Seminars
Seminars showcase research by colleagues from around the world focusing on financial economics. The seminar series is named after Dr. Stephen A. Buser, Professor Emeritus at Fisher College of Business.
The schedule is subject to change.
Seminar Schedule
2/26/25 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Andrei S. Gonçalves
The Ohio State University
"Out-of-Sample Alphas Post-Publication"
3/5/25 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Kyle Dempsey
The Ohio State University
"A Quantitative Analysis of Bank Lending Relationships"
3/7/25 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Aditya Chaudhry
The Ohio State University
"Endogenous Elasticities: Price Multipliers Are Smaller for Larger Demand Shocks"
3/19/25 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Anna Pavlova
London Business School
"The Dollar and the US Wealth Share"
4/9/2025 (11:00-12:30 PM)
John Griffin
The University of Texas at Austin
TBA
4/16/2025 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Alp Simsek
Yale University
"Financial Conditions Targeting"
4/30/2025 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Sejin Kang
The Ohio State University
"Reaching for Yield in Target Date Funds"
5/7/25 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Joao Gomes
University of Pennsylvania
"Marginal q"
8/28/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Itay Goldstein
University of Pennsylvania
"AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency"
9/11/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Kelly Shue
Yale University
"Categorical Thinking about Interest Rates"
9/18/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Yiming Ma
Columbia University
"The Dynamics of Deposit Flightiness and its Impact on Financial Stability"
9/25/24 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Shaojun Zhang
The Ohio State University
"Oil and Greenium"
10/2/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Kairong Xiao
Columbia University
"Dissecting Bond Market Transmission of Monetary Policy"
10/9/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Cynthia Yin
The Ohio State University
"Capital Complementarity and Sustainable Investing"
10/16/24 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor René M. Stulz
The Ohio State University
"Bank Payout Policy, Regulation, and Politics"
10/23/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Lubos Pastor
University of Chicago
"Carbon Burden"
10/30/24 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Michael Wittry
The Ohio State University
"The Rise of Anti-Activist Poison Pills"
11/6/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Tim de Silva
Stanford University
"Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment"
11/13/24 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Sergey Sarkisyan
The Ohio State University
"Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission"
11/20/24 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor John Graham
Duke University
"Valuation Fundamentals"
12/4/24 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Professor Alessandro Melone
The Ohio State University
"The Economic Implications of Rebalancing "
3/6/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Jan Bena
University of British Columbia
"Financing the Global Shift to Electric Mobility"
3/20/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Christoph Schiller
Arizona State University
"Social Media as a Bank Run Catalyst"
3/27/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Clemens Sialm
University of Texas at Austin
"Pension Fund Flows, Exchange Rates, and Covered Interest Rate Parity"
4/3/2024 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Michael Wittry
The Ohio State University
"Resolving Estimation Ambiguity"
4/5/2024 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Professor Thomas Flanagan
The Ohio State University
"Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds"
4/10/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Holger Mueller
New York University
"Innovation Spillovers Across U.S. Tech Clusters"
4/17/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Sylvain Catherine
University of Pennsylvania
"Interest-rate risk and household portfolios"
5/1/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Claire Celerier
University of Toronto
"Household Preferences, Security Design, and Volatility Prices"
5/8/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Daisy Wang
The Ohio State University
"Dancing with the Giants: CVC Investments and Startup Outcomes"
5/15/2024 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Cynthia Yin
The Ohio State University
"Pricing Disaster Risk in Corporate Bonds"
9/13/2023 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Shaojun Zhang
The Ohio State University
"Factor Timing and The Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
9/20/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Amanda Heitz
Tulane University
"Bank Monitoring with On-Site Inspections"
9/27/2023 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Thomas Flanagan
The Ohio State University
"Quantifying Risk Transformation in Bank Lending"
9/29/2023 (10:30-11:30 AM)
Professor Isil Erel
The Ohio State University
"Monetary Policy Transmission Through Online Banks"
10/4/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM) ZOOM
Professor Antoinette Schoar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Anatomy of a Run: The Terra Luna Crash"
10/11/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Michaela Pagel
Washington University in St. Louis
"Cookies and Shopping"
10/25/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Wei Jiang
Emory University
"How Do Firms Withstand A Global Economic Shock: Evidence From Within-Firm Responses"
11/1/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Juhani Linnainmaa
Dartmouth College
"Dusty Corners in the Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns"
11/8/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Michael Ewens
Columbia University
"Irreplaceable Venture Capitalists"
11/15/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Sebastian Hillenbrand
Harvard Business School
"Accounting for Earnings: Does the Price-Earnings Ratio Predict Earnings or Returns?"
12/1/2023 (11:00-12:00 PM)
Professor Yufeng Wu
The Ohio State University
"Labor Mobility, Human Capital Investment, and Technological Change"
12/6/2023 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Andrei Goncalves
The Ohio State University
"The Subjective Risk and Return Expectations of Institutional Investors"
2/17/2023 (10:30-12:00 PM)
Professor Shan Ge
New York University
"The Costs of Hedging Disaster Risk and Home Prices in the Face of Climate Change"
3/22/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Will Cong
Cornell University
"Asset Pricing with Panel Tree Under Global Split Criteria"
3/29/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Valentin Haddad
UCLA
"Whatever It Takes? The Impact of Conditional Policy Promises"
4/5/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Jonathan Lewellen
Dartmouth College
“How many factors?”
4/12/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Mark Egan
Harvard University
"What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Estimating the Roles of Beliefs and Risk Preferences"
4/19/2023 (11:30-12:30 PM)
Professor Alessandro Melone
The Ohio State University
"Anomaly Predictability with the Mean-Variance Portfolio"
4/26/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Gordon Phillips
Dartmouth College
"Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Large Language Models"
5/3/2023 (11:00-12:30 PM)
Professor Heather Tookes
Yale University
"Leaving Them Hanging: Student Loan Forbearance, Distressed Borrowers, and Their Lenders"
5/8/2023 (10:30-12:00 PM)
Leandro Sanz
The Ohio state University
"Supply Network Fragility, Inventory Investment, and Corporate Liquidity"