Charles A. Dice Center

Seminars

Seminar Schedule

• Spring 2022

  2/25/2022  (10:30-12:00 PM)
  Professor Paul Décaire
  Arizona State University
  "CEO Pet Projects"

  3/2/2022 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Hoa Briscoe-Tran
  The Ohio State University
  "An Inside View of Corporate ESG Practices"

  3/9/2022 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Bruno Pellegrino
  University of Maryland
  "Barriers to Global Capital Allocation"

  3/23/2022 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Lauren Cohen
  Harvard Business School
  "Hidden Alpha"

  3/25/2022 (11:00-12:00 PM)
  Professor Shaojun Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk? A Global Perspective”

  3/30/2022 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Boris Vallee
  Harvard Business School
  "FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments"

  4/1/2022 (11:00-12:00 PM)
  Professor Lu Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "Asymmetric Investment Rates"

  4/8/2022 (10:30-12:00 PM)
  Professor Andra Ghent
  University of Utah
  "The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences"

  4/13/2022 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Byungwook Kim
  The Ohio State University
  "Correlated Demand Shocks"

  4/20/2022 (11:00-12:00 PM)
  Professor René Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Why have liquid asset holdings of banks evolved so differently from those of non-financial firms?"

  5/4/2022 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Michael Weber
  University of Chicago
  "Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels"

  5/25/2022 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  “FinTech Lending with LowTech Pricing”

• Autumn 2021

  9/1/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Adriano Rampini
  Duke University
  “Collateral and Secured Debt”

  9/8/2021 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor Michael S. Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  “Risk perceptions, board networks, and directors’ monitoring”

  9/15/2021 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "A Theory of Capital Structure with EPS-Fixated Investors”

  9/17/2021 (10:30-12:00 PM)
  Professor Jaewon Choi
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
  "Bond Funds and Credit Risk"

  9/22/2021 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  “Why Did Small Business Fintech Lending Dry Up During March 2020?”

  9/24/2021 (10:30-12:00 PM)
  Rui Gong
  The Ohio State University
  “Social Media Presence, Brand Capital, and Firm Value”

  9/29/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Todd Gormley
  Washington University St. Louis
  "The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity: The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice"

  10/1/2021 (10:30-12:00 PM)
  Hyeik Kim
  The Ohio State University
  “Opening the Black Box of Private Equity: When Interests Conflict Between GPs and LPs”

  10/06/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Yan Liu
  Purdue University
  “Optimal Cross-Sectional Regression”

  10/13/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor David Robinson
  Duke University
  "Can the Media Spur Startup Activity? Evidence from the Television Show "Shark Tank""

  10/20/2021 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor Michael Wittry
  The Ohio State University
  “Waiting on a Friend: Strategic Learning and Corporate Investment”

  10/27/2021 (11:30-12:30 PM)
  Professor Victor Lyonnet
  The Ohio State University
  “Venture Capital (Mis)Allocation in the Age of AI”

  11/03/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Harold H. Zhang
  University of Texas at Dallas
  "Operating Leverage and Asset Pricing Anomalies"

  11/17/2021 (11:00-12:30 PM)
  Professor Andrei Gonçalves
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "The Fundamental-to-Market Ratio and the Value Premium Decline"

   

• Summer 2021

  5/14/2021
  Minsu Ko
  The Ohio State University
  "How do Managers' Expectations Affect Share Repurchases?"

  5/21/2021
  John Lynch
  The Ohio State University
  "Distributional Effects of Government Support:
  Evidence From the Paycheck Protection Program"

  6/30/2021
  Jason Lee
  The Ohio State University
  "Assessing Bank Market Power"

   

• Spring 2021

  All Seminars will be on Zoom until further notice
  Zoom link will be sent in the Seminar announcement

  1/13/2021
  Professor Will Gornall
  University of British Columbia
  "A Valuation Model of Venture Capital-Backed Companies with Multiple Financing Rounds"

  1/20/2021
  Professor Michael Schwert
  University of Pennsylvania
  "CLO Performance"

  1/27/2021
  Professor Janet Gao
  Indiana University
  "Loan Spreads and Credit Cycles: The Role of Lenders’ Personal Economic Experiences"

  2/10/2021
  Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "What Do Mutual Fund Investors Really Care About?"

  2/17/2021
  Professor Mathieu Gomez
  Columbia University
  "A Q-Theory of Inequality"

  2/24/2021
  Professor Bernadette Minton
  The Ohio State University
  "Are bank merger characteristics important for local community investment?"

