Finance Seminar Series
2020-2021
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| Friday, January 22 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Ron Kaniel, Professor, University of Rochester | Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects |
| Friday, January 29 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Felipe Restrepo, Associate Professor, Ivey Business School at Western Ontario | The “7% Solution” and IPO (Under)Pricing |
| Friday, February 5 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Madhu Kalimipalli, Professor, Wilfred Laurier University | Debt Contracts, Covenant Design, and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Bond Repurchases |
| Friday, March 12 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Joan Farre-Mensa, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago | Financing Payouts |
| Friday, March 26 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Sermin Gungor, Research Advisor, Bank of Canada | Intermediary Leverage Shocks and Funding Conditions |
| Friday, April 9 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Si Li, Professor, Wilfred Laurier University | Say on Pay Voting and Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Friday, April 16 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Mark Huson, Professor, University of Alberta | Issuing equity in the face of bad news |
| Friday, October 2 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Virtual | Dong Lou, Associate Professor, London School of Economics | The Effect of Advisors’ Incentives on Clients’ Investments |
| Friday, October 9 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Pablo Slutzky, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland | Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering Policies |
| Friday, November 6 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Camille Hebert, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship |
| Friday, November 13 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Justin Birru, Associate Professor, Ohio State of University | Sub-optimal trading decisions and investment biases |
| Friday, November 20 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Diane Del Guercio, Professor, University of Oregon | How have passive portfolio managers fared in the era of the dramatic rise of passive investing? |
| Friday, November 27 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Virtual | Yan Wang, Assistant Professor, University of McMaster | Labor-Capital Substitution and Capital Structure: Evidence from Automation |
2019-2020
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| Friday, March 6, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Irene Yi, Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Can Shareholder Proposals Hurt Shareholders? Evidence from SEC No-Action Letter Decisions |
| Friday, December 6, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Matteo Bonetti, Professor, Maastricht University | Bellwether Pension Funds and Performance |
| Friday, November 29, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Yelena Larkin Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Business |
Does Competition Spur Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from Electric Utilities |
| Friday, November 22, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB G105 | Alessandro Previtero, Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | Financial Advisors and Risk-Taking |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB G114 | Kai Li, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Creative Destruction via Mergers and Acquisitions: Inventor-level Evidence |
| Friday, November 8, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB G114 | Rui Duan, Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan school of Publich Health | Real Effects of Environmental Regulations: Product Market Performance and Firm Competitiveness |
| Friday, October 25, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB G114 | Stephen Richards, Managing Director, Longevitas | Pricing Longevity Risk |
| Friday, October 11, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB G114 | Claire Celerier, Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Household Finance, Financial Innovation, and Banking |
| Friday, October 4, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Joseph Engelberg, Professor, University of California San Diego |
Are Cross-Sectional Predictors Good Market-Level Predictors? |
| Friday, September 27, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Lalitha Naveen Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple U, Philadelphia PA |
Pay Cascades |
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| Friday, March 20, 2020 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Andy Thi, Credit Analyst, Fixed Income, Foyston, Gordon & Payne Inc. | Fixed Income Research in Buy-side Asset Management and Ratings |
| Friday, March 13, 2020 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Cindy Crean, Executive Director, HNW Advisor Training and Practice Management, CIBC | Private Wealth Management |
| Friday, January 31, 2020 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | David Chung, Senior Client Relationship Manager, Commercial Banking, Scotiabank | Commercial Banking |
| Friday, January 24, 2020 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Denis Laguine, Managing Director, Interest Rate Risk Measurement, RBC Corporate Treasury | Assets-Liabilities and Interest Rate Management in Banking |
| Friday, January 17, 2020 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Catherine Zhang, Director, Equity Derivatives Trading, Global Banking & Markets, Scotiabank | Equity Derivatives Trading & Sales |
| Friday, November 15, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Bobby Eng, Vice President, Head of SPDR ETF Business Development – Canada, State Street Global Advisors, Ltd. | Exchange Traded Funds and Investment Services |
| Friday, November 8, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Conrad Fernandes, Associate Director, Group Risk Management – Credit, RBC Capital Markets | Credit Analysis and Adjudication in Banking |
| Friday, November 1, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Narbe Alexandrian, President and CEO, Canopy Rivers Inc. | Venture Capital & Private Equity Industry |
| Friday, October 4, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Richard Digioacchino and Group Risk Management Team, Vice President, Trade Floor Risk Management, Scotiabank | Capital Market Risk Management |
| Friday, September 27, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Raj Ray, Vice President, Equity Research, Metals & Mining, Desjardins Group | Equity Research |
2018-2019
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| Friday, April 5, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Ming Dong, Professor, Schulich School of Business | Me Too: Does Workplace Sexual Harassment Hurt Firm Value? |
| Friday, March 29, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Elena Simintzi, Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School – U of North Carolina | The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment |
| Friday, March 15, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Stuart Turnbull, Professor Emeritus, Bauer School of Business, University of Houston | Dynamic Jump Intensities and News Arrival in Oil Futures Markets |
| Friday, March 8, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Sophie Shive, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN | The Private Equity Return Gap |
| Friday, November 16, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Charles Lee, Professor, Stanford University | Salient or Safe: Why do Predicted Stock Issuers Earn Low Returns? |
