Brown Bag Seminars

2026

Semester 1

DateSpeakerAffiliationPaper Name
3 Mar 2026Calvin Dun Jia Peking University HSBC business schoolVague FOMC Communications
10 Mar 2026Antoine DidisheimThe University of MelbourneA Financial Brain Scan of the LLM
24 Mar 2026Neng WangCheung Kong Graduate 
School of Business		Option Exercise Games and the q Theory of Investment
31 Mar 2026Marina Gertsberg
Kate Volkova		The University of MelbourneHim Too? Analyzing the Effects of Epstein Connections
28 Apr 2026Oliver AntrobusUBSPIR Seminar
19 May 2026Qi ZengThe University of MelbournePredicting Mutual Fund Returns from Images: A Machine Learning Approach

Semester 2 seminar details will be shared  closer to the date

2025

  • DateSpeakerAffiliationPaper Name
    4 Mar 2025Antoine DidisheimUniversity of Melbourne 
    18 Mar 2025Patrick VerwijmerenUniversity of Melbourne 
    25 Mar 2025Arseny GorbenkoMonash University 
    1 Apr 2025Tony CooksonColorado at BoulderImmigration and Credit in America
    8 Apr 2025Zhuo ZhongUniversity of Melbourne 
    15 Apr 2025Shuang ChenUniversity of Melbourne 
    6 May 2025Caitlin DannhauserVillanova UniversityWarehousing Corporate Bonds via ETFs
    13 May 2025Donghui LiShenzhen University 
    20 May 2025Jun YuUniversity of Melbourne 
    27 May 2025Eduard InozemtsevUniversity of Melbourne

  • DateSpeakerAffiliationPaper Name
    29 Jul 2025Jared StanfieldUniversity of Oklahoma 
    5 Aug 2025Vikas AgarwalGeorgia State University 
    12 Aug 2025Nadia MassoudMelbourne Business School 
    9 Sep 2025Idan HodorMonash UniversityMarket Dynamics of Risk-On and
    Risk-Off Incentives and their Effect
    on Asset Prices
    23 Sep 2025Jiali GaoUniversity of SydneyVisual Deception in Financial Markets
    ​7 Oct 2025Lei ChenUniversity of MelbourneDo Consumers Spend Their Money
    Where Their Votes Are
    ​14 Oct 2025Carole Comerton-FordeUniversity of MelbourneChanging dynamics between
    public and private markets in Australia
    28 Oct 2025Qi ZengUniversity of Melbourne​Political Ploarization, Goverment Policy,
    and Asset Pricing
    11 Nov 2025Dominik RoeschUniversity at BuffaloMarket Quality of Informed Trades
    18 Nov 2025​​Peter DeMarzoStanford UniversityInterest Rate Risk in Banking
    25 Nov 2025Dongyihai Peng​​​University of MelbourneFraming geopolitical risks: media
    slant across ideological lines
    2 Dec 2025​Peter Bossaerts​University of CambridgeAsset Pricing with Decreasing Stochastic
    Returns to Scale