speaker: Tom Kubick, University of Kansas
  School of Accounting

• Jan. 10, 2017
  The Economics of Bank Cross-Firm Selling: The Value of Borrower Board Connectedness and Opacity
  Speaker: Jianxin (Donny) Zhao – CV, Job Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  School of Accounting
  
• Jan. 19, 2017
  Risk Fact or Fiction: The information content of risk factor disclosures
  Speaker: Maclean (Mac) Gaulin – CV, Job Candidate, Rice University
  School of Accounting
  
• Jan. 23, 2017
  Monitoring, Incentive Contracting, and Accounting Manipulation
  Speaker: Prasart Jongjaroenkamol – CV, Job Candidate, University of Texas Austin
  School of Accounting
  
• Jan. 25, 2017
  Speaker: Mario Schabus, Job Candidate, University of Amsterdam/University of Michigan
  School of Accounting
  
• Feb. 6, 2017
  International Corporate Access Events and Foreign Investors’ Portfolio Decisions
  Speaker: Tathagat Mukhopadhyay – CV, Job Candidate, London Business School
  School of Accounting
  
• Feb. 9, 2017
  Customer monitoring of internal information processes and firms’ external reporting
  Speaker: Delphine Samuels – CV, Job Candidate, Wharton
  School of Accounting
  
• April 7, 2017
  The Effects of Charge-Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry
  Speaker: Hans Christensen, Associate Professor of Accounting, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  School of Accounting
  
• April 14, 2017
  Dark Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements
  Speaker: Wayne R. Landsman, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
  School of Accounting
  

2022

• March 25, 2022
  Speaker: Stephen Glaeser, Assistant Professor of Accounting, UNC
• April  1, 2022
  Speaker: Thomas Bourveau, Assistant Professor, Columbia
• April  15, 2022
  Speaker: Carolyn Deller, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Wharton School of Business
• April 29, 2022
  Speaker: Khrystyna Bochkay, Associate Professor, University of Miami
• May 13, 2022
  Speaker: Daniela De la Parra, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• May 20, 2022
  Speaker: Haresh Sapra, Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth

2021

• April 9, 2021
  Speaker: Chris Yung, Associate Professor of Commerce, University of Virginia
• April 9, 2021
  Speaker: Wayne Guay, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Accounting
• April 16, 2021
  Speaker: Alon Brav, Professor of Finance, Duke
• April 16, 2021
  Speaker: Nemit Shroff, MIT Associate Professor, Accounting
• April 23, 2021
  Speaker: Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
• April 23, 2021
  Speaker: Omri Even-Tov, Berkeley, Assistant Professor
• April 30, 2021
  Speaker: Holger Mueller, Professor of Finance, NYU
• April 30, 2021
  Speaker: Iman Sheibany, University of Utah, Assistant Professor
• May 14, 2021
  Speaker: Xiaoxia Peng, University of Utah, Assistant Professor
• Sept. 24, 2021
  Speaker: Emmanuel T. De George, University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, Assistant Professor 
• Oct. 29, 2021
  Speaker: Professor Anastasia Zakolyukina, Associate Professor, Chicago Booth
• Nov. 5, 2021
  Speaker: Professor Mary Ellen Carter, Associate Professor, Boston College
• Nov. 12, 2021
  Speaker: Professor Christine Cuny, Associate Professor of Accounting, NYU Stern School of Business

2020

• Jan. 27, 2020
  The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure Dissemination on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the Implementation of the EDGAR System 
  Speaker: Enrique Gomez, Job Candidate, University of Georgia

• Feb. 3, 2020
  Economic Consequences of Public Pension Accounting Rule Changes: Evidence from Housing Markets and Local Economies
  Speaker: Haoqing (Grace) Fan, Job Candidate, INSEAD
• Feb. 4, 2020
  Accounting Conservatism, Debt Contracting, and Discretionary Information Acquisition
  Speaker: Christian Laux, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Feb. 7, 2020
  Speaker: Matias Sokolowski , Job Candidate, Emory University
• Feb. 12, 2020
  The Real Effects of Covenants on Investment Productivity
  Speaker: Christopher Rigsby, Job Candidate, Northwestern
• Feb. 14, 2020
  Does Reduced Mandatory Disclosure Increase Price Efficiency?
  Speaker: Jedson Pinto, Job Candidate, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Feb. 25, 2020
  Are Critics Right About Quarterly Earnings Guidance? An Examination of Quarterly Earnings Guidance and Managerial Myopia
  Speaker: Claire Stratton Quinto, Job Candidate, University of Oregon
• Feb. 28, 2020
  Speaker: Peeyush Taori, Job Candidate, London Business School
• Oct. 2, 2020
  Speaker: Gil Sadka, Associate Professor of Accounting, UT Dallas
  
• Oct. 16, 2020
  Speaker: Qi Chen, Professor, Duke University
  
• Oct. 30, 2020
  Speaker: Haijin Lin, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Houston
  
• Nov. 13, 2020
  Speaker: Dushyant Vyas, Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto

2019

• Jan. 7, 2019
  Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities
  Speaker: Anya Nakhmurina, University of Chicago
• Jan. 16, 2019
  Changing the channel: The relation between information complexity and disclosure channel richness
  Speaker: A. Nicole Skinner, University of Colorado
• Jan. 23, 2019
  Accounting Quality Benefits of Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from the Banking Industry
  Speaker: Hailey Ballew, Ohio State
  
• March 22, 2019
  A Tale of Two Courts: Determinants and Consequences of the SEC’s Choice of Enforcement Venue After the Dodd-Frank Act
  Speaker: Xin Zheng, University of British Columbia

• Aug. 30, 2019
  Investor agreement – Implications for the pricing of idiosyncratic risk
  Speaker: Judson Caskey, Associate Professor, Accounting, UCLA
  School of Accounting

• Sep. 27, 2019
  Evaluating Price Informativeness and its Determinants
  Speaker: Steven Monahan, Associate Professor, INSEAD
  School of Accounting

• Oct. 18, 2019
  Lifting the Banking Veil: Credit Standards Harmonization through Lending Transparency
  Speaker: Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Professor of Accounting, University of Southern California
  School of Accounting

• Nov. 1, 2109
  Executive Accountants and the Reliability of Financial Reporting
  Speaker: Adrienne Rhodes, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M
  School of Accounting

• Dec. 2, 2019
  The Dissemination and Pricing of Street Earnings
  Speaker: Eric Weisbrod, Assistant Professor, University of Miami
  School of Accounting

2018

• March 9, 2018
  The Effect of Investor Inattention on Voluntary Disclosure
  Speaker: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado
• March 30, 2018
  Trade Secrets and Cost Structure
  Speaker: Xue Wang, Professor, The Ohio State University
• April 3, 2018
  A Growing Disparity in Earnings Disclosure Mechanisms: The Rise of Concurrently Released Earnings Announcements and 10-Ks
  Speaker: Salman Arif, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
• April 6, 2018
  Ghost in the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Misstatements, with E. Cheynel, E. Floyd and T. Pan
  Speaker: Jeremy Bertomeu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Rady of School Management, UCSD
• April 13, 2018
  Responsibility Centers, Decision Rights, and Synergies
  Speaker: Assistant Professor, UCLA
• April 27, 2018
  Bank Transparency and Deposit Flows
  Speaker: Rahul Vashishtha, Associate Professor of Accounting, Duke University
• Sept. 25, 2018
  Initial Coin Offerings: Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market
  Speaker: Daniele Macciochi, University of Utah
• Dec. 12, 2018
  Inside Debt and Agency Conflicts: Evidence from the Financial Crisis
  Speaker: Peter Demerjian, Washington University
• Dec. 14, 2018
  Industry Tournament Incentives and Debt Contracting
  Speaker: Tom Kubick, University of Kansas

2017

• Jan. 10, 2017
  The Economics of Bank Cross-Firm Selling: The Value of Borrower Board Connectedness and Opacity
  Speaker: Jianxin (Donny) Zhao – CV, Job Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Jan. 19, 2017
  Risk Fact or Fiction: The information content of risk factor disclosures
  Speaker: Maclean (Mac) Gaulin – CV, Job Candidate, Rice University
• Jan. 23, 2017
  Monitoring, Incentive Contracting, and Accounting Manipulation
  Speaker: Prasart Jongjaroenkamol – CV, Job Candidate, University of Texas Austin
• Jan. 25, 2017
  Speaker: Mario Schabus, Job Candidate, University of Amsterdam/University of Michigan
• Feb. 6, 2017
  International Corporate Access Events and Foreign Investors’ Portfolio Decisions
  Speaker: Tathagat Mukhopadhyay – CV, Job Candidate, London Business School
• Feb. 9, 2017
  Customer monitoring of internal information processes and firms’ external reporting
  Speaker: Delphine Samuels – CV, Job Candidate, Wharton
• April 7, 2017
  The Effects of Charge-Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry
  Speaker: Hans Christensen, Associate Professor of Accounting, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• April 14, 2017
  Dark Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements
  Speaker: Wayne R. Landsman, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina

2016

• Jan. 12, 2016
  Information disclosure and insider trading around board meetings
  Speaker: Seil Kim – CV, New York University
• Jan. 13, 2016
  Financial Reporting Quality and Dual-Holding of Debt and Equity
  Speaker: Leila Peyravan – CV, University of Toronto
• Jan. 20, 2016
  The effect of family ownership on firms’ disclosure policies
  Speaker: Daniele Macciocchi – CV, Job Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome
• Feb. 3, 2016
  Unconditional Litigation Risk and Non-GAAP Reporting
  Speaker: John S. Treu – CV, Career-line Job Candidate

• Feb. 2, 2016
  The Role of Accounting Information in Equity Crowdfunding
  Speaker: John Donovan – CV, Job Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis

• Feb. 24, 2016
  Inter-Firm Information Demand*
  Speaker: Darren Bernard – CV, Job Candidate, University of Washington

• May 2, 2016
  The Consistency of Mandatory and Voluntary Management Earning Forecasts and Implications for Analyst and Investor Information Processing
  Speaker: Xiaoli Tian, Ohio State University
• April 1, 2016
  Speaker: Dan Taylor, Wharton
• Dec. 9, 2016
  Speaker: Jennifer Blouin, Wharton

• Nov. 18, 2016
  Speaker: Francis Tice, University of Colorado

• Oct. 28, 2016
  Political Bias of Corporate News: Role of Conglomeration Reform in China
  Speaker: T.J. Wong, USC

• Oct. 21, 2016
  Speaker: Carlo Gallimberti, Boston College

• Sep. 30, 2016
  Do dividends convey information about future earnings?
  Speaker: Zachary Kaplan, Washington University St. Louis

• Sep. 16, 2016
  EBITDA and Overinvestment in Capital 
  Speaker: Oded Rozenbaum, George Washington University
  
• Sep. 9, 2016
  Speaker: Rajiv Banker, Temple

2015

• Jan. 12, 2015
  Limited Investor Attention and the Earnings Announcement Premium
  Speaker: Kimball Chapman

• Jan. 14, 2015
  Speaker: Jordan Schoenfeld

• Jan. 20, 2015
  Job Market Paper
  Speaker: Ben Lourie – CV

• Jan. 23, 2015
  Job Market Paper
  Speaker: Ciao-Wei Chen – CV

• Feb. 2, 2015
  Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?
  Speaker: Omri Tov – CV

• Feb. 4, 2015
  Managerial Career Concerns and Earnings Forecasts
  Speaker: Sarah Shaikh – CV

• Feb. 9, 2015
  Speaker: Jie Zhou

• Feb. 10, 2015
  The Flow of Earnings Information to the Market
  Speaker: Nathan Marshall – CV

• March 13, 2015
  Why do CEOs hold so much unconstrained equity?
  Speaker: Christopher S. Armstrong, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• March 17, 2015
  Direct evidence on the informational properties of earning in loan contracts
  Speaker: Atif Ellahie, London Business School

• April 20, 2015
  Direct evidence on the informational properties of earning in loan contracts
  Speaker: Scott Dyreng, Duke University

• Sep. 18, 2015
  What are the costs of admitting mistakes for foreign firms?
  Speaker: Jenny (Li) Zhang, University of British Columbia

• Oct. 9, 2015
  The relationship between R&D, growth, and operating leverage
  Speaker: Robert Resutek

• Oct. 23, 2015
  Can We Automate Earnings Forecasts and Beat Analysts at Short Horizons?
  Speaker: Ryan Ball, University of Michigan

