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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.
Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
- Date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 (11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)
- Location: LH4096
- Title of presentation: “De-facto Voting Power and the Value of Voting Rights”
Vikas Agarwal is Distinguished University Professor of the University System of Georgia & Bank of America Distinguished Chair and Professor of Finance at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Vikas received his Ph.D. in finance from the London Business School. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Research, University of Cologne, Germany. His broad areas of research interest include investments, household finance, private equity, and venture capital. His research addresses issues related to institutional investors (exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and mutual funds), household finance, and private securities.
Diego Amaya (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- Date: Friday, Oct. 21, 2025 (12 p.m.-1 p.m)
- Location: Dean's Boardroom (Lazaridis Hall)
- Title of presentation: TBD
Diego Amaya received a master’s and PhD degree in Financial Engineering from HEC Montreal. Prior to joining Laurier in 2016, he worked as an assistant professor of Finance at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Research program includes empirical asset pricing, credit risk, and derivative pricing. In recent years, my research has focused on the analysis of high frequency prices.
Giulio Trigilia (University of Rochester)
- Date: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 (11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)
- Location: Dean's Boardroom (Lazaridis Hall)
- Title of presentation: TBD
Giulio holds a Bachelor and MA in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a Msc in Economics from the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin), and a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick. He is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Simon School of Business, and a member of the Finance Theory Group (FTG). His research interests include financial economics, information economics, microeconomic theaory and macro-finance.
More Winter/Spring seminars to be posted soon.
- Date: May 15, 2025
- Title of presentation: “Public Takeover Bid Resistance: Board Discretion, Antitakeover Provisions, and Bid Premium”
Professor Yadav is W. Ross Johnston Chair and Professor of Finance at Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. He has earlier served as Visiting Professor at NYU Stern School (2019, 2001-02) and UCLA Anderson School (2002-03, 2000), as Professor of Finance at Lancaster and Strathclyde Universities in the UK, and as CEO/Deputy CEO in public sector corporations and organizations. He has served as the Chairman of the European Finance Association for six years, elected initially for 2011-13, and then re-elected for 2014-16. He had earlier served as President of the European Finance Association in 2004, and as its Vice-President in 2003. He has also served on the CAF Board of Advisors at the Indian School of Business, and as a Director on the Board of Directors of about twenty companies. Professor Yadav has also been extensively engaged for consulting assignments, and as an “expert” in several major legal cases in U.S. Courts.
- Date: May 8, 2025
- Title of presentation: “Does Mandating Women on Corporate Boards Backfire?”
Dr. Li, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Class of 2022), holds the Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She is Managing Editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Dr. Li’s research focuses on the economic consequences of corporate governance mechanisms. Her current research projects explore: (1) gender and finance, (2) corporate culture, and (3) green innovation. Her research has appeared in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and many other leading journals in Finance and Economics.
- Date: Apr. 25, 2025
- Title of presentation: “The Real Effects of Protecting Biodiversity”
Dr. Amir Akbari received his Ph.D. in Finance from McGill University. His main research interests include empirical asset pricing, international finance, institutional investing, and financial econometrics. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance.
- Date: Mar. 28, 2025
- Title of presentation: “Global Insolvency and Cross-border Capital Flows”
Dr. Wei Wang is a Professor & Distinguished Professor of Finance at Smith School of Business at Queen's University. His primary research expertise is in corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, leveraged finance and high-yield bonds, and distressed investing. His research papers have been published in top finance journals and featured in prominent media such as the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. His joint book with Professors Edward I. Altman, Edith Hotchkiss, "Corporate Financial Distress, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy", was published by Wiley Publishing House in March 2019. Since 2012, he has been invited to write finance case packages for the Harvard Business School and have published many cases. These cases are adopted by many business schools internationally. He was an adjunct professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, and taught corporate restructuring, distressed M&A, and distress investing in their undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Exec Ed programs. He was a visiting associate professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School from 2015 to 2016.
- Date: Nov. 8, 2024
- Title of presentation: “The Factor Structure of 0DTE Option Returns”
Piotr Orlowski is Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal. His research interests center on the econometrics of asset pricing and derivatives. He teaches courses in financial econometrics, corporate finance, investment and derivatives at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Orlowski’s research has published in top journals including Journal of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others.
- Date: Oct. 25, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Tax Breaks for Swing States? Political Bargaining, Economic Redistribution, and Firm Outcomes”
Sheng-Jun Xu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. He is an empirical researcher primarily interested in the intersection of corporate finance, labor economics, and public policy. Specifically, he studies how imperfections in labor markets and political institutions affect the allocation of financial capital in the economy. His paper has been published in top journals including the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science.
- Date: Sep. 19, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Competition Enforcement and Accounting for Intangible Capital”
Christopher R. Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Fama Faculty Fellow at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Professor Stewart is broadly interested in empirical accounting research, but he has a special focus on research questions that lie at the intersection of corporate law, corporate finance, and accounting. Stewart joined Chicago Booth in 2020. He holds a PhD and Master of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Melbourne, an MBA in Finance from Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), and a BA from Laurentian University (Canada). Additionally, during his doctoral studies, he spent time as a visiting PhD student at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Outside of academia, Stewart has professional experience as a financial analyst at General Motors of Canada, and as the founder of technology company, which he sold to a private equity firm in 2009. He has teaching experience as a lecturer at The University of Melbourne, and at Dankook University in Seoul, Korea where he taught accounting and finance.
- Date: Sep. 5, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Centralising Forces and Decentralised Exchanges: The Emergence of Dealers”
Sean Foley is a Professor of Applied Finance at Macquarie University. His research interests straddle Fintech, Cryptocurrencies, Trading, Market Design and Regulation. Sean's research has been published in leading academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance and the Journal of Financial Markets. Sean is currently actively researching the financial applications and utilisation of cryptocurrencies, including automated market makers, DeFi lending protocols and stable coins. He is the Head of Decentralized Assets within the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre, bridging industry, government and academia.
- Date: Apr. 19, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Financial Frictions, Capital Structure, and Aggregate Productivity”
Alex Fakos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration, ITAM. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Fakos' research focuses on financial economics and macroeconomics of aggregate productivity. Dr. Fakos has published in top academic journals such as Journal of Financial Economics.
- Date: Apr. 12, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Fragmentation and Optimal Liquidity Supply on Decentralized Exchanges”
Dr. Zoican's is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga. He obtained his PhD in Financial Economics from VU University Amsterdam. Dr. Zoican’s research studies the impact of technology on trading, securities exchanges, and asset management, and tries to understand how innovation can be leveraged to build better markets. Dr. Zoican's has published in leading academic journals such as The Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Financial Markets.
- Date: Apr. 9, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Dynamics of Investor Disagreement and Stock Prices”
Walid Busaba is Professor of Finance at Ivey Business School, Western University. He received a Ph.D. in Finance (with Outstanding Academic Performance Award) from Boston College. Dr. Busaba's research focused on investment banking, corporate finance, and financial contracting. He has published in top economics and finance journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, among others.
- Date: Apr. 5, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Dynamics of Investor Disagreement and Stock Prices”
Qinghai Wang is Professor of Finance and Richard T. Crotty Endowed Chair in Finance at the University of Central Florida. He obtained his PhD in Finance from the Ohio State University. Dr. Wang's research has published in top economics and finance journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, among others.
- Date: Mar. 8, 2024
- Title of presentation: “Do Carbon Emissions Affect the Cost of Capital? Primary Versus Secondary Corporate Bond Markets”
Daniel Kim is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Waterloo. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kim's research interests are in topics related to ESG, empirical corporate finance, and applied econometrics. Dr. Kim has published in leading economics and finance journals such as Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
- Date: Oct. 19, 2023
- Title of presentation: "Do Government Infusions Help Financial Stability? Evidence from an Emerging Market"
Buvaneshwaran (Eshwar) Venugopal is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Houston. Eshwar’s research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance and FinTech. His entrepreneurial finance research focuses on the contribution of Angel investors to the startup ecosystem and the impact network connections among different players has on financing and performance. One of his works was featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Eshwar’s research has been presented at prestigious conferences such as Society of Financial Studies Cavalcade, ISB CAF Summer Research Conference, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, etc.
- Date: Sep. 22, 2023
- Title of presentation: “Neuro-computational Foundations of Moral Preferences” and “Honesty is Predicted by Moral Values and Economic Incentives But is Unchanged Under Acute Stress”
Giuseppe Ugazio is the Edmond the Rothschild Assistant Professor in Behavioral Philanthropy at the Geneva Finance Research Insitute. He holds two Doctorates in Philosophy and in Neuroeconomics from the University of Zurich. He is an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist studying the neuro-psychological mechanisms that drive complex human social behaviors. Using interdisciplinary experimental methods he probes the affective, cognitive, and behavioral control mechanisms that support social decision-making.
- Date: Friday, May 12, 2023
Ingrid M. Werner is the Martin and Andrew Murrer Professor in Finance at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics. She is a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and a CEPR Research Fellow.
Professor Werner is a Past President of the European Finance Association and the Western Finance Association, and a former Director of the American Finance Association and Vice-Chair of its Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT). Professor Werner serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Markets. Professor Werner serves on the prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Professor Werner’s research interests range from international finance to market microstructure. Her research has been published in top-tier economics and finance journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Economic Theory.
- Date: Friday, Apr. 28, 2023
- Title of presentation: “Why Working from Home will Stick”
Jose Barrero is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Business School in Mexico. He is an applied economist with interests in finance, macro, and labor, using empirical and quantitative methods. Professor Barrero studies how businesses forecast the future, and how they make decisions and adapt when facing uncertainty, real options, or a shifting economic environment. He also co-founded WFH Research, a project that studies the shift to working from home and its implications for businesses, managers, and workers in the United States and around the world. He has published articles in leading journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
- Date: Friday, Apr. 14, 2023
- Title of presentation: “Mutual Fund Revenue Sharing in 401(k) Plans”
Veronika Pool is a Professor of Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. She has served as an associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies and at Management Science. She is also an academic director of the Financial Management Association. Professor Pool’s main research interest is the economics of conflict of interest in delegated portfolios, such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and 401(k) plans. She has a number of top journal publications in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
- Date: Friday, Mar. 24, 2023
- Title of presentation: “How Informationally Efficient are Options Markets?”
Carlo Sala is an Associate Professor at Department of Economics, Finance, and Accotning at ESADE Business School in Spain. His research and publications focus on option pricing, risk management, econometrics and mathematical finance. Carlo has published various articles on the estimation of the physical and risk-neutral measures, and the related pricing kernel.
- Date: Friday, Mar. 2, 2023
- Title of presentation: “Partisan Return Gap: The Polarized Stock Market in the Time of a Pandemic”
Jinfei Sheng is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of California, Irvine. His primary areas of research are empirical asset pricing, FinTech, machine learning, textual analysis, labor finance, and financial intermediation. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, etc.
- Date: Friday, Nov. 29, 2023
- Title of presentation: “The Liquidity-Maximizing Price of a Stock: A Tale of Two Discretenesses”
Mao Ye is an Associate Professor of Finance at Cornell University and University of Illinois. He is also a Research Associate affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research NBER). Professor Ye's research interests include market microstructure, big data, and Fintech. He has published a number of articles in Financial Times top journals, such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.
- Date: Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, 11AM-12PM
- Location: Dean's Boardroom (Lazaridis Hall)
- Title of presentation: “(Crypto) Exchanges as Regulators?”
Yesha Yadav is Associate Dean and Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community, Milton R. Underwood Chair Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research interests lie in financial market regulation, securities regulation and corporate bankruptcy, focusing on market structure, exchange design, payments, digital asset regulation, distressed debt and restructuring. Before joining Vanderbilt's Law faculty in 2011, Professor Yadav worked as a legal counsel with the World Bank in its finance, private-sector development and infrastructure unit, where she specialized in financial regulation and insolvency, and creditor-debtor rights.
- Date: Friday, Sep. 16, 2022
- Title of presentation: “Emotional Media Content, Profitability Growth, and Long-term Return Reversals”
Prachi Deuskar is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Indian School of Business. She obtained her PhD in Finance from NYU Stern. Her research interests include market frictions, liquidity, asset pricing, and behavioral finance. She has published in top journals in finance, including Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, etc.
- 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