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Seminar Series

Mar 15, 2024 - Yiming Qian, University of Connecticut - "From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech"

Mar 22, 2024 - Eliezer Fich, Drexel University - "Interlocked Monitors: How Do Independent Directors Evaluate CEOs?*"

Apr 12, 2024 - Andrew Patton, Duke University - "Intraday Variation in Systematic Risks and Information Flows"

Apr 19, 2024 - Lorena Keller, University of Pennsylvania - "The Role of Family Networks in First-Credit Access"

Apr 26, 2024 - Yihui Pan, University of Utah - "Political Attitudes and Equity Market Reactions to Vaccine Mandate Bans*"

Jan 12, 2023- Edward Kim, UCLA- “The Digital Divide and Refinancing Inequality”

Jan 20, 2023- Alex Reggi Pecora, University of Minnesota- "Does Fintech Lending Lower Financing Costs? Evidence From An Emerging Market"

Jan 23, 2023- Agustin Hurtado, University of Chicago- “The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit”

Jan 30, 2023- Reed Douglas, University of South Carolina- “Who Cares About Dividends?”

Feb 3, 2023- Charlotte Haendler, Boston College- "Keeping up in the Digital Era: How Mobile Technology is Reshaping the Banking Sector"

Feb 6, 2023- Miles Zheng, University of Illinois- "Direct Listing or IPO?"

March 3, 2023- Ric Colacito, University of North Carolina- "Concealed Carry" 

March 24, 2023- Andrew Chen, Federal employee- "Peer-reviewed Theory Does Not Help Predict the Cross-section of Returns"

April 7, 2023- Clemens Sialm, University of Texas- "Non-fundamental Flows and Foreign Exchange Rates,"

April 28, 2023- Ioannis Spyridopoulos, American University- "The Epidemiology of Corporate Investment and Financial Constraints in Productions Networks"

May 5, 2023- Don Bowen, Lehigh University- "Revisiting Board Independence Mandates: Evidence from Director Reclassifications"

Sept 13, 2023 - Yang Sun, Brandeis University - "Self-Declared Benchmarks and Fund Manager Intent" 

Sept 20, 2023 - Lizzy Bickmore, Virginia Tech - "Shocks to Debt Concentration and Reduced Borrower Control" 

Sept 27, 2023 - Felipe Cabezon, Virginia Tech - "Racial diversity and inclusion without equity? Evidence from executive compensation"

Oct 11, 2023 - Landon Ross, SEC - "Expected Returns, Firm Characteristics, and Cardinality Constraints"

Oct 18, 2023 - Roger Edelen, Virginia Tech - "Regulating inattention in fee-based financial advice"

Oct 25, 2023 - Sara Easterwood, Virginia Tech - "Information Intermediaries and the Distorting Effect of Incomplete Data"

Nov 1, 2023 - Marco Sammon, Harvard Business School - "Do Active Funds Do Better in What They Trade?"

Sept 30, 2022- Brent Glover, Carnegie Melon University- "Corporate Tax Avoidance, Firm Size, and Capital Misallocation"

Dec 2, 2022- Joseph Kalmenovitz, University of Rochester- "Closing the Revolving Door"

