Seminars, Conferences and Symposiums
2025
| 2 Dec | Topic: TBA By Rawley Heimer, Arizona State University |
| 18 Nov | Topic: TBA By Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Swiss France Institute & EPFL |
| 4 Nov | Topic: TBA By Johan Walden, University of California, Berkeley |
| 28 Oct | Topic: TBA By Roni Michaely, HKU Business School |
| 21 Oct | Topic: TBA By Andreas Fuster, Swiss France Institute & EPFL |
| 14 Oct | Topic: TBA By Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 7 Oct | Topic: TBA By Song Ma, Yale School of Management |
| 16 Sep | Topic: TBA By Ilan Cooper, BI Norwegian Business School |
| 26 Aug | Topic: TBA By Winston Dou, University of Pennsylvania |
| 27 May | Understanding Patenting Disparities via Causal Human+Machine Learning By Will Cong, Cornell University |
| 15 May | Social Interaction Intensity and Investor Behavior By David Hirshleifer, University of Southern California |
| 9 May | Partisan Friendshoring∗ By Janet Gao, Georgetown University |
| 29 Apr | Technology Adoption, Market Power, and the Dual Dynamics of Value Premium and Markups* By Xiaoji Lin, University of Minnesota |
| 22 Apr | Investor Flows, Monetary Policy, and Portfolio Management of Money Market Funds By Ashley Wang, The Federal Reserve, DC |
| 8 Apr | Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field By Cameron Peng, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 1 Apr | Social and Economic Networks in Corporate Culture By Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University |
| 18 Mar | Bitcoin Mining Meets Wall Street: A Study of Publicly Traded Crypto Mining Companies By David Yermack, New York University |
| 4 Mar | Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency By Yan Xiong, University of Hong Kong |
| 25 Feb | Model-free and Model-based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior By Lawrence Jin, Cornell University |
| 14 Jan | APT or “AIPT”? The Surprising Dominance of Large Factor Models By Semyon Malamud, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute |
2024
| 10 Dec | Why Do Firms Invest in DEI By Tracy Yue Wang, University of Minnesota |
| 5 Dec | Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds By Michael S. Weisbach, Ohio State University |
| 3 Dec | Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis By Prof Charles Gordon Nathanson, Northwestern University |
| 26 Nov | Strategic Voting and Informational Rents: Evidence from Mutual Funds’ Trades and Votes By Jiekun Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 5 Nov | Fragmentation and Optimal Liquidity Supply on Decentralized Exchanges By Christine A. Parlour, University of California, Berkeley |
| 29 Oct | Demand Extrapolation and Credit Market Bubbles By Jaewon Choi, Seoul National University |
| 1 Oct | Is There a Business Case for Racial Diversity on Corporate Boards? By Scott E. Yonker, Cornell University |
| 19 Sep | Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation By Zhiguo He, Stanford University |
| 4 Jun | Rethinking the Stock Market Participation Puzzle By Stephan Siegel, University of Washington |
| 28 May | Delegated Blocks By Amil Dasgupta, LSE |
| 14 May | ESG Divergence and the Market Environment By Gideon Saar, Cornell University |
| 30 Apr | Strategic Arbitrage in Segmented Markets By Svetlana Bryzgalova, London Business School |
| 23 Apr | Return Migration and Human Capital Flows By Timothy McQuade, UC Berkeley |
| 9 Apr | Bank Competition and Bargaining over Refinancing By Christophe Spaenjers, University of Colorado |
| 5 Mar | Algorithmic pricing and liquidity in securities markets By Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris |
2023
| 5 Dec | Securities Lending and Information Acquisition By Pedro Saffi, University of Cambridge |
| 28 Nov | Voting Choice By Nadya Malenko, Boston College |
| 21 Nov | Self-Dealing in Corporate Investment By Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University |
| 7 Nov | Dissecting Corporate Culture Using Generative AI – Insights from Analyst Reports By Kai Li, UBC Sauder School of Business |
| 31 Oct | Racial Diversity and Inclusion without Equity? Evidence from Executive Compensation By Eliezer Fich, Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business |
| 24 Oct | Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds By Lorenzo Bretscher, University of Lausanne |
| 6 June | Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding By Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California |
| 16 May | Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event By Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin |
| 25 Apr | Anomaly Time By Adam Reed, University of North Carolina |
| 18 Apr | Business Education and Portfolio Returns By Yigitcan Karabulut , Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
| 11 Apr | The Chinese Collectibles Bubble By Wang Yongxiang, Shanghai Jiaotong University |
| 4 Apr | Block Diversity and Governance By James Weston, Rice University |
| 28 Mar | The Social Signal By Tony Cookson, University of Colorado |
| 21 Mar | Bank Presence and Health By Kim Fe Cramer, LSE |
| 7 Mar | The Network Structure of Money Multiplier By Ye Li, University of Washington |
| 21 Feb | Leverage Dynamics under Costly Equity Issuance By Neng Wang, Columbia University |
2022
| 1 Nov | The Conditional Dollar-Carry FX Pricing Model By Thomas Maurer, The University of Hong Kong |
| 11 Oct | The Cost of ESG Investing By Seth Pruitt, Arizona State University |
| 15 Sep | Secret and Overt Information Acquisition in Financial Markets By Liyan YANG, University of Toronto |
| 6 Sep | How Do Acquisitions Affect the Mental Health of Employees? By Ramin Baghai, Stockholm School of Economics |
| 16 Aug | Asset Prices with Wealth Dispersion By Paul Ehling, BI Norwegian Business School |
| 2 Jun | The Salience of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Online Business By Yi Huang, Fudan University |
| 20 May | High Temperature, Mortgage Default, and Mortgage Prepayment By Yongheng Deng, Wisconsin School of Business |
| 19 May | Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence By Kai Li, University of British Columbia |
| 10 May | Investor Betas By Ryan Lewis, University of Colorado |
| 26 Apr | Migration Fear and Minority Crowd-Funding Success: Evidence from Kickstarter By John Bai, Northeastern University |
