Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Finance Group

Finance-(Accounting) Research Seminar - Previous Semesters

The Finance-(Accounting) Research Seminar is a joint initiative of Humboldt-Universität, ESMT, and the TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency, and provides a forum to discuss current research in the areas of finance and accounting.

 

2023 Summer Term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2023 Apr 20 Larissa Schäfer (Frankfurt School) - Shattered Housing
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Apr 27 internal seminar  

2023 May 05

Friday

Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) - How Climate Change Shapes Bank Lending: Evidence from Portfolio Reallocation
Host: Max Bruche
13:00 – 14:30
DOR 1, Room 405
or online

2023 May 22

Monday

Konrad Raff (NHH) - When does board diversity benefit shareholders? Strategic deadlock as a commitment to monitor 12:30 – 13:30
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 May 25 Kathy Yuan (LSE) - On the Fragility of DeFi Lending
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jun 01

Thomas Geelen (Copenhagen Business School) - Sustainable Organizations

Host: Tim Adam

14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jun 08 Andreas Fuster (EPF Lausanne) - Improving Market-Based Systemic Risk Measures
Host: Jan Keil
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jun 15

Alfredo Martin (Universitat de les Illes Balears) - Do bank branches matter? Evidence from mandatory branch closings

Host: Max Bruche

14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jun 22 Open date (tba)  
2023 Jun 29

Rainer Haselmann (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - The Political Economy of Financial Regulation

Host: Max Bruche

14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jul 06 Open date (tba)  
2023 Jul 13

Open date (tba)

 
2023 Jul 20 Open date (tba)  

 

 

2022/23 Winter Term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2022 Oct 20 Dirk Jenter (LSE) - CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 Oct 27 Christoph Schneider (Universität Münster) - Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Nov 03 Youchang Wu (University of Oregon) - Private Equity and Financial Adviser Misconduct
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Nov 10 Hans Degryse (KU Leuven) - Asset Overhang and Technological Change
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Nov 17 Bart Lambrecht (University of Cambridge) - Optimal Financial Policies for a Group
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Nov 24 Abalfazl Zareei (Stockholm University) - cancelled
Host: Guillermo Baquero
 
2022 Dec 01 Internal seminar  
2022 Dec 08 Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford) - TBD
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Dec 15 Internal seminar  
2023 Jan 05 Internal seminar  
2023 Jan 12 Internal seminar  
2023 Jan 19 Martin Oehmke (LSE) - Green Capital Requirements
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Jan 26 Internal seminar  
2023 Feb 02 Adrian Lam (University of Amsterdam) - Do carbon prices affect stock returns?
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Feb 09 Sergio Mayordomo (Banco de España) - Enforcing mandatory reporting on private firms: the role of banks
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2023 Feb 16 Merih Sevilir (IWH Halle und ESMT) - Private Equity in the Hospital Industry
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online

 

2022 summer term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2022 Apr 21 Internal seminar  
2022 Apr 28 Pat Akey (University of Toronto) - Noisy Factors
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 May 02
Monday
Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Kai Lessmann
12:30 – 13:30
online
2022 May 05 Christopher Schwarz (UCI) - A Sub(penny) For Your Thoughts: Improving the Identification of Retail Investors in TAQ
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 May 12 Melina Papoutsi (ECB) - The Rise of Bond Financing in Europe
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 May 19 Vicente Cuñat (LSE) - Which workers suffer (or benefit) from firm-level uncertainty shocks
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 May 23
Monday
Emirhan Ilhan (Frankfurt School) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
12:30 – 13:30
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Jun 02 Internal seminar  
2022 Jun 09 Internal seminar  
2022 Jun 16 Magda Rola-Janicka (Tilburg University) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Jun 23 Andras Danis (Georgia Tech) - Shadow Inflation
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
or online
2022 Jun 30 Internal seminar  
2022 Jul 07 Emilie Sartre (Brown University) - Toxic Loans and the Rise of Populist Candidacies
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 Jul 14 Internal seminar  
2022 Jul 21 Internal seminar  

 

