Past Seminars
2023
Tuesday, 21 Novembre 2023
Speaker: Tracy Yue Wang, John Spooner Professor of Finance, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA
Topic: Political Divide and the Composition of Households' Equity Portfolios
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Research Chair and Professor of Finance, University of Leicester School of Business, UK
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Speaker: Thorsten Beck, Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability, European University Institute, Italy
Topic: Incomplete Supervisory Cooperation.
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Speaker: Ronald Masulis, Scientia Professor of Finance, UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Australia
Topic: Value-enhancing effects of female independent directors in companies with overconfident CEOs
Moderator: Daisy Chou, Associate Professor, RMIT University, Australia
Tuesday, 12 September 2023 (3pm CEST)
Speaker: Philip Dybvig, 2022 Economic Sciences Laureate, Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance, Olin School of Business, Washington University.
Topic: Gambling for redemption or ripoff, and the impact of superpriority
Moderator: Manuel J. Rocha Armada, Full Professor of Finance & Professor Emeritus, University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Portugal; Cesario Mateus, Full Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Speaker: Camila Khunen, Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, USA
Topic: Wealth and Insurance Choices: Evidence from U.S. Households
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Leicester Business School, UK
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Speaker: William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management, USA
Topic: Crash Narratives
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Speaker: Clemens Sialm, Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Topic: Pension Fund Flows, Exchange Rates, and Covered Interest Rate Parity
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Leicester Business School, UK
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Speaker: Heitor Almeida, Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Chair in Corporate Finance, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
Topic: The Working Capital Credit Multiplier
Moderator: Henrique Castro Martins, Assistant Professor of Finance, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
(7 AM PST, 10 AM ET, 4 PM CET)
Speaker: Jonathan Berk, A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA
Topic: The Impact of Impact Investing
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
2022
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Speaker: Lin Peng, Professor and Krell Chair of Finance, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA
Topic: News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Speaker: Ross Valkanov, Professor of Finance, Rady School of Management, USA
Topic: The Mortgage-Cash Premium Puzzle
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Speaker: Patrick Bolton, Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London, UK,
Topic: Firm Commitments
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Speaker: Carola Frydman, Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, USA
Topic: Securities Ratings and Information Provision
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Speaker: - Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Professor of Finance, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Topic: Greening the Swiss National Bank’s Portfolio
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Speaker: Joel Peress, Professor of Finance, INSEAD, France
Topic: What do Interest Rates Reveal about the Stock Market? A Noisy Rational Expectations Model of Stock and Bond Markets
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Speaker: Toni Whited, Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
Topic: Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing: Evidence from Private Firms
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Speaker: Sheridan Titman, Professor of Finance, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Topic: The Performance of Characteristic-Sorted Portfolios: Evaluating the Past and Predicting the Future
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
2021
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Speaker: Marcin Kacperczyk, Professor of Finance, Imperial College London, UK
Topic: Carbon Emissions and the Bank Lending Channel
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Speaker: Martijn Cremers, Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, USA
Topic: The Complexity Materiality of ESG Ratings: Evidence from ESG funds
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Speaker: Roni Michaely, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Topic: Financing Payouts
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Speaker: Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Cornell University, USA
Topic: Financial Market Ethics
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Speaker: Xiaoyan Zhang, Professor of Finance, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, China
Topic: Understanding Retail Investors: Evidence from China
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Speaker: Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, UK
Topic: DeFi Opportunities and Risks
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, UK
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Speaker: Carol Alexander, Professor of Finance, University of Sussex, UK
Topic: Latest Research on Crypto Assets and their Derivatives
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Speaker: Robert Korajczyk, Harry G. Guthmann Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, USA
Topic: Large Sample Estimators of the Stochastic Discount Factor
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Speaker: Bruno Biais, Professor of Finance and Economics, HEC Paris, France
Topic: Incentive Constrained Risk Sharing, Endogenous Segmentation and Asset Pricing
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Speaker: Laura Veldkamp, Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, USA
Topic: Where Has All the Data Gone?
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Speaker: Michael Roberts, Professor of Finance Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Topic: CLO Performance
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Speaker: Anna Pavlova, Professor of Finance, London Business School, UK
Topic: Benchmarking Intensity
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Anjan Thakor, Professor of Banking and Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University St. Louis, USA
Topic: Banking on hard and soft information
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
2020
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Speaker: Russ Wermers, Professor of Finance, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA
Topic: International Characteristic-Based Asset Pricing
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Speaker: Victoria Ivashina, Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School, USA
Topic: Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Speaker: Mara Faccio, Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, USA
Topic: Political Connections Impede the Schumpeterian Process of Creative Destruction
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Speaker: Mariassunta Giannetti, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Topic: Does Money Talk? Market Discipline through Selloffs and Boycotts
Moderator: Ania Zalewska, Professor of Finance, University of Bath School of Management, UK
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Speaker: John Graham, D. Richard Mead professor of Finance, Fuqua Business School, Duke University, USA
Topic: Corporate Flexibility and the Covid crisis
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Speaker: David Reeb, Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Topic: Nudging the CEO-Employee Pay Gap
Moderator: Cesario Mateus, Professor of Finance, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark