Department of Economics & Finance
AACSB International EQUIS - European Quality Improvement System

Past Finance Seminars

Year
Chasing the Stars: ESG Talent Hiring in Mutual Fund Industry
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26 September 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Xi LI, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Equilibrium Computation with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Rationality
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21 September 2023 (Thu) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker:
Dr. James O'DONOVAN, City University of Hong Kong
Venue: 7-208, Level 7, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Investor Inattention, Information, and Firm Investment
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14 September 2023 (Thu) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Jinge LIU, City University of Hong Kong
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Cross-Sectional Asset Prices under the Impact of Noise Trading Flows: A Factor Framework
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12 September 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Yu AN, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Machine-Learning about ESG Preferences: Evidence from Fund Flows
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7 September 2023 (Thu) 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Speaker:
Prof. George ARAGON, Arizona State University
Venue: Zoom
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All are welcome
Peer Influence and Corporate Risk-taking
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6 September 2023 (Wed) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Yongshi JIE, City University of Hong Kong
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Option-implied expected equity returns and loan contracting
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5 September 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Azizjon ALIMOV, IÉSEG School of Management
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Corporate Events and Asset Pricing Anomalies
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31 August 2023 (Thu) 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Jintao DU, City University of Hong Kong
Venue: 6-207, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
The Market for Inflation Risk
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22 August 2023 (Tue) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Saleem BAHAJ, University College London
Venue: 7-207, Level 7, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Monetary Tightening and U.S. Bank Fragility in 2023: Mark-to-Market Losses and Uninsured Depositor Runs?
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19 June 2023 (Mon) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Erica Xuewei JIANG, University of Southern California
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Racial and Gender Favoritism in Crowdfunding—Evidence from the Field
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1 June 2023 (Thu) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Jun YANG, Indiana University
Venue: 9-210, Level 9, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Q: Risk, Rents, or Growth?
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23 May 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Howard KUNG, London Business School
Venue: 6-207, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Pricing Errors, Anomaly, and Bond Return Predictability
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18 May 2023 (Thu) 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Chunchi WU, State University of New York at Buffalo
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Does High Frequency Market Manipulation Harm Market Quality?
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11 May 2023 (Thu) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Jonathan BROGAARD, University of Utah
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
The Effect of Regional Political Influence on Local Firms: Evidence from Partisan Gridlock in the U.S. Senate
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9 May 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Sheng-Jun XU, University of Albert
Venue: 6-207, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Does Secondary Market Liquidity affect the Economy?
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2 May 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Matthew RINGGENBERG, University of Utah
Venue: 6-207, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Breaking the Correlation between Corporate Bonds and Stocks: The Role of Asset Variance
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25 April 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Philippe MUELLER, University of Warwick
Venue: 6-207, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Diffused Errors along Technology Spillovers: Evidence from the 510(k) Medical Device Market
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12 April 2023 (Wed) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Po-Hsuan Paul HSU,  National Tsing Hua University
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Losing Control? The 20-Year Decline in Loan Covenant Violations
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11 April 2023 (Tue) 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Speaker:
Dr. Greg NINI, Drexel University
Venue: via Zoom (For details, please refer to the email from our seminar coordinator.)
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All are welcome
Testing for Discrimination in Menus
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6 April 2023 (Thu) 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Speaker:
Dr. David Hao ZHANG,  Rice University
Venue: Zoom
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All are welcome
To be advised
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30 March 2023 (Thu) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Keeyoung RHEE, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Venue: 14-282, Level 14, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Macroeconomic Announcements and the News that Matters Most to Investors
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28 March 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Martijn BOONS, Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Venue: Zoom
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All are welcome
Trading Under the Law of Small Numbers
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23 March 2023 (Thu) 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Lawrence JIN, Cornell University
Venue: Zoom
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All are welcome
How constrained are the shorts? A first look at mutual fund position-level securities lending
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16 March 2023 (Thu) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Qifei ZHU, Nanyang Technological University
Venue: 9-210, Level 9, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text (Joint with MS)
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7 March 2023 (Tue) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Yinan SU, Johns Hopkins University (Joint with MS)
Venue: 7-208, Level 7, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome
Monetary Policy Transmission with and without Capital Controls
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28 February 2023 (Tue) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Yi HUANG, Fudan University
Venue: 6-208, Level 6, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
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All are welcome