  2/26/2021
  Professor Michael Wittry
  The Ohio State University
  "Is Public Equity Deadly? Evidence from Workplace Safety and Productivity Tradeoffs in the Coal Industry"

  3/3/2021
  Professor Jessica Wachter
  University of Pennsylvania
  "A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions"

  3/10/2021
  Professor Laura Blattner
  Stanford University
  "How Costly is Noise? Data and Disparities in the US Mortgage Market"

  3/17/2021
  Professor Vikrant Vig
  London Business School
  "Revisiting the Asset Fire Sale Discount: Evidence from Commercial Aircraft Sales"

  3/24/2021
  Professor Claudia Robles Garcia
  Stanford University
  "Term's Up: Banking on Small Business Credit Cards"

  3/31/2021
  Professor Sydney Ludvigson
  New York University
  "How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals"

  4/7/2021
  Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Why are countries so important for the composition of corporate debt? Evidence from a machine-learning approach"

  4/14/2021
  Professor Samuel Hartzmark
  University of Chicago
  "Necessary Evidence For A Risk Factor’s Relevance"

  4/21/2021
  Professor Ramana Nanda
  Imperial College London
  "House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship:Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data"

  4/28/2021
  Professor Adair Morse
  University of California, Berkeley
  "When cryptomining comes to town: High electricity-use spillovers to the local economy"

  4/30/2021
  Professor Victor Lyonnet
  The Ohio State University
  "The Rising Bar to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from France"

  5/05/2021
  Professor Giorgia Piacentino
  Columbia University
  "Collateral Reallocation"

  5/21/2021
  Professor Gerard Hoberg
  UCLA
  "Scope, Scale and Competition: The 21st Century Firm"

• Autumn 2020

  All Seminars will be on Zoom until further notice Zoom link will be sent in the Seminar announcement

  8/26/2020 Professor Andrei S. Gonçalves
  The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  "An Intertemporal Risk Factor Model"

  9/02/2020 Professor Terrance Odean
  University of California, Berkeley
  "Leveraging Overconfidence"

  9/04/2020 Professor Andrea Rossi
  University of Arizona
  "The Performance of Hedge Fund Performance Fees"

  9/16/2020 Professor Joao Gomes
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Dynamic Strategic Corporate Finance: A Tug of War with Financial Frictions"

  9/23/2020 René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Has the stock market become less representative of the economy?"

  9/30/2020 Professor Constantine Yannelis
  University of Chicago
  "Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices"

  10/7/2020 Professor Victoria Ivashina
  Harvard Business School
  "Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru"

  10/14/2020 Professor Campbell Harvey
  Duke University
  "Luck versus Skill in the Cross-Section of Mutual Fund Returns: Reexamining the Evidence"

  10/21/2020 Professor Ye Li
  The Ohio State University
  “Token-Based Platform Finance”

  10/28/2020 Sean Myers
  NBER
  "Public Employee Pensions and Municipal Insolvency"

  10/30/2020 Professor Christine Parlour
  University of California, Berkeley
  “Strategic Intermediation in Liquidity Markets"

  11/6/2020 Professor Alexi Savov
  New York University
  "The Financial Origins of the Rise and Fall of American Inflation"

  11/13/2020 Professor Erik Gilje
  University of Pennsylvania
  "The Day that WTI Died: Asset Prices and Firm Production Decisions"

  11/18/2020 Professor Jack Liebersohn
  University of California, Irvine
  "Does FinTech Substitute for Banks? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program"

  12/02/2020 Byungwook Kim
  The Ohio State University
  "Competition for Attention in the ETF Space"

  12/09/2020 Mark Johnson
  The Ohio State University
  "FinTech and the New Market for Small Business Loans"

• Summer 2020

  All Seminars will be on Zoom until further notice Zoom link will be sent in the Seminar announcement

  5/20/2020 Professor Ye Li
  The Ohio State University
  “Dynamic Banking and the Value of Deposits”

  5/27/2020 Professor Shaojun Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "Housing Risk and the Cross-Section of Returns Across Many Asset Classes"

  6/10/2020 Professor Jack Liebersohn
  The Ohio State University
  "Regional Divergence and House Prices"

  7/22/2020 Professor Shaojun Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "Dissecting Currency Momentum"

  7/29/2020 Rui Gong
  The Ohio State University
  "Return Chasing by Hedge Fund Investors"

  8/12/2020 René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Is Financial Globalization in Reverse after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Evidence from Corporate Valuations"

  8/19/2020 Petra Vokata
  The Ohio State University
  "The Consequences of Investment Fraud for its Victims"

   

• Spring 2020

  All Seminars will be on Zoom until further notice
  Zoom link will be sent in the Seminar announcement

