Finance Seminars

Find workshops on finance that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

Finance seminars are held Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

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

Winter 2026

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Jan 9 12:00-1:30 pm C105	Jessica Li Chicago Booth	Complementarity of Bank and Market Debt in Dynamic Debt Structure
Jan 14 11:00 am-12:30 pm C105	Justin Katz Harvard University	Mortgage Rate Lock and House Prices
Jan 16 12:00-1:30 pm C105	Blake Jackson University of Florida	How do Barbarians Get to the Gates? Private Equity Careers, Styles, and Returns
Jan 21 11:00 am-12:30 pm C105	Patrick Adams MIT Sloan	Stocks for the Long Run or Liquidity? Tax Data Evidence and Portfolio Choice Implications
Jan 23 12:00-1:30 pm C105	Ananya Kotia London School of Economics	When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management and Productivity
Feb 18 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Fernando Alvarez The University of Chicago Department of Economics
Feb 25 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Guido Lorenzoni The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Mar 4 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Sabrina T. Howell New York University
Mar 11 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Julia Selgrad The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Mar 18 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Magnus Irie Princeton University

Spring 2026

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Apr 1 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Sebastian Merkel University of Bristol
Apr 22 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Tarun Ramadorai London School of Economics
Apr 29 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David The Ohio State University
May 6 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Chen Lian University of California, Berkeley	Sophisticated Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Dynamics
May 13 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Victoria Vanasco Centre de Recerca en Economia International (CREi)
May 20 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Winston Wei Dou University of Pennsylvania
May 27 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Dimitris Papanikolaou Northwestern University
Jun 3 11:00-12:15 pm TBA	Ricardo Reis The London School of Economics and Political Science

Fall 2025

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Sep 17 11:00-12:15 pm P107	Andrew Atkeson University of California Los Angeles	Reconciling Macroeconomics and Finance for the U.S. Corporate Sector: 1929 to Present joint paper with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri
Sep 24 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Lingxuan Sean Wu New York University	Banking on Inattention joint paper with Xu Lu
Oct 1 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Francesco Beraldi Duke University	Banking Relationships and Loan Pricing Disconnect
Oct 8 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Columbia University	The Commercial Real Estate Ecosystem joint paper with Ralph S.J. Koijen and Neel Shah
Oct 15 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Hui Chen Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Teaching Economics to the Machines joint paper with Yuhan Cheng, Yanchu Liu and Ke Tang
Oct 22 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Jeremy Stein Harvard University	Treasury Market Dysfunction and the Role of the Central Bank joint paper with Anil K. Kashyap, Jonathan L. Wallen and Joshua Younger
Oct 29 11:00-12:15 pm BC130	Anil Kashyap The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	How Much Does It Cost for Firms to Switch Banks? joint paper with Mary Amiti, Anna Kovner and David E. Weinstein
Nov 5 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Xavier Gabaix Harvard University	A Theory of Complexity Aversion
Nov 12 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Victoria Ivashina Harvard University	Bank Runs and Interest Rates: A Revolving Lines Perspective joint paper with Falk Bräuning
Nov 19 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Carolin Pflueger The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy	Global Hegemony and Exorbitant Privilege joint paper with Pierre Yared
Dec 3 11:00-12:15 pm C105	Emanuele Colonnelli The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Startups in Africa joint paper with Marcio Cruz, Mariana Pereira-Lopez, Tommaso Porzio, and Chun Zhao