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Following the success of the first two series of the Junior Academic Research Seminars (JARS) in Finance (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25), the Finance Research Consortium is happy to announce the forth series (2025-26). We are excited to host so many, promising young researchers. The forthcoming seminars are:
Zhenkai Ran, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
Title: Managerial Attention to Financial Markets
Time: 14 October 2025, 1:00-2:00pm (BST)
Dr Carmine Russo, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Title: Climate Risk Attention and Cryptocurrencies
Time: 18 November 2025, 1:00-2:00pm (GTM)
Shaghayegh (Shy) Pourvosoughi, Rutgers Business School, USA
Title: The Impact of Employee Ratings as a Non-Financial Measure on CEO Compensation
Time: 10 February 2026, 1:00-2:00pm (GTM)
Xinkai (Kai) Wu, Columbia University, USA
Title: Pricing Residential Mortgage Credit Risk in the Post-GFC Era
Time: 17 March 2026, 1:00-2:00pm (GTM)
Bios of the Speakers:
Bios of the Speakers:
Zhenkai Ran is a PhD candidate in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and was a visiting research scholar at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is the recipient of the 2025/2026 CJBS Dean's Research Excellence Prize. He holds an MPhil in Economic Research from the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. His research examines frictions in corporate finance, with interests spanning corporate finance, FinTech, behavioural finance, and climate finance.
Webpage: zhenkairan.com
Dr Carmine Russo is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Climate Finance and Economics group at the Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests lie in the fields of climate finance, environmental economics, digital finance, and applied economics. His current work investigates the relationship between climate risk awareness and cryptocurrency returns. Other projects examine climate risks pricing in option markets and the climate insurance protection gap. Carmine holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II.
Shaghayegh (Shy) Pourvosoughi is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Finance at Rutgers Business School. Her research interests include Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Capital Structure, Behavioral Finance, Gender Biases, and Regulations and Policies. I hold a Master of Science in Business Administration with a focus in Finance from Sharif University of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.
Xinkai (Kai) Wu is a third-year Ph.D. student in the IEOR (Operations Research) Department of Columbia University with research interests in empirical asset pricing, macroeconomics, and decentralized finance. Xinkai Wu is fortunate to be advised by Professor Agostino Capponi. Recently, with Professor Capponi and Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, he wrote a paper on the credit risk transfer bonds. The link to the paper is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5446334
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