In the Finance Seminar series, we welcome speakers from other universities to share their research findings with us to create a community of engagement and discussion. All research staff and PhD students are welcome to attend. Forthcoming seminars (which are held in the Business School unless stated otherwise) are below:

Academic Year 2024/2025

Jonathan ParkerProfessor of Finance, MIT

Title: Simple Allocation Rules and Optimal Portfolio Choice Over the Lifecycle

  • Wed 5 March 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Markus Brunnermeier,  Director of Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University

Title: Strategic Money and Credit Ledgers

  • Thu 6 March 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LTG

Serhiy KozakAssociate Professor of Finance, University of Maryland

Title: When do cross-sectional asset pricing factors span the stochastic discount factor?

  • Wed 12 March 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Simone LenzuAssistant Professor of Finance, NYU Stern

Title: Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices

  • Wed 19 March 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Farzad SaidiProfessor of Financial Economics, University of Bonn

Title: Two Centuries of Systemic Bank Runs

  • Wed 26 March 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Jack FavilukisAssociate Professor of Finance, University of British Columbia

Title: How Effective are Portfolio Mandates?

  • Wed 30 April 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Christian LeuzProfessor of Accounting and Finance, Chicago Booth

Title: Conflicts of Interests in Universal Banks 

  • Wed 14 May 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Daniel NeuhannAssistant Professor of  Finance, McCombs School of Business at UT Austin

Title: Demand-System Asset Pricing: Theoretical Foundations

  • Tue 10 June 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LG19A

Naz KoontAssistant Professor of  Finance, Stanford

Title: How Does the Digital Revolution Alter Competition in Banking?

  • Wed 11 June 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Valentin HaddadAssociate Professor of  Finance, UCLA

Title: Asset Purchase Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market 

  • Wed 17 September 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Federico MainardiAssistant Professor of  Business, Columbia

Title: The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Financial Institutions, Asset Prices, and Household Behavior

  • Wed 24 September 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Ricardo ReisProfessor of  Economics, LSE

Title: The anatomy of a peg: lessons from China’s parallel currencies

  • Thurs 2 October 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Frederic MalherbeProfessor of  Finance, UCL

Title: Improving Market-based measures of Systemic Risk

  • Wed 8 October 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Gregor MatvosProfessor of  Finance, Northwestern (Kellogg)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 15 October 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Deeksha GuptaAssistant Professor of  Finance, JHU (Carey)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 22 October 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Joshua Moliner,  Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Science, Northwestern (Kellogg)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 5 November 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Viral Acharya,  Professor of Economics, NYU (Stern)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 12 November 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Juliane Begenau,  Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford GBS

Title: TBC

  • Wed 19 November 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Antoinette Schoar,  Professor of Finance, MIT (Sloan)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 26 November 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Dan Greenwald,  Assistant Professor of Finance, NYU (Stern)

Title: TBC

  • Wed 3 December 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3

Paul Huebner,  Assistant Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics

Title: TBC

  • Wed 10 December 2025
  • 13.30 -14.45
  • In person - Lecture Theatre LT3