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Finance Seminar Series

The Yale Finance Seminar Series is held every Friday during the academic year, in classroom 4200, from 11:10 am – 12:30 pm ET (unless otherwise noted). The Yale Finance Seminar Series is open to the Yale community.

Upcoming Finance Seminar Speakers

Spring 2024

March 1Erik Mayer
Assistant Professor of Finance
Wisconsin School of Business
March 8Cecilia Parlatore
Associate Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
April 5Ralph S.J. Koijen
AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
April 19Victoria Vanasco
Researcher
Centre de Recerca en Economia International
April 26Carola Frydman
Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
May 3Johannes Stroebel
David S. Loeb Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
May 10Amy Handlan
Yang Family Assistant Professor of Economics
Brown University

Previous Finance Seminar Speakers

Fall 2023 

September 8Indira Puri
Assistant Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
September 22Alan M. Taylor
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
September 29Chenzi Xu
Assistant Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
October 6Timothy McQuade
Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
October 27Andrei Shleifer 
John L. Loeb Professor of Economics
Harvard University
November 10Gregor Matvos
Howard Berolzheimer Professor in Finance
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
November 17Ben Matthies
Assistant Professor of Finance
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
December 1Anna Cieslak
Associate Professor of Finance
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
December 8Eben Lazarus 
Assistant Professor of Finance
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Spring 2023

March 3Lawrence D.W. Schmidt
Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management
March 10Lasse Heje Pedersen
Professor of Finance
Copenhagen Business School
March 31Diego Perez
Assistant Professor of Economics
New York University
April 7Yueran Ma
Associate Professor of Finance and Kathryn and Grant Swick Faculty Scholar
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
April 28Ishita Sen
Assistant Professor of Finance
Harvard Business School
May 5Adi Sunderam
Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance
Harvard Business School
May 12Juliane Begenau
Associate Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Fall 2022

September 9 - Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School

September 23 - Christopher J. Palmer,  MIT Sloan School of Management

September 30 - Basil Williams, New York University

October 7 - Jonathan Payne, Princeton University

October 14 - Laura Blattner, Stanford Graduate School of Business

October 21 - Claudia Robles-Garcia, Stanford Graduate School of Business

November 11 - Dacheng Xiu, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

December 2 - Shan Ge, NYU Stern School of Business

December 9 - Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia Business School

Spring 2022

February 25 - Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania

March 4 - Anthony Lee Zhang, University of Chicago

April 1 - Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics

April 22 - Ernest Liu, Princeton University

April 29 - Lu Zhang, Ohio State University

May 6 Marco Giacoletti, University of Southern California

May 13 - Eric Zwick, University of Chicago

Fall 2021

September 3, 2021 Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania
September 10, 2021 Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute
September 17, 2021 Emmanuel Yimfor, University of Michigan
September 24, 2021 Emil Verner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 1, 2021 Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 8, 2021 Sean Myers, University of Pennsylvania
October 15, 2021 Allan Timmermann, UC San Diego
October 22, 2021 Anthony DeFusco, Northwestern University
October 29, 2021 Marco Di Maggio, Harvard University
November 5, 2021 Michael Ewens, Caltech
November 16, 2021 Howard Kung, London Business School
December 10, 2021 Paymon Khorrami, Imperial College Business School


Spring 2021

March 5, 2021 Manuel Amador, Minnesota
March 12, 2021 Franklin Allen, Imperial College London
March 26, 2021 Huan Tang, London School of Economics
April 23, 2021 Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 30, 2021 William Diamond, University of Pennsylvania
May 14, 2021 Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University

Fall 2020

September 18, 2020 Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
September 25, 2020 Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University
October 9, 2020 Steve Kaplan, University of Chicago
November 13, 2020 Carlos Avenancio-Leon, Indiana University
November 20, 2020 Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
December 4, 2020 Chris Polk, London School of Economics


Spring 2020

February 21, 2020 Alp Simsek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 27, 2020 Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
April 17, 2020 Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago
May 1, 2020 Wenxin Du, University of Chicago

Fall 2019

August 30, 2019
Markus Pelger, Stanford University
September 06, 2019
Saum Jha, Stanford University
September 13, 2019
Emily Breza, Harvard University
October 04, 2019
John Graham, Duke University
October 11, 2019
Olivier Darmouni, Columbia University
October 18, 2019
David Schoenherr, Princeton University
October 25, 2019
Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis
November 15, 2019
Yao Zeng, University of Washington
November 22, 2019
Yunzhi Hu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
December 13, 2019
Theresa Kuchler, New York University


Spring 2019

January 25, 2019
David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley
February 15, 2019
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University
February 20, 2019
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
February 25, 2019
Arpit Gupta, New York University
March 29, 2019
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
April 5, 2019
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego
April 16, 2019
Cary Frydman, Univeristy of Southern California
April 26, 2019
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Cornell University
May 3, 2019
Philip Bond, University of Washington
May 10, 2019
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University

