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Maureen O’Hara (Cornell) – Mayo Center Virtual Seminar Series
Format: via Zoom. This is a joint event with FMA International. More details at https://www.darden.virginia.edu/mayo-center/events/speaker-series-economic-financial-implications-covid-19 Topic: TBA There will be a Q&A session following the prepared remarks. Moderator: Richard B. Evans - Associate Professor of Business Administration
Manju Puri – Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
ZoomPrivate Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed Bank Resolution in the Crisis Emily Johnston-Ross, Song Ma, & Manju Puri Abstract Using proprietary failed bank acquisition data from the FDIC combined with information on private equity (PE) investors, we argue that PEs took a positive role in stabilizing the financial Read more…
Will Zhang – Darden – Brown Bag Series
ZoomHow do Extreme Price Movements End? (with Jonathan Brogaard and Konstantin Sokolov) Abstract: We test competing theories on liquidity dynamics during extreme price movements (EPMs). Contrary to a widespread concern that market making constraints cause liquidity deterioration during EPMs, our findings are in line with the theory of strategic liquidity Read more…
Pedro Matos – Darden – Brown Bag Series
Zoom"Where Do Institutional Investors Seek Shelter when Disaster Strikes? Evidence from COVID-19", with Simon Glossner, Stefano Ramelli, and Alexander F. Wagner
Zhaohui Chen – McIntire – Brown Bag Series
ZoomFinancial Innovation with Endogenous Experimentation Zhaohui Chen, Alan Morrisson, and William Wilhelm We present a model in which a long-lived bank endogenously learns about the environment for financial innovation through experimentation on its clients. When the bank has superior knowledge of the state of the world facing its clients, it Read more…
Felipe Saffie – Darden – Brown Bag Series
ZoomExchange Rates and Endogenous Productivity Nils Gornemann, Pablo Guerron-Quintana, and Felipe Saffie September 15, 2020 Abstract Real exchange rates (RERs) display sizable fluctuations not only over the business cycle,but also at lower frequencies, resulting in large and persistent swings over decades—facts that many business cycle models struggle to match. We Read more…
Paul Gompers – Harvard Business School
ZoomVenture Capitalists Decisions and COVID-19 Paul Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev August 2020 Abstract We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We Read more…
Justin Hopkins – Darden – Brown Bag Series
ZoomTitle: Corporate Counsel as Information Intermediaries: Survey Evidence Description: We plan to conduct a survey of corporate counsel. Before sending it out, we’d like to get some feedback on the questions we are planning to ask. In particular, which questions would be interesting to an academic audience. Our survey is Read more…
David Smith – McIntire – Brown Bag Series
Zoom"Corporate Capital Raising during the COVID Crisis" with Greg Nini and Edie Hotchkiss
Ting Xu – Darden – Brown Bag Series
Zoom"Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups", with Shai Bernstein and Richard Townsend
UVIC 2020 – the rise of ESG investing
Register Here This year, via Zoom, the University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC) focuses attention in the role of ESG investing. We will provide an array of diverse, well-reasoned ideas and views on this vitally important, yet challenging, topic. The investment world is rapidly moving towards one in which individual Read more…
Antoinette Schoar – MIT, Sloan School of Management
ZoomThe Role of Government and Private Institutions in Credit Cycles in the U.S. Mortgage Market Manuel Adelino, W. Ben McCartney, and Antoinette Schoar August 3, 2020 Abstract The distribution of combined loan-to-value ratios (CLTVs) for purchase mortgages has been remarkably stable in the U.S. over the last 25 years. But Read more…
Alex Edmans – LBS – Mayo Center for Asset Management Virtual Seminar Series
ZoomSpeaker: Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, and author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver both Purpose and Profit Topic: Responsible Investing: What Is It, Does It Work, and How To Do It? Details and registration to be posted soon at https://www.darden.virginia.edu/mayo-center/events/virtual-speaker-series
Robert Bruner – Darden – Brown Bag Series
ZoomBritain’s Great Railway Mania of the 1840s: The Roles of Politics, Money, and Liberalization (joint with Scott Miller)