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Brown Bag Series

The Finance Group hold regular short lunch time Brown Bag sessions, offering the opportunity to internal academic staff to present their research. If you have questions regarding the sessions, please contact the Finance Group Office on 024 765 75220 or fingroup at wbs dot ac dot uk.

Brown Bag Sessions are held on Tuesdays, 12:00-13:00

(unless otherwise stated)

Spring Term 2023/24 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker  
5/3/24 13:00 2.007
Smart banks
Alkis Georgiadis-Harris (University of Warwick)  
12/3/24 13:00 3.006
 What is the value of retail order flow?
Peter Hoffmann (ECB, Imperial)  
13/3/24 14:00 1.003 Subjective Beliefs and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Aytek Malkhozov (Queen Mary UL)

Autumn Term 2023/24 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker

4/10/23

14:00 0.006 Multiple Equilibria in Noisy Rational Expectations Economies

Gyuri Venter

10/10/23

12:00

12:20

12:40

13:00

2.003

Belief Granularity and Its Financial Implications

Liquidity Provision in Decentralized Exchanges

Debt Dynamics with Growth Opportunities

International U.S. Illiquidity

David Storey

Jiawei Wang

Ozan Akbas

Zijie Wang

17/10/23

12:00 2.003 Monetary Policy and Fragility in Corporate Bond Funds

John Kuong

17/10/23

13:00 2.003 Household Debt and Labor Market Outcomes

Jesus Gorrin

24/10/23

12:00 2.003 Blockchain Scaling and Liquidity Concentration on Decentralized Exchanges

Olga Klein

31/10/23

12:00 2.003 0DTE option pricing

Nicola Fusari (Johns Hopkins)

7/11/23

12:00 2.003 A Real Options Model of Patent Litigation

Danmo Lin

14/11/23

12:00 2.003
Optimal Currency Portfolios-
Do characteristics matter?

Hedieh Shahini

21/11/23

12:00 2.003 Ethics and Trust in the Market for Financial Advisors

John Thanassoulis

28/11/23

12:00 1.007 Noisy Prices and Return-Based Anomalies in Corporate Bonds

Cesare Robotti

5/12/23

12:00 2.003 CEO Succession Planning Francesco Celentano (HEC Lausanne)

Summer Term 2022/23 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker

25/4/23

12:00 2.007 Analyst local networks: Learning and forecast accuracy

Hongwei Mo

25/4/23

13:00 2.007 More Active Better Performance? Mutual fund managers’ active management and performance

Hao Ding

02/05/23

13:00 2.005/6 Trading Inflation

Rodrigo Barria

09/05/23

12:00 2.003 Quiet Life, CEO tenure, and Leverage Dynamics

Boris Nikolov (U of Lausanne, SFI)

16/05/23

12:00 2.003 A Century of Municipal Bond Financing

Igor Cunha (U of Kentucky)

23/05/23

12:00 1.301 Equilibrium in a Decentralized Finance Lending Market

Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest U), Gillmore Center Seminar

6/6/23

12:00 2.003 When Does the Expectations Hypothesis (Not) Hold?

Philippe Mueller

13/06/23

12:00 0.006 Collateral Cycles

Gerardo Ferrara (Bank of England)

20/06/23

12:00 0.006 The Ring-Fencing Bonus

Irem Erten

27/06/23

12:00 0.006 Completion Risk and Stock Returns

Ajay Venkataraman

27/06/23

13:00 0.006 Payout Dynamics

Zijian Wang

Spring Term 2022/2023 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker

28/2/23

12:00

2.003 Dollar Bond, Foreign Discount and Exchange Rate Risk

Junxuan Wang

07/03/23

12:00

1.003 Do Banks of Higher ESG Scores Lend More to Minority Groups in Mortgage Market?

Jing Ye

14/03/23

12:00

M1 Monetary Policy and Risk Sensitivity: Evidence from Corporate Bond Markets

Antje Berndt (ANU)

14/03/23

14:00

M1 TBC

Jing Zeng (University of Bonn)

Autumn Term 2022/23 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker

11/10/22

12:00 1.009 ‘Uncertainty in Mutual Fund Communication’

Shema Mitali (EPFL Lausanne)

18/10/22

12:00 1.009 Deflation risk, sticky leverage and the cross-section of
corporate bond returns

Alex Dickerson

25/10/22

12:00 1.009 Once upon a size in large-N asset pricing

Giulio Rossetti

1/11/22

12:00 1.009 The Role of G(overnment) in Corporate ESG Policies

Jim Goldman

22/11/22

12:00 1.009 Spurious and unpriced non-traded factors in financial economics

Xinyi Zhang

22/11/22

13:00 1.009 Cross-Ownership and Corporate Debt Structure

Xu Li

29/11/22

12:00 1.009 Knightian Uncertainty and Trading Volume

Rodrigo Barria

6/12/22

12:00 1.009 Corporate Basis and the International Role of the U.S. Dollar

Junxuan Wang

Summer Term 2021/22 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker
26/4/22 12:00 3.006 'The Role of CEOs as Sustainability Leaders' Jian (Vincent) Gao
3/5/22 12:00 3.006 'The Making of (Modern) Banks' Kebin Ma
24/5/22 12:00 3.006 'Do markets become less efficient on aggregation?' Xiao Han (Bayes)
7/6/22 12:00 3.006 The Global Transmission of U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Shocks

Luis Hernandez-Roman

7/6/22 13:00 3.006 Comparing factor models with conditioning information

Daniel Tsvetanov (UEA)

14/6/22 12:00 3.006 TBC

Helene Iung (Essec)

21/6/22 12:00 3.006 TBC

Ying Cao

28/6/22 12:00 3.006 TBC

Jiaqi Zhao

         

Spring Term 2021/2022 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker

01/03/22

12:00 3.006 Central Bank Swap Lines: Micro-Level Evidence

Ganesh Viswanath

08/03/22

12:00 3.006 The asymmetric housing wealth effect on household stock market participation

Hailin Fang

08/03/22 13:00 3.006 Star Firms, Equity Analysts, and Lead-Lag Effects in Stock Returns Alok Kumar

10/03/22 Thursday

13:30 0.013 Biased Insider Trading and Return Predictability

Gajen Selvarajah

Autumn Term 2021/22 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker
12/10/21 12:00 1.301

Sustainability or Performance?

Ratings and Fund Managers' Incentives

Nick Gantchev
9/11/21 12:00 1.301 Cross-Ownership and Corporate Debt Structure Xu Li
16/11/21 12:00 1.301 Behavioural Nudges and Credit Repayment" Giorgia Barboni
23/11/21 12:00 1.301 Technology Diffusion and Asset Returns Ajay Venkataraman
7/12/21 12:00 1.301 Model-Free Market Integration Alex Dickerson

Summer Term 2020/2021 Schedule

Date Time Room Title Speaker
2/6/21(Wednesday) 13:00 Microsoft Teams "Supply Shocks in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy: Evidence and Theory" Francesco Saverio Gaudio
15/6/21 13:00 Microsoft Teams Asset Prices around FOMC Meetings Rodrigo Barria
15/6/21 14:00 Microsoft Teams "Demand-supply imbalance risk and long-term swap spreads" Gyuri Venter

Spring Term 2020/2021 Schedule

Date

Time

Room

Title

Speaker

02/03/2021 13:00 Microsoft Teams “It Depends Who You Ask: Context Effects in the Perception of Stock Returns” Costas Antoniou
09/03/2021 13:00 Microsoft Teams "Investor Emotions and the Cross-section of Stock Returns"

Mohammad Shehub Bin Hasan

09/03/2021 14:00 Microsoft Teams "Momentum crashes and skewness risk", with Ivan Petrella and Daniele Bianchi (Queen Mary University).

Andrea De Polis

Autumn Term 2020/21 Schedule

Date

Time

Room

Title

Speaker

13/10/2020 13:00 Zoom "Policy Uncertainty, Multinational Firms, and Reallocation" Arkodipta Sarkar
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
20/10/2020 13:00 Microsoft Teams “Institutional herding and corporate debt issuance'' Xu Li
27/10/2020 12:00 Microsoft Teams "Do Trump Tweets shake FX markets?" My Nguyen
03/11/2020 13:00 Microsoft Teams  "Lying in Financial Markets" John Thanassoulis
10/11/2020 13:00 Microsoft Teams "Dividend Momentum and Stock Return Predictability" Ivan Petrella
10/11/20 14:00

Microsoft

Teams

"Empirical Evidence from Acquiring Public versus Private Targets" Siti Farida
17/11/2020 13:00 Microsoft Teams "Culture and the Prevalence of Family Firms" Song Yuan
24/11/2020 14:00 Microsoft Teams "Understanding the Covariance between Corporate Bonds and Stocks:
The Role of Default Risk"
Alex Dickerson
09/12/2020 (WED) 13:00 Microsoft Teams "Asset-Driven Insurance Pricing" Benjamin Knox (CBS)