The Yale Finance Research Seminar Series is held every Friday during the academic year from 11:10 am – 12:30 pm (unless otherwise noted). Speakers include faculty and distinguished scholars from institutions around the world. This series is open to the Yale community.
Seminar Speakers
Fall 2025
| September 19 | Wei Xiong John H. Scully ’66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics Princeton University |
| October 3 | Veronica Guerrieri Ronald E. Tarrson Distinguished Service Professor of Economics University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| October 10 | Valentin Haddad Associate Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management |
| October 24 | Paige Ouimet Professor of Finance and Executive Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
| October 31 | Sylvain Catherine Assistant Professor of Finance Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| November 14 | Guillermo L. Ordoñez Professor of Economics and Finance University of Pennsylvania |
| November 21 | Wenhao Li Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics USC Marshall School of Business |
| December 5 | Benjamin Keys Rowan Family Foundation Professor Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| December 12 | Roberto Gómez-Cram Assistant Professor of Finance Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
Past Seminar Speakers
2025
| March 7 | Tarun Ramadorai Professor of Financial Economics Imperial College London |
| March 28 | Seth Pruitt Associate Professor of Finance W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University |
| April 4 | Johannes Wohlfart Associate Professor of Economics University of Cologne |
| April 11 | Kristy Jansen Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics USC Marshall School of Business |
| April 25 | Deniz Aydin Assistant Professor of Finance Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis |
| May 2 | Hanno Lustig The Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| May 9 | Wei Jiang Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance Goizueta Business School, Emory University |
2024
Fall 2024
| September 6 | Stefan Nagel Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| September 20 | Julia Selgrad Assistant Professor of Finance University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| September 27 | Svetlana Bryzgalova Assistant Professor of Finance London Business School |
| October 4 | Marius Guenzel Assistant Professor of Finance Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| October 11 | Zhi Da Professor of Finance University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business |
| October 25 | Dimitris Papanikolaou John L. & Helen Kellogg Professor of Finance Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University |
| November 8 | Laura Veldkamp Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics Columbia Business School |
| November 15 | Lu Liu Assistant Professor of Finance Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| December 6 | Christoph Trebesch Professor of Economics Kiel University |
| December 13 | David Thesmar Franco Modigliani Professor Financial Economics MIT Sloan School of Management |
Spring 2024
| March 1 | Erik Mayer Assistant Professor of Finance Wisconsin School of Business |
| March 8 | Cecilia Parlatore Associate Professor of Finance NYU Stern School of Business |
| April 5 | Ralph S.J. Koijen AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
| April 19 | Victoria Vanasco Researcher Centre de Recerca en Economia International |
| April 26 | Carola Frydman Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management |
| May 3 | Johannes Stroebel David S. Loeb Professor of Finance NYU Stern School of Business |
| May 10 | Amy Handlan Yang Family Assistant Professor of Economics Brown University |
2023
Fall 2023
| September 8 | Indira Puri Assistant Professor of Finance NYU Stern School of Business |
| September 22 | Alan M. Taylor Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia School of International and Public Affairs |
| September 29 | Chenzi Xu Assistant Professor of Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| October 6 | Timothy McQuade Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
| October 27 | Andrei Shleifer John L. Loeb Professor of Economics Harvard University |
| November 10 | Gregor Matvos Howard Berolzheimer Professor in Finance Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| November 17 | Ben Matthies Assistant Professor of Finance Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame |
| December 1 | Anna Cieslak Associate Professor of Finance Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
| December 8 | Eben Lazarus Assistant Professor of Finance Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
Spring 2023
| March 3 | Lawrence D.W. Schmidt Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance MIT Sloan School of Management |
| March 10 | Lasse Heje Pedersen Professor of Finance Copenhagen Business School |
| March 31 | Diego Perez Assistant Professor of Economics New York University |
| April 7 | Yueran Ma Associate Professor of Finance and Kathryn and Grant Swick Faculty Scholar University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| April 28 | Ishita Sen Assistant Professor of Finance Harvard Business School |
| May 5 | Adi Sunderam Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance Harvard Business School |
| May 12 | Juliane Begenau Associate Professor of Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business |
2022
Fall 2022
| September 9 | Asaf Manela Associate Professor of Finance Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis |
| September 23 | Christopher J. Palmer Assistant Professor of Finance MIT Sloan School of Management |
| September 30 | Basil Williams Assistant Professor of Economics New York University |
| October 7 | Jonathan Payne Assistant Professor of Economics Princeton University |
| October 14 | Laura Blattner Assistant Professor of Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| October 21 | Claudia Robles-Garcia Assistant Professor of Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| November 11 | Dacheng Xiu Professor of Econometrics and Statistics The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| December 2 | Shan Ge Assistant Professor of Finance NYU Stern School of Business |
| December 9 | Daniel Wolfenzon Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics Columbia Business School |
Spring 2022
| February 25 | Winston Wei Dou Assistant Professor of Finance Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| March 4 | Anthony Lee Zhang Assistant Professor of Finance University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| April 1 | Dimitri Vayanos Professor of Finance London School of Economics |
| April 22 | Ernest Liu Assistant Professor of Economics Princeton University |
| April 29 | Lu Zhang John W. Galbreath Chair, Professor of Finance Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University |
| May 6 | Marco Giacoletti Assistant Professor of Finance USC Marshall School of Business |
| May 13 | Eric Zwick Associate Professor of Finance University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
2021
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 |
2020
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 |
2019
Fall 2019
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August 30, 2019
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Markus Pelger, Stanford University |
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September 06, 2019
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Saum Jha, Stanford University |
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September 13, 2019
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Emily Breza, Harvard University |
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October 04, 2019
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John Graham, Duke University |
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October 11, 2019
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Olivier Darmouni, Columbia University |
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October 18, 2019
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David Schoenherr, Princeton University |
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October 25, 2019
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Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis |
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November 15, 2019
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Yao Zeng, University of Washington |
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November 22, 2019
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Yunzhi Hu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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December 13, 2019
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Theresa Kuchler, New York University |
Spring 2019
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January 25, 2019