| 19 Apr | Leverage, risk-taking, and the medium-leverage safety trap By Tobias Berg, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
| 5 Apr | Long-Term Expectations By Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin |
| 29 Mar | Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Culture By Cheng "Jason" Jiang, Temple University |
2021
| 30 Nov | Capital Flows in Risky Times: Risk-on/Risk-off and Emerging Market Tail Risk By Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2 Nov | The Education-Innovation Gap By Song Ma, Yale University |
| 26 Oct | Does floor trading matter? By Matthew Ringgenberg, University of Utah |
| 12 Oct | Is Hard and Soft Information Substitutable? Evidence from Lockdown By Jennie Bai, Georgetown University |
| 5 Oct | Bond Returns and the Trading of Large Mutual Funds By Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University |
| 21 Sep | Can Active International Funds Exploit Profit Opportunities in Different Markets? By David Ng, Cornell University |
| 14 Sep | Shareholder-Creditor Conflicts and Limits to Arbitrage: Evidence from the Equity Lending Market By Chu Yongqiang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
| 31 Aug | Mutual Fund Fragility, Dealer Liquidity Provisions, and the Pricing of Municipal Bonds By Yi Li, Federal Reserve Board |
| 11 May | Who Owns What? A Factor Model for Direct Stockholding By Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London |
| 4 May | “Pump and Dump” through Media Tone: The Role of Institutional Blockholders in Corporate Litigation By Jie (Jack) He, University of Georgia |
| 27 Apr | Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Activists, Short Sellers, and Disagreement By Tao Li, University of Florida |
| 20 Apr | Temperature Shocks and Industry Earnings News By David Ng, Cornell University |
| 13 Apr | Banks as Secret Keepers: Evidence from the Opacity Discount By Jan Bena, University of British Columbia |
| 6 Apr | Uncovering the Hidden Effort Problem By Zhi DA, University of Notre Dame |
| 30 Mar | Too Many Managers: Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments By Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas |
| 23 Mar | U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity By Wenxin Du, University of Chicago |
| 23 Feb | Informed Voting by Jiekun Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2 Feb | The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination by Gordon Liao, Federal Reserve Board |
2020
| 24 Nov | Governance by One-Lot Shares by Zou Hong (Joe), University of Hong Kong |
| 10 Nov | Bond Funds and Credit Risk by Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 3 Nov | Does Money Talk? Market Discipline through Selloffs and Boycotts by Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics |
| 27 Oct | Managerial Entrenchment, Stakeholders, and Capital Structure by David Frankel, Melbourne Business School |
| 20 Oct | Strategic Behavior Surrounding Sales of Mutual-Fund management Companies by Zoran Ivkovich, Michigan State University |
| 13 Oct | It’s Not Who You Know—It’s Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance by Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Arizona State University |
| 6 Oct | Revenue Sharing in 401(k) Plans by Veronika Krepely Pool, Vanderbilt University |
| 29 Sep | Overcoming Borrowing Stigma: The Design of Lending-of-Last Resort Policies by Yunzhi Hu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 22 Sep | The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments by Dong Lou, London School of Economics |
| 8 Sep | Social Interaction and Market Reactions to Earnings News by Lin Peng, City University of New York (Baruch) |
| 1 Sep | Bank Debt versus Mutual Fund Equity in Liquidity Provision by Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) |
| 18 Aug | Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States by Ting Xu, University of Virginia (Darden) |
| 11 Aug | Does Mutual Fund Illiquidity Introduce Fragility into Asset Prices? Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market by Zheng Sun, University of California, Irvine |
2025
This year, we will host our annual NTU Finance Conference on 7 July 2025 with a special focus on AI for Finance. This one-day event will gather leading academics, researchers, and industry practitioners to explore the transformative impact of AI in finance through keynotes, research presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions.
Keynote Speakers:
- Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
- Sopnendu Mohanty (Global Finance & Technology Network)
Event Details:
- Date:
Monday, 7 July 2025 (9:00 AM – 6:30 PM, registration starts at 8:30 AM)
- Venue:
NTU Gaia, Auditorium (Level 1)
91 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639956
2024
This year, the Division of Banking and Finance will host its annual NTU Finance Conference on 7–8 August 2024. This annual event provides NTU faculty and students with a unique opportunity to engage with leading scholars in finance through a small, highly selective forum.
Distinguished Speakers:
- Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College)
- Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)
- Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (UCLA)
- Mao Ye (Cornell University)
- Jianfeng Yu (Tsinghua University)
Event Details:
- Dates:
• Wednesday, 7 August 2024 (8:40 AM – 7:20 PM)
• Thursday, 8 August 2024 (8:30 AM – 2:00 PM)
- Venue:
NTU Gaia, Lecture Theatre 5 (Level 2)
91 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639956
2023
This year, the Division of Banking and Finance will host its annual NTU Finance Conference on 3–4 July 2023. This annual event offers NTU faculty and students the opportunity to interact with distinguished visiting scholars in a focused and highly selective setting.
Distinguished Speakers:
- Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- João Cocco (London Business School)
- Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)
- Clemens Sialm (University of Texas at Austin)
Event Details:
- Dates:
• Monday, 3 July 2023 (9:00 AM – 5:10 PM)
• Tuesday, 4 July 2023 (9:00 AM – 1:30 PM)
- Venue:
NTU Gaia, Lecture Theatre 5 (Level 2)
91 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639956
2023
The 2023 Singapore Scholars Symposium was held on November 24, 2023 on the NTU Campus.