Brown Bag Series

DATE MEETING PRESENTER AFFILIATION TITLE OF PAPER
Feb 23 12:00p-1:30p - Zoom  David Sovich University of Kentucky Trade Policy, Captive Finance, and Consumer Credit: Evidence from the 2018 Metals Tariffs
March 16 12:15p-1:15p - Zoom  Peter Haslag  Vanderbilt University COVID-induced Migration and Municipal Bonds
March 30 12:15p-1:15p - PAM 1028  Yessenia Tellez Virginia Tech Hand to Mouth: Financial Stress and Food Insecurity
April 6 11:00a-12:15p - Zoom  Irem Demirci Nova School of Business and Economics Crowding Out Revisited 
April 13 12:15p-1:15p - PAM 1028  Tyler Beason Virginia Tech Empirical Pricing Kernels and Option Prices
April 20 12:15p-1:15p - NCB 130B Brad Paye Virginia Tech A paper about institutions and asset pricing
April 27 12:15p-1:15p - PAM 1045 Khanh Ngoc Tran Virginia Tech Decoupling Real and International Financial Sectors: A New Perspective
May 4 12:30p-1:30p - PAM 1028 Stuart Urban Virginia Tech TBD
Sep. 7 12-1:30pm - Zoom Rohit Allena University of Houston  Confident Risk Premiums and Investments using Machine Learning Uncertainties
Sep. 14 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Lizzy Bickmore Virginia Tech Old Program, New Banks: Online Banks in SBA Lending
Sep. 21 12-1:30pm - PAM 1045 Kingway Lin Virginia Tech Monetary Policy Regimes and the Profitability Premium
Sep. 28 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Jaideep Chowdhury (Alumnus) James Madison University  Optimistic Directors and CEO Turnover
Oct. 5 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Tyler Beason Virginia Tech The Quadratic Nature of Expected Returns
Oct. 19 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Bradley Paye Virginia Tech High on high Sharpe ratios: Assessing factor models from a real-time perspective
Oct.26 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Shixiang Xia Hongkong Polytechnical University Environmental Activism, Endogenous Risk, and Asset Prices
Nov.  2 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Andrew Mackinlay Virginia Tech Monetary Policy in the Age of Universal Banking
Nov. 16 12-1:30pm - PAM 1028 Felipe  Cabezon Virginia Tech Compensation Structure and CEO Retention

Spring External Speaker Series

DATE MEETING PRESENTER AFFILIATION TITLE OF THE PAPER
Feb 4 PAM 1028 (8:30 am -11:00 am) George Aragon  Arizon State University TBD
Feb 11 PAM 1028 (8:30 am -11:00 am) Edward (Ed) Van Wesep University of Colorado at Boulder TBD
Feb 18 PAM 2003 (2:20 pm- 4:30 pm)  Rustom (Rus) Irani  University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign TBD
April 1 PAM 1028 (8:30 am -11:00 am) Adam Reed University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill TBD
April 22 PAM 1028 (8:30 am -11:00 am) Tony Cookson University of Colorado at Boulder TBD

Fall Internal Speaker Series

Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 in Pamplin 1028.

Date Presenter Affiliation Title of the Paper
Sept. 1 Pengfei Ye Virginia Tech Strategic Insider Selling When Sale-by-Plan is Mandatory
Sept. 15 Yutong Xie The College of New Jersey  Connected CEO hiring
Sept. 29 Yessenia Tellez Virginia Tech Financial Break Ups
Oct. 13 Andrew MacKinlay Virginia Tech Bank Diversification and Lending Resiliency
Oct. 27 Felipe Cabezon Virginia Tech Overlapping Directors and Product-Market Strategies
Nov. 10 Khanh Ngoc Tran Virginia Tech Recovery, consistency, and fragility
Dec. 1 George Morgan Virginia Tech TBD

Fall External Speaker Series

Date

Meeting

Presenter

Affiliation

Title of the Paper

Sep. 17*

9:30a-11:00a – Zoom

Taylor Begley

Wash. Univ. St. Louis

TBD

Sep. 24

2:30p-4:00p – PAM 1045

Andrea Vedolin

Boston University

TBD

Oct. 15*

9:30a-11:00a – Zoom

Lingling Wang

Uconn

TBD

Oct. 22*

9:30a-11:00a – Zoom

TBD

TBD

TBD

Nov. 5

9:30a-11:00a – PAM 1028

TBD

TBD

TBD

Nov. 12

9:30a-11:00a – PAM 1028

Nishad Kapadia

Tulane

TBD

Nov. 19

9:30a-11:00a – PAM 1028

TBD

TBD

TBD

Dec. 3

9:30a-11:00a – PAM 1028

TBD

TBD

TBD

       * = virtual visits

      

Spring

  • Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2/26/2021
  • Scott Cederburg, University of Arizona, 3/12/2021
  • Matthew Ringgenberg, University of Utah, 3/26/2021
  • Jin Xu, Virginia Tech, 4/9/2021
  • Nikolaos Artavanis, Virginia Tech, 4/16/2021
  • Zhongjin (Gene) Lu, University of Georgia, 4/23/2021

Fall

  • Kingwei Lin, Virginia Tech, 10/2/2020
  • Andrew Mackinlay, Virginia Tech, 10/9/2020
  • Sarah Easterwood, Virginia Tech, 10/16/2020
  • Ting Xu, University of Virginia, 10/23/2020
  • Ngoc-Khanh Tran, Virginia Tech, 11/6/2020

Spring

  • Ahmet Degerli, Duke University, 1/17/2020
  • Ai He, Emory University, 1/18/19
  • Nikhil Paradkar, Georgia Tech, 1/22/2020
  • Arash Dayani, Oregon, 1/24/2020
  • Andrea Tamoni, London School of Economics, 1/25/19
  • Fangzhou Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1/27/2020
  • Johnathan Loudis, University of Chicago, 1/28/19
  • Emmanuel Yimfor, Rice University, 1/31/2020
  • Boone Bowles, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2/1/19
  • Shane Miller, Duke University, 2/3/2020
  • Ben Matthies, Yale University, 2/15/19
  • Andrew MacKinlay, Virginia Tech, 3/18/2020
  • Ting Xu, University of Virginia, 3/25/2020
  • Ngoc-Khanh Tran, Virginia Tech, 4/1/2020
  • Jin Xu, Virginia Tech, 4/15/2020
  • Pengfei Ye, Virginia Tech, 4/22/2020
  • Bradley Paye, Virginia Tech, 5/6/2020

Fall

  • Michael Young, University of Virginia, 10/2/19
  • Mathias Kronlund, University of Illinois, 10/9/19
  • Bradley Paye, Virginia Tech, 10/30/19
  • David Denis, University of Pittsburgh, 11/1/19
  • William Gerken, University of Kentucky, 11/8/19
  • Pengfei Ye, Virginia Tech, 11/13/19
  • Shahram Amin, University of Denver, 12/4/19

Fall

  • Yutong Xie, Virginia Tech, 8/31/18
  • Yao Li, Virginia Tech, 8/13/18
  • Ruiyao Zhu, Virginia Tech, 9/10/18
  • Mengyang Chi, Virginia Tech, 9/10/18
  • Amin Hosseinian, Virginia Tech, 9/14/18
  • Jitendra Tayal, Ohio University, 9/21/18
  • Dimitriy Muravyev, Boston College, 9/28/18
  • Kevin Crotty, Rice, 11/2/18
  • Roni Micharely, University of Geneva, 11/28/18
  • Ngoc-Khahn Tran, Wash. St. Louis, 11/30/18

Spring

  • Jerchern Lin, Virginia Tech, 3/16/18
  • Don Bowen, Virginia Tech, 3/23/18
  • David McLean, Georgetown, 3/30/18
  • Todd Gormley, Wash St. Louis, 4/6/18
  • James Weston, Rice, 4/13/18
  • Tong Wang, Viginia Tech, 4/20/18
  • Pengfei Ye, Virginia Tech, 4/27/18
  • Brad Paye, Virginia Tech, 5/4/18

Fall

  • Jaewon Choi, Illinois, 9/15/17
  • Roger Edelen, UC-Davis, 9/22/17
  • Paige Ouimet, UNC, 9/29/17
  • Jan Bena, UBC, 11/3/17

Spring

  • Baozhong Yang, Georgia State U, 1/27/17
  • Stefano Cassella, Purdue U, 2/10/17
  • Pengfei Ye, Virginia Tech, 2/24/17

Fall

Spring

  • Jin Xu, Virginia Tech, 5/8/2015
  • Hongyan Li, Virginia Tech, 4/29/2016
  • Brad Paye, Georgia, 1/29/2016
  • George Gao, Cornell, 1/15/2016

Fall

  • Deniz Anginer, Virginia Tech, 9/25/2015
  • Mete Tepe, Virginia Tech, 9/25/2015
  • Breno Schmidt, Emory University, 10/30/15
  • Nikolay Gantchev, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, 11/6/15
  • Chotibhak (Pab) Jotikasthira, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, 12/4/15
  • Andrew Mackinlay, Southern Methodist University, 12/11/15