  3/25/2020 Ni Zhu
  Peking University
  “Investor Protection and Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence from Share Pledging in China”

  4/1/2020 Professor Jiacui Li
  University of Utah
  "Style Investing, Positive Feedback Loops, and Asset Pricing Factors”

  4/15/2020 Professor Shan Ge
  New York University
  "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty-Evidence from Variable Annuities”

  5/6/2020 Hyeik Kim
  The Ohio State University
  “Opening the Black Box in Private Equity: When Interests Conflict Between GPs and LPs”

• Autumn 2019

  8/14/2019 Brad Cannon
  The Ohio State University
  “The Value of a Neighbor: The Real Impact of Neighboring Firm Valuations”

  9/04/2019 Professor Isil Erel
  The Ohio State University
  "Nonbank Lending"
  Seminar will be 12:00-1:00PM

  9/06/2019 Professor Sabrina Howell
  New York University
  "Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms”

  9/11/2019 Professor René Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Are Corporate Payouts Abnormally High in the 2000s?”
  Seminar will be 12:00-1:00PM

  9/18/2019 Professor Mikhail Chernov
  University of California, Los Angeles
  "Benchmark Interest Rates When the Government is Risky"
  Seminar will be 10:30-12PM

  9/25/2019 Professor Jack Liebersohn
  The Ohio State University
  "Who Benefits from Greater Competition in the Mortgage Market?"
  Seminar will be 12:00-1:00PM

  9/27/2019 Professor Andrei Shleifer
  Harvard Business School
  "Expectations Drive the Stock Market"
  Seminar will be 1:30-3PM
  365 Gerlach Hall

  10/02/2019 Professor Ingrid Werner
  The Ohio State University
  "Reusing Natural Experiments"
  Seminar will be 12:00-1:00PM

  10/04/2019 Professor Adrien Verdelhan
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  "Common Factors, Order Flows, and Exchange Rate Dynamics"

  11/13/2019 Professor Jessica Jeffers
  University of Chicago
  "Labor Reactions to Financial Distress: Evidence from LinkedIn Activity"
  Seminar will be 1:30-3PM

  11/15/2019 Professor Sehoon Kim
  University of Florida
  "Real Effects of Climate Policy: Financial Constraints and Spillovers"
  Seminar will be 11:00-12:00PM

  11/20/2019 Professor Vojislav Maksimovic
  University of Maryland
  “The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition”
  Seminar will be 1:30-3PM

  12/04/2019 Professor Sinan Gokkaya
  Ohio University
  "Are Analyst Trade Ideas Valuable?"
  Seminar will be 12:00-1:00PM

• Spring 2019

  1/9/2019 Professor Marco Becht
  Solvay Brussels School
  “How does engagement affect the trading and performance of an active manager?”

  2/20/2019 Professor Thien Nguyen
  The Ohio State University
  "Public Debt and the Slope of the Term Structure"

  3/20/2019 Professor Victor Lyonnet
  The Ohio State University
  “Can Risk be Shared Across Investor Cohorts? Evidence from a Popular Savings Product”

  3/22/2019 Professor Juhani Linnainmaa
  University of Southern California
  "Factor Momentum and the Momentum Factor"

  3/27/2019 Professor Shaojun Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "Housing Cycle and Exchange Rates"

  3/29/2019 Professor Nikolai Roussanov
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Marketing Mutual Funds"

  4/5/2019 Professor Paul Tetlock
  Columbia University
  "What Drives Anomaly Returns?"

  4/17/2019 Professor Nina Karnaukh
  The Ohio State University
  “Growth Forecasts and News About Future Monetary Policy”

  4/19/2019 Professor Shan Ge
  New York University
  "How Financial Management Affects Institutional Investors’ Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Insurers"

  4/24/2019 Greg Allen
  The Ohio State University
  “Monetary Policy Spillover through Nonfinancial Firms"

  4/26/2019 Professor Yueran Ma
  University of Chicago
  “Anatomy of Corporate Borrowing Constraints”

  5/1/2019 Professor René Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Why does equity capital flow out of high Tobin’s q industries?"

  5/3/2019 Professor Antoinette Schoar
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  “Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice”

  6/5/2019 Dongxu Li
  The Ohio State University
  “Do Horizontal Mergers Affect Rivals’ Investments?"

• Autumn 2018

  9/7/2018 Zhengyu Cao
  The Ohio State University
  “Sources of Debt and Expected Stock Returns"

  9/12/2018 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "What Do Investors Really Care About?"

  9/14/2018 Professor Arvind Krishnamurthy
  Stanford University
  "Foreign Safe Asset Demand and the Dollar Exchange Rate"

  9/19/2018 Professor Jack Liebersohn
  The Ohio State University
  "The Geography Channel of House Price Appreciation"

  9/21/2018 Professor Philipp Schnabl
  New York University
  "Banking on Deposits: Maturity Transformation without Interest Rate Risk"

  9/26/2018 Professor Michael Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  "Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions"

  10/3/2018 Professor Victor Lyonnet
  The Ohio State University
  “Build or Buy? Human Capital and Corporate Diversification”

  10/10/2018 Professor Ye Li
  The Ohio State University
  "Fintech Credit and Product Market Structure: Evidence from E-commerce Platform Lending"

  10/17/2018 Professor Asaf Manela
  Washington University in St. Louis
  "Text Selection"

  10/19/2018 Professor Riccardo Colacito
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "Volatility Risk Pass-Through"

  10/24/2018 Professor Lu Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "q5"

  10/26/2018 Professor Anna Cieslak
  Duke University
  "Non-monetary news in central bank communication"

  11/2/2018 Professor Tim Landvoigt
  University of Pennsylvania
  'Financial Regulation in Quanitiative Model of the Modern Banking System"

  11/9/2018 Professor Guillaume Vuillemey
  HEC Paris
  "Completing Markets with Contracts: Evidence from the First Central Clearing Counterparty"

• Summer 2018

  8/15/18 Spencer Couts
  The Ohio State University
  “A New Source of Financial Fragility: Evidence from Open-end Real Estate Funds"

• Spring 2018

  3/21/2018 Professor Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  "Capital gains taxation and inefficient block ownership"

  3/28/2018 Professor Mike Schwert
  The Ohio State University
  "Is Borrowing from Banks More Expensive than Borrowing from the Market?"

  4/4/2018 Dr. Florian Heider
  European Central Bank
  "Margin Calls, Fire Sales, and Information Constrained Optimality"

  4/9/2018 Professor Stephen Karolyi
  Carnegie Mellon University
  "The Credit Channel of Fiscal Policy Transmission"

  4/20/2018 Professor Darrell Duffie
  Stanford University
  "Augmenting Markets with Mechanisms"

  4/27/2018 Professor Zhi Da
  University of Notre Dame
  "Demand for Information and Asset Pricing"

  5/2/2018 Dr. Antonio Falato
  Federal Reserve Board
  "Fire-Sales Spillovers in Debt Markets"

  6/1/2018 Professor Léa H. Stern
  University of Washington
  "Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning"

• Autumn 2017

  8/23/2017 Yoon Kang Lee
  The Ohio State University
  "Corporate Bond ETF Inceptions and Liquidity of the Underlying Bonds"

  8/30/17 Professor Lu Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "The Economics of Value Investing”

  9/1/2017 Professor Lukas Schmid
  Duke University
  "Levered Ideas: Risk Premia along the Credit Cycle"

  9/7/2017 Professor Charles Lee
  Stanford University
  "Salient or Safe: Why do Predicted Stock Issuers Earn Low Returns"

  9/22/2017 Professor Ralph Koijen
  New York University
  "The Fragility of Market Risk Insurance"

  10/11/2017 Professor Benjamin Bennett
  The Ohio State University
  "Does the Stock Market Make Firms more Productive?"

  10/18//2017 Professor Baolian Wang
  Fordham University
  "Ranking and Salience"

  10/20/2017 Professor Robert Richmond
  New York University
  "Gravity in FX R-Squared: Understanding the Factor Structure in Exchange Rates"

  10/25/2017 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "Financial Constraints and Industry Dynamics"

  10/27/2017 Professor Elisabeth Kempf
  University of Chicago
  "The Job Rating Game: The Effects of Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentives"

  10/30/2017 Mr. Guy Rolnik
  University of Chicago
  "Fake news and the political economy of the News Media"

  11/3/2017 Professor Zhiguo He
  University of Chicago
  "Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes"

  11/8/2017 Professor Ye Li
  The Ohio State University
  TBA

  11/15/2017 Mike Dong
  The Ohio State University
  "Global Anomalies"

  12/1/2017 Professor Stephan Siegel
  University of Washington
  "The Human Touch in a Fintech World: Personal Communication and Loan Repayment"

  12/13/2017 Professor Justin Birru
  The Ohio State University
  "Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research"

• Spring 2017

  3/1/2017 Professor Michael Schwert
  The Ohio State University
  "The Economics of PIPE Investing"

  3/15/17 Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  “Is post-crisis bond liquidity lower? Evidence from stress events “

  3/31-4/1/2017 Alumni Conference

  4/5/2017 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  “Impulsive Consumption and Financial Wellbeing: Evidence from an Increase in the Availability of Alcohol”

  4/12/2017 Professor Holger Mueller
  New York University
  "Firms’ Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks"

  4/28/17 Professor Charles Calomiris
  Columbia University
  "How News and Its Context Drive Risk and Returns Around the World"

  5/3/17 Andrei Gonçalves
  The Ohio State University
  "Can Reinvestment Risk Explain the Dividend and Bond Term Structures?"

  5/8/17 Andrea Rossi
  The Ohio State University
  "Do Private Equity Partnership Face Decreasing Returns to Scale?"

  5/17/17 Professor Lu Zhang (11:30-12:30pm)
  The Ohio State University
  "Replicating Anomalies"

  5/17/17 Professor Michael Weisbach (12:30-1:30pm)
  The Ohio State University
  "How Production Risk and Flexibility Affect Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms"

• Autumn 2016

  8/29/2016 Iván Alfaro
  The Ohio State University
  “Production-Based Exchange Rates”

  8/31/2016 Hoonsuk Park
  The Ohio State University
  “Financial Fragility and Mortgage Delinquency”

  9/07/2016 Professor René Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  “Why does capital no longer flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities?”

  9/09/2016 Professor Itay Goldstein
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Investor Flows and Fragility in Corporate Bond Funds"

  9/14/2016 Professor Zhi Li
  The Ohio State University
  "Accounting-based Compensation Plans and Corporate Debt Contracts"

  9/30/2016 Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
  New York University
  "A Macroeconomic Model with Financially Constrained Producers and Intermediaries"

  10/07/2016 Professor Dave Solomon
  University of Southern California
  "Rolling Mental Accounts"

  10/12/2016 Andrei Gonçalves
  The Ohio State University
  “Corporate Deleveraging”

  10/19/2016 Professor Zexi Wang
  University of Bern and Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University
  "Short sellers, institutional investors, and corporate cash holdings”

  10/26/2016 Professor Isil Erel
  The Ohio State University
  "Multinational Firms and The International Transmission of Financial Crises: The Real Economy Channel"

  10/28/2016 Professor Daniel Carvalho
  University of Southern California
  "The Impact of Bank Credit on Labor Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity".

  11/2/2016 Professor Thien Nguyen
  The Ohio State University
  “Government Debt and the Returns to Innovation”

  11/9/2016 Professor Steffen Hitzemann
  The Ohio State University
  “Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Oil Supply Shocks, and Equilibrium Oil Futures Prices"

  11/18/2016 Professor Qiping Xu
  University of Notre Dame
  "Kinky Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior"

  12/2/2016 Professor Christian Lundblad
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "Heterogeneous Taxes and Limited Risk Sharing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds"

  12/7/2016 Professor Xiaoji Lin
  The Ohio State University
  "The Finance-Uncertainty Multiplier"

• Summer 2016

  8/3/2016 Professor Michael Schwert
  The Ohio State University
  "Municipal Bond Liquidity and Default Risk"

  8/10/2016 Sehoon Kim
  The Ohio State University
  "Hedge Fund Activism and Internal Capital Markets"

• Spring 2016

  03/09/2016 Professor Zhi Li
  The Ohio State University
  "Outsiders in Family Firms: Contracting Environment and Incentive Design"

  03/23/2016 Professor Zhan Shi
  The Ohio State University
  "Understanding Term Permia on Real Bonds"

  03/25/2016 Professor Gary Gorton
  Yale University
  "Good Booms, Bad Booms"

  3/29/2016 Professor Mila Getmansky Sherman
  University Massachusetts, Amherst
  "Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry"

  04/06/2016 Professor Xue Wang
  The Ohio State University
  "An Examination of Whether and How Management of the Tax Function Influences the Careers of CFOs"

  04/13/2016 Professor Karen Wruck
  The Ohio State University
  "Relative Performance Evaluation and CEO Risk-Taking"

  04/15/2016 Professor Kent Daniel
  Columbia University
  "Liquidity and Return Reversals"

  04/20/2016 Professor John Gray
  The Ohio State University
  "Organizational Non-Compliance: A Study of FDA-Regulated Industries"

  04/22/2016 Professor Michael Faulkender
  University of Maryland
  "Understanding Precautionary Cash at Home and Abroad"

  04/27/2016 Shan Ge
  The Ohio State University
  “How Do Hurricanes Affect Life Insurance Premiums?”

  04/29/2016 Professor Jonathan Karpoff
  University of Washington
  "The Lifecycle of Firm Takeover Defenses"

  05/11/2016 Sehoon Kim
  The Ohio State University
  "Financial Flexibility and Product Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Airline Industry"

  05/27/2016 Professor Michael Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  "Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity"

• Autumn 2015

  08/24/2015 Brian Baugh
  The Ohio State University
  "What Happens when Payday Borrowers are Cut Off from Payday Lending? A Natural Experiment"
  
  08/28/2015 Professor Rajkamal Iyer
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Financial Accelerator at Work: Evidence from Corn Fields"
  
  09/02/2015 Hang Bai
  The Ohio State University
  "Unemployment and Credit Risk"
  
  09/11/2015 Professor S.P. Kothari
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "The Behavior of Aggregate Corporate Investment"
  
  09/18/2015 Professor Oguzhan Karakas
  Boston College
  "Staggered Boards and Private Benefits of Control"
  
  09/25/2015 Professor Tyler Muir
  Yale University
  "When is the price of risk high?"
  
  10/2/2015 Professor Shai Bernstein
  Stanford University
  "Asset Reallocation in Bankruptcy"
  
  10/7/2015 Professor Sergey Chernenko
  The Ohio State University
  "Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds"
  
  10/21/2015 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "The Granular Nature of Large Institutional Investors"
  
  10/23/15 Professor Nick Barberis
  Yale University
  "Extrapolation and Bubbles"
  
  11/4/2015 Andrea Rossi
  The Ohio State University
  "Trading Skill: Evidence from Trader of Corporate Insiders in their Personal Portfolios."
  
  11/13/2015 Professor Jay Shanken
  Emory University
  "Comparing Asset Pricing Models"
  
  11/18/2015 Professor Michael Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  “The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions”
  
  11/20/2015 Professor Jennifer Juergens
  Drexel University
  "Why Hire Your Rival? The Case of Bank Debt Underwriting"
  
  12/4/2015 Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "The U.S. Listing Gap"
  
  12/9/2015 Professor Justin Birru
  The Ohio State University
  "Day of the Week and the Cross-Section of Returns"

• Spring 2015

  02/04/15 Professor Sergey Chernenko
  The Ohio State University
  "The Dark Side of Specialization: The Case of CDO Collateral Managers"
  
  03/06/15 Professor Kenneth Ahern
  University of Southern California
  "Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips"
  
  03/27/15 Professor Jeff Wurgler
  New York University
  "The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage"
  
  04/03/15 Professor Andrea Eisfeldt
  University of California- Los Angeles
  "Risk and Return in Segmented Markets with Expertise"
  
  04/8/15 Professor Stefano Giglio
  University of Chicago
  "The Price of Variance Risk"
  
  04/17/15 Professor Alp Simsek
  MIT
  "TBA"
  
  04/24/15 Professor Alexander Ljungqvist
  New York University
  "State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise"
  
  04/29/15 Professor Demitri Vayanos
  London School of Economics
  "Liquidity Risk and the Dynamics of Arbitrage Capital"
  
  05/01/15 Professor Ravi Jagannathan
  Northwestern University
  "Stock Market Liquidity: Role of Short-term and Long-term Traders"
  
  05/06/15 Hang Bai
  The Ohio State University
  "TBA"

• Autumn 2014

  
  08/13/14 Sophia Longman
  The Ohio State University
  "TBA"
  
  09/03/14 Professor Mike Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  “Does Uncertainty about Management affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing? "
  

  09/05/14 Professor Neng Wang
  Columbia University
  "Corporate Finance and Risky Inalienable Human Capital: A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management"
  

  09/10/14 Woo Hwa Koh
  The Ohio State University
  "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the Cross-Section of Returns"
  

  09/19/14 Professor Vyacheslav Fos
  University of Illinois
  "Out-of-the-Money CEOs: How Do Proxy Contests Affect Insider Option Exercises"

  09/26/14 Professor Justin Murfin
  Yale University
  "Captive Finance and the Coase Conjecture"

  10/03/14 Professor Jarrad Harford
  University of Washington
  "Foreign Cash: Taxes, Internal Capital Markest and Agency Problems"

  10/08/14 Professor Lu Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "A Duel of New Factors"
  

  10/10/14 Professor Amit Seru
  University of Chicago
  "Regional Redistribution through the U.S. Mortgage Market"
  

  10/22/14 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  "TBA"
  

  10/24/14 Professor Amir Yaron
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Good and Bad Uncertainty: Microeconomic and Financial Market Implications"
  

  11/12/14 Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Insider ownership and firm value: Predicting the past or the future?"
  

  11/20/14 Professor Veronica Guerrieri
  University of Chicago
  "Markets with Multidimensional Private Information"
  

  12/03/14 Francesco Consonni
  Bocconi University
  "Mind the Gap: the Inflexibility Mechanism and Expected Equity Returns"
  

  12/05/14 Professor Vincent Glode
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Adverse Selection and Intermediation Chains"
  

  12/10/14 Professor Justin Birru
  The Ohio State University
  "TBA"
  
  

• Spring 2014

  03/7/14 Professor John Graham
  Duke University
  "A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America"

  03/21/14 Professor Russ Wermers
  University of Maryland
  "Institutional Trading around Corporate News: Evidence from Textual Analysis"

  03/28/14 Professor Christopher Parsons
  University of California - San Diego
  "Worrying about the stock market: Evidence from hospital admissions"

  04/4/14 Professor Max Croce
  University of North Carolina
  "BKK the EZ Way: An International Production Economy with Recursive Preferences"

  04/9/14 Professor Fousseni Chabi-Yo
  The Ohio State University
  "The Term Structures of Co-Entropy in International Financial Markets"

  04/18/14 Professor Gerard Hoberg
  University of Maryland
  "O shore Activities and Global Consumption Risk"

  04/25/14 Professor Mark Westerfield
  University of Washington
  "Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Disposition Effect"
  

• Autumn 2013

  08/21/13 Mark Carey
  Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  Risk Choices and Compensation Design

  09/18/13 Professor Jing Wang
  The Ohio State University
  Debt Covenant Design and Creditor Control Rights:Evidence from Covenant Restrictiveness and Loan Outcomes

  09/20/13 Professor Phil Strahan
  Boston College
  Exporting Liquidity: Branch Banking and Financial Integration

  09/25/13 Professor Mike Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  CEO Investment Cycles

  09/27/13 Professor David Denis
  University of Pittsburgh
  Corporate Payout, Cash Retention, and the Supply of Credit: Evidence from the 2008-09 Credit Crisis

  10/4/13 Professor Mark Westerfield
  University of Washington
  Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Disposition Effect

  10/11/13 Professor Bruce Carlin
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Disagreement and Asset Prices

  10/18/13 Professor Viral Acharya
  New York University
  The "Greatest" Carry Trade Ever? Understanding Eurozone Bank Risks

  10/23/13 Professor Kenneth Singleton
  Stanford University
  Risk Premiums in Dynamic Term Structure Models with Unspanned Macro Risks

  10/30/13 Rawley Heimer
  Federal Reserve Bank - Cleveland
  Leverage Constraints, Profitability, and Risk -Shifting: Evidence from the Introduction of Doss-Frank

  11/6/13 Professor Rene Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  Limited Managerial Attention and Corporate Aging

  11/13/13 Professor Michael Albert
  The Ohio State University
  Executive Compensation and Firm Leverage

  11/22/13 Professor Andrey Malenko
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Auctions with Endogenous Initiation

  12/4/13 Professor David Scharfstein
  Harvard University
  Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates

  12/11/13 Professor Itzhak Ben-David
  The Ohio State University
  Banks’ Internal Capital Markets and Deposit Rates
  

• Spring 2013

  01/09/13 Professor Jan Jindra
  Menlo College and The Ohio State University
  "Crises, Liquidity Shocks, and Fire Sales at Hedge Funds"
  

  01/11/13 Marina Niessner
  University of Chicago
  "Strategic Disclosure Timing and Insider Trading"

  01/16/13 Alexander Chinco
  New York University
  "Trading on Coincidences"

  01/18/13 Benjamin Iverson
  Harvard University
  "Get in Line: Chapter 11 Restructuring in Crowded Bankruptcy Courts"

  01/25/13 Michael Hasler
  Swiss Finance Institute
  "Fluctuating Attention to News and Financial Contagion"

  01/30/13 Erik Gilje
  Boston College
  "TBA"
  

  02/01/13 Adam Clark-Joseph
  Harvard University
  "TBA"
  

  02/06/13 Jinfin Zhang
  Yale University
  "TBA"
  

  02/08/13 Erik Loualiche
  Northwestern University
  "TBA"
  

  02/22/13 Jean-Noel Barrot
  HEC Paris
  "TBA"
  

  03/01/13 Professor Harrison Hong
  Princeton University
  Speculative Betas

  03/20/13 Professor Berk Sensoy
  The Ohio State University
  "Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry"

  03/29/13 Professor Oguzhan Ozbas
  University of Southern California
  "Managerial Accomodation, Proxy Access, and the Cost of Shareholder Empowerment"

  04/03/13 Professor Asaf Manela
  Washington University in St. Louis
  "News Implied Volatility and Disaster Concerns"

  04/05/13 Professor Wei Xiong
  Princeton University
  "Is R² a Measure of Market Inefficiency?"

  04/24/13 Professor Michael Weisbach
  The Ohio State University
  "Learning about CEO ability and Stock Return Volatility"

  04/26/13 Professor Monika Piazzesi
  Stanford University
  "Banks' Risk Exposures"

  05/08/13 Fernando Duarte
  Federal Reserve Bank
  "Aggregate Investment and Stock Returns"

  05/10/13 Professor Jan Jindra
  Menlo College and The Ohio State University
  "CEO Compensation and the Sale of Private Firms"

  05/15/13 Professor Fousseni Chabi-Yo
  The Ohio State University
  "New Entropy Restrictions and the Quest for Better Specified Asset Pricing Models"

  05/24/13 Professor Berk Sensoy
  The Ohio State University
  "Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers"
  

• Autumn 2012

  8/01/12 Professor Scott Yonker
  Indiana University
  "The People in Your Neighborhood: Social Interactions and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice"
  

  8/08/12 Professor Jerome Taillard
  Boston College
  "Do Private Firms Invest Differently from Public Firms? Taking Cues from the Natural Gas Industry"
  

  9/05/12 Professor Philippe Mueller
  London School of Economics
  International Correlation Risk

  9/07/12 Professor Arthur Korteweg
  Stanford University
  An (S, s) Model of Capital Structure:Theory and Evidence

  9/21/12 Professor Urban Jermann
  University of Pennsylvania
  Interest Rate Swaps and Corporate Default

  9/26/12 Professor Jack Bao
  The Ohio State University
  "Comovement of Corporate Bonds and Equities"
  

  9/28/12 Professor Dong Lou
  London School of Economics
  Industry Window Dressing

  10/03/12 Professor Alvaro Taboada
  University of Tennessee, The Ohio State University
  "The role of regulation in cross-border bank acquisitions: Is it really a ‘race to the bottom?"
  

  10/05/12 Professor Adrien Verdelhan
  MIT
  The Share of Systematic Variation in Bilateral Exchange Rates

  10/10/12 Professor Xiaoji Lin
  Ohio State University
  "Wage Rigidity: A Solution to Several Asset Pricing Puzzles"
  

  10/12/12 Professor Martijn Cremers
  University of Notre Dame
  Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates: Camouflage and Reckless Risk Taking by U.S. Public Plans?

  10/17/12 Professor Lu Zhang
  The Ohio State University
  "Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach"
  

  10/24/12 Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  "Acquisitions and CEO Conflicts of Interests: Is the Problem Greater when Private Equity Is Involved?"
  

  10/26/12 Professor John Griffin
  University of Texas, Austin
  "Complex Securities and Underwriter Reputation: Do Reputable Underwriters Produce Better Securities?"
  

  10/31/12 PhD. Students
  The Ohio State University
  TBA
  

  11/9/12 Professor Stefan Nagel
  Stanford University
  "Sizing Up Repo"

  11/28/12 Professor Roger Loh
  Singapore Management University
  "Have we solved the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle?"
  

  11/30/12 Professor Nancy Wallace
  University of California Berkeley
  Behavioral Factors in the Valuation of Employee Stock Options

  12/5/12 Andrew Chen, PhD Student
  The Ohio State University
  TBA
  

  12/12/12 Professor Dong Lee
  Korea University and The Ohio State University
  TBA
  
  

• Summer 2012

  
  7/2/2012 Natasha Burns
  University of Texas at San Antonio
  CEO Tournaments: A Cross-Country Analysis of Causes, Cultural Influences and Consequences
  

• Spring 2012

  3/28/12 Professor René M. Stulz
  The Ohio State University
  Do U.S. Firms Have Abnormally High Cash Holdings?
  

  4/6/12 Lars Lochstoer
  Columbia University
  Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium: The Asset Pricing Implications

  4/20/12 Morten Sorensen
  Columbia University
  Valuing Private Equity

  4/25/12 Sergey Chernenko
  The Ohio State University
  The Quiet Run of 2011: Money Market Funds and the European Debt Crisis

  4/27/12 Mitchell Petersen
  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act

  5/11/12 Jay Ritter
  University of Florida
  Where Have All the IPOs Gone?

  5/18/12 Victoria Ivashina
  Harvard Business School
  Reaching For Yield in the Bond Market

  5/25/12 Gustavo Manso
  UC Berkeley
  Feedback Effects of Credit Ratings