Finance Seminars

Finance seminars are usually held on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Events for the 2015-16 academic year will be added here as they are scheduled.

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Questions?

Contact our seminar organizers, Tim McQuade and Arvind Krishnamurthy.

Meet the Speaker

Click the * link next to the seminar to view the schedule or email Miriam Torres for an appointment (Stanford GSB faculty only).

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Winter 2016SpeakerTitleTime/PlaceMeet the Speaker
January 20 Andrei Shleifer 
Harvard University  		 Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles joint with Pedro Bordalo and Nicola Gennaioli 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
February 3 Cliff Holderness
Boston College		 Equity Issuances and Agency Costs: The Telling Story of Shareholder Approval around the World 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
February 10 Giorgia Piacentino
Washington University in St. Louis  		 Warehouse Banking 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
February 17 Tyler Muir
Yale University  		 Volatility Managed Portfolios 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102		 (•)
February 24 Gordon Phillips
Darthmouth College 		 Innovation Activities and the Incentives for Vertical Acquisitions and Integration 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
March 9 Basil Williams
NYU		 Search, Liquidity, and Retention:  Signaling Multidimensional Private Information 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
March 16 Jose-Luis Peydro
Barcelona GSE 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
P102 		 (•)
March 30 Joint Berkeley/Stanford Seminar  TBA
Spring 2016SpeakerTitleTime/PlaceMeet the Speaker
April 6 Cecilia Parlatore
NYU 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
April 13 Vincent Glode
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
April 20 David Thesmar
HEC Paris 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
April 27 Kent Daniel
Columbia University  		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
May 4 Alex Edmans
London Business School  		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
May 11 Amir Yaron
Wharton University of Pennsylvania 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
May 18 Chris Palmer
UC Berkeley 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
May 25 Itamar Drechsler
NYU 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
June 1 Anna Cieslak
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business  		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)
June 8 Daniel Andrei
UCLA 		 12:00 - 1:15 PM
TBA 		 (•)

Fall 2015SpeakerTitleTime/PlaceMeet the Speaker
September 23 Dimitris Papanikoloau
Northwestern University 		 Winners and Losers: Creative Destruction and the Stock Market 12:10-1:25 PM
M104 		 (•)
September 30 Eduardo Davila
New York University  		 Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Bankruptcy Exemptions  12:10-1:25 PM
M104 		 (•)
October 7 Jean-Charles Rochet
University of Zurich 		 Aggregate Bank Capital and Credit Dynamics joint with Nataliya Klimenko, Sebastian Pfeil, and Gianni De Nicolo 12:10-1:25 PM
G101 		 (•)
October 14 Effi Benmelech
Northwestern University  		 The Real Effects of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles 12:00-1:15 PM
M105		 (•)
October 21 Adi Sunderam 
Harvard Business School  		 Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom  12:00-1:15 PM
M105		 (•)
October 28 Joint Berkeley-Stanford Finance Seminar at Berkeley

1:15-5:30 pm - Room C420 Wells Fargo Room

1:15-2:05 pm  Peter Koudijs, Stanford
Title: Marrying for Money: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850 (with Laura Salisbury- NYU)

2:05-2:20 pm   Break

2:20-3:10 pm  Nicolae Garleanu, Berkeley
Title: Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management (with Lasse Heje Pedersen-NYU) 

3:10-3:25 pm   2nd Break

3:25-4:15 pm  Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford
Title: Credit Spreads and the Severity of Financial Crises (with Tyler Muir-Yale SOM)  

4:15-4:30 pm   3rd Break

4:30-5:20 pm  Martin Lettau, Berkeley 
Title: Capital Share Risk and Shareholder Heterogeneity in U.S. Stock Pricing (with Sydney C. Ludvigson-NYU, and Sai Ma-NYU)

 Room C420 Wells Fargo Room
November 4 Wei Xiong 
Princeton University  		 Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk  joint with Matthew Baron 12:00-1:15 PM
P102		 (•)
November 11 Stefano Giglio
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 		 Excess Volatility: Beyond Discount Rates  12:00-1:15 PM
M105		 (•)
November 18 Alan Taylor
UC Davis 		 Leverage Bubbles joint with Oscar Jorda and Moritz Schularick  12:00-1:15 PM
M105		 (•)
December 2 Jonathan Parker
MIT Sloan School of Management 		 Why Don't Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from a 25 million dollar experiment 12:00-1:15 PM
E247		 (•)
December 9 Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University 		 An Equilibrium Model of Institutional Demand and Asset Prices 12:00-1:15 PM
W104		 (•)