Ardis J. and Emmett M. Hanson Memorial Seminars in Finance
The Department of Finance at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln regularly hosts research seminars that provide a forum for faculty members, graduate students and invited guest speakers to present and discuss cutting-edge research in all areas in finance. For more information about the seminars, contact Dr. Bingkuan Cao.
2025-26 Academic Year
2024-25 Academic Year
September 27, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Filipe Correia, University of Georgia
Paper: The Online Payday Loan Premium
October 11, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Shuaiyu Chen, Purdue University
Paper: Wisdom or Whims? Decoding Investor Trading Strategies with Large Language Models
November 8, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
Paper: Does a Market for Credit Protection Increase Employment Risk?
November 15, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219
Mark Kamstra, York University
Paper: Seasonalities in Liquidity and Price Discovery (with L. Kramer and A. Shkilko)
February 7, 2025
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219
Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University
Paper: "Dealer Specialization and Market Segmentation" (with C. Lundblad and J. Xue)
March 7, 2025
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 223
Hao Jiang, Michigan State University
Paper: "Global Production networks and Asset Prices" (with T. Dyakov)
March 28, 2025
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Amanda Heitz, Tulane University
Paper: Corporate Communications with Government Executive Officials: Evidence from the STOCK Act (with Y. Wang and Z. Yu)
April 11, 2025
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 229
Jongsub Lee, Seoul National University
2023-24 Academic Year
August 25, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Alex Zhou, Southern Methodist University
Paper: The Value of Value Investors (with M. O'Hara and A. Rapp)
September 1, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Fei Xie, University of Delaware
Paper: Climate Laws and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (with T. Li and D.Y. Tang)
October 6, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Tingting Liu, Iowa State University
Paper: Thirty Years of Change: The Evolution of Classified Boards (with S. Guernsey, F. Guo and M. Serfling)
October 27, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 204
Chase Ross, Federal Reserve Board
Paper: Decomposing Covered-Interest Parity Deviations (with T. Moskowitz, S. Ross, and K. Vasudevan)
November 17, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Zahi Ben-David, The Ohio State University
Paper: Modeling Managers As EPS Maximizers (with A. Chinco)
December 1, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Pedro Matos, University of Virginia
Paper: Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios: Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?
March 1, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219
Kateryna Holland, University of Missouri
Paper: Presidential Puzzle at the Firm Level
March 22, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Jennie Bai, Georgetown University
Paper: Over-Attributing price Movements to Cash Flow
March 29, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University
Paper: Quote Competition in Corporate Bonds
April 5, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Jiacui Li, University of Utah
Paper: Over-Attributing price Movements to Cash Flows
May 3, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 215
Ran Duchin, Boston College
Paper: TBA
2022-23 Academic Year
September 23, 2022
Yongqiang Chu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Paper: Lender-Affiliated Analysts and Syndicated Loans (with T. Ma and C. Wang)
October 7, 2022
Russell Wermers, University of Maryland
Paper: “Buy the Rumor, Sell the News”: Liquidity Provision by Bond Funds Following Corporate News Events (with A. Huang and J. Xue)
October 14, 2022
Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
Paper: Extrapolators at the Gate: Market-wide Misvaluation and the Value Premium (with S. Cassella, Z. Chen, and R. Petkova)
November 11, 2022
Bronson Argyle, Brigham Young University
Paper: Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes (with S. Indarte, B. Iverson, and C. Palmer)
February 3, 2023
Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University
Paper: Quote Competition in Corporate Bonds (with T. Hendershott, D. Li, D. Livdan, and N. Schürhoff)
February 10, 2023
Laura Field, University of Delaware
Paper: The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity (with T. Bakke, H. Mahmudi, and A. Virani)
February 24, 2023
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan
Paper: United They Fall: Bank Risk After the Financial Crisis (with P. Gandhi)
March 24, 2023
Rawley Heimer, Arizona State University
Paper: Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field (with Z. Iliewa, A. Imas, and M. Weber)
April 7, 2023
Andra Ghent, University of Utah
Paper: The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences (with M. A. Davis and J. Gregory)
April 21, 2023
Stacey Jacobsen, Southern Methodist University
Paper: Asymmetric Information and Receiving Investor Outcomes in the Block Market for Corporate Bonds (with K. Venkataraman)
April 28, 2023
Michel Robe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper: Liquidity Providers in “Extreme” Periods: High Frequency Machines vs. Human Electronic and Floor Traders (with V. Raman and P. Yadav)
2021-22 Academic Year
June 16, 2021
Paul Irvine, Texas Christian University
Paper: Aggregate Attention
August 27, 2021
Tony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
Paper: Does Disagreement Facilitate Informed Trading? Evidence from Activist Investors (with V. Fos and M. Niessner)
September 24, 2021
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Paper: The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting (with L. Cohen and Q. Nguyen)
October 15, 2021
Andy Puckett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: TAXI! Do Mutual Funds Pursue and Exploit Information on Local Companies? (with D. Cicero, A.Y. Wang, and S. Zhang)
November 12, 2021
Michael O’Doherty, University of Missouri - Columbia
Paper: The Long-Horizon Returns of Stocks, Bonds, and Bills: Evidence from a Broad Sample of Developed Markets (with A. Anarkulova and S. Cederburg)
November 19, 2021
Andrew Y. Chen, Federal Reserve Board
Paper: Most Claimed Statistical Findings in Cross-sectional Return Predictability Are Likely True
April 8, 2022
Elisabeth Kempf, University of Chicago
Paper: The Political Polarization of U.S. Firms (with V. Fos and M. Tsoutsoura)
April 15, 2022
Hendrik Bessembinder, Arizona State University
Paper: Mutual Fund Underperformance at Long Horizons (with M. J. Cooper and F. Zhang)
April 22, 2022
Jay Ritter, University of Florida
Paper: SPACs (with M. Gahng and D. Zhang)
2019-20 Academic Year
September 6, 2019
Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University
Paper: The Role of Information Production in Private Markets: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings (with K.W. Hanley and X. Zhao)
September 20, 2019
Yiming Qian, University of Connecticut
Paper: Can Firms Run Away from Climate-change Risk? Evidence from the Pricing of Bank Loans (with F. Jiang and C. W.i Li)
October 11, 2019
Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota
Paper: Bank Monitoring and Corporate Fraud: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with M. Li and T. Makaew)
November 1, 2019
Karl Lins, University of Utah
Paper: Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment? (with A. Dyck, L. Roth, M. Towner, and H. Wagner)
November 8, 2019
Michael Schwert, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Paper: Security Design, Commitment, and Interest Rates (with M. Roberts)
December 6, 2019
Michael Goldstein, Babson College
Paper: Climate Finance
February 14, 2020
Jennifer Koski, University of Washington
Paper: Why Are Investors Paying (More) Attention to Free Cash Flows? (with K. Adame, K. Lem, and S. McVay)
March 6, 2020
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas-Austin
Paper: Revenue Sharing in 401(k) Plans (with V. Pool and I. Stefanescu)
2018-19 Academic Year
September 21, 2018
Hoje Jo, Santa Clara University
Paper: Is Corporate Social Responsibility Priced? (with L. Guo and H. Park)
October 5, 2018
James Brown, Iowa State University
Paper: Environmental Policy and Technical Change: Pollution Taxes, Access to Finance, and Firm Absorptive Capacity (with G. Martinsson and C. Thomann)
October 26, 2018
Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis
Paper: The Illiquidity Fog
November 2, 2018
Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University
Paper: The Fragility of Market Risk Insurance (with R. Koijen)
November 30, 2018
Scott Cederburg, University of Arizona
Paper: On the Economic Value of Stock Market Return Predictors (with T. L. Johnson and M. S. O’Doherty)
January 25, 2019
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
Paper: Investors’ Attention to Corporate Governance (with P. Iliev and J. Kalodimos)
February 8, 2019
Lu Zhang, The Ohio State University
Paper: q5 (with K. Hou, H. Mo and C. Xue)
March 1, 2019
David Denis, University of Pittsburgh
Paper: Persistent Operating Losses and Corporate Financial Policies (with S. McKeon)
March 29, 2019
Matt Billett, Indiana University
Paper: Corporate Investors in PIPEs and the Boundaries of the Firm: Evidence from Innovation (with I. V. Floros and X. Tian)
April 5, 2019
Josh Lerner, Harvard University
Paper: The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets (with S. Bernstein and A. Dev)
April 19, 2019
Kai Li, The University of British Columbia
Paper: Rent Extraction by Super-priority Lenders (with B. E. Eckbo and W. Wang)
2017-18 Academic Year
September 8, 2017
Edith Hotchkiss, Boston College
Paper: Providing Liquidity in an Illiquid Market: Dealer Behavior in U.S. Corporate Bonds (with M. Goldstein)
September 29, 2017
Anand Vijh, University of Iowa
Paper: Stock Merger Activity and Industry Performance (with B. Meng)
October 20, 2017
Matt Ringgenberg, University of Utah
Paper: On Index Investing (with J. L. Coles and D. Heath)
November 10, 2017
Tracy Wang, University of Minnesota
Paper: Skilled Labor Risk and Compensation Policies (with Y. Qiu)
November 17, 2017
Isil Erel, The Ohio State University
Paper: Multinational Firms and the International Transmission of Crises: The Real Economy Channel (with J. Bena and S. Dinc)
February 23, 2018
Avri Ravid, Yeshiva University
Paper: Star Turnover and the Value of Human Capital: Evidence from Broadway Shows (with S. Han)
March 9, 2018
Jean Helwege, University of California, Riverside
Paper: Disclosure, Runs and Bank Capital Raising (with H.D. Dang)
March 30, 2018
Jerry Hoberg, University of Southern California
Paper: Product Life Cycles in Corporate Finance (with V. Maksimovic)
April 6, 2018
Brian Melzer, Northwestern University
Paper: Loan Contracting in the Presence of Usury Limits: Evidence from Automobile Lending (with A. Schroeder)
April 13, 2018
Kristine Hankins, University of Kentucky
Paper: Do Firms Hedge During Distress? (with H. Almeida and R. Williams)
2016-17 Academic Year
September 2, 2016
Ioannis Floros, Iowa State University
Paper: Uncertainty Through a Two-stage IPO (with R. Cole and V. Ivanov)
September 9, 2016
Peter Iliev, Pennsylvania State University
Paper: Governance Changes through Shareholder Initiatives: The Case of Proxy Access (with T. Bhandari and J. Kalodimos)
September 23, 2016
Denis Sosyura, University of Michigan
Paper: Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality: Evidence from Mutual Funds (with O. Chuprinin)
October 14, 2016
Paul Koch, The University of Kansas
Paper: Personal Trading by Employees of Financial Intermediaries (with H. Berkman and P. J. Westerholm)
October 28, 2016
Greg Nini, Drexel University
Paper: Learning and Contractual Evolution: The Case of Leveraged Loans (with M. Berlin and E. G. Yu)
November 4, 2016
David Lesmond, Tulane University
Paper: Trade Size Clusters and the Relation to Momentum Returns (with X. Wang)
December 2, 2016
Amrita Nain, The University of Iowa
Paper: Do Managers Provide Misleading Earnings Guidance before Stock Repurchases? (with A. Vijh)
December 9, 2016
John Beshears, Harvard
Paper: Does Borrowing Undo Automatic Enrollment's Effect on Savings? (with J. J. Choi, D. Laibson, B. C. Madrian, and W. L. Skimmyhorn)
February 3, 2017
Kelsey Wei, University of Texas - Dallas
Paper: Follow the Money: Investor Trading Around Investor-Paid Credit Rating Changes (with U. Bhattacharya and H. Xia)
February 10, 2017
Alice Bonaime, The University of Arizona
Paper: What Is Revealed When Firms Disagree with Short Sellers? (with L. Bargeron)
February 24, 2017
Sébastien Michenaud, DePaul University
Paper: Institutional Investor Cliques and Governance (with A. D. Crane and A. Koch)
April 21, 2017
Pab Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University
Paper: Heterogeneous Taxes and Limited Risk Sharing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds (with T. Babina, C. Lundblad, and T. Ramadorai)
2015-16 Academic Year
August 23, 2015
Tim Loughran, University of Notre Dame
Paper: Using 10-K Text to Gauge Financial Constraints (with Andriy Bodnaruk and Bill McDonald)
September 18, 2015
Ashish Tiwari, The University of Iowa
Paper: Hedge Fund Replication: A Model Combination Approach (with Michael O'Doherty and N. E. Savin)
October 2, 2015
Charles J. Hadlock, Michigan State University
Paper: Panel Data Estimation in Finance: Parameter Consistency and the Standard Error Sideshow (with W. D. Grieser)
December 4, 2015
Joshua Pierce, University of Kentucky
Paper: Robust Models of CEO Turnover: New Evidence on Relative Performance Evaluation (with C. E. Fee, C. J. Hadlock and J. Huang)
January 15, 2016
Tyler Jensen, Iowa State University
Paper: Momentum and Funding Conditions (with L. Garcia-Feijoo and G. R. Jensen)
March 11, 2016
Han Xia, University of Texas at Dallas
Paper: Product Market Threats and Financial Contracting: Evidence from Performance-Sensitive Debt (with E. Kjenstad and X. Su)
April 1, 2016
Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
Paper: The Real Effects of Uncertainty on Merger Activity (with V. Bhagwat and R. Dam)
April 15, 2016
Gregory Nini, Drexel University
Paper: TBA
April 29, 2016
Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
Paper: Labor Unemployment Risk and CEO Incentive Compensation (Cong Wang and Kuo Zhang)
2014-15 Academic Year
September 5, 2014
Paul H. Schultz, University of Notre Dame
Paper: Liquidity in a Market for Unique Assets: Specified Pool and TBA Trading in the Mortgage Backed Securities Market (with Pengjie Gao and Zhaogang Song)
September 29, 2014
Lubomir Litov, University of Arizona
Paper: Staggered Boards and Firm Value, Revisited (with K. J. Martijn Cremers and Simone M. Sepe)
October 10, 2014
Kathleen W. Hanley, University of Maryland
Paper: The JOBS Act and the Costs of Going Public (with Susan Chaplinsky and S. Katie Moon)
November 21, 2014
Vikram Nanda, Rutgers University
Paper: Intellectual Property Protection and Financial Markets: Patenting vs. Secrecy (with Nishant Dass and Steven Chong Xiao)
December 5, 2014
David Mauer, The University of Iowa
Paper: Financing Uncertain Growth (with Jay Y. Li)
January 16, 2015
Sandy Klasa, University of Arizona
Paper: What determines the composition of a firm's total cash reserves? (with Laura Cardella and Douglas Fairhurst)
January 30, 2015
Gjergji Cici, College of William and Mary
Paper: What They Did in their Previous Lives: The Investment Value of Mutual Fund Managers' Experience outside the Financial Sector (with Monika Gehde-Trapp, Marc-André Göricke, and Alexander Kempf)
March 13, 2015
Brian Boyer, Brigham Young University
Paper: Information in the Cross Section of Short-Term Equity Yields (with D. Andre)
April 10, 2015
Audra Boone, Texas A&M University
Paper: The Information Environment of Cross-Listed Firms: Evidence from the Supply and Demand of SEC Filings (with K. Schumann and J. White)
April 24, 2015
Yuhang Xing, Rice University
Paper: Advance Refundings of Municipal Bonds (with A. Ang and R. Green)