Seminar Series
The Financial Services Research Centre (FSRC) organizes a seminar series that include a variety of speakers. Frequent this page for an updated listing of FSRC seminars. If you would like to receive an email notification when new speakers are scheduled, email Si Li at sli@wlu.ca.
- Date: Friday, June 17, 2022, 11AM-12PM (Brown Bag)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Do Government Infusions Help Financial Stability? Evidence from an Emerging Market
Madhu is Professor of Finance at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also an affiliated member of the Waterloo Research institute in Insurance, Securities and Quantitative finance (WatRISQ), University of Waterloo. His research is broadly in the areas of risk management and fixed income markets.
- Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 9:30AM-10:45AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Do Board Connections Between Product Market Peers Impede Competition?
Alminas Zaldokas is an Associate Professor of Finance and Lee Heng Fellow at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD in Finance from INSEAD. His research interests include antitrust, industrial organization and corporate finance, innovation, and corporate governance. He has published in various top economics and finance journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Accounting Research.
- Date: Friday, April 22, 2022, 10:10AM-11:25AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Passive Ownership and Short Selling
Pekka Honkanen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He obtained his PhD in Finance from HEC Paris. His primary fields of research include mutual funds and market microstructure. He is especially interested in securities lending, short selling, and mutual fund investments, with a focus on information transmission in the financial markets.
- Date: Friday, March 11, 2022, 10:10AM-11:25AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Advising Sophisticated Customers: Evidence from Health Insurance Brokers
Joy Tong is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Ivey Business School, Western University. She obtained her PhD in Finance from Duke University. Her research interests include labor and finance, innovation and entrepreneurial finance, and healthcare and finance. She has published in Management Science.
- Date: Friday, December 3, 2021, 10:30-11:30AM (Brown Bag)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Do Firms Benefit from Carbon Risk Management? Evidence from the Credit Default Swaps Market
Madhu is Professor of Finance at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also an affiliated member of the Waterloo Research institute in Insurance, Securities and Quantitative finance (WatRISQ), University of Waterloo. His research is broadly in the areas of risk management and fixed income markets.
- Date: Friday, November 26, 2021, 10:10AM-11:25AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Dealer Networks and the Cost of Immediacy
Jens Dick-Nielsen is Associate Professor at Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School, and Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC). He is a member of the Danish Finance Institute. He holds a M.Sc. in Mathematical Business Economics from Copenhagen Business School and a PhD in Finance from Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School. He has been a visiting Ph.D. scholar at NYU Stern school of Business. His main research area is credit risk and liquidity risk and his work has appeared in Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and others.
- Date: Friday, November 19, 2021, 10:10AM-11:25AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Product Market Strategy and Corporate Policies
Boris Nikolov is Professor of Finance at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, the Director of the PhD Program in Finance, and a Swiss Finance Institute Professor. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Rochester. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Lausanne. Professor Nikolov’s primary areas of research are corporate finance and corporate governance. In particular, he works in the area of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) finance where he develops novel corporate governance indices. Recently, he has focused on how Artificial Intelligence can help address corporate finance questions. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
- Date: Friday, November 12, 2021, 11AM-12:15PM (Brown Bag)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Should Passive Investors Actively Manage Their Trades?
Sida Li is a PhD student in Finance from Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Date: Friday, November 5, 2021, 11AM-12:15PM (joint with MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute and Lazaridis School's PhD and Research-Based Master's Programs in Management)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: AI in FinTech: New Paradigms
Sanjiv Das is the William and Janice Terry Professor of Finance and Data Science at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, and an Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Professor Das' current research interests include: portfolio theory and wealth management, machine learning, financial networks, derivatives pricing models, the modeling of default risk, systemic risk, and venture capital. He has published over a hundred articles in academic journals, and has won numerous awards for research and teaching.
- Date: Friday, October 22, 2021, 10AM-11:15AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Hedge Fund Performance under Misspecified Models
Olivier Scaillet is Professor of Finance and Statistics at Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), and Université de Genève. He is also Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute, and the head of Project 10 in NCCR FINRISK. His work ranges from financial econometrics, term structure modeling, risk management in finance and insurance, to derivative pricing and asset allocation.
- Date: Friday, October 8, 2021, 11AM-12:15PM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Effect of Bank Mergers on the Price and Availability of Mortgage Credit
Vijay Yerramilli is John H. Duncan Professor of Finance at C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Minnesota. His research interests include corporate finance, contract theory, real options and investments, financial institutions, entrepreneurial finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He has published in many top journals in finance and economics.
- Date: Friday, October 1, 2021, 11AM-12:15PM (Brown Bag)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Who provides ETF liquidity? Dual liquidity provision in ETFs
Thomas Marta is Assistant Professor of Finance at Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. He received his PhD in Finance at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL in 2020. Prior to the PhD, Thomas was a senior fixed income ETF market maker at Bluefin Trading LLC in London (UK). Thomas' research interests include ETFs, fixed income, and microstructure.
- Date: Friday, May 21, 2021, 1-2:15PM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: CEO Communication and Collusion: The Effect of Private Communication
Sahil Raina is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Alberta. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Michigan. His research interests include entrepreneurship finance, empirical corporate finance, gender and finance, innovation, and household finance. He has published in top journals such as American Economics Review.
- Date: Friday, April 23, 2021, 10:15-11:30AM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors
Zacharias Sautner is Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He was previously Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Amsterdam and Research Fellow in Finance at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. Zacharias Sautner works in the area of empirical corporate finance and focuses on ESG, climate finance, and corporate governance. His research was published in leading international journals such as Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. He was ranked #2 in Germany in Business Administration (#1 in Finance) based on A+ publications (age of 40 or below) by Forschungsmonitoring.org (February 2019). Zacharias Sautner holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Mannheim.
- Date: Friday, March 26, 2021, 11AM-12:15PM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Direct Democracy, Corporate Political Strategy, and Firm Value
Dr. Fahlenbrach is a full professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Formerly on the faculty of the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University (USA), he holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton). He holds a senior research chair from the Swiss Finance Institute, and is research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). His research interest is empirical corporate finance, in particular corporate governance and entrepreneurship. Ruediger Fahlenbrach has published in the leading academic journals in finance, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. His research has been reported in many large-circulation newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Le Temps, NZZ, Handelsblatt, Forbes Magazine, USA Today, and Fortune Magazine.
- Date: Friday, October 30, 2020, 3-4:15PM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Dealer Behavior and the Trading of Newly Issued Corporate Bonds
Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, she was a Senior Financial Economist in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that capacity, Dr. Nikolova advised the SEC on rules governing the issuance of fixed-income securities, the disclosure and offering process of asset-backed securities, the registration of municipal advisers, the integrity of credit ratings, and the management and accountability of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs). Dr. Nikolova has a PhD in Finance from University of Florida. She has published in top journals such as Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies.
- Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 12-1:30PM (joint seminar with Lazaridis Institute)
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: Is Financial Globalization in Reverse after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Evidence from Corporate Valuations
Andrew Karolyi is Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and College Dean for Academic Affairs. He is a professor of finance and holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the College’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is also a professor of economics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Karolyi is a scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in top journals in finance and economics. Karolyi served as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and has also served as an associate editor for a variety of leading journals. He has won numerous best paper and research awards. Karolyi earned his PhD in finance at the University of Chicago.
- Date: Friday, September 18, 2020, 11AM-12:15PM
- Location: Zoom
- Title of presentation: The Impact of Going Public on the Firm's Human Capital
Rui Silva is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Nova School of Business and Economics. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at London Business School. Professor Silva is also a research affiliate with the Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He obtained PhD in Economics from University of Chicago, and has published in top journals including Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. Silva’s fields of interest include labor and finance, organizational economics, empirical and theoretical corporate finance, corporate governance, and entrepreneurial finance.
AAZAM VIRANI, University of Arizona, March 9, 2020
TONI AHNERT, Bank of Canada, February 7, 2020
RICHARD PHILIP, University of Sydney, January 7, 2020
SOPHIE MOINAS, Toulouse School of Management and Toulouse School of Economics, November 11, 2019
JIM GOLDMAN, University of Toronto, November 1, 2019
GENEVIEVE GAUTHIER, HEC Montreal, October 18, 2019
DAN BERNHARDT, UIUC, September 19, 2019
ELVIRA SOJLI, University of New South Wales, September 24, 2019
CHRISTIAN DORION, HEC Montreal, May 17, 2019
DANQIAO GUO, University of Waterloo, May 30, 2019
GIANLUCA FUSAI, Bayes Business School, City, University of London, June 3, 2019
COREY GARRIOTT, Bank of Canada, April 25, 2019
KEE-HONG BAE, York University, March 29, 2019
PETER CZIRAKI, University of Toronto, March 15, 2019
SEAN FOLEY, University of Sydney, February 15, 2019
NA (NINA) WANG, Hosfra University, February 1, 2019
MARIUS ZOICAN, University of Toronto, January 18, 2019
TARUN CHORDIA, Emory University, November 30, 2018
LEI GAO, Iowa State University, October 26, 2018
PAUL BOROCHIN, University of Connecticut, September 28, 2018
ROBERTO PASCUAL, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, September 18, 2018
AURELIO VASQUEZ, ITAM, Mexico, June 8, 2018
MANPREET SINGH, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 28, 2018
PATRICK AUGUSTIN, McGill University, March 16, 2018
MICHAEL J. FLEMING, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, April 13, 2018
HITESH DOSHI, University of Houston, April 27, 2018
ZHUO ZHONG, University of Melbourne, May 23, 2018
LILIAN NG, York University, November 24, 2017
ALEX HORENSTEIN, University of Miami, October 20, 2017