Fall 2018

August 31, 2018
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago
September 7, 2018
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 14, 2018
Claire Célérier, University of Toronto
September 28, 2018
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University
October 12, 2018
Shai Bernstein, Stanford University
October 19, 2018
Per Strömberg, Swedish House of Finance
October 26, 2018
Jaroslav Borovička, New York University
November 2, 2018
Victoria M. Vanasco, CREI-UPF
November 9, 2018
Kent Daniel, Columbia University
November 12, 2018
Gregor Matvos, University of Texas at Austin
November 30, 2018
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
December 6, 2018
Amit Seru, Stanford University
December 14, 2018
Philipp Schnabl, New York University

Spring 2018

March 02, 2018
Joshua D. Rauh, Stanford University
March 09, 2018
Sabrina Howell, New York University
April  20, 2018
Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University

Fall 2017

September 5, 2017
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago
September 8, 2017
Paige Ouimet,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
September 15, 2017
Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
September 22, 2017
Lawrence Schmidt, University of Chicago
September 29, 2017
Giorgia Piacentino, Columbia University
October 6, 2017
David Thesmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 13, 2017
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University
October 27, 2017
Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth University
November 17, 2017
Benjamin Hébert, Stanford University
December 8, 2017
Benjamin Keys, University of Pennsylvania


Spring 2017

February 17, 2017
Maureen O'hara, Cornell University
February 24, 2017
Giorgia Piacentino, Washington University
March 3, 2017
Andreas Fagereng, Stanford University
March 31, 2017
Lauren Cohen, Harvard University
April 7, 2017
Edward Van Wesep, University of Colorado Boulder
April 21, 2017
Johannes Stroebel, New York University
May 5, 2017
Sergey Chernenko, Ohio State University


Spring 2016

January 19, 2016
Wei Jiang, Columbia University
January 26, 2016
Victoria Ivashina, Harvary University
April 15, 2016
Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago
April 22, 2016
Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 29, 2016
David Solomon, University of Southern California
May 6, 2016
Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics


Fall 2016

September 2, 2016
Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago
September 8, 2016
Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
September 9, 2016
Marco Di Maggio, Columbia University
September 16, 2016
Alp Simsek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 23, 2016
Bryan Kelly, University of Chicago
September 30, 2016
Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
October 7, 2016
Johannes Stroebel, New York University
October 14, 2016
Kelly Shue, University of Chicago
November 11, 2016
Ayako Yasudo, University of California, Davis
November 18, 2016
Amir Sufi, University of Chicago
December 9, 2016
Philipp Schnabl, New York University

Spring 2015

March 27, 2015
Albert Kyle, University of Maryland
April 17, 2015
Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University
April 24, 2015
Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics
May 1, 2015
Tarun Ramadorai, University of Oxford
May 8, 2015
Toni Whited, University of Rochester

Fall 2015

September 4, 2015
Alexander Butler, Rice University
September 11, 2015
Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan
September 18, 2015
Marco Macchiavelli, Federal Reserve Board
September 25, 2015
Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
October 2, 2015
Joey Engelberg, University of California, San Diego
October 9, 2015
Eric So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 16, 2016
Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
October 30, 2015
Manuel Adelino, Duke University
November 10, 2015
Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago
November 13, 2015
Jeremy Stein, Harvard University
November 20, 2015
Jillian Popadak, Duke University
December 1, 2015
Stavros Panageas, University of Chicago
December 8, 2015
Ralph Koijen, London Business School
December 11, 2015
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University

Spring 2014

April 4, 2014
Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
May 2, 2014
Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
May 9, 2014
Manju Puri, Duke University


Fall 2014

September 19, 2014
Albert Marcet, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
September 26, 2014
Lars A. Lochstoer, Columbia University
October 3, 2014
Samuel Hartzmark, University of Chicago
October 10, 2014
Harrison Hong, Princeton University
October 24, 2014
Toni Whited, University of Rochester
October 31, 2014
Boris Vallée, Harvard University
November 7, 2014
Philip Strahan, Boston College
December 12, 2014
Ricardo Largos, New York University

Spring 2013

February 22, 2013
Alan Taylor, University of Virginia
April 3, 2013
David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
April 8, 2013
Martin Weber, University of Mannheim
April 12, 2013
Jesse Edgerton, Goldman Sachs
April 26, 2013
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
May 10, 2013
Stavros Panageas, University of Chicago


Fall 2013

August 30, 2013
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, University of California, Berkeley
September 6, 2013
Philipp Schnabl, New York University
September 13, 2013
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin
September 20, 2013
Laura Veldkamp, New York University
September 27, 2013
Thomas Phillipon, New York University
October 4, 2013
Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University
October 11, 2013
Snehal Benerjee, Northwestern University
October 18, 2013
Juhani T. Linnainmaa, University of Chicago
October 25, 2013
Adirano Rampini, Duke University
November 1, 2013
Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University
November 15, 2013
Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 22, 2013
Uptal Bhattacharya, Indiana University