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 12:00 to 1:00 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.

Spring 2021

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
31 Mar 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Tarun Ramadorai Imperial College London	Who Owns What? A Factor Model for Direct Stockholding joint paper with Vimal Balasubramaniam, John Y. Campbell and Benjamin Ranish
07 Apr 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Constantine Yannelis The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Measuring the Welfare Effects of Adverse Selection in Consumer Credit Markets joint paper with Anthony A. DeFusco and Huang Tang
14 Apr 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Gregor Jarosch Princeton University	Intermediation as Rent Extraction
21 Apr 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Nathan Lane Department of Economics University of Oxford
28 Apr 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Lasse Heje Pedersen Copenhagen Business School	Game On: Social Networks and Markets
05 May 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Lars Lochstoer UCLA
12 May 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Francesco D’Acuto Boston College School of Management
19 May 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Ricardo Reis LSE	The constraint on public debt when r < g but g < m
26 May 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Matilde Bombardini UC Berkeley
02 Jun 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Alan Taylor Department of Economics, University of California Davis	Tax Enforcement as Corporate Governance

Winter 2021

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
06 Jan 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Ken Singleton Stanford Graduate School of Business
13 Jan 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Adrien Matray Princeton University	Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence from India joint paper with Natalie Bau
20 Jan 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Lira Mota Columbia Business School	The Corporate Supply of (Quasi) Safe Assets
27 Jan 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Mehran Ebrahimian The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania	Student Loans and Social Mobility
10 Feb 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Rebecca DeSimone London Business School
17 Feb 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Niels Johannesen Department of Economics University of Copenhagen	Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts joint paper with Jorgen Juel Andersen and Bob Rijkers
24 Feb 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Simone Lenzu NYU	Knowledge Sharing within Firms across Space joint paper with Xavier Giroud, Quinn Maingi and Holger Mueller ( Abstract )
03 Mar 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Peter Maxted Harvard University	A Macro-Finance Model with Sentiment
17 Mar 2021 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Ludwig Straub Harvard University

Fall 2020

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
23 Sep 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Shan Ge New York University, Stern School of Business	Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities joint paper with Mark Egan and Johnny Tang
30 Sep 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas UC Berkeley	A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia and Currency Risk joint paper with Walker Ray and Dimitri Vayanos
07 Oct 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Andrey Malenko Ross School of Business, University of Michigan	Optimal Time-Consistent Debt Policies joint paper with Anton Tsoy
14 Oct 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Sasha Indarte The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Moral Hazard versus Liquidity in Household Bankruptcy
21 Oct 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Sylvain Catherine The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania	Social Security and Trends in Inequality joint paper with Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
28 Oct 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Ralph Koijen The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis joint paper with Xavier Gabaix
04 Nov 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	David Schoenherr Princeton University	Spatial Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Credit Lotteries joint paper with Bernardus Van Doornik, Armando Gomes and Janis Skrastins
11 Nov 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Brian Melzer Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College	Who Pays the Price? Overdraft Fee Ceilings and the Unbanked joint paper with Jennifer L. Dlugosz and Donald P. Morgan
18 Nov 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Eric Budish The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading “Arms Race”: A Simple New Methodology and Estimates joint paper with Matteo Aquilina and Peter O’Neil
02 Dec 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Carola Frydman Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University	Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley joint paper with Richard B. Baker and Eric Hilt
09 Dec 2020 12:00–1:00 Zoom	Jonathan Parker MIT	Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving over the Life Cycle joint paper with Antoinette Schoar, Allison Cole, and Duncan Simester