| Friday, November 9, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Michael Schill, Professor, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business | The Distribution of Global Equity Investment |
| Friday, October 5, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB N105 | Neil Pearson, Professor, University of Illinois, Gies College of Business | Understanding Returns to Short Selling Using Option-Implied Stock Borrowing Fees |
| Friday, September 14, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Antoine Bommier, Professor, ETH Zurich (STEM) University | On the Optimal Allocation of Longevity Risk |
| Friday, September 7, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Jay Ritter, Professor, University of Florida | The Puzzle of Frequent and Large Issues of Debt and Equity |
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| Friday, March 29, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Cindy Crean, Executive Director, High-Net Work Advisor Training and Practice Management, CIBC | Asset and Wealth Management |
| Friday, March 15, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Raj Ray, Vice President, Equity Research, Metals & Mining, Desjardins Group | Equity Research |
| Friday, March 1, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Richard Digioacchino and Group Risk Management Team, Vice President, Trade Floor Risk Management, Scotiabank | Capital Market Risk Management |
| Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Nicole Song, Senior Commercial Account Manager, Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Canada | Relationship Management in Corporate & Commercial Banking |
| Friday, February 1, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Andy Thi, Credit Analyst, Fixed Income, Foyston, Gordon & Payne Inc. | Fixed Income Research in Buy-side Asset Management and Ratings |
| Friday, January 25, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Denis Laguine, Managing Director, Interest Rate Risk Measurement, RBC Corporate Treasury | Asset-Liabilities and Interest Rate Management in Banking |
| Friday, January 11, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Conrad Fernandes, Associate Director, Group Risk Management – Credit, RBC Capital Markets
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Credit Analysis and Adjudication in Banking |
| Friday, November 30, 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Taha Amiralli, Director and Principal Consultant, Digital Banking, CAPCO | Technology in Finance – Career Opportunities |
| Friday, November 9, 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Catherine Zhang, Director, Equity Derivatives Trading, Global Banking & Markets, Scotiabank | Equity Derivatives Trading & Sales |
| Friday, November 2, 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Narbe Alexandrian, Vice President, Business Development, Canopy Rivers | Venture Capital & Private Equity Industry |
2017-2018
View details Hide details<tr”>Friday, March 23, 20181:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257Michael Hertzel, Professor, Arizona State UniversitySpeed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion<tr”>Friday, March 2, 20181:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257David Schoenherr, Professor, Princeton UniversityAccess to Credit and Labor Market Outcomes – Evidence from Credit Lotteries
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| Friday, April 27, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Jonathan Karpoff, Professor, Foster School of Business, University of Washington | The Lifecycle Effects of Firm Takeover Defenses |
| Friday, April 6, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Xiaoyun Yu, Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | Panda Games: Corporate Disclosure in the Eclipse of Search |
| Friday, March 16, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Adam Reed, Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina | Anomaly Time |
| Friday, March 9, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Itay Goldstein, Professor, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania | Monetary Stimulus and Bank Lending |
| Friday, January 19, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Anup Agrawal, Professor and Powell Chair of Finance, University of Alabama | The Dark Side of Hedge Fund Activism: Evidence from Employee Pension Plans |
| Friday, December 1, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Shiu-Yik Au, Assistant Professor, Asper School of Business | Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Whom Do Highly Skilled CEOs Work For? |
| Friday, December 1, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Yelin Zhang, Professor, Gonzaga University | Quality Revealing or Overstating? —Analysis on Qualitative Startup Information in Equity Crowdfunding |
| Friday, November 24, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Kee-Hong Bae, Professor, Schulich School of Business |
Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor of Finance, Ohio State University |
| Friday, November 17, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Mark Kamstra, Professor, Schulich School of Business | Momentum, Reversals, and other Puzzles in Fama-MacBeth Cross-Sectional Regressions |
| Friday, November 10, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Vincent Grégoire, Professor, University of Melbourne | How is Earnings News Transmitted to Stock Prices? |
| Friday, November 6, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W132 | Lu Zheng, Professor, University of California at Irvine | Market Timing of Hedge Fund Starts |
| Friday, November 3, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Cam Harvey, Professor and J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Detecting Repeatable Performance |
| Friday, October 20, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Paolo Fulghieri, Professor, University of California at Irvine | Innovation Waves, Investor Sentiment, and Mergers |
| Friday, October 6, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Isil Erel Koksal, Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor of Finance, Ohio State University | Multinational Firms and the International Transmission of Crises: The Real Economy Channel |
| Friday, September 29, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, SSB W257 | Zheng Sun, Associate Professor of Finance, University of California at Irvine | Reaching for Dividends |
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| Friday, March 9, 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Tiffany Zhang, Equity Research Associate, National Bank | ETF Trends and ETF Equity Research |
| Friday, February 2, 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Ted Liu, President, CPE Media Inc. | Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity |
| Friday, January 26 2018 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Douglas Harris, VP and General Counsel, IIROC | Trends in Corporate and Securities Regulations |
| Friday, December 1, 2017 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Steve Balaban, Founder and CIO, Mink Capital | Getting a Job in PE |
| Friday, November 24, 2017 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Jo-Anne Matear and Rick Whiler, Corporate Finance Branch, Ontario Securities Commission | Trends and Initiatives in OSC Regulation |
| Friday, November 3, 2017 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance and J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at Duke University, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Blockchain Identity |
| Friday, October 20, 2017 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Matt Golden, Founder and Managing Partner, Golden Venture Partners | VC and PE Industry Introduction |
| Friday, October 6, 2017 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, SSB W257 | Bentley Cross, Equity Research Associate, Communications and Technology, TD Securities | Equity Research and Career Path |