Previous seminars

Dmitry Kuvshinov, Assistant Professor of Finance , Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Title: The Co-Movement Puzzle

• Wed 6 September 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Alina Bartscher, Senior Research Economist , Danish National Bank

Title: Early withdrawals and optimal liquidity

• Wed 13 September 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Anil Kashyap, Professor of Economics and Finance, Booth Chicago

Title: Price Discrimination and Mortgage Choice

• Wed 20 September 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Tavneet Suri,  Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental Evidence from Kenya on Universal Basic Income

• Wed 27 September 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Snehal Banerjee,  Associate Professor of Finance, UC San Diego

Title: Feedback Effects and Systematic Risk Exposures

• Wed 4 October 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Aleksandar Andonov,   Associate Professor of Finance, University of Amsterdam

Title: The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation 

• Wed 11 October 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

 Michael Sockin,  Assistant Professor of Finance, McCombs

Title: Public Asset Purchases and Private Risk Sharing

• Tue 17 October 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LTUG

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham,   Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale

Title: The Role of Attorneys in Consumer Bankruptcy

• Wed 25 October 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Carole Comerton-Forde,   Professor of Finance, Melbourne University

Title: Liquidity provision in the Exchange Traded Fund market

• Wed 1 November 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Hamish Low,   Professor of Economics, Oxford University

Title: Fertility and Family Labor Supply

• Wed 8 November 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Jun Pan, Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Title: Inflation Forecasting from Cross-Sectional Stocks

• Wed 15 November 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Quentin Vandeweyer, Assistant Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth

Title: TBC

• Wed 22 November 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Fabio Trojani,  Professor of Finance and Statistics, University of Geneva

Title: TBC

• Wed 29 November 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Lorena Keller, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wharton

Title: TBC

• Wed 6 December 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Mariasssunta Gianetti, Professor of Finance, Swedish House of Finance

Title: TBC

• Wed 13 December 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Spring/Summer 2023

Contact for seminars:  a.wilhelme@imperial.ac.uk

Chester Spatt, Professor of Finance, Tepper School of Business 

Title: Would Order-by-Order Auctions be Competitive?

• Wed 1 March 2023
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Zhiguo He, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth

Title: Intermediation via Credit Chains

• Wed 8 March 2023
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LTUG

Cecilia Parlatore, Assistant Professor of Finance, New York University, Stern School of Business

Title: The Value of Arbitrage

• Wed 15 March 2023
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Chenxi Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford University

Title: Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance

• Wed 22 March 2023
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Xiaoji Lin, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota

Title: Do bankers matter for main street? The financial intermediary labor channel

• Wed 29 March 2023
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Boris Vallee, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Title: FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

• Wed 3 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Marco Di Maggio, Associate Professor of Business Administration , Harvard Business School

Title: Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Effects on Spending Patterns

• Wed 10 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth

Title: Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets

• Thu 11 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre, Skempton Building LT 207

Tania Babina, Assistant Professor of Business Finance , Columbia Business School

Title: Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking

• Thu 18 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LTUG

Melissa Prado, Professor of Finance , Nova School of Business and Economics

Title: The Real Effects of FinTech Lending: Evidence from Loan Applications

• Wed 24 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Ivo Welch, Professor of Finance , UCLA

Title: A textbook on Global Climate Change – the pragmatist’s guide to moving the needle

• Wed 31 May 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Nittai Bergman, Professor of Economics , Tel Aviv University

Title: Do Proprietary Traders Provide Liquidity?

• Wed 7 June 2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Li An, Associate Professor of Finance , Tsingua University

Title: Extrapolative Beliefs and Financial Decisions: Causal Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing

• Wed 14 June  2023
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Contact for seminars:  a.wilhelme@imperial.ac.uk

Michaela Pagel, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia business School

Title: Consumption out of Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention 

• Wed 7 September 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Basil Williams, Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics, NYU

Title: Spoofing in Equilibrium

• Wed 14 September 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19B

Nicholas Crouzet, Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Title: Can the cure kill the patient? Corporate credit interventions and debt overhang

• Wed 21 September 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Duhong Jin, Assistant Professor in Finance, The University of Hong Kong

Title: Board Diversity and Rare Disasters Risk Insurance

• Wed 28 September 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Joel Peress, Professor of Finance, INSEAD

Title: Uncertainty about What’s in the Price

• Wed 5 October 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Roxana Mihet, Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Lausanne

Title: Consumer Privacy and Value of Consumer Data

• Wed 12 October 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• Virtual 

Michael Weber, Associate Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth

Title: Climate Change and Individual Behavior

• Wed 19 October 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LTUG

Jacopo Ponticelli, Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern Kellogg

Title: The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation

• Wed 2 November 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Martin Lettau, Professor of Finance, Berkeley Haas

Title: High-Dimensional Factor Models with an Application to Mutual Fund Characteristics

• Wed 9 November 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Claire Celerier, Associate Professor of Finance, Rotman University of Toronto

Title: TBC

• Wed 16 November 2022
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LGS

Wei Jiang, Adjunct Professor of Business, Columbia Business School 

Title: TBC

• Wed 23 November 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Professor of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Title: TBC

• Wed 30 November 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Adrien Matray, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Title: Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, and Inequality: Evidence from Brazil

• Wed 7 December 2022
• 15.00 -16.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LGS

Johannes Stroebel, Professor of Finance, New York University

Title: A quantity-based approach to constructing climate risk hedge portfolios

• Wed 14 December 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LGR

Seminars Spring 2022 

Contact for seminars:  a.wilhelme@imperial.ac.uk

Jialan Wang, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois

Title: Bankruptcy and the covid-19 crisis 

• Wed 9 March 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• Virtual Event

Sasha Indarte, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Title: The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt

• Wed 16 March 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT1

Pedro Bordalo, Professor of Financial Economics, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Title: Imagining the future:  Memory, simulation and beliefs about Covid 

• Wed 23 March 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LT1

Laura Veldkamp, Professor of Finance, Columbia University

Title: Data and Market Power 

• Wed 4 May 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• Virtual Event 

Margit Reischer, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgetown University

Title: Finance-thy-Neighbor. Trade Credit Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

• Wed 11 May 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• in person - Lecture theatre LT1

Jose Scheinkman, Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School

Title: Optimal forest preservation over time and space in the Brazilian Amazon

• Fri 13 May 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• in person - Lecture Theatre LT1

Ana Babus, Assistant Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: The Anatomy of Financial Innovation

• Mon 16 May 2022
• 13.30 -14.45
• In person - Lecture Theatre LTG

Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, Professor of Finance, Columbia University

Title: Machine-Learning the Skill of Mutual Fund Managers

• Wed 18 May 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Philip Bond, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Washington

Title: Measuring the quantity and value of the average investor’s private information

• Wed 25 May 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Kelly Shue, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

Title: “Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap

• Wed 1 June 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• Virtual 

Peter Koudijs, Professor of Finance and History, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Title: The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth through Amortization

• Wed 8 June 2022
• 10.00 -11.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19B

Emil Verner, Assistant Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

Title: Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

• Wed 15 June 2022
• 14.00 -15.15
• In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Seminars Autumn 2021

Sydney Ludvigson, Professor of Economics, New York University 

Title: Markets and Monetary Policy

• Wed 8 September 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Monica Piazzezi, Professor of Economics, Stanford University 

Title: How unconventional is green monetary policy

• Wed 15 September 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Melvyn Teo Song Wee, Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University

Title: Diverse Hedge Funds

• Wed 6 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Benjamin Moll, Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy

• Wed 13 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Vincent Glode,  Associate Professor of Finance, Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Title: Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Debt Chains

• Wed 20 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Claudia Robles-Garcia,  Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford University

Title: Competition and Scope in Banking

• Wed 27 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Nicholas Barberis,  Professor of Finance, Yale University

Title: TBC

• Wed 3 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Mindy Xiaolan,  Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Texas

Title: TBC

• Wed 10 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Youssef Benzarti,  Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California

Title: Mandating Tax Incidence: Using Price Controls to Better Target Tax Cuts

• Wed 17 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Xavier Gabaix, Professor of Economics and Finance, Harvard University

Title: TBC

• Wed 24 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Luigi Pistaferri, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Title: Wealth Inequality and Assortative Mating

• Wed 8 December 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Kilian Huber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Title: Disaggregated Economic Accounts: Measurement and Implications for Fiscal Policy

• Wed 15 December 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Seminars Autumn 2021

Sydney Ludvigson, Professor of Economics, New York University 

Title: Markets and Monetary Policy

• Wed 8 September 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Monica Piazzezi, Professor of Economics, Stanford University 

Title: How unconventional is green monetary policy

• Wed 15 September 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Melvyn Teo Song Wee, Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University

Title: Diverse Hedge Funds

• Wed 6 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Benjamin Moll, Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy

• Wed 13 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Vincent Glode,  Associate Professor of Finance, Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Title: Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Debt Chains

• Wed 20 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Claudia Robles-Garcia,  Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford University

Title: Competition and Scope in Banking

• Wed 27 October 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Nicholas Barberis,  Professor of Finance, Yale University

Title: TBC

• Wed 3 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Mindy Xiaolan,  Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Texas

Title: TBC

• Wed 10 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Youssef Benzarti,  Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California

Title: Mandating Tax Incidence: Using Price Controls to Better Target Tax Cuts

• Wed 17 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Xavier Gabaix, Professor of Economics and Finance, Harvard University

Title: TBC

• Wed 24 November 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Luigi Pistaferri, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Title: Wealth Inequality and Assortative Mating

• Wed 8 December 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM

Kilian Huber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Title: Disaggregated Economic Accounts: Measurement and Implications for Fiscal Policy

• Wed 15 December 2021
• 16.00 -17.15
• ZOOM