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

September 26, 2025

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | HLH 310

Daniel G. Garrett, University of Pennsylvania

October 10, 2025

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | HLH 310

Jess Cornaggia, Penn State University

December 12, 2025

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Vivian Fang, Indiana University

February 6, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Ran Duchin, Boston College

March 27, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Michal Zator, Notre Dame

April 3, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Amber Anand, Syracuse University

April 10, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Andy Naranjo, University of Florida

April 17, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Justin Birru, Ohio State University

April 24, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

Feng Zhang, Southern Methodist University

May 1, 2026

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Location TBA

David McLean, Georgetown University

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

Paper: "Learning Production Process Heterogeneity: Implications of Machine Learning for Corporate M&A Decisions" (with H. Yun)

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)