Finance Brown Bag Seminar
The Finance Brown Bag Lunch Seminar is held in lecture hall T004 on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 13:00 (unless announced differently in the table below). The Seminar is organized by Dr. Andrew Conlin. All questions related to the seminar can be addressed to him.
Finance Brown Bag Seminar Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
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6.9.2023 in lecture hall T003 |
Klaus Grobys (University of Vaasa) | A Common Exponent Governing Foreign Exchange Rate Risk |
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27.9.2023 in lecture hall Q202 (Väre building) |
Sina Seyfi (Aalto University) | Basis Portfolios |
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2.10.2023 Please note exceptional
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Samuel Hartzmark (Boston College) | Eliciting Returns |
| 4.10. 2023 | Sinh Thoi Mai (Hanken) | Financial uncertainty and the cross-section of crypto currency returns |
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25.10.2023 only on Zoom |
Jingshu Wen (Saïd Business School) | Connections over Competence: The Impact of Political Ties on Sell-Side Research |
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1.11.2023 Please note exceptional
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Anniina Korhonen (Aalto University) | Do firms benefit from committing to emission reductions? |
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8.11.2023 CANCELLED! |
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15.11.2023 in lecture hall T003 |
Elias Rantapuska (Aalto University) | What Matters to Individual Investors in a Welfare State? |
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22.11.2023 in lecture hall T003 |
Marco Lambrecht (Hanken) | On the benefits of robo-advice in financial markets |
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29.11.2023 in lecture hall T003 |
Paul Rintamäki (Aalto University) | Nonbank direct lending |
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18.12.2023 Please note exceptional
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Pekka Honkanen (University of Georgia) | Intermediation and Frictions in Equity Swap Markets |
Past seminars
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 9.6.2023 | Mathias Kronlund (Tulane University) | Growth-promoting bonuses and Mergers and Acquisitions (co-authored with Tor-Erik Bakke, Hamed Mahmudi, and Aazam Virani) |
| 5.5.2023 | Renée Adams (University of Oxford) | Drawing a Line: The Impact of “Blind” Auctions on Female Artists |
| 14.4.2023 | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) | Biased Expectations and Default Risk in the Municipal Bond Market |
| 5.4.2023 | Markus Sihvonen (Bank of Finland) | Bond Convenience Curves and Funding Costs (with Juuso Nissinen) |
| 29.3.2023 | Matteo Vacca (Aalto University) | Insider trading with options |
| 15.3.2023 | Martin Ruckes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | Picking Winners: Managerial Ability and Capital Allocation |
| 8.3.2023 | Sina Seyfi (Aalto University) | Essence of the Cross Section |
| 15.2.2023 | Matti Keloharju (Aalto University) | Value-Driven Bankers and the Granting of Credit to Green Firms |
| 8.2.2023 | Petra Vokata (Ohio State University) | Salient Attributes and Household Demand for Security Designs |
| 29.11.2022 | Andrew Conlin (University of Oulu) | Gender differences in the relationships between personality traits and risk tolerance |
| 18.11.2022 | Jussi Lindgren (Ministry of Finance, Finland) | A generalized model for pricing financial derivatives consistent with efficient markets hypothesis – a refinement of the BlackScholes model |
| 9.11.2022 | Yuekun Liu (Aalto University) | Multi-Factor Timing: Measures and their Application to Hedge Funds |
| 2.11.2022 | Teodor Duevski (HEC Paris) | Exploration-Exploitation and Agency issues in Private Equity |
| 12.10.2022 | Sina Seyfi (Aalto University) | Neighbouring Assets |
| 24.8.2022 | Mikael Paaso (Erasmus University Rotterdam) | Decomposing Partisan Investment |
| 16.8.2022 | Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame) | Do Hedge Funds Strategically Misreport Their Holdings? Evidence from 13F Restatements |
| 14.6.2022 | Erkki Vihriälä (Aalto University) | (Not) Anticipating Inheritances |
| 8.6.2022 | Olga Balakina (Aarhus University) | Good peers, good apples: peer effects lead to better financial outcomes |
| 22.4.2022 | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) | True Liquidity and Fundamental Prices: US Tick Size Pilot |
| 23.2.2022 | Katia Vozian (Hanken School of Economics; European Central Bank) | Financing the low-carbon transition in Europe |
| 19.1.2022 | Juuso Nissinen (Aalto University) | Global Fixed Income Prices and Funding Currency |
| 15.12.2021 | Adrian Braun (University of Lapland) | Circular Economy on the agenda of cities and municipalities in the High North – Taking policies to implementation by utilizing sustainable investments |
| 8.12.2021 | Magnus Blomkvist (Audencia Business School) |
Do Venture Capitalists Continue to Create Value after the IPO? (Joint work w/ Anup Basnet - University of Surrey; Douglas Cumming - Florida Atlantic University) |
| 3.11.2021 | Niilo Luotonen (Aalto University) | Early indicators of household financial distress: Register-based evidence from educational performance |
| 13.10.2021 | Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University) | The Frequency of Outperformance and Financial Markets |
| 29.9.2021 | Paul Rintamäki (Aalto University) | Comprehensive evaluation of wealth effects on local labor market outcomes |
| 22.9.2021 | Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University) | Like Moths to a Flame: Research Plan for a Field Experiment |
| 18.8.2021 | Wenjia Yu (Aalto University) | Do fund flows react to non-fundamental ESG information? Evidence from Morningstar’s sustainability criteria change |
| 16.6.2021 | Minsu Ko (Ohio State University) | Aging of ownership and corporate risk-taking |
| 28.4.2021 | Paul Rintamäki (Aalto University) | Equity share cycle |
| 7.4.2021 | Abu Chowdhurya (University of Turku) | Are Mondays Different? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings (with Mika Vaihekoski, University of Turku; Mir Zaman, University of Northern Iowa) |
| 31.3.2021 | Matti Suominen (Aalto University) | Boundaries of Momentum - Equity and Bond Returns Over the Business Cycle |
| 3.3.2021 | Juuso Nissinen (Aalto University) | Currency Carry Trades and Global Funding Risk (with Sara Ferreira Filipe and Matti Suominen) |
| 14.10.2020 | Mikael Paaso (Rotterdam School of Management) | Trust in Finance and Consumer Fintech Adoption (Deniz Okat, Mikael Paaso and Vesa Pursiainen) |
| 30.9.2020 | Ole Nielsen (Aarhus University) | Hedge fund selection: Best athletes or portfolio gains? |
| 23.9.2020 | Theresa Spickers (Aalto University) | The Financial Expert in Your Family |
| 9.9.2020 | Theresa Spickers (Aalto University) | Financial Socialization, Pocket Money, and Financial Risk-Taking |
| 11.3.2020 | Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University) | Growth Expectations out of WACC |
| 14.2.2020 | Dinh-Vinh Vo (Lund University) | The Response of Exchange Rates to Central Bank Communication: A Textual Analysis Approach |
| 12.2.2020 | Ivika Jäger (Stockholm School of Economics) | The Impact of Automated Information Acquisition on the Stock Market |
| 29.1.2020 | Sean Shin (Aalto University) | The More Illiquid, The More Expensive: A Search-Based Explanation of Illiquidity Premium |
| 22.1.2020 | Matthijs Lof (Aalto University) | Mind the Basel Gap |
| 27.11.2019 | Erkki Vihriälä (University of Oxford) | Limited demand for flexibility - commitment, inertia and inattention in debt repayment |
| 6.11.2019 | Gonul Colak (Hanken School of Economics) | Effective Defense Tactic or Obstacle to Change? The Role of Investor Relations in Activism Campaigns |
| 1.11.2019 | Jessica Pély (LMU Munich) | M&A Motives, Managerial Ambiguity, and Takeover Performance |
| 8.10.2019 | Claus Munk (Copenhagen Business School) | The design and welfare implications of mandatory pension plans |
| 28.8.2019 | Nikolas Breitkopf (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) |
Creating Data-Driven Context-Specific Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis in Finance |
| 16.8.2019 | Renée Adams (University of Oxford) | Financing Legislators |
| 14.8.2019 | Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame) | Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-Section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds? |
| 22.5.2019 | Kristian Miltersen (Copenhagen Business School) | The Tax Asymmetry Motive to Hold Corporate Cash, with Jens Dick-Nielsen and Ramona Westermann |
| 15.5.2019 | Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University) | In the spotlight: Close-to-Close Returns, Institutional Information Acquisition, and Trading |
| 8.5.2019 | Fabian Brunner (University of Mannheim) | Reference-dependent return chasing: alpha, losses and fund flows |
| 24.4.2019 | Henry Jarva (Aalto University, Department of Accounting) | The Determinants of CEO Tenure |
| 17.4.2019 | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) | The Revealed Preferences of Mutual Fund Managers |
| 10.4.2019 | Daniel Hauser (Aalto University, Department of Economics) | Social Learning with Model Misspecification: A Framework and A Characterization. |
| 27.3.2019 | Jari Karppinen (University of Oulu) | What do hedge funds say? |
| 27.2.2019 | Ellapulli Vasudevan (Aalto University) | Learning to be a short-term investor? Stock specialization and the investment horizon |
| 9.1.2019 | Erkki Vihriälä (University of Oxford) | Untangling the credit card debt puzzle – persistence, reaction to new liquidity and intra-household optimization |
| 13.12.2018 | Samuli Knüpfer (BI Norwegian Business School) | |
| 12.12.2018 | Mikael Paaso (Aalto University) | Extrapolation and Real Investment |
| 21.11.2018 | Antti Suhonen (Aalto University) | A decade of alternative risk premia investing |
| 31.10.2018 | Pekka Honkanen (HEC Paris) | Securities lending by active and passive funds |
| 3.10.2018 | Matthijs Lof (Aalto University) | Expected Returns and Expected Dividend Growth: A Local Projection Approach |
| 19.9.2018 | Matias Möttölä (MorningStar, CFA Finland) | Fixed-income managers' odds of success and other Morningstar research |
| 7.6.2018 | Renée Adams (University of New South Wales) |
Unsuccessful Teams |
| 17.5.2018 | Theresa Spickers (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) |
Stress test: Do investors' stress levels affect trading and prices? |
| 16.5.2018 | Mikael Paaso (Aalto University) |
Preliminary work examining the causal relationship between corporate cash holdings and agency problems |
| 30.4.2018 | Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore) |
Mispriced Stocks, Option Trading, and Return Predictability |
| 25.4.2018 | Bünyamin Önal (Aalto University) |
Do Politically Connected Directors Bridge an Information Gap in Investment Decisions? Evidence from China |
| 12.4.2018 | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) |
p-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies |
| 28.3.2018 | Sami Torstila (Aalto University) |
Prolonged Private Equity Holding Periods: Six Years is the New Normal |
| 22.3.2018 | Ludovic Phalippou (Saïd Business School) |
How Alternative Are Alternative Investments? The Case of Private Equity Funds |
| 15.3.2018 | Michela Altieri (VU University of Amsterdam) |
Corporate Bond Guarantees and The Value of Financial Flexibility |
| 24.1.2018 | Belma Ötztürkkal (Kadir Has University) |
Liquidity Response to Mutual Fund Flows |
| 20.12.2017 | Juho Kanniainen (Tampere University of Technology) |
Do Custodian Banks Trade on Information from Their Clients' Transactions? |
| 19.12.2017 | Tuomas Tomunen (Columbia University) |
Prospect Theory and Macro-finance |
| 13.12.2017 | Mikael Paaso (Aalto University) |
Perfect Pitch |
| 22.11.2017 | Michael Ungeheuer (Aalto University) |
Daily Winners and Losers |
| 16.11.2017 | Nic Schaub (University of St. Gallen |
The Impact of Internet Postings on Individual Investors |
| 15.11.2017 | Markus Schmid (University of St. Gallen) |
Peer Pressure in Corporate Earnings Management |
| 1.11.2017 | Peter Hans Matthews (Middlebury College/Hanken School of Economics) |
Choice Architecture to Improve Financial Decision-Making |
| 4.10.2017 | Gonul Colak (Hanken School of Economics) |
Investor Relations and IPO Performance |
| 27.9.2017 | Ellapulli Vasudevan (Aalto University) |
Volatility and the Disposition Effect |
| 13.9.2017 | Söhnke M. Bartram (Warwick Business School) |
Global Market Inefficiencies |
| 6.9.2017 | Markku Kaustia (Aalto University) |
Expecting a Stock Market Miracle |
| 17.8.2017 | Utpal Bhattacharya (Hong Kong University of Technology) |
Spillovers in Asset Prices: The Curious Case of Haunted Houses |
| 21.6.2017 | Aleksi Pitkäjärvi (Aalto University) |
Cross-Asset Signals and Time Series Momentum |
| 14.6.2017 | Yijie Li (Aalto University) |
Unemployment-Based Economic States and Equity Premium Predictability |
| 7.6.2017 | Renee Adams (University of New South Wales) |
Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values and Culture in Directors’ Decisions |
| 17.5.2017 | Patrick Kelly (New Economic School) |
Does Access to Foreign Financing Insulate Firms from Local Shocks? Evidence from the Response of Investable Firms to Monetary Policy |
| 3.5.2017 | Bruce Grundy (University of Melbourne) |
Can Socially-Responsible Firms Survive Competition? Analysis of Corporate Employee Matching Grants |
| 5.4.2017 | Petra Vokatá (Aalto University) |
On Structured Products |
| 29.3.2017 | Juha Joenväärä (University of Oulu) |
Hedge Fund Flows and Names Gravitas |
| 2.2.2017 | Doron Avramov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Bonds, Stocks, and Sources of Mispricing |
| 14.12.2016 | Patrick Augustin (McGill University) |
Multi-Market Trading and Cross-Asset Integration |
| 7.12.2016 | Fabio Verona (Bank of Finland) |
Forecasting the Equity Risk Premium with Frequency-Decomposed Predictors |
| 23.11.2016 | Nathaniel Young (EBRD) |
Banking and Growth: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis |
| 16.11.2016 | Mikael Paaso | Extrapolating from Noise? Investment Decisions and Cash Flow Shocks |
| 9.11.2016 | Matti Keloharju | Shady Deals in a Squeaky Clean Country |
| 3.11.2016 | Karolin Kirschenmann (ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research) |
Numeracy and On-The-Job Decision Quality: Evidence from Loan Officers |
| 19.10.2016 | Jos van Bommel | Intergenerational Wealth Transfer: How Wealthy Families (Can) Preserve Wealth? |
| 28.9.2016 | Claus Munk (Copenhagen Business School) |
A Mean-Variance Benchmark for Household Portfolios over the Life Cycle |
| 16.6.2016 | Sampsa Samila (National University of Singapore Business School) | Persistence of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital. Joint with Ramana Nanda (HBS) and Olav Sorenson (Yale SOM) |
| 18.5.2016 | Denis Gromb (HEC Paris) | Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion. Joint with Dimitri Vayanos. |
| 4.5.2016 | Elias Rantapuska (Aalto University) | Mutual Fund Choice Across Generations. Joint work with Samuli Knupfer (BI Norwegian Business School and CEPR) and Matti Sarvimäki (Aalto University and VATT) |
| 17.2.2016 | Fabio Verona (Bank of Finland) | The Q Theory: New Evidence from a Time-Frequency Analysis |
| 28.1.2016 | Doron Avramov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Talking Numbers: Technical versus Fundamental Investment Recommendations |
| 28.10.2015 | Magnus Blomkvist (Audencia Nantes) | Does the IPO Market Provide an Efficient Tool to facilitate Industry Restructuring? |
| 14.10.2015 | Matthijs Lof (Aalto University) | Slow Trading and Stock Return Predictability |
| 10.6.2015 | Renée Adams (UNSW Business School) | The Changing Nature of Corporate Board Activity |
| 29.4.2015 | Elias Rantapuska | Trust Your Gut: Hunger Increases Trust and Trustworthiness |
| 15.4.2015 | Petri Jylhä (Imperial College) | Does Funding Liquidity Cause Market Liquidity? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment |
| 8.4.2015 | Martin Ruckes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | The Effects of Disclosure Policy on Risk Management Incentives and Market Entry |
| 25.2.2015 | Gonul Colak (Hanken School of Economics) | Political Uncertainty and Leverage Adjustments: An International Perspective |
| 11.2.2015 | Matti Suominen | Dash for Cash: Month-End Liquidity Needs and the Predictability of Stock Returns |
| 22.1.2015 | Doron Avramov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | The Idiosyncratic Volatility – Expected Return Relation: Reconciling the Conflicting Evidence |
| 17.12.2014 | Henry Jarva | Accrual Estimation Errors and CEO Turnover |
| 10.12.2014 | Bünyamin Önal | CEO Compensation around Acquisitions: Is Agency Problem the Whole Story? |
| 3.12.2014 | Niilo Luotonen | What constrains micro-entrepreneurship? Evidence from street paper vendors |
| 26.11.2014 | Helinä Laakkonen (Bank of Finland) | The relevance of uncertainty on the bond market trading volume |
| 19.11.2014 | Joonas Hämäläinen (University of Turku) | Portfolio Selection under Directional Predictability of Returns |
| 12.11.2014 | Karolin Kirschenmann | Powerful Parents? The Local Impact of Banks’ Global Business Models. Joint with Ralph De Haas |
| 29.10.2014 | Matti Suominen | Currency Carry Trades and Funding Risk |
| 15.10.2014 | Pekka Tolonen (Oulu Business School) | Hedge Fund Leverage and Performance: New Evidence from Multiple Leveraged Share Classes |
| 17.9.2014 | Patricia Boyallian | CEO Risk Taking Incentives and Bank Failure during the 2007-2010 Financial Crisis |
| 13.8.2014 | Matti Keloharju | Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes. Joint with Petri Hukkanen |
| 6.8.2014 | Harrison Hong | Crime, Punishment and the Halo Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility |