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15
Dec
Political Risk Contributes to Post-Crisis Violations of Covered Interest Parity
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Jamus Jerome Lim, Associate Professor, ESSEC Business School
08
Dec
Reducing Small Entitles’ Information Disadvantage and Patent Abandonment with Online Accessibility
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Ben Charoenwong, Assistant Professor, Dept of Finance, NUS Business School
06
Dec
Securities Lending and Information Acquisition
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Pedro Saffi, Professor, University of Cambridge
01
Dec
Boots on the Grounds: The Value of International Locations in Asset Management
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Ni Zhenghui, PhD Student, Dept of Finance, NUS Business School
29
Nov
Voting Choice
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Nadya Malenko, Professor, Boston College
22
Nov
Dissecting Corporate Culture Using Generative AI – Insights from Analyst Reports
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Kai Li, Professor, UBC Sauder
20
Nov
Flight to Safety in a New Keynesian Model
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Merkel Sebastian, Assistant Professor, University of Exeter
17
Nov
Self-Dealing in Corporate Investment
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Denis Sosyura, Professor, Arizona State University
15
Nov
The Zero-Beta Interest Rate
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Benjamin M. Hebert, Associate Professor, University of Stanford
09
Nov
Simplicity and Risk, Bulls and Binaries
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, HSS3-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Indira Puri, Assistant Professor, New York University
06
Nov
The Safety Net: Central Bank Balance Sheets and Financial Crises
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, HSS3-2, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Schularick Moritz, Professor, University of Bonn
01
Nov
Racial Diversity and Inclusion without Equity? Evidence from Executive Compensation
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Eliezer M. Fich, Professor, Drexel University
25
Oct
Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Lorenzo Bretscher, Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne
23
Oct
CBDC and Financial Stability
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, HSS3-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Toni Ahnert, Research Advisor, Bank of Canada
20
Oct
Systemic Global Bank Runs
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-2, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Tobias Konig, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bonn
13
Oct
Corporate Diversification, Spinoff, and Executive Compensation: An Optimal Contracting Approach
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Wang Neng, Professor, Columbia Business School
06
Oct
The Real Effects of Export Credit Subsidies: Evidence from the U.S.
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-2, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Poorya Kabir, Assistant Professor, Dept of Finance, NUS Business School, NUS
04
Oct
Fast or Slow? Uncovering Expert Views from Decision Time
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Stefano Della Vigna, Professor, UC Berkeley and NBER
22
Sep
Internalization of Environmental Externalities: The Role of Geographic Common Ownership
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Ye Qiaozhi, PhD Student, Finance Dept
15
Sep
Kamikazes in Public Procurement (with Alminas Zaldokas)
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Dimas Fazio, Assistant Professor
08
Sep
Spiraling Downward: The Real Impacts of Public Short Campaigns on Product Innovation
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Claire Liu, Assistant Professor, The University of Sydney Business School
23
Aug
Monetary Policy and Fragility in Corporate Bond Funds
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
John Kuong, INSEAD
14
Jun
Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios: Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-2, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Prof Pedro Matos, Professor, University of Virginia
07
Jun
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Prof Gerard Hoberg, University o South California
19
May
Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 3-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Umit Gurun, Professor, University of Texas-Dallas
17
May
Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-3, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Jonathan Cohn, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
10
May
Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-3, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Prof Paolo Sodini, Professor of Finance, Stockhold School of Economics
05
May
Has Manipulation in the VIX Decreased?
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Tim Baumgartner, PhD Student of Ulm University, Germany
26
Apr
Anomaly Time
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Adam Reed, Professor of University of North Carolina
21
Apr
Stakes and Mistakes
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Abhiroop Mukherjee, Assoc Prof of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
19
Apr
Business Education and Portfolio Returns
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Yigitcan Karabulut, Assoc Prof of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
14
Apr
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Arkodipta Sarkar , Assistant Professor of Finance Dept, NUS Business School
12
Apr
The Chinese Collectibles Bubble
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Wang Yongxiang, Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong Univeristy
05
Apr
Block Diversity and Governance
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Prof James Weston, Professor, Rice University
31
Mar
The Effect of Stock Market Volatility on Wealth Inequality
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Cheng Longwei, PhD Student, NUS BIZ School
29
Mar
The Social Signal
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Prof Tony Cookson, Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder
24
Mar
Does Insider Trading around Loan Amendments Predict Stock Returns?
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Christian Steiner, PhD in Finance at University of Bern
22
Mar
Bank Presence and Health
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Kim Fe Cramer, Assoc Professor
17
Mar
Bank Liquidity Management through the Use of Minimum Liquidity Covenants
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Jiang Shushu, Assistant Professor, Dept of Accounting, NUS Business School
10
Mar
Entrepreneurs’ Diversification and Labor Income Risk
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Andrew Ellul, Professor, Indiana University
08
Mar
The Network Structure of Money Multiplier
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Ye Li, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
03
Mar
Buy Now, Pay Later and Impulse Shopping
2:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Jan Keil, Assistant Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin
24
Feb
ESG Shocks in Global Supply Chains
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Alminas Zaldokas, Associate Professor, Dept of Finance, NUS Business School
22
Feb
The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps
10:30 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, Virtual , 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Huan Tang, Assistant Prof
16
Nov
Women in the Financial Sector
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Associate Professor, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
11
Nov
Corporate Debt and Financial Crises
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Karsten Muller, Assistant Professor, NUS Business School
09
Nov
The Political Polarization of Corporate America
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Elisabeth Kempf, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
04
Nov
Political Voice and (Mortgage) Market Participation: Evidence from Minority
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Arkodipta Sarkar, Assistant Professor, NUS Business School
02
Nov
The Geography of Bank Deposits and the Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Shohini Kundu, Assistant Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management
31
Aug
Concealed Carry
10:00 am 11:30 am
Fully virtual. ZOOM Details: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/81845526740?pwd=QWFyeGhKRWF5Z01LQkk3UEZDRFZJQT09; Meeting ID: 818 4552 6740 ; Passcode: 260955
Riccardo Colacito, Professor of Finance, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
26
Aug
Inside The Minds of Expected Stock Returns
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, SR 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang, Associate Professor, Finance, Nanyang Technological University
17
Aug
Asset Prices with Wealth Dispersion
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, Seminar Rm 6-1, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Paul Ehling, Professor of Finance , Norwegian Business School
10
Aug
Legal Uncertainty
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
Seminar has been changed to online platform only. Zoom Details: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/82829363082?pwd=WFJrSmVkS1VEMDZqbjZUY3pNY0hMUT09 ; Meeting ID: 828 2936 3082 ; Passcode: 297935
David Schoenherr, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University
13
Apr
The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Jessica Jeffers, Assistant Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
09
Mar
Rational Sentiments and Financial Frictions
10:00 am 11:30 am
Zoom Meeting
Paymon Khorrami, Assistant Professor of Finance, Imperial College Business School
23
Mar
The Asset Pricing and Real Implications of Relationship Disclosure
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
16
Mar
Unearthing Zombies
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Siddharth Vij, Assistant Professor of Finance, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
06
Apr
Financial Inclusion Across the United States
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Motohiro Yogo, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University
24
Nov
Tracking Biased Weights: Asset Pricing Implications of Value-Weighted Indexing
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Hao Jiang, Associate Professor , Department of Finance, Michigan State University
17
Nov
Customers as Friendly Shareholders: Uncovering the Complex Mutual Fund-Broker Relationship
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Nitish Kumar, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Florida
10
Nov
Racial Disparities in Small Business Lending
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Bo Sun, Principal Economist, Federal Reserve Board
27
Oct
Learning from Prospectuses
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Simona Abis, Assistant Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School
20
Oct
Human Capitalists
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Mindy Z. Xiaolan, Assistant Professor of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
13
Oct
LTCM Redux? Hedge Fund Treasury Trading and Funding Fragility during the COVID-19 Crisis
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Sumudu W. Watugala, Assistant Professor of Finance, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
06
Oct
Does Increasing Access to Formal Credit Reduce Payday Borrowing?
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Cindy K. Soo, Assistant Professor of Finance, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
24
Feb
Motivating Collusion
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Alminas Žaldokas, Associate Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
14
Apr
The consequences of investment fraud for its victims
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Ville Rantala, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Miami
15
Sep
Index Providers: Whales Behind the Scenes of ETFs
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Yang Song, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Washington
25
Aug
Can a Platform-Pays Mechanism reduce Credit Ratings Bias?
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Malcolm Wardlaw, Assistant Professor of Finance, Terry School of Business, University of Georgia
10
Mar
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Itzhak Ben-David, Professor of Finance, Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, Academic Director of the OSU Center for Real Estate, The Ohio State University
03
Feb
Financing the Supply Chain: Procurement Rules and Bank Lending in an Emerging Market
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Dr Bernardo C. Morais, Principal Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
02
Sep
Loan Spreads and Credit Cycles: The Role of Lenders’ Personal Economic Experiences
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Daniel Carvalho, Associate Professor of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
21
Oct
The Revolving Door and Insurance Solvency Regulation
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
16
Sep
Personality Differences and Investment Decision-Making
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Zhengyang Jiang, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
11
Nov
Intermediary Financing without Commitment
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Felipe Varas, Associate Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
07
Oct
Deciphering Federal Reserve Communication via Text Analysis of Alternative FOMC Statements
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Dongho Song, Assistant Professor of Finance, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
05
Aug
Information Disclosure and Payday Lending in Texas
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Jialan Wang, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09
Sep
Distortions Caused by Lending Fee Retention
10:00 am 11:30 am
Virtual
Travis L. Johnson, Associate Professor of Finance, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
29
Jul
FinTech Platform and Mutual Fund Distribution
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
Virtual
Yurong Hong, Assistant Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
01
Jul
Deregulation, Market Structure, and the Demise of Old-School Banking
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
Virtual
Emilio Bisetti, Assistant Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology