Organized Seminars

 

 

Spring 2026

 

Bank Capital Constraints and Portfolio Choice: Early Evidence and Ongoing Research

Speaker: Matt Pritsker, Senior Financial Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Friday, May 8, 2026

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Human Capital and Local Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Industry 
Speaker: Dr. Ruidi Huang, Associate Professor of Finance and Corrigan Research Professor at the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University
Time: 9:30-10:45 AM, April 23, 2026

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Student Loans and Labor Supply Incentives
Speaker: Dr. Han Xia, Professor, Finance and Managerial Economics, UT Dallas
Time: 9:30-10:45 AM, April 9, 2026

 

 

Inflation Surprises and Firms’ Cash Holdings
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Zarutskie, Senior Vice President and Senior Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Time: 9:30-10:45 AM, March 26, 2026

 

 

Banks, the Government, and Money Creation

Speaker: Professor Anjan Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Director of the Ph.D. program and the Center for Finance and Accounting Research, Managing editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Former President and founder of the Financial Intermediation Research Society. 

Time: Monday, March 16, 2026, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

 

 

The Growing Index Effect in the Corporate Bond Market

Speaker: Alex Zhou, Professor and James M. Collins Chair in Finance, Member of the editorial board,  Journal of Empirical Finance

Time: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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Presentations

2026

AFA Annual Meetings (paper, scheduled), WFA Annual Meetings (paper, scheduled), 40th Mitsui Symposium: Private Capital Markets, University of Michigan Ross School of Business (paper, scheduled), University of Sydney (invited seminar, scheduled), University of Melbourne (invited seminar, scheduled), Monash University (invited seminar, scheduled), University of New South Wales (invited seminar, scheduled), University of Technology Sydney (invited seminar, scheduled), Deakin University (invited seminar, scheduled).


2025

AEA Annual Meetings (paper), the NFA Conference (paper, scheduled), the FDIC Banking Research Conference (paper); the 7th Conference on the Future of Financial Information (INSEAD) (paper), International Monetary Fund (paper), MFA Annual Meetings (paper), University of Texas at Arlington (paper), Federal Reserve System Casework Conference, Federal Reserve Board (paper), Credit Union Research Conference (paper), IBEFA summer conference (paper), RES/ECB/CEPR Conference Technological Innovations in Financial Markets


2024

NBER Summer Institute – Capital Market (discussion), RCFS Winter Conference (paper), ITAM Finance Conference (paper), OFR Rising Scholar Conference (paper), University of Leuven (paper), Florida Atlantic University (paper), IBEFA Summer Conference, Kansas City Federal Reserve Research Seminar (paper), CEMLA-Dallas Fed Financial Stability Forum (discussion), FDIC Bank Research Conference (2 papers), 2024 Community Banking Research Conference (paper), FMA (2 papers), Federal Reserve System Committee Meeting on Financial Structure and Regulation (paper), Federal Reserve Board (paper).


2023

FIRS (paper), 15th Annual PERC Symposium (paper), TAU Finance Conference (paper), IBEFA Summer (paper), Federal Reserve System Committee on Financial Institutions, Paris December Finance Conference (paper), European Economic Association Conference (paper), Financial System Conference (paper), University of Zurich (paper), Copenhagen Business School (paper), Hitotsubashi University (paper), Financial Service Agency Japan (paper), BIS (paper).


2022

SFS Cavalcade North America (paper), FIRS (paper), FMA Europe (paper), FMA (paper), Federal Reserve System Committee on Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Markets (paper), Alternative Finance Conference (book chapter).


2021

AEA Annual Meetings (paper), Villanova University (paper), Midwest Finance Conference (paper), Federal Reserve Board (paper), FMA (paper and discussion), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and CEAR Conference on “How if the COVID-19 experience changing finance” (paper), Fixed Income and Financial Intermediation Conference (FIFI) (paper), Concordia University, Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meetings (paper).


2020

ASSA/IBEFA Annual Meetings (paper), Paris December Finance Conference (paper), Stress Testing Conference (paper), Federal Reserve System Committee Conference in Energy Finance (paper), Midwest Finance Conference (discussion), FMA (discussion), FIRN Conference Australia (paper), University of Adelaide (paper), Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference (paper), Villanova University (paper), Bank of Portugal (paper), Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (paper).


2019

Community Banking in the 21st Century Research and Policy Conference (paper), FIRS (paper), Chicago Financial Institution Conference (paper), European Banking Center Network Conference (paper), Old Dominion University (paper), Kent University (paper), Indiana University (paper), FMA (paper).


2018

University of Zurich (paper), FMA (paper), EFA Annual Meetings (paper), NFA Annual Meetings (discussion).


2017

AEA (paper), Annual Searle Center/USPTO Conference on Innovation Economics (discussion), Federal Reserve System Committee Meeting on Financial Structure and Regulation (paper), FMA (paper).


2016

International Conference on Small Business Finance, FGV (paper and discussion), FMA (paper), System Committee Meetings on Regional Economics (paper and discussion), System Committee Meeting on Financial Structure and Regulation (paper), NFA Annual Meetings(paper), University of Sydney (paper), FMA Asia/Pacific Conference (paper), Mid-Atlantic
Research Conference in Finance (discussion).


2015

FIRN Conference (paper), Federal Reserve Board Research (paper), European Central Bank (paper), Cambridge University (paper), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (paper), Cornerstone Research (paper), City University Hong Kong (paper), Paris Dauphine University (paper), Massey University (paper), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (paper), European Finance Association Annual Meetings (paper), Corporate Finance Day (paper and discussion).