2021/22 winter term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2021 Oct 21 Open date (tba)  
2021 Oct 28 Daniel Metzger (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - The Sustainability Wage Gap
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Nov 04 Felix Noth (IWH) - Cultural Resilience, Religion, and Economic Recovery: Evidence from the 2005 Hurricane Season
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Nov 11 Kornelia Fabisik (Frankfurt School) - Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)Predictable Past of ESG Ratings
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Nov 15
Monday
Michael Bauer (Universität Hamburg) - Climate Finance Seminar - The Rising Cost of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bond Market
Host: Kai Lessmann
12:30 – 13:30
online
2021 Nov 25 Sergio Vicente (University of Luxembourg) - Digital lenders and the displacement of traditional banks
Host: Max Bruche
14:30 – 16:00
online
2021 Dec 02 Internal seminar  
2021 Dec 09 Internal seminar  
2021 Dec 16 Internal seminar  
2022 Jan 06 Johannes Stroebel (New York University) - Climate Finance Seminar - A quantity-based approach to constructing climate risk hedge portfolios
Host: Alex Stomper
15:00 – 16:30
online
2022 Jan 13 Diana Bonfim (Banco de Portugal) - Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop: The Government Procurement Channel
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2022 Jan 20 Open date (tba)  
2022 Jan 27 Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Kai Lessmann
14:30 – 16:00
online
2022 Feb 03 Open date (tba)  
2021 Feb 07
Monday
Darwin Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
12:30 – 13:30
online
2022 Feb 17 Huan Tang (LSE) - The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online

 

2021 summer term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2021 Apr 15 Internal seminar  
2021 Apr 22 Internal seminar  
2021 Apr 29 Tim Eisert (Erasmus University) - TBC
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 May 06 Alexander Schandlbauer (SDU & DFI) - Employee health and firm performance
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 May 20 Karsten Müller (Princeton) - Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 May 27 Cláudia Custódio (Imperial) - The sensitivity of SME’s investment and employment to the cost of debt financing
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jun 03 André F. Silva (Fed Board) - Pirates without Borders: the Propagation of Cyberattacks through Firms' Supply Chains
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jun 10 Derek Lemoine - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
online
2021 Jun 17

Jing Zeng (University of Bonn) - Organizational Structure and Investment Strategy
Host: Max Bruche

14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jun 24 Internal seminar  
2021 Jul 01 Rui Silva (Nova SBE) - Corporate Restructurings and the Mental Health of Employees
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jul 08 Philipp König (Bundesbank) - The Leverage Effect of Market Discipline"
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jul 15 Philip E. Strahan (Boston College) - Unintended Consequences? Syndicated Lending, Competition and Relative Performance Evaluation.
Host: Jan Keil and Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online

 

2020 winter term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2020 Nov 05 Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University) - (Why) do central banks care about their profits
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2020 Nov 12 Scott Guernsey (Haslam College of Business, UT) - Blood in the Water: The Value of Antitakeover Provisions during Market Shocks
Host: Jan Keil and Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2020 Nov 19 Francesc Rodriguez-Tous (Cass) - Macroprudential Policy, Mortgage Cycles and Distributional Effects: Evidence from the UK
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2020 Nov 23
Monday
N.N. - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
12:30 – 13:30
online
2020 Dec 03 Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England) - Down Payment Constraints, Homeownership and Household Spending
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2020 Dec 10 Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
online
2020 Dec 17 Internal seminar  
2021 Jan 07 Stephan Luck (New York Fed) - Micro-evidence from a System-wide Financial Meltdown: The German Crisis of 1931
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jan 14 Internal seminar  
2021 Jan 21 Adam Zawadowski (Central European University) - The Tragedy of Complexity
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Jan 25
Monday
Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse-Capitole) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
12:30 – 13:30
online
2021 Feb 04 Andrew Sinclair (University of Hongkong) - Banking on the Confucian Clan: Why Did China Miss the Financial Revolution?
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Feb 11 Derek Lemoine (University of Arizona) - Climate Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
online
2021 Feb 18 Bige Kahraman (Said Business School) - ES Risks and Shareholder Voice
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Feb 25 Thorsten Beck (Cass) - Out with the New, in with the Old? Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
online
2021 Mar 04 Dominika Galkiewicz (University of Applied Sciences Kufstein) - Funding and Overfunding Phenomena in Crowdfunding
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
online

 

2020 summer term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2020 Apr 16 Lisa Evans (University of Stirling)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Apr 23 Internal seminar  
2020 Apr 30

Philipp Krüger (University of Geneva) -
Climate-Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper

14:15 – 15:45
Online seminar
2020 May 07 Fréderic Malherbe (University College London) - Systemic Risk Measure: an anatomy
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
Online seminar
2020 May 14 Emil Verner (MIT) - Financial Crisis, Creditor-Debtor Conflict,and Populism
Host: Simas Kucinskas
15:00 – 16:30
Online seminar
2020 May 28 Andreas Fuster (Swiss National Bank)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Jun 04 Chris Roth (University of Warwick) - cancelled
Host: Simas Kucinskas
 
2020 Jun 11 Shiwon Song (INSEAD)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Jun 11 Ralph De Haas (EBRD) - Climate-Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
Online seminar
2020 Jun 18 Marcus Jüppner (Bundesbank) - Climate-Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
Online seminar
2020 Jun 25 Matthew Harding (University of California, Irvine)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Jul 02 Kristina Rennekamp (Cornell University)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Jul 02 Irene Monasterolo (WU Wien) - Climate-Finance Seminar
Host: Alex Stomper
14:30 – 16:00
Online seminar
2020 Jul 09 Lisa Koonce (University of Texas at Austin)
cancelled (corona virus)
 
2020 Jul 16 Internal seminar  

 

2019 winter term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2019 Oct 17 Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) - Leverage and Risk-Taking
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Oct 24 Guillaume Vuillemey (HEC) - Start-Up Costs and the Capital Structure of Young Firms
Host: Simas Kucinskas
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Oct 31 Jiri Novak (Charles University in Prague) - Managerial Risk Aversion and the Structure of Executive Compensation
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 - 15:15
SPA 1, Room 23
2019 Nov 07 Fabian Krüger (Universität Heidelberg) - Quantifying Subjective Uncertainty in Survey Expectations
Host: Simas Kucinskas
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Nov 14 Martin Oehmke (LSE) - A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Nov 21 Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University) - High-Speed Internet, Financial Technology and Banking in Africa
Host: Simas Kucinskas
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Nov 28 Ralf Elsas (LMU München) - The dark side of short-selling
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Dec 05 Anatoli Segura (Bank of Italy) - Demand for safety, risky loans: A model of securitization
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Dec 12 Ernst Maug (Universität Mannheim) - Trading and Shareholder Voting
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Dec 19 Daniele Macciocchi (University of Utah) - Financial Shocks and Corporate Investment Activity: The Role of Financial Covenants
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 – 15:45
SPA 1, Room 23
2020 Jan 09 Internal seminar  
2020 Jan 16 Internal seminar  
2020 Jan 23 Michael Koetter (Halle) - Compensation Regulation in Banking: Executive Director Behavior and Bank Performance after the EU Bonus Cap
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2020 Jan 30 Christoph Kaserer (TUM) - Mutual Funds and Derivatives: Evidence from Linked Fund-Trade Data
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2020 Feb 06 Markus Arnold (University of Bern) - The Use and Effects of Accountability and Job Autonomy when Results Controls are Infeasible: Substitutes or Complements?
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 – 15:45
SPA 1, Room 23
2020 Feb 13 Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School) - Limited Attention to Detail in Financial Markets
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405

 

2019 summer term

Date Speaker Time and Location
2019 Apr 11 Petri Jylha (Aalto University) - Does Funding Liquidity Cause Market Liquidity? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Apr 18 Darren Bernard (London Business School) - Inferences about the quality of assets offered for sale: Evidence from the market for glue
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 – 15:45
SPA 1, Room 23
2019 Apr 25 Internal seminar  
2019 May 02 Enrico Sette (Bank of Italy) - Credit misallocation during the European financial crisis
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 May 15
Wednesday
Roy Kouwenberg (Mahidol University Bangkok) - Ambiguity Attitudes about Investments: Evidence from the Field
Host: Lukas Menkhoff
12:00 – 13:15
DIW, Room 3.3.002a
2019 May 16 Stefano Cascino (London School of Economics) - Does Consumer Protection Enhance Disclosure Credibility in Reward Crowdfunding?
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 – 15:45
SPA 1, Room 23
2019 May 23 Thomas Matthys (Vlerick Business School) - Corporate Syndicated Loans as a Source of Private Information for Interbank Markets
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Jun 06 Matti Keloharju (Aalto University) - CEO Health
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Jun 13 Gyoengyi Loranth (Vienna) - Bank Resolution Regimes: Risk-Shifting and Resolution Efficiency
Host: Alex Stomper
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Jun 20 Jan Starmans (SSE) - Optimal Agents
Host: Tim Adam
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Jun 27 Internal seminar  
2019 Jul 04 Toni Ahnert (Bank of Canada) - Rollover Risk, Bank Borrowing and Fragility
Host: Max Bruche
14:15 – 15:45
DOR 1, Room 405
2019 Jul 11 Steven Vanhaverbeke (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Corporate Financial Transparency and Credit Ratings
Host: Joachim Gassen
14:15 – 15:45
SPA 1, Room 23

2018 winter term

Date Speaker
2018 Oct 18 Internal seminar
2018 Oct 23 Francesco D'Acunto (Boston College) - Human Frictions to the Transmission of Economic Policie
2018 Nov 01 Internal seminar
2018 Nov 08 Internal seminar
2018 Nov 15 Internal seminar
2018 Nov 22 Hami Amiraslani (INSEAD) - Board Independence and Bondholder Agency Risk
2018 Nov 30 Emanuele Colonnelli (Chicago Booth) - Corruption and firms: Evidence from randomized audits in Brazil
2018 Dec 06 Ralf Meisenzahl (Fed) - The Rise of Shadow Banking: Evidence from Capital Regulation
2018 Dec 11 Alexei Ovtchinnikov (HEC Paris) - cancelled
2018 Dec 13 Lorenzo Garlappi (UBC) - The Term Structure of Credit Spreads with Dynamic Debt Issuance and Incomplete Information
2018 Dec 20 Thomas Rauter (Chicago Booth) - The Effect of Foreign Corruption Regulation on Corrupt Countries
2019 Jan 10 Internal seminar
2019 Jan 29 Farzad Saidi (SSE) - The Effects of Credit Supply on Wage Inequality between and within Firms
2019 Jan 31 Melissa Porras Prado (Nova School) - Capital Commitment and Investment Decisions: The Role of Mutual Fund Charge
2019 Feb 06 Yangming Bao (Goethe University Frankfurt) - cancelled
2019 Feb 07 Christian Stadler (Royal Holloway) - Measuring Environmental Performance: The Case of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
   

2018 summer term

Date Speaker – Title
2018 Jul 19 Andre Güttler (Ulm) – The effect of bank competition on access to finance
2018 Jul 12 Tolga Demir (SSE) – Utilizing Management Technology Advantages in Cross-Border Acquisitions
2018 Jul 05 Pepa Kraft (HEC Paris) – Commitment to Regulation and Demand for Crypto Tokens
2018 Jun 28 Bianca Beyer (Oulu Business School) – Are convicted CEOs overpaid?
2018 Jun 28 Sergio Vicente (UC3M) – Default penalties and fee structure in private equity partnerships
2018 Jun 21 Daniel Streitz (CBS) – Inference in the presence of spillover effects
2018 Jun 19 Denis Gromb (HEC) – Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks
2018 Jun 14 Simon Gervais (Duke) – The equilibrium value of employee ethics
2018 Jun 11 Thorsten Hens (UZH) – An application of evolutionary portfolio theory to factor investing
2018 May 31 Internal seminar
2018 May 24 Ethan Rouen (HBS) – Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality
2018 May 17 Daniel Metzger (HHS) – Since You're so Rich, You Must be Really Smart
2018 May 16 Angelo Ranaldo (s/bf-HSG)
2018 Apr 26 Reint Gropp (IWH) – The cleansing effect of banking crises
2018 Apr 19 Internal seminar

2017 winter term

Date Speaker – Title
2018 Feb 15 Internal seminar
2018 Feb 08 Martin Walker (Manchester) – Understanding how the effects of conditional conservatism measurement bias vary with the research context
2018 Feb 01 Josef Zechner (WU Vienna)
2018 Jan 25 Laurence van Lent (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Firm-Level Political Risk
2018 Jan 18 Thomas Gehrig (Vienna) – Political Favoritism and Industrial Structure in the Banking Sector
2018 Jan 11 Internal seminar
2017 Dec 21 Dan Amiram (Columbia) – Do Executive Compensation Contracts Maximize Firm Value?
2017 Dec 20 Tarek Hassan (Boston)
2017 Dec 14 Florin Vasvari (LBS) – Portfolio Performance Manipulation in Collateralized Loan Obligations
2017 Dec 07 Marno Verbeek (Rotterdam School of Management)
2017 Nov 30 Rainer Jankowitsch (WU Wien) – The Rules of the Rating Game
2017 Nov 23 Internal seminar
2017 Nov 15 Thomas Gehrig (Vienna) – Did the Basel Process of Capital Regulation Enhance the Resiliency of European Banks?
2017 Nov 08 Axel Stahmer (ESMT Berlin) – An examination of tail risk taking by active mutual funds
2017 Nov 02 Internal seminar
2017 Oct 26 Internal seminar
2017 Oct 19 Internal seminar

2017 summer term

Date Speaker – Title
2017 Jul 20 Internal seminar
2017 Jul 13 Internal seminar
2017 Jul 06 Internal seminar
2017 Jun 29 Victor Maas (Amsterdam) – Finding Partners in Crime?
2017 Jun 28 Harald Hau (SFI, Geneva)
2017 Jun 22 Internal seminar
2017 Jun 15 Tanseli Savaser (Bilkent) – Differential Risk Taking Implications of Performance Incentives from Stock and Stock Option Holdings
2017 Jun 08 Internal seminar
2017 Jun 01 Emmanuel De George (LBS) – Fair-Value Adjustments and Debt Contracting
2017 May 18 Suresh Sundaresan (Columbia) – An explanation of negative swap spreads
2017 May 11 Max Bruche (Cass Business School) – Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication
2017 May 08 Martin Kanz (Worldbank) – Status goods
2017 May 05 Heiko Jacobs (Mannheim) – Anomalies Across the Globe
2017 May 04 John Barrios (Chicago) – Corporate Tax Departments
2017 Apr 27 Paul Madsen (Florida) – University-Level Recruiting and Black Underrepresentation in the Auditing Profession
2017 Apr 20 Internal seminar

2016 winter term

Date Speaker – Title
2017 Feb 16 Internal seminar
2017 Feb 09 Internal seminar
2017 Feb 02 Internal seminar
2017 Jan 23 Ekkehart Boehmer (SMU SKBI) – Tracking Retail Investor Activity
2017 Jan 19 Internal seminar
2017 Jan 12 Internal seminar
2017 Jan 05 Laurenz Klipper (Humboldt) – Pennies in Front of a Steamroller?
2016 Dec 15 Jens Hilscher (UC Davis) – Inflating away the public debt?
2016 Dec 05 Danielle Zhang (Norwegian Business School) – CEOs' Personal Portfolio and Corporate Policies
2016 Dec 01 Engelbert Dockner (WU Vienna, VGSF) – Fund promotion and individual investors' fund flows
2016 Nov 29 Ron Giammarino (UBC) – Tax Loss Carry-Forwards and Returns
2016 Nov 24 Yun Lou (HEC Paris) – Major government Customers and Loan Contract Terms
2016 Nov 10 Amir Amel-Zadeh (Oxford) – 10-K Narrative Disclosures
2016 Nov 03 Eliezer Fich (Drexel) – The effect of takeover protection on the value of cash
2016 Nov 02 Nicole Branger (Münster) – Asset Pricing
2016 Oct 27 Dan Segal (IDC Herzliya) – The Discovery Role of Analysts
2016 Oct 20 Jochen Lawrenz (Innsbruck) – Contingent Convertible Bonds in a General Equilibrium Model

2016 summer term

Date Speaker – Title
2016 Jul 06 Antonio Mello (Wisconsin) – Collateral in corporate financing
2016 Jul 05 Maria Kasch (Humboldt) – Systematic Risk and Share Turnover [or Beta as a Measure of Mispricing]
2016 Jun 30 Gavin Cassar (INSEAD) – Hedge Fund Voluntary Disclosure
2016 Jun 23 Sheridan Titman (UT Austin) – Swimming Upstream
2016 Jun 16 Martin Schmalz (Michigan) – Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
2016 Jun 13 José Azar (Charles River Associates) – A New Look at Oligopoly
2016 Jun 09 Christof Beuselinck (IESEG) – Determinants of Subsidiary Cash Holdings in Multinational Corporations
2016 Jun 07 Marco Pagano (Naples Federico II) – Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission
2016 Jun 06 Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA) – Optimal carbon abatement in a stochastic equilibrium model with climate change
2016 May 26 Olga Kuzmina (New Economic School) – Capital structure and exporting
2016 May 19 Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State) – Is Market Timing Good for Shareholders?
2016 May 12 Rik Sen (HKUST) – Inside Brokers
2016 Apr 28 Wolfgang Drobetz (Hamburg) – Cyclicality of Growth Opportunities and the Value of Cash Holdings
2016 Apr 21 David Oesch (University of Zurich) – Financial Constraints and Corporate Disclosure
2016 Apr 15 Avri Ravid (Yeshiva University) – Intellectual Property Contracts

