Research Seminar Program
2026
Semester 1
| Date | Speaker | Paper Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06-Mar-26 |
| Cara Vansteenkiste The University of Sydney | Employment-Based Consumer Preferences and Product Market Outcomes |
| 13-Mar-26 |
| David Schoenherr Seoul National University(SNU Business School) | Bankruptcy Judges and Creditor Rights |
| 24-Mar-26 |
| Neng Wang Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business | Option Exercise Games and the q Theory of Investment |
| 27-Mar-26 |
| Alexander Dickerson UNSW | The Corporate Bond Factor Replication Crisis |
| 17-Apr-26 |
| Kumar Venkataraman Southern Methodist University | Illiquidity Meets Intelligence: AI-Driven Price Discovery in Corporate Bonds |
| 24-Apr-26 |
| Dunhong Jin Hong Kong University Business School | How green is green? Anatomy of ESG funds’ selection |
| 1-May-26 |
| Alexandre Corhay
| Inventories, Macroeconomic Risk, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns |
| 8-May-26 | Maria Marchica The University of Manchester | Does Creditor Protection Matter for Corporate Borrowing? Evidence from the European Insolvency Regulation | |
| 15-May-26 | Yoshio Nozawa University of Toronto | Market Value of U.S. Universities | |
| 22-May-26 |
| Alex He University of Maryland | Talent-Consolidating Mergers |
| 29-May-26 |
| Vidhan Goyal Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Doing Good by Doing Nothing? Passive Ownership and Environmental Performance |
Semester 2 details will be shared closer to the date.
2025
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Date Speaker Paper Name 21-Mar-25 
Agnieszka Tymula,
University of SydneyOptimal Cardinal Riskless Utility 28-Mar-25 
Raghavendra Rau,
Cambridge Judge Business School, University of CambridgeGender bias and retail fund managers 4-Apr-25 
Qifei Zhu,
National University of SingaporeEquity lender base and limits to arbitrage position-level evidence from mutual funds 11-Apr-25 
Jon Karpoff,
University of WashingtonThe prevalence and costs of undetected financial misrepresentation 2-May-25 
Shaojun Zhang,
Ohio State UniversityOil-Driven Greenium 9-May-25 
Richard Evans,
University of VirginiaMiFID II Research Unbundling Cross-border impact on Asset Managers 16-May-25 
Yushi Peng,
Tilburg UniversityLeverage Regulation and Housing Inequality 30-May-25 
Lubo Litov,
Oklahoma UniversityThe impact of policy uncertainty on Entrepreneurial Experimentation 25-Jul-25 
Zahi Ben-David, Ohio State University Modeling Managers As EPS Maximizers 1-Aug-25 
Kai Li, Peking University Allocative Efficiency of Green Finance Instruments 8-Aug-25 
Sumudu Watugala, Indiana University Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation and the Capital Channel: Evidence from Natural Disasters 15-Aug-25 
Alan Kwan, University of Hong Kong Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work 19-Aug-25 
Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics and Political Science Delegated Blocks 22-Aug-25 
Tor-Erik Bakke, University of Illinois at Chicago Growth-Promoting Bonuses and Mergers and Acquisitions 5-Sep-25 
Yunshen Yang, University of New South Wales Distinguishing Permanent from Transitory Changes: Experimental Evidence on Human Forecasting Ability 12-Sep-25 
Edward Shore, University of New South Wales Living up to Analyst Expectations 19-Sep-25 
Cesare Fracassi, University of Texas at Austin No Country for Dirty Money 3-Oct-25 
Ryan Israelsen, Michigan State University Unauthorized Immigration and Local Government Finances 10-Oct-25 
Kevin Tseng, Chinese University of Hong Kong Social Influence on Household Equity Investment 13-Oct-25 
Mariano Massimiliano Croce, Bocconi University Supply Chain Uncertainty 17-Oct-25 
Thomas Graeber, Harvard University Size-Based Regulation and Bank Fragility 24-Oct-25 
Marina Niessner, Indiana University The Market's Mirror revealing Investor Disagreement with LLMs