• Nov. 6, 2015
  Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Investment
  Speaker: Shira Cohen, Temple University

• Nov. 13, 2015
  Do Weather-Induced Moods Affect the Processing of Earnings News?
  Speaker: Ed deHaan, Stanford

• Dec. 11, 2015
  The Ever-Expanding 10-K: Why are 10-Ks Getting So Much Longer (and does it matter)?
  Speaker: Mark Lang, UNC

• Dec. 16, 2015
  Mitigating Political Uncertainty
  Speaker: Laura A. Wellman – CV, Kellogg School of Management

2014

• Sep. 9, 2014
  Competing Reporting Objectives and Financial Reporting Quality
  Speaker: Melissa Western, University of Utah

• Sep. 5, 2014
  Health-Insurer Bargaining Power and Firms’ Incentives to Manage Earnings
  Speaker: Francesco Bova, University of Toronto

• Sep. 12, 2014
  The Effect of Short-Sale Constraints on Default Prediction Around the World
  Speaker: Edward Owens, Emory University

• Oct. 10, 2014
  The JOBS Act and Information Uncertainty in IPO Firms
  Speaker: Mary Barth, Stanford University

• Nov. 21, 2014
  Taste, information, and asset prices: Implications for the valuation of CSR
  Speaker: Henry Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles

• Dec. 12, 2014
  Financial Statement Errors: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers
  Speaker: Dan Amiram, Columbia University

2022

• March 25, 2022
  Speaker: Nadya Malenko, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Michigan
  Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice
• April 1, 2022
  Speaker: Matthew Spiegel, Professor of Finance, Yale
• April 8, 2022
  Speaker: Sophie Moinas, Professor of Finance, Toulouse
  

2021

• Feb. 26, 2021
  Speaker: Dong Lou, Associate Professor of Finance, LSE
• March 26, 2021
  Speaker: Tracy Yue Wang, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota
• April 2, 2021
  Speaker: Richard Evans, Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
• April 9, 2021
  Speaker: Chris Yung, Associate Professor of Commerce, University of Virginia
• April 16, 2021
  Speaker: Alon Brav, Professor of Finance, Duke
• April 23, 2021
  Speaker: Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
• April 30, 2021
  Speaker: Holger Mueller, Professor of Finance, NYU

2020

• Jan. 31, 2020
  Speaker: Alex Chinco, Assistant Professor of Finance, UIUC
• Feb. 21, 2020
  Speculation Sentiment
  Speaker: Shaun Davies, Assistant Professor of Finance, CU Boulder
• Feb. 27, 2020
  Speaker: Heather Tookes, Professor of Finance, Yale
• Feb. 28, 2020
  Hidden Cost of Private Equity Investment
  Speaker: Mark Jansen, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Utah
• March 6, 2020
  Speaker: Brett Green, Associate Professor of Finance, Washington University
• March 19, 2020
  Speaker: Matthew Spiegel, Professor of Finance, Yale
• March 26, 2020
  Speaker: Tracy Yue Wang, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota
• Sept. 11, 2020
  How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
  Speaker: Wei Jiang, Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia
• Sept. 18, 2020
  In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
  Speaker: Ralph Koijen, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
• Sept. 25, 2020
  Monetary Transmission through Bank Balance Sheet Synergies
  Speaker: William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania
• Oct. 16, 2020
  EPS-Sensitivity and Mergers Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
  Speaker: Jarrad Harford, Professor of Business Administration, University of Washington
• Oct. 30, 2020
  Speaker: Russ Wermers, Professor of Finance, University of Maryland
• Nov. 6, 2020
  Speaker: Lauren Cohen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
• Nov. 13, 2020
  Song Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale
• Dec. 4, 2020
  Speaker: Eric So, Associate Professor of Accounting, MIT

2011-2019

• Click here for a list of Department of Finance Seminars from 2011-2019.