2015 winter term

Date Speaker – Title
2016 Feb 11 Christian Schlag (Frankfurt) – Does Ambiguity About Volatility Matter Empirically?
2016 Feb 04 Internal seminar
2016 Jan 28 Nicole Branger (Münster) – Equilibrium Asset Pricing in Directed Networks with Mutually Exciting Jumps
2016 Jan 21 Internal seminar
2016 Jan 14 Jeremy Michels (Wharton)
2016 Jan 07 Internal seminar
2015 Dec 10 Ramin Baghai (SSE) – Non-rating revenue and conflicts of interest
2015 Dec 07 Klaus Ritzberger (VGSF) – The Curse of Poverty and the Blessings of Wealth
2015 Dec 03 Gaizka Ormazabal (IESE) – Are Directors More Likely to Relinquish Their Riskiest Directorships after the Crisis?
2015 Dec 02 Michael Weber (Chicago Booth) – Monetary policy through production networks
2015 Nov 26 Martin Jacob (WHU) – The differential effect of consumption, wage, and capital taxes on corporate investment
2015 Nov 19 Roland Strausz (HU) – A Theory of Crowdfunding
2015 Nov 12 Andre Guettler (Ulm) – Public Bank Guarantees and Allocative Efficiency
2015 Nov 05 Ashish Tiwari (Iowa) – Market Liquidity, Funding Liquidity, and Hedge Fund Performance
2015 Oct 29 Alexander Ljungqvist (NYU) – State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise
2015 Oct 22 Juan Manuel García Lara (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – Accounting conservatism and the limits to earnings management

 

2015 summer term

Date Speaker – Title
2015 Jul 16 Internal seminar
2015 Jul 09 Internal seminar
2015 Jul 02 Internal seminar
2015 Jun 25 Xi Li (Temple University)
2015 Jun 18 Internal seminar
2015 Jun 11 Antoinette Schoar (MIT) – Middle Class Origins of the Financial Crisis
2015 Jun 04 Söhnke Bartram (Warwick) – Fundamental analysis works
2015 May 28 Diego Garcia (UNC) – The kinks of financial journalism
2015 May 21 Ann Vanstraelen (Maastricht) – Earnings Management within Multinational Corporations
2015 May 07 Romain Boulland (ESSEC) – Announcing the Announcement
2015 May 04 Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris) – Corporate Strategy, Conformism, and the Stock Market
2015 Apr 30 Michael Halling (Stockholm School of Economics) – Corporate Life-Cycle Dynamics of Cash Holdings
2015 Apr 27 Dion Bongaerts (Rotterdam School of Management) – Private information about reputation
2015 Apr 20 Alexander Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics) – A Welfare Analysis of Fragmented Liquidity Markets
2015 Apr 13 Günter Strobl (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Credit Ratings

 

2014 winter term

Date Speaker – Title
2015 Feb 12 Internal seminar
2015 Feb 05 Robert Kosowski (Imperial College) – The Effect of Regulatory Constraints on Fund Performance
2015 Jan 29 Florian Heider (ECB) – Optimal Margins and Equilibrium Prices
2015 Jan 22 Internal seminar
2015 Jan 19 Alexander Kempf (Köln) – Trading Efficiency of Fund Families
2015 Jan 15 Internal seminar
2015 Jan 08 Internal seminar
2014 Dec 18 Internal seminar
2014 Dec 15 Erik Theissen (Mannheim) – GDP Mimicking Portfolios and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
2014 Dec 11 Internal seminar
2014 Dec 04 Alexei Ovtchinnikov (HEC Paris) – Political Activism and Firm Innovation
2014 Nov 27 Yakov Amihud (NYU) – The pricing of the illiquidity factor's systematic risk
2014 Nov 20 Maria Correia (LBS) – Asset Volatility
2014 Nov 13 Tim Adam (Humboldt)
2014 Nov 07 Douglas J. Skinner (Chicago) – The Evolution of Audit Market Structure and the Emergence of the Big 4
2014 Oct 30 Daniel Paravisini (LSE) – Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending
2014 Oct 23 Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.) – Managerial Short-Termism and Investment
2014 Oct 16 Ryan T. Ball (Michigan) – An Empirical Examination of Horizon