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David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley |
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February 15, 2019
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Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University |
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February 20, 2019
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Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University |
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February 25, 2019
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Arpit Gupta, New York University |
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March 29, 2019
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Wei Xiong, Princeton University |
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April 5, 2019
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Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego |
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April 16, 2019
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Cary Frydman, Univeristy of Southern California |
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April 26, 2019
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Margarita Tsoutsoura, Cornell University |
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May 3, 2019
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Philip Bond, University of Washington |
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May 10, 2019
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Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University |
2018
Fall 2018
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August 31, 2018
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Zhiguo He, University of Chicago |
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September 7, 2018
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Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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September 14, 2018
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Claire Célérier, University of Toronto |
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September 28, 2018
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Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University |
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October 12, 2018
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Shai Bernstein, Stanford University |
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October 19, 2018
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Per Strömberg, Swedish House of Finance |
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October 26, 2018
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Jaroslav Borovička, New York University |
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November 2, 2018
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Victoria M. Vanasco, CREI-UPF |
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November 9, 2018
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Kent Daniel, Columbia University |
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November 12, 2018
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Gregor Matvos, University of Texas at Austin |
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November 30, 2018
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Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University |
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December 6, 2018
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Amit Seru, Stanford University |
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December 14, 2018
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Philipp Schnabl, New York University |
Spring 2018
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March 02, 2018
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Joshua D. Rauh, Stanford University |
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March 09, 2018
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Sabrina Howell, New York University |
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April 20, 2018
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Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University |
2017
Fall 2017
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September 5, 2017
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Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago |
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September 8, 2017
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Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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September 15, 2017
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Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University |
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September 22, 2017
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Lawrence Schmidt, University of Chicago |
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September 29, 2017
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Giorgia Piacentino, Columbia University |
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October 6, 2017
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David Thesmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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October 13, 2017
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Robin Greenwood, Harvard University |
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October 27, 2017
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Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth University |
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November 17, 2017
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Benjamin Hébert, Stanford University |
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December 8, 2017
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Benjamin Keys, University of Pennsylvania |
Spring 2017
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February 17, 2017
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Maureen O'hara, Cornell University |
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February 24, 2017
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Giorgia Piacentino, Washington University |
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March 3, 2017
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Andreas Fagereng, Stanford University |
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March 31, 2017
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Lauren Cohen, Harvard University |
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April 7, 2017
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Edward Van Wesep, University of Colorado Boulder |
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April 21, 2017
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Johannes Stroebel, New York University |
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May 5, 2017
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Sergey Chernenko, Ohio State University |
2016
Spring 2016
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January 19, 2016
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Wei Jiang, Columbia University |
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January 26, 2016
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Victoria Ivashina, Harvary University |
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April 15, 2016
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Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago |
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April 22, 2016
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Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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April 29, 2016
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David Solomon, University of Southern California |
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May 6, 2016
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Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics |
Fall 2016
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September 2, 2016
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Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago |
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September 8, 2016
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Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
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September 9, 2016
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Marco Di Maggio, Columbia University |
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September 16, 2016
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Alp Simsek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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September 23, 2016
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Bryan Kelly, University of Chicago |
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September 30, 2016
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Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania |
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October 7, 2016
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Johannes Stroebel, New York University |
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October 14, 2016
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Kelly Shue, University of Chicago |
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November 11, 2016
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Ayako Yasudo, University of California, Davis |
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November 18, 2016
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Amir Sufi, University of Chicago |
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December 9, 2016
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Philipp Schnabl, New York University |
2015
Spring 2015
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March 27, 2015
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Albert Kyle, University of Maryland |
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April 17, 2015
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Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University |
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April 24, 2015
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Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics |
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May 1, 2015
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Tarun Ramadorai, University of Oxford |
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May 8, 2015
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Toni Whited, University of Rochester |
Fall 2015
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September 4, 2015
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Alexander Butler, Rice University |
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September 11, 2015
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Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan |
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September 18, 2015
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Marco Macchiavelli, Federal Reserve Board |
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September 25, 2015
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Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California |
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October 2, 2015
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Joey Engelberg, University of California, San Diego |
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October 9, 2015
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Eric So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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October 16, 2016
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Martin Oehmke, Columbia University |
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October 30, 2015
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Manuel Adelino, Duke University |
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November 10, 2015
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Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago |
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November 13, 2015
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Jeremy Stein, Harvard University |
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November 20, 2015
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Jillian Popadak, Duke University |
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December 1, 2015
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Stavros Panageas, University of Chicago |
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December 8, 2015
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Ralph Koijen, London Business School |
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December 11, 2015
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Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University |
2014
Spring 2014
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April 4, 2014
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Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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May 2, 2014
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Paul Tetlock, Columbia University |
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May 9, 2014
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Manju Puri, Duke University |
Fall 2014
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September 19, 2014
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Albert Marcet, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics |
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September 26, 2014
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Lars A. Lochstoer, Columbia University |
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October 3, 2014
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Samuel Hartzmark, University of Chicago |
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October 10, 2014
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Harrison Hong, Princeton University |
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October 24, 2014
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Toni Whited, University of Rochester |
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October 31, 2014
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Boris Vallée, Harvard University |
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November 7, 2014
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Philip Strahan, Boston College |
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December 12, 2014
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Ricardo Largos, New York University |
2013
Spring 2013
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February 22, 2013
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Alan Taylor, University of Virginia |
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April 3, 2013
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David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine |
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April 8, 2013
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Martin Weber, University of Mannheim |
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April 12, 2013
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Jesse Edgerton, Goldman Sachs |
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April 26, 2013
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Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley |
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May 10, 2013
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Stavros Panageas, University of Chicago |
Fall 2013
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August 30, 2013
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Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, University of California, Berkeley |
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September 6, 2013
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Philipp Schnabl, New York University |
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September 13, 2013
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Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin |
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September 20, 2013
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Laura Veldkamp, New York University |
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September 27, 2013
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Thomas Phillipon, New York University |
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October 4, 2013
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Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University |
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October 11, 2013
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Snehal Benerjee, Northwestern University |
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October 18, 2013
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Juhani T. Linnainmaa, University of Chicago |
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October 25, 2013
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Adirano Rampini, Duke University |
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November 1, 2013
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Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University |
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November 15, 2013
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Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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November 22, 2013
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Uptal Bhattacharya, Indiana University |