Spring

  • Hongyan Li, Virginia Tech, 3/26/15
  • Pedro Matos, University of Virginia, 3/20/15
  • Yao Li, Virginia Tech, 3/6/15
  • Yutong Xi, Virginia Tech, 3/6/15
  • Jitendra Tayal, Virginia Tech, 2/20/15.
  • Matt Baron, Princeton, 2/16/15
  • Alexei Zhdanov, U of Rochester, Panagora Asset Mgt, 2/6/15
  • Joonki Noh, Emory, 2/2/15
  • Mitch Towner, University of Texas, 1/30/15
  • Ian Appel, University of Pennsylvania, 1/23/15

Fall

  • Robert Whitelaw, New York University, 9/26/2014
  • Youchang Wu, University of Wisconsin (Madison) and SEC, 9/19/2014

Spring

  • Jack He, University of Georgia, 4/18/2014
  • Karl Lins, University of Utah, 4/11/2014
  • Rich Evans, University of Virginia, 3/26/2014
  • Anna Scherbina, University of California-Davis, 2/12/2014
  • Chris Schwartz, University of California-Irvine, 2/7/2014
  • Wei-Ming Lee, University of Washington-Seattle, 1/31/2014
  • Bomi Lee, University of Texas-Austin, 1/30/2014
  • Jason Kotter, University of Michigan, 1/27/2014
  • Jin Xu, Purdue University, 1/24/2014

Spring

  • Manju Puri, Duke University, 4/26/2013
  • Nan Qin, Virginia Tech 4/19/2013
  • David Haushalter, Penn State, 4/5/2013
  • Robert Parrino, University of Texas-Austin, 3/22/2013
  • Chris Schwartz, University of California-Irvine, 2/7/2014
  • Wei-Ming Lee, University of Washington-Seattle, 1/31/2014
  • Bomi Lee, University of Texas-Austin, 1/30/2014
  • Jason Kotter, University of Michigan, 1/27/2014
  • Jin Xu, Purdue University, 1/24/2014

Fall

  • Nishad Kapadia, Rice University, 10/24/2012
  • Jennifer Dlugosz, Virginia Tech, 10/5/2012
  • Carl Ullrich, Virginia Tech, 9/28/2012

Fall

  • October 28, Steve Heston (Maryland)
  • December 9, Philip Strahan (Boston College)

Spring

  • Jan 17, Yelena Larkin (Cornell)
  • Jan 24, Amrita Nain (McGill/Michigan)
  • Jan 28, Art Durnev (McGill/Michigan)
  • Jan 31, Ferhat Akbas (Texas A&M)
  • Feb 4, Ugur Lel (Federal Reserve Board/Indiana)
  • Feb 14, Shage Zhang (Vanderbilt)
  • Feb 28, Nikolaos Artavanis (VT, PhD student)
  • March 25, Brad Paye (Rice)
  • April 15, Jarrad Harford (Univ. of Washington)
  • April 22, David Denis (Purdue)
  • April 27, Jannie Hiller (VT)

Fall

  • Nov 5, John Merrick (William & Mary)
  • Nov 19, Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
  • Dec 3, Torben Andersen (Northwestern)
  • Nov 15, Jian Cai (Cleveland Fed/Washington University)
  • Dec 10, Kai Li (University of British Columbia)

Spring

Fall

  • Gokhan Sonaer (VT) October 14th
  • Gustavo Grullon (Rice) October 16th
  • Ambrus Kecskes (VT) October 23rd
  • Fred Hood (VT) October 30th
  • Jonathan Lewellen (Darthmouth) November 6th
  • Ambrus Kecskes (VT) November 10th
  • Morten Sorensen (Columbia) November 13th
  • Jaideep Chowdhury (VT) November 18th
  • Tim Simin (Penn State) December 4th
  • Jim Schallheim (Utah) December 11th

Spring

  • January 28, Jaideep Chowdhury (PhD student)
  • January 30, Wei-Hsien Li (PhD student)
  • February 6, Douglas M. Patterson (VT)
  • February 13, Anna Kovalenko (VT)
  • February 20, Jeff Pontiff (Boston College)
  • March 25, Ozgur Ince (VT)
  • April 3, Randy Billingsley (VT)
  • April 17, Tunde Kovacs (VT)
  • April 24, Carl Ullrich (VT)
  • May 1, Greg Kadlec (VT)

Fall

  • September 19, Tarun Chordia (Emory)
  • September 26, Nick Bollen (Vanderbilt)
  • October 17, Evgeny Lyandres (Boston)
  • October 24, Fred Hood (VT)
  • October 31, Jonathan Clarke (Georgia Tech)
  • November 19, Gokhan Sonaer (VT)
  • November 21, Umut Celiker (VT)
  • December 5, Jeffrey Busse (Emory)

Spring

  • January 14, Matt Cain (Purdue)
  • January 18, Sebastian Michenaud (HEC)
  • January 23, Ran Duchin (Southern Cal)
  • January 25, Andriy Bodnaruk (Stockholm/Maastricht)
  • January 28, Paul Zurek (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Januray 30, Gokhan Sonaer & Puneet Jaiprakash (VT)
  • February 1, Shawn Mobbs (Vanderbilt)
  • February 4, Ambrus Kecskes (Toronto)
  • February 15, Joel Vanden (UC - Berkley/Dartmouth)
  • February 22, Cem Demiroglu (U of Florida)
  • February 29, Abon Mozumdar (VT)
  • March 14, Alex Edmans (Wharton)
  • March 21, Rebecca Zarutskie (Duke)
  • March 26, Jaideep Chowdhury (VT)
  • March 28, Raman Kumar (VT)
  • April 4, Greg Kadlec (VT)
  • April 11, Ozzie Ince (VT)
  • April 18, Mike Cliff (VT)
  • April 25, Bob Parrino (UT Austin)

Fall

  • August 29, Ajay Bhootra (VT)
  • October 5, Charu Raheja (Wake Forest)
  • October 26, Carl Ullrich (VT)
  • November 2, Rich Mathews (Duke)
  • November 9, Assaf Eisdorfer (University of Connecticut)
  • November 28, Wei-Hsien Li (VT)

Spring

  • Jan 12, Tao Shu (UT Austin)
  • Jan 19, Fei Xie (SDSU / Vanderbilt)
  • Jan 26, Nishad Kapadia (UNC)
  • Jan 29, Paul Gao (Northwestern)
  • Feb 2, Mark Chen (Harvard / Maryland)
  • Feb 9, Kenneth Ahern (UCLA)
  • Feb 16, Yang Lu (NYU)
  • Feb 26, Carl Ulrich (Maryland / Penn St)
  • March 12, Yong Chen (Boston College)
  • March 16, John Easterwood (VT)
  • March 21, Abon Mazumdar (VT)
  • March 23, Greg Kadlec (VT)
  • March 28, Raman Kumar (VT)
  • March 30, Doug Patterson (VT)
  • April 6, Joshua Coval (Harvard)
  • April 13, Andrea Frazzini (Chicago)
  • April 20, Mike Cliff (VT)

Fall

  • August 25, Jason Hur (VT) (Pamplin 1028)
  • September 8, Marius Popescu (VT) (Pamplin 3008)
  • September 20, Lily Xu (VT) (Pamplin 1028)
  • September 22, Amit Goyal (Emory University )
  • October 6, Sattar Mansi (VT)
  • October 20, Michael Schill (UVA)
  • October 27, Randy Billingsley (VT)
  • November 3, Richard Evans (Boston College)
  • November 10, Marc Lipson (UVA)
  • November 17, Gokhan Sonaer/Ajay Bhootra (VT)
  • December 1, Puneet Jaiprakash (VT)

Spring

  • Feb 24, Abon Mozumdar (VT)
  • March 1 , Alexei Ovtchinnikov (VT)
  • March 17, Doron Avramov (University of Maryland)
  • March 24, Huseyin Gulen (VT)
  • April 7, Don Chance (LSU)
  • April 14, Joshua Coval (Harvard)
  • April 21 , Anthony Lynch (NYU)
  • April 28, Mike Cliff (VT)
  • May 5, John Graham (Duke)