2018-19 Finance Seminars

Below is a list of the finance seminars that occurred during the 2018-19 academic year.

Seminars are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or by permission.

Spring 2019

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Apr 10
11:00am-12:15
C106
Ming Yang
Duke University
(Meet the Speaker)
The Coordination of Intermediation joint paper with Yao Zeng
Apr 18
1:30-5:20
C102
Joint Seminar with UC Berkeley 1:30-2:20: Brett Green (UC Berkeley)
Title: Liquidity Sentiments joint paper with Vladimir Asriyan, and William Fuchs
2:20-3:10: Tim McQuade (Stanford GSB)
Title: The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
3:10-3:40: Break
3:40-4:30: Adair Morse (UC Berkeley)
Title: The Leveraging of Silicon Valley joint paper with Jesse Davis, and Xinxin Wang
4:30-5:20: Jonathan Berk (Stanford GSB)
Title: Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions joint paper with Jules H. van Binsbergen
6:00-8:30: Dinner
Apr 24
11:00am-12:15
P107
Antoinette Schoar
MIT
(Meet the Speaker)
Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice joint paper with Maarten Meeuwis, and Jonathan Parker
May 01
11:00am-12:15
P107
Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University
(Meet the Speaker)
Granular instrumental variables joint paper with Ralph Koijen
May 08
11:00am-12:15
C106
Luke Taylor
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
(Meet the Speaker)
Dissecting Bankruptcy Frictions joint paper with Winston Wei Dou, Wei Wang, and Wenyu Wang (Abstract)
May 15
11:00am-12:15

C106
Mikhail Chernov
UCLA
(Meet the Speaker)
Conditional dynamics and the multi-horizon risk-return trade-off joint paper with Lars A. Lochstoer, and Stig R. H. Lundeby
May 22
11:00am-12:15
C106
Philipp Schnabl
NYU
(Meet the Speaker)
How Monetary Policy Shaped the Housing Boom joint paper with Itamar Drechsler, and Alexi Savov
May 29
11:00am-12:15
M109
Larry Schmidt
MIT
(Meet the Speaker)
Real Risk or Paper Risk: Mis-measured Factors, Granular Measurement Errors, and Empirical Asset Pricing Tests joint paper with Sung Je Byun

Winter 2019

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Jan 09
11:00am-12:15
P102
Jonathan Berk
Stanford GSB
Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions joint paper with Jules van Binsbergen
Jan 11
12:00-1:30
M105
Jonathan Payne
NYU
Disruption of Long Run Bank Credit
Jan 16
11:00-12:30
P102
Julia Fonseca
Princeton
Financial Development, Labor Markets, and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from Brazil
Jan 18
12:00-1:30
E104
Chenzi Xu
Harvard
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures
Jan 23
11:15am-12:45
E103
Gregory Buchak
University of Chicago
Financing the Gig Economy
Jan 25
12:00-1:30
M105
Claudia Robles-Garcia
LSE
Competition and Incentives in Mortgage Markets: The Role of Brokers
Jan 30
11:00-12:30
P102
Bo Bian
LBS
Globally Consistent Creditor Protection, Reallocation, and Productivity
Feb 01
12:00-1:30
E103
Lorena Keller
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Capital Controls and Risk Misallocation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Feb 04
12:00-1:30
M105
Roberto Gomez Cram
Wharton
Late to Recessions: Stocks and the Business Cycle
Feb 11
12:00-1:30
G101
Ishita Sen
LBS
Regulatory Limits to Risk Management
Feb 20
11:00-12:15
E104
Robert Marquez
UC Davis
Selling assets: When is the whole worth more than the sum of its parts? joint paper with Rajdeep Singh
Feb 27
11:00-12:15
P102
Peter Koudijs and Amit Seru
Stanford GSB
 
Mar 6
11:00-12:15
P102
IIya Strebulaev
Stanford GSB
Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels
Mar 13
11:00-12:15
P102
Joe Vavra
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
(Meet the Speaker)
Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy joint paper with David Berger, Konstantin Milbradt, and Fabrice Tourre
Mar 20
11:00-12:15
C110
Felipe Severino
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
(Meet the Speaker)
How do consumers fare when dealing with debt collectors? Evidence from out-of-court settlements joint paper with Ing-Haw Cheng, and Richard R. Townsend

Fall 2018

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Sep 26
12:00-1:15
P107
Simona Abis
Columbia Business School
(Meet the Speaker)
Man vs. Machine: Quantitative and Discretionary Equity Management
Oct 3
11:00am-12:15
P107
Brian Todd Waters
University of Colorado Boulder
(Meet the Speaker)
Learning by Owning in a Lemons Market joint paper with Jordan Martel and Kenneth Mirkin
Oct 10
11:00am-12:15
P107
Amir Sufi
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
(Meet the Speaker)
Credit Supply and Housing Speculation joint paper with Atif R. Mian
Oct 17
11:00am-12:15
P107
Alex Zentefis
Yale School of Management
(Meet the Speaker)
Social Progress and Corporate Culture joint paper with Gary Gorton
Oct 24
10:00am-5:20
Wells Fargo Room, C420
Joint Seminar with UC Berkeley Joint Seminar Agenda
Oct 31
11:00am-12:15
C102
Pietro Veronesi
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
(Meet the Speaker)
Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash Against Globalization joint paper with Lubos Pastor
Nov 7
11:00am-12:15
P107
Heidi L. Williams
MIT Department of Economics
(Meet the Speaker)
Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms joint paper with Patrick Kline, Neviana Petkova, and Owen Zidar
Nov 14
11:00am-12:15
C102
Jules van Binsbergen
University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School
(Meet the Speaker)
Risk Free Interest Rates
Nov 28
11:00am-12:15
P107
Will Cong
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
(Meet the Speaker)
Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools joint paper with Zhiguo He and Jiasun Li
Dec 05
11:00am-12:15
Arrillaga Alumni Center, Barnes/McDowell, Cranston
Kjell Nyborg
University of Zurich
(Meet the Speaker)
Collateral, Central Bank Repos, and Systemic Arbitrage joint paper with Falko Fecht, Jorg Rocholl, and Jiri Woschitz