2022

• March 1, 2022
  Speaker: William Fuchs, Professor of Finance, University of Texas at Austin
  Time Trumps Quantity in the Market for Lemons
• March 2, 2022
  Speaker: Youssef Benzarti, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara
• March 23, 2022
  Speaker: Patrick Bayer, Professor of Economics, Duke University
  The Long Road to Racial Equality: An Empirical Model of Group Convergence across Generations
• March 30, 2022
  Speaker: Eric Chyn, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth
• April 6, 2022
  Speaker: Clemence Tricaud, Assistant Professor of Economics, Anderson School of Management, UCLA
• April 13, 2022
  Speaker: Sandeep Baliga, Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management
  Long Wars
• April 27, 2022
  Speaker: Salvatore Nunnari, Associate Professor of Economics, Bocconi University

2021

• Oct. 13, 2021
  Speaker: Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Penn State
• Oct. 20, 2021
  Speaker: Jesse Shapiro, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, Brown University
• Oct. 27, 2021
  Speaker: Gordon Dahl, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego
• Nov. 10, 2021
  Speaker: Camille Landais, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

2020

• March 4, 2020
  Speaker: Laurent Bouton, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
• March 18, 2020
  Speaker: Julie Mortimer, Professor of Economics, Boston College
• March 25, 2020
  Speaker: Shai Bernstein, Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford
• April 8, 2020
  Speaker: Salvatore Nunnari, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
• April 15, 2020
  Speaker: Gordon Dahl, Professor of Economics, UCSD
• Sept. 11, 2020
  How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
  Speaker: Wei Jiang, Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia
• Sept. 18, 2020
  In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations
  Speaker: Ralph Koijen, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
• Sept. 25, 2020
  Monetary Transmission through Bank Balance Sheet Synergies
  Speaker: William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, U Penn
• Oct. 16, 2020
  EPS-Sensitivity and Mergers Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
  Speaker: Jarrad Harford, Professor of Business Administration, University of Washington
• Oct. 30, 2020
  International Characteristics-Based Asset Pricing
  Speaker: Russ Wermers, Professor of Finance, U Maryland
• Nov. 6, 2020
  Don’t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds
  Speaker: Lauren Cohen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
• Nov. 13, 2020
  Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed Bank Resolution in the Crisis
  Speaker: Song Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale
• Dec. 4, 2020
  Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns
  Speaker: Eric So, Associate Professor of Accounting MIT

2019

• Sept. 11, 2019
  Place-Based Redistribution
  Speaker: Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley]
• Sept. 18, 2019
  Speaker: Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University
• Sept. 25, 2019
  Speaker: Lars Lefgren, Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
• Oct. 2, 2019
  Speaker: Therese McGuire, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
• Oct. 16, 2019
  Speaker: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Research Director, California Policy Lab, UCLA
• Oct. 23, 2019
  Modular Organization
  Speaker: Niko Matouschek, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
• Oct. 30, 2019
  Speaker: Craig Garthwaite, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
• Nov. 6, 2019
  Speaker: Brendan Epstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Nov. 13, 2019
  Speaker: Ryan McDevitt, Associate Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• Dec. 11, 2019
  Speaker: Matthew Smith, Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis, US Treasury

2018

• Sept. 11, 2018
  Place-Based Redistribution
  Speaker: Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Sept. 18, 2018
  Speaker: Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University

• Sept. 25, 2018
  Speaker: Lars Lefgren, Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University

• Oct. 2, 2018
  Speaker: Therese McGuire, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management

• Oct. 16, 2018
  Speaker: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Research Director, California Policy Lab, UCLA

• Oct. 23, 2018
  Modular Organization
  Speaker: Niko Matouschek, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management

• Oct. 30, 2018
  Speaker: Craig Garthwaite, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management

• Nov. 6, 2018
  Speaker: Brendan Epstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

• Nov. 13, 2018
  Speaker: Ryan McDevitt, Associate Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

• Dec. 11, 2018
  Speaker: Matthew Smith, Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis, US Treasury

2020

• Jan. 31, 2020
  Speaker: Russ Coff, Professor of Finance, Wisconsin School of Business
• Feb. 7, 2020
  Find and Replace: R & D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products
  Speaker: Josh Krieger, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Feb. 14, 2020
  Speaker: Jeff Macher, Professor of Strategy, Economics and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown
• Feb. 21, 2020
  Speaker: Zeke Hernandez, Professor, Wharton
• Friday, Nov. 6, 2020
  Speaker: Ines Black, Assistant Professor Duke University