CERF and CF Events


2008-04-29 17:00: An Optimal Selling Strategy Based on Predicting the Ultimate Maximum Price (Violetta Bernyk, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-13 17:00: A Structural Model of Portfolio Default Risk with Stochastic Time (Seung Yang, Cambridge University)

2008-05-20 17:00: CEO Turnover, Firm Performance, and Ownership Structure (Stefan Petry, Cambridge University)

2008-06-03 17:00: Modelling and Predicting the Time-varying Volatility Risk Premium: a Bayesian Non-Gaussian State Space Approach (Gael Martin, Monash University, Clayton, Australia)

2008-06-10 17:00: Optimal Asset Allocation with Factor Models for Large Portfolios (Paolo Zaffaroni, Imperial College London)

2008-06-25 11:00: Inside and Outside Liquidity. (Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University)

2008-10-21 17:00: Herd Induced by Uninformed Traders in Efficient Financial Markets (Gongyu Chen (PhD student, Department of Economics))

2008-10-28 17:00: Diverse Beliefs in a Simple Economy (Angus Brown, Phd student on DPMMS)

2008-11-04 17:00: Measurement in Accounts: Fair Value and the Credit Crunch (Geoffrey Whittington, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy)

2008-11-11 17:00: “Intermediation in Financial Networks” (tbc) (Ana Babus, Centre for Financial Analysis)

2008-11-18 17:00: A Four-moment Portfolio Strategy for Emerging Equity Markets (Warapong Wongwachara, PhD student, Department of Economics)

2008-11-25 17:00: “On the Epidemic of Financial Crises” (tbc) (Vanessa Smith, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy)

2009-01-20 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-02-17 17:00: Incidence Analysis of the Restoration and Hanoverian Excise: Assessing Contemporary Claims for Back Shifting, Forward Shifting and Substitution Effects (D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College)

2009-10-12 17:30: 'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007' (Professor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School)

2009-10-30 17:00: The Stimulus Effect of the VAT cut - an early assessment (Dr Tom Crossley, Faculty of Economics)

2009-11-02 17:00:  'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe:  Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.' (Professor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania)

2009-11-06 17:00: Expectations of Inflation, Monetary Policy & the Term Structure of Interest Rates (Prof Michael Magill, University of Southern California)

2009-11-13 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Philipp Andres, PhD student, Faculty of Economics)

2009-11-16 12:00: 'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.' (Ms Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library)

2009-11-16 17:00: 'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control' (Mr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall)

2009-11-20 17:00: Feedback Trading and the Optimal Choice of Price Impact (provisional title) (Jimmy Oh, PhD student, Faculty of Economics)

2009-11-27 17:00: The 2008-2009 crisis in historical perspective: international cooperation and the emergence of the G20 (Dr Luca Einaudi, G8 & G20 office)

2009-11-30 17:00: 'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.' (Dr Vincent Bignon, EconomiX, University of Paris - Nanterre)

2009-12-07 17:00: 'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game' (Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School)

2010-01-11 17:00: 'Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: Lord Londonderry and the Stock Market Bubbles of Paris, Amsterdam and London in 1720' (Professor Larry Neal (Illinois/LSE))

2010-01-25 17:00: 'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation' (Professor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin))

2010-02-08 17:00: 'Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914' (Professor Şevket Pamuk (LSE))

2010-02-15 17:00: 'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories' (Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith)

2010-02-26 17:00: Computer Simulation of the Financial Markets (Mr Christopher Clack, Direct of Financial Computer at UCL)

2010-03-01 17:00: 'The Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878, and other nineteenth century failures' (Professor Duncan Ross)

2010-03-15 17:00: 'Keynes, the Investor' (Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School)

2010-04-30 17:00:  Understanding the shape of the new institutional architecture of EU financial market supervision (Prof Eilis Ferran, 3CL)

2010-05-07 17:00: Explaining External Asset Allocation: A Multi-Country Model with Preference Heterogeneity (Sergejs Saksonovs, Faculty of Economics)

2010-05-14 17:00: Asset price bubbles and econometrics (Ansgar Walther, Faculty of Economics)

2010-05-17 17:00: Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires (Professor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University)

2010-05-21 17:00: The valuation of very long term liabilities (provisional title) (Dr Simon Taylor, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2010-05-24 17:00: 'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives' (Professor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow)

2010-05-28 17:00: Roundheads versus Cavaliers: Assessing the Impact of Quantitative Easing (working title) (Prof Jagjit Chadha, University of Kent)

2010-06-04 17:00: Rethinking the dynamics of financial networks (Lord Robert May, University of Oxford)

2010-06-07 17:00: Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914 (Professor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham)

2010-06-21 17:00: Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan (Professor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

2010-10-11 17:00: The Value of Regulation and Reputation: Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913 (Dr David Chambers ( Judge Business School))

2010-10-12 17:00: From Keynesian consensus to 'sado-monetarism': UK monetary policy from devaluation to Mrs Thatcher (Duncan Needham (Faculty of History))

2010-10-19 17:00: On the Forecasting Performance of Macroeconomic Fundamentals on Exchange Rate Movements (Weiwei Yin (Faculty of Economics))

2010-10-25 17:00:  God and risk: The role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth-century Netherlands (Mr Chris Colvin, Department of Economic History, LSE)

2010-10-26 17:00: Optimal hedging of variance derivatives (Mr John Crosby (UBS and Glasgow University))

2010-11-02 17:00: What determines government spending multipliers? (Prof Giancarlo Corsetti (Faculty of Economics))

2010-11-08 17:00: Blissfully Ignorant: The Rôle of State Financial and Managerial Assistance in the Decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1980 (Dr Duncan Connors, Glasgow)

2010-11-09 17:00: Roundheads versus Cavaliers: Assessing the Impact of Quantitative Easing (Prof Jagjit Chadha (University of Kent))

2010-11-16 17:00: Trading to stops (Prof Chris Rogers (Statistical Laboratory))

2010-11-22 17:00: Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008 (Professor Elroy Dimson, London Business School)

2010-11-23 17:00: Dr Hector Calvo Pardo (University of Southampton) (Subjective stock market expectations and portfolio choice)

2010-11-30 17:00: Coherent global market simulations for counterparty credit portfolios (Claudio Albanese (King's College, London))

2010-12-06 17:00: The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914 (Dr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford)

2010-12-13 17:00: Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925 (Dr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods)

2011-01-24 17:00: The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939 (Mr Luke Samy, Winton Institute, Oxford)

2011-02-01 16:45: Risk-Based Pricing and Default in Subprime Credit Card Markets (Dr Sule Alan (Faculty of Economics))

2011-02-07 17:00: Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1850 and beyond (Professor Nathan Sussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2011-02-08 16:30: Likelihood Inference in Non-Linear Term Structure Models: The Importance of the Zero Lower Bound (Andrew Meldrum (Faculty of Economics))

2011-02-22 16:45: What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value? (Dr Bang Dang Nguyen (CJBS & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology))

2011-02-28 17:00: Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000 (Professor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid))

2011-03-01 16:45: Understanding the Global Imbalance from the Perspective of Outsourcing Activities to China (Dr Yuning Gao (WCFH, University of Cambridge))

2011-03-07 17:00: 'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?' (Dr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton))

2011-03-15 16:45: tbc (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-05-02 17:00: An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s (Professor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL)

2011-05-16 17:00: Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914 (Dr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh))

2011-05-23 17:00: ’Midas, transmuting all, into paper’: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars (Dr Elisa Newby, Bank of Finland)

2011-05-30 17:00: Financial innovation and the crisis (Professor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research)

2011-06-13 17:00: The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897 (Professor Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University)

2011-06-15 12:00: A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse (Professor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management))

2012-01-23 17:00: Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England (Dr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre)

2012-02-06 18:00: New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble (Dr Rik Frehen, Tilburg University, Department of Finance)

2012-02-14 17:00: Capital in the Business Cycle: Renting versus Ownership (Gabor Pinter)

2012-02-20 17:00: The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, 1870-1913 (Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School)

2012-02-21 17:00: How Does A Firm’s Default Risk Affect Its Expected (Kevin Aretz, Manchester Business School)

2012-03-05 17:00: Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression (Dr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics)

2012-03-06 17:00: The Impact of Jumps and Thin Trading on Realsied Hedge Ratios (Lyudmyla Hvozdyk, CERF, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2012-03-19 17:00: The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008 (Professor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER)

2012-04-24 17:00: The Financing and Re-financing of the War of the Spanish Succession, and then Re-Financing the South Sea Company (Larry Neal is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois.)

2012-05-01 17:00: 'Towards a new institutional analysis of London's insurance market' (Adrian Leonard is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History studying under Professor Martin Daunton and Dr D'Maris Coffman, supported by the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College and the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies.)

2012-05-08 17:00: Did inflation targeting make a difference during the financial crisis? (Jonathan Smith)

2012-05-14 17:00: The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy (Dr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College)

2012-05-15 17:00: The Incentives of Performance Fees, High-Water Marks and Personal Stakes (Moritz Dumbgen)

2012-05-28 17:00: Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742 (Dr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History)

2012-05-29 17:00: Conceptualising EU/IMF Financial Assistance Negotiation in Latvia (Samuel Dahan)

2012-06-11 17:00: Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century (Dr Anne Murphy, University of Hertfordshire)

2012-10-09 17:00: CF Weekly Workshop - by Professor Alexander Lipton - Asymptotics for Exponential Lévy Processes and their Volatility Smile: Survey and New Results  (Professor Alexander Lipton, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Imperial College.)

2012-10-23 17:00: CF Weekly Workshop - by Xuan Tam - Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt  (Xuan Tam - CFAP, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-06 17:00: CF Weekly Workshop - by Mike Joyce, Bank of England - Quantitative easing in the UK: evidence from financial markets on QE1 and QE2  (Mike Joyce, Bank of England)

2012-11-20 17:00: CF Weekly Workshop - by Ranadeva Jasasekera - 'A general theory of the firm'  (Ranadeva Jayasekera, a lecturer from Southampton (ex Cambridge PhD))

2013-01-21 17:00: The formative years of a modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1623 (Professor Joost Jonker, Utrecht University)

2013-02-04 17:00: Of Rules and Exceptions:  Financing a Modern Steel Industry in the United States, 1865-1888  (Professor Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva)

2013-02-05 17:00: Structural liquidity: Time coordination of economic activities and sectoral interdependence (Ivano Cardinale (Emmanuel College), Roberto Scazzieri (University of Bologna and Gonville and Caius College))

2013-02-18 17:00: Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy (Mr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall)

2013-02-19 17:00: Testing the Returns from Black-Box Hedge Fund (Peyton Young, University of Oxford)

2013-03-04 17:00: Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression (Dr Tiago Mata, HPS, Cambridge)

2013-03-05 17:00: Venture Capital, Patents and Innovation (Roberta Dessi, Toulouse School of Economics (joint with Nina Yin). )

2013-04-29 17:00: A Global Census of Corporations in 1910 (Professor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo)

2013-05-13 17:00: The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824 (Mr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH))

2013-05-27 17:00: The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE (Dr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham)

2013-06-10 17:00: Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s (Professor Abe de Jong, RSM Erasmus University)

2013-06-25 17:00: Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964 (Mr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi))

2014-01-20 17:00: Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (Professor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London )

2014-02-03 17:00: Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis (Paul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College)

2014-02-17 17:00: The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis (Charles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College)

2014-03-03 17:00: The political economy of inflation in the 1970s (Professor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow)

2014-05-05 17:00: Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company (Edmond Smith)

2014-05-19 17:00: Finance and the real economy. (Lord Adair Turner)

2014-05-26 17:00: This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010 (Dr Christopher Coyle, Queen's University, Belfast)

2014-06-02 17:00: Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59 (William Allen, Cass Business School)

2014-06-09 17:00: Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) and the Transformation of Modern Political Discourse (Professor Jacob Soll, University of Southern California)

2014-09-19 13:00: Day 1: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 19-20 September 2014  (Details of speakers are available on the CERF website)

2014-09-20 08:45: Day 2: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 19-20 September 2014  (Details of speakers are available on the CERF website)

2014-09-26 13:00: Day 1 - 10th Cambridge - Princeton Workshop (For details of speakers please see the full programme)

2014-09-27 09:00: Day 2 - 10th Cambridge - Princeton Workshop (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-10-09 17:00: Misspecified Recovery (Jose A. Scheinkman, Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University)

2014-10-16 17:00: Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending (Dr Daniel Paravisini  , The London School of Economics)

2014-11-05 17:00: The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.  (Professor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.)

2014-11-12 17:00: State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from Irish independence. (Dr Eoin McLaughlin, University of St Andrews)

2014-11-13 17:00: The Economic Impact of a Bank Oligopoly: Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fabio Braggion)

2014-11-27 17:00: Robust vs realistic: interpolating between model-specific and model-free settings for pricing and hedging (  Prof. Jan Obloj,  Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at St John's College, Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance)

2015-01-19 17:00: What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s (Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay, University of Warwick)

2015-01-22 12:30: Randomized Strategies and Prospect Theory in a Dynamic Context (Professor David Hobson, University of Warwick, Department of Statistics)

2015-02-02 12:30: What Drives the Passage of Climate Change Legislation? (Sam Fankhauser (London School of Economics) )

2015-02-02 17:00: Going beyond ‘market versus state’: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act  (Rasheed Saleuddin, Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-05 13:00: The Excessive Creation of Sequel Firms (Pierre Mella-Barral, Professor - Speciality: Finance, EDHEC Business School)

2015-02-09 12:30: Assessment of Price-Based Demand Response Policies in the Residential Electricity Sector by Agent-Based Modeling                                   (Arjun Mahalingam (Cambridge JBS))

2015-02-09 17:00: Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings (Dr David Gill, University of Nottingham)

2015-02-16 12:30: The Future of the Norwegian Oil Fund – and the Planet                               (Ellen Quigley (Cambridge Education) )

2015-02-19 13:00: Credit Ratings and Structured Finance (Joel Shapiro is Associate Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

2015-02-23 12:30: An 'Uber for Electricity': Institutional Theory and Practice for a Regulated Industry in a Technologically Dynamic Environment            (Lynne Kiesling (Northwestern, visiting KCL) )

2015-03-02 12:30: The Spatial Rules of Attraction in Petroleum Extraction: An Application of the Ising Model of Ferromagnetism       (Thomas B. Nielsen (LSE) )

2015-03-05 13:00: Precautionary Saving and Aggregate Demand (M. Edouard Challe is a CNRS researcher and associate professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique)

2015-03-09 13:00: Capacity Decisions in Electricity Production under Risk Aversion and Risk Trading (Danny Ralph (Cambridge JBS) )

2015-03-09 17:00: British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Professor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London)

2015-03-13 00:00: 13 and 14 March 2015 - Financial Accounting Symposium  - 2 day event (various - see the web page)

2015-03-27 12:00: Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study (John Morgan)

2015-03-27 12:00: Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study (John Morgan - Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business and Department of Economics UC Berkeley)

2015-04-23 18:00: Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment (William Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer)

2015-04-30 13:00: Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion (Denis Gromb is Professor of Finance at INSEAD, where he teaches Corporate Finance)

2015-05-06 13:00: Mind the Gap: The Difference between US and European Loan Rates (Anthony Saunders – John M. Schiff Professorship in Finance - Stern)

2015-05-06 19:00: The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015 (Dr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10.)

2015-05-11 17:00: Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934 (Professor Barry Eichengreen,  George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley)

2015-05-14 13:00: On the Long Run Volatility of Stocks (Carlos Carvalho)

2015-05-20 11:00: CERF Cavalcade 2015  (aee the webpage for details)

2015-05-22 10:30: Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips (Kenneth Ahern - Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics)

2015-05-25 17:00: Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company (Professor Bjørn L. Basberg, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen)

2015-06-02 10:30: Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance ( Mireia Giné)

2015-06-09 10:30: HOARD BEHAVIOR DURING COMMODITY BUBBLES (with Professor Harrison Hong, John Scully Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University)

2015-06-11 13:00: Can Metropolitan Housing Risk Be Diversified? A Cautionary Tale from the Recent Boom and Bust (John Cotter is Professor in Finance and the Chair in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin. )

2015-07-13 10:30: Errors and questionable judgments in analysts’ DCF models  (Professor John Hand, H. Allen Andrew Distinguished Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, USA)

2015-09-08 12:00: Ad-hoc Seminar: Commodities as Collateral (Ke Tang, Professor of Finance, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing)

2015-09-18 13:00: Day 1 - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2015 (See the CERF website for details)

2015-09-19 08:30: Day 2 - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2015 (See the CERF website for details)

2015-10-06 12:30: Characteristic-Based Expected Returns and Corporate Events (Professor Hendrik Bessembinder, A. Blaine Huntsman Chaired Presidential Professor, Department of Finance, University of UTAH)

2015-10-13 10:00: Do managers tacitly collude to withhold industry-wide bad news? (Catherine Schrand, the John C. Hower Professor and Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

2015-10-15 13:00: Credit Rationing, Income Exaggeration, and Adverse Selection in the Mortgage Market (Brent W. Ambrose is the Smeal Professor of Real Estate, Director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies, and Director of the Smeal College Ph.D. Program at the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. )

2015-10-20 10:30: “International Liquidity Shocks, the Real Economy, and Social Unrest: China, 1931-1935” (Alberto Manconi, Assistant professor of Finance, Tilburg University, Netherlands)

2015-10-27 10:30:  “Can Institutional Investors Improve Corporate Governance Through Collective Action?” (Professor Alexander Dyck,  Professor of Finance and Business Economics and ICPM Professor in Pension Management, University of Toronto)

2015-10-27 15:00: On the support of extremal martingale measures with given marginals: the countable case (Luciano Campi)

2015-10-29 13:00: Portfolio Choice with Model Misspecification: A Foundation for Alpha and Beta Portfolios (UPPAL Raman, PhD  Professor - Speciality: Finance, EDHEC Business School)

2015-11-10 10:30: Influencing Control : Jawboning in Risk Arbitrage (Prfoessor Tao Li, Assistant Professor in Finance, Warwick Business School)

2015-11-11 10:30: Fear, Anger and Credit. On Bank Robberies and Loan Conditions (Steven Ongena, Professor in Banking at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute, Research fellow of CEPR.)

2015-11-12 13:00: Noisy Rational Bubbles (Qiusha Peng  Interests: Macroeconomics, Theory, Finance)

2015-11-24 10:30: A Bound on Expected Stock Returns (Professor Ohad Kadan, Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Area at Washington University's Olin Business School)

2015-11-26 13:00: Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F (Susan Christoffersen is an Associate Professor of Finance, Rotman School of Management)

2015-11-30 10:00: Changes in Corporate Effective Tax Rates Over the Past Twenty-Five Years (Professor Michelle Hanlon, Howard W. Johnson Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management)

2015-12-01 10:30: Informed Trading by Advisor Banks? A look at options holdings ahead of mergers (Professor Michelle Lowry, TD Bank Professor of Finance at the LeBow School of Business, Drexel University )

2015-12-11 13:00: CERF in the CITY (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-01-21 13:00: Central Bank Collateral Frameworks (Professor Kjell G. Nyborg, a native of Norway, currently holds the Chair in Corporate Finance at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich)

2016-01-25 17:00: Individual investors in the late nineteenth century:  what did they invest in, and why? (Professor Janette Rutterford, The Open University Business School)

2016-02-04 13:00: Are Serial Acquirers Born or Made (Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School)

2016-02-08 17:00: Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695 (Dr Anthony Hotson, Wolfson College, Oxford and Centre for Financial History)

2016-02-18 13:00: Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predisposition and Household Financial Behaviour (Michael Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is Director of the newly launched CEPR Network on Household Finance, Fellow of CEPR and NETSPAR, and advisor to the ECB and ESMA.)

2016-02-22 17:00: The end of the Swiss economic model (Professor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania)

2016-03-01 10:30: Bank Resolution and the Structure of Global Banks (Martin Oehmke, Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School)

2016-03-03 13:00: Innovation, Social Connections, and the Boundary of the Firm (Sudipto Dasgupta (Lancaster))

2016-03-07 17:00: The ‘Bimetallic Controversy’ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900 (Sabine Schneider, St John's College, Cambridge and Centre for Financial History)

2016-03-10 10:30: Are Foreign Investors Locusts? The Long-Term Effects of Foreign Institutional Ownership (Professor Pedro Matos, Associate Professor of Finance at Darden School of  Business )

2016-04-25 17:00: Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization (Professor Zorina Khan)

2016-04-28 13:00: Time and value: traps and fallacies of asset pricing (Dean Buckner (Bank of England))

2016-05-12 13:00: A Hausman Test for the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise in High Frequency Data (Yacine Ait-Sahalia,  Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics )

2016-05-19 14:30: CERF Cavalcade (Raghu Rau (CJBS), Rasheed Saleuddin (History), Qiusha Peng (CJBS & CERF), Christopher Harris (Economics), Chryssi Giannitsarou (Economics),  Bang Dang Nguyen (CJBS))

2016-05-26 13:00: Risk Management—the Revealing Hand (Anette Mikes - HEC Lausanne)

2016-06-09 13:00: Switching Risk Off: FX Correlations and Risk Premia (Jason Cen is a Research Associate in Finance, MSc (LSE), PhD (City University))

2016-09-16 14:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2016 (Keynote speaker: Anjan Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance,Director of the PhD Program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research)

2016-10-13 13:00: Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims  (Yuan, Kathy (LSE))

2016-10-27 13:00: The Real Effect of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Credit Default Swaps Trading and Corporate Innovation (Xin CHANG, Simba (CJBS))

2016-11-10 13:00: Going Negative: The Legal, Institutional, and Political Case for Negative Interest Rates at the U.S. Federal Reserve  (Peter Conti-Brown, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)

2016-11-24 13:00: Safe-Haven CDS Premiums (David Lando, Professor of Finance, Copenhagen Business School)

2016-11-25 13:00: CERF in the City (Please see the programme)

2017-01-26 13:00: The Dynamics of Investment, Payout and Debt (Professor Bart Lambrecht, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2017-01-27 17:30: Extreme Events and How to Live with Them (Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York)

2017-01-30 17:00: UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report (Oliver Bush, Bank of England and London School of Economics)

2017-02-09 13:00:  Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds (Zhi Da, Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame.)

2017-02-13 17:00: The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis (Dr Brian O'Sullivan, Kings College London)

2017-02-21 17:30: J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures (Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, The University of Cambridge; Professor Sanjeev Goyal, The University of Cambridge; Professor Hamid Sabourian, The University of Cambridge)

2017-02-23 13:00: Bail-ins and Bail-outs: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability (Agostino Capponi (Columbia University))

2017-02-27 17:00: Why did Britain have broad money supply targets? (Dr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History)

2017-03-09 13:00: Contagion in the CDS Market (H. Peyton Young, James Meade Professor of Economics, University of Oxford)

2017-03-13 17:00: Money: the unauthorised biography (Dr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies )

2017-05-04 13:00:  Product Market Competition and Option Prices (Morellec, Erwan (SFI))

2017-05-10 14:30: CERF Cavalcade (See the programme on our website)

2017-05-18 13:00: Sequential Credit Markets (Ulf Axelson, Abraaj Group Professor in Finance and Private Equity London School of Economics and Political Science.)

2017-06-01 13:00: “Learning Through Crowdfunding”  (Katrin Tinn, Imperial College London)

2017-06-15 13:00: Macro Risks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates (Geert Bekaert, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics.)

2017-09-15 13:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2017 - Day 1 (Please see the programme on our website)

2017-09-16 09:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2017 - Day 2 (Please see the programme on our website)

2017-10-12 13:00: Misreporting and Feedback Effect (Professor Hui Chen, University of Zurich)

2017-10-26 13:00: Firebreaks and Risk-Shifting in Financial Networks (Matthew Elliott, University Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.)

2017-11-09 12:45: Do CEOs Affect Employees' Political Choices? (Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University)

2017-11-23 13:00: Expected Returns and Risk in the Stock Market (Michael Brennan is a professor of finance at the University of Manchester, having previously held this position at UCLA and London Business School.)

2017-12-01 11:00: AI for Inclusive Finance (Alan Qi and Le Song)

2018-01-25 13:00: INFORMATIVE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS (Dr Héctor Calvo Pardo is Reader in Economics within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.)

2018-02-05 17:00: Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century (Dr Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2018-02-05 17:30: J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures 2018 (Dr David Chambers; Professor Alexei Onatskiy)

2018-02-08 13:00: An experimental analysis of the effect of Quantitative Easing (Nobuyuki Hanaki, University of Nice)

2018-02-12 17:00: Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50 (Dr Aaron Graham, University College London)

2018-02-22 13:00: The Digital Revolution and the State (William H. Janeway is a Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus and a Member of the Board of Managers of CERF.)

2018-02-26 17:00: Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance (Dr Daisuke Ikemoto, Meijigakuin University and Darwin College)

2018-03-08 12:45: Short-Selling Restrictions and Returns: a Natural Experiment (Professor Marco Bonomo, Insper)

2018-03-13 17:00: Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899 (Professor Ian Phimister, University of the Free State)

2018-03-23 12:00: Cambridge-Lausanne Workshop 2018 - Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-03-24 09:00: Cambridge-Lausanne Workshop 2018 - Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-05-02 16:00: The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK (Dr Leon Wansleben, London School of Economics)

2018-05-03 13:00: Short-Sales Constraints and Aftermarket IPO Pricing  (Richard G. Sloan, Professor,  Emile R. Niemela Chair in Accounting and International Business Haas Accounting Group)

2018-05-07 17:00: Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange     (Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, UCL and Centre for Financial History)

2018-05-14 17:00: What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies? (Graham Turner, GFC Economics)

2018-05-17 12:30: Dynamic Liquidity-Based Security Design (Professor Kathy Yuan, LSE)

2018-05-23 14:30: CERF Cavalcade May 2018  (See the programme)

2018-05-31 13:00: The Dark Side of Circuit Breakers (Cambridge Finance Workshop - Hui Chen (MIT) )

2018-06-14 13:00: Angels, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Investor Accreditation Rules (Luke Stein, Assistant Professor, Finance, Arizona State University.)

2018-09-14 13:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2018 - Day 1 (See the website)

2018-09-15 09:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2018 - Day 2 (See the website)

2018-10-11 13:00: Dynamic Bank Capital Regulation in Equilibrium (Marcella Lucchetta  (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia))

2018-10-25 13:00: CEO Option Compensation Can Be a Bad Option: Evidence from Product Market Relationships (Ron Masulis (UNSW Business School))

2018-11-01 13:00: Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory (Johannes Ruf, LSE)

2018-11-08 12:30: Competition and Voting Premium (Oğuzhan Karakaş University Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, CERF Fellow.)

2018-11-22 12:30: Crisis, contagion and containment policies in financial networks : A dynamic approach (Professor Hubert Kempf (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan), CESifo Research Network Fellow.)

2019-01-24 13:00: Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks (Jean-Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris))

2019-01-28 17:00: The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the world’s first soundly-funded pension plan (David Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School)

2019-02-07 12:30: Patenting in an Entrepreneurial Region during the Great Depression:  The Case of Cleveland, Ohio (Naomi Lamoreaux Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and Professor of History, Yale University)

2019-02-11 17:00: Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain (Nicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford)

2019-02-21 13:00: Impact Investing  (Brad M Barber (UC Davis) , Professor of Finance)

2019-02-21 17:30: J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures 2019 (Professor Vasco Carvalho; Professor Brian Cheffins; Professor Raghavendra Rau; Dr Pedro Saffi and Dr Michael Tehranchi)

2019-02-25 17:00: Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution. (Dr John Gent, KCL)

2019-03-07 13:00: Competition, No-Arbitrage, and Systematic Risk (Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University) , W. P. Carey Finance, Associate Professor)

2019-03-11 17:00: Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach. (Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England)

2019-05-02 12:30: Off-Market Block Trades, Transparency and Information Efficiency: New Evidence from Futures Markets (Alex Frino (University of Wollogong, Australia))

2019-05-16 12:30: Corporate Governance and the CAPM: Some Theory and Evidence (Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Manheim), Professor of Economics and Finance.)

2019-05-23 14:30: CERF Cavalcade - 23 May 2019 (See the programme)

2019-05-30 12:30: Business Groups and the Incorporation of Firm-specific Shocks into Stock Prices (Mara Faccio (Purdue), A professor of finance and the Hanna Chair in Entrepreneurship at Purdue’s Krannert School)

2019-06-05 12:30: CERF in the City  2019 (please see the programme)

2019-06-13 12:30: Union Debt Management (Rigas Oikonomou (Universite Catholique de Louvain))

2019-09-13 13:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2019 Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-09-14 09:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium September 2019 Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-17 13:00: Simulating liquidity stress in the derivatives market (Gerardo Ferrara, Ph.D., Economist | Market Behaviour & Activities Team | Capital Markets Division, Bank of England)

2019-10-31 12:30: Agency Conflicts, Macroeconomic Risk, and Asset Prices (Adelphe Ekponon (Cambridge Judge Business School))

2019-11-11 17:00: City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century (Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge))

2019-11-28 13:00: Gender diversity in corporate boards: Evidence from a natural experiment (Olga Kuzmina)

2020-01-23 13:00: Bank Intermediation and Consumer Bankruptcy (Anne Villamil (Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the University of Iowa))

2020-01-27 17:00: Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945 (Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2020-02-03 17:00: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population (Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading)

2020-02-06 13:00: Are star lawyers also better lawyers? (Alberto Manconi (Bocconi School of Management))

2020-02-10 17:00: City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century (Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge))

2020-02-20 12:30: When Shareholders Disagree: Trading after Shareholder Meetings (Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim, Business School))

2020-02-25 17:00: Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted? (Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham))

2020-03-05 12:30: Financing and Resolving Banking Groups (joint with Albert Banal-Estanol and Julian Kolm) (Gyöngyi Lóránth (University of Vienna))

2020-03-09 17:00: Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian (James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer))

2020-04-30 13:00: Trading and shareholder democracy (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-05-11 17:00: Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36. (Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School)

2020-05-14 13:00: Financial Cycles with Heterogeneous Intermediaries (Helene Rey (London Business School))

2020-05-20 14:30: CERF Cavalcade 20 May 2020 (See the programme on the CERF website)

2020-05-28 13:00: Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims (Georgy Chabakauri is an associate professor of Finance at the LSE)

2020-06-11 13:00: Large Orders in Small Markets: On Optimal Execution with Endogenous Liquidity Supply (Albert J. Menkveld (VU University Amsterdam))

2020-09-11 14:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2020 - Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-09-12 14:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2020 - Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-10-15 13:00: Comparative Ambiguity Aversion for Smooth Utility Functions (Chiaki Hara (Kyoto University) )

2020-10-29 13:00: Optimism in the Executive Team: Corporate Asset Transactions and Stock Performance (Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht University) )

2020-11-12 13:00: Intermediary Financing without Commitment (Yunzhi Hu (Kenan Flagler) )

2020-11-26 13:00: Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations  (Karsten Müller (Princeton University))

2021-01-18 14:00: CERF in the (virtual) City 2021 (see the website)

2021-01-28 13:00: Investor Confidence and Portfolio Dynamics (Raman Uppal, EDHEC)

2021-02-01 17:00: The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation (Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE)  and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro))

2021-02-11 13:00: A Theory of Proxy Advice when Investors Have Social Goals (John Matsusaka, USC Gould)

2021-02-15 17:00: Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983 (Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-25 13:00: Title: Injunction Risk, Technology Commercialization, and Profitability (Po-Hsuan (Paul) Hsu (University of Hong Kong))

2021-03-01 17:00: Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939 (William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research))

2021-03-11 13:00: Factor demand and factor returns (Dr Cameron Peng Assistant Professor of Finance, LSE)

2021-03-15 17:00: HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009 (Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History)

2021-05-03 17:00: The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage (Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London)

2021-05-05 14:30: The CERF Cavalcade (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-05-06 17:00: Climate Risk and the Pandemic (Rob Engle (NYU Stern School of Business))

2021-05-10 17:00: Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia (Professor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2021-05-20 13:00: Women in the Financial Sector (Maria-Teresa Marchica at ABMS)

2021-06-03 13:00: Group-Managed Real Options (Lorenzo Garlappi (Sauder))

2021-06-17 13:00: Asset Transfer Measurement Rules (Lucas Mahieux (Tilburg School of Economics and Management))

2021-09-10 14:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2021 - Day 1 (Please see our website)

2021-09-11 14:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2021 - Day 2 (Please see our website)

2021-10-14 13:00: The Aggregate Consequences of Forbearance Lending: Evidence from Japan (Isabelle Roland (University of Cambridge, Economics))

2021-10-28 13:00: Asset Allocation and Returns in the Portfolios of the Wealthy (Cynthia Balloch (LSE))

2021-11-11 13:00: Pi-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets (Sebastian Ebert (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management))

2021-11-25 13:00: Harnessing the Overconfidence of the Crowd: A Theory of SPACs (Martin Szydlowski (Carlson School of Management))

2022-01-27 13:00: Monitoring Secretive Startups (Scott Guernsey (UTK))

2022-01-31 17:00: The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System (Dr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford))

2022-02-10 13:00: Strategic Default and Renegotiation: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Loans (Erkan Yönder (Concordia University))

2022-02-14 17:00: Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury))

2022-02-24 13:00: Board Diversity and Rare Disasters Risk Insurance (Dunhong Jin (Hong Kong University Business School))

2022-03-10 13:00: Stability and Evolution in Investor Ideology (Enrichetta Ravina (Chicago Fed))

2022-03-14 17:00: The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research (Dr Linda Arch (ICMA, University of Reading))

2022-03-28 17:00: Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993 (Dr Colm Murphy (Institute of Historical Research))

2022-05-05 13:00: Do Short Sellers Care about ESG? (Mehrshad Motahari (Bayes Business School, City University of London))

2022-05-10 17:00: Popular attitudes to taxation in Britain c. 1945-1992: reassessing the evidence (Dr Rosa Hodgkin (Institute for Government))

2022-05-13 17:00: The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy (John Roy Price, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon)

2022-05-18 14:30: CERF Cavalcade 2022 (See the programme on our website)

2022-05-19 13:00: The Corporate Supply of (Quasi) Safe Assets (Lira Mota (Princeton))

2022-05-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Usha Rodrigues (University of Georgia))

2022-06-09 13:00: Temperature Shocks and Industry Earnings News (Jawad M. Addoum (Cornell))

2022-06-16 13:00: Data and Welfare in Credit Markets (Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago Booth School of Business))

2022-09-16 12:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2022 (See the programme on our website)

2022-09-17 09:00: Cambridge - Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2022 (Please see the programme on our website)

2022-09-23 12:00: Cambridge - Nova Workshop  - Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-09-24 09:00: Cambridge - Nova Workshop  - Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-13 13:00: Comparing factor models with conditioning information (Seok Young Hong (Lancaster University Management School) )

2022-10-27 13:00: Momentum and Short-Term Reversals: Theory and Evidence (Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam (UCLA Anderson School of Management)

2022-11-10 13:00: Why SPACs: An Apologia (Usha Rodrigues (University of Georgia))

2022-11-24 13:00: Capital Flows and Growth in Institutional Investor Equity Ownership (Alon Brav (Duke University, CJBS Visitor) )

2023-01-26 13:00: Research Unbundling and Market Liquidity: Evidence from MiFID II (Ru Xie (University of Bath))

2023-01-30 17:00: An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992 (Dr Alain Naef, Banque de France)

2023-02-09 13:00: Market Segmentation Through Information  (Matt Elliot (Cambridge Economics) )

2023-02-13 17:00: What’s in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis. (Dr Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-23 13:00: The Rise of Anti-Activist Poison Pills (Ofer Eldar (Duke University))

2023-02-27 17:00: The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8 (Professor Susan Howson, University of Toronto)

2023-03-09 13:00: Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers (Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School))

2023-03-13 17:00: How Big Bang ruined the City.   Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed? (Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator)

2023-05-04 13:00: Taxes and Equity Risk and Return: The case of Tax-Loss Carry Forwards (Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia))

2023-05-10 14:30: CERF Cavalcade 2023 (Speakers listed on our website)

2023-05-18 12:45: Distressed Investment, Corporate Debt Liquidity, and Capital Structure (Alex Gorbenko (UCL))

2023-06-01 13:00: The Behavioral Policy Uncertainty Channel and Fiscal Analysis: Theory and Evidence (Hormoz Ramian (University of Glasgow))

2023-06-15 13:00: Proxy Voting and the Rise of ESG (Enrichetta Ravina (Chicago Fed))

2023-10-12 13:00:  Returns to Education with Earnings Uncertainty and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (Kai Liu (Faculty of Economics))

2023-10-26 13:00: Periodic portfolio selection with quasi-hyperbolic discounting (Alex Tse (UCL))

2023-11-09 12:00: The Behavioral Policy Uncertainty Channel and Fiscal Analysis: Theory and Evidence (Hormoz Ramian (University of Glasgow))

2023-11-23 13:00: CANCELLED The Dynamics of Stock Repurchases  (Grzegorz Pawlina (Lancaster University))

2024-01-25 12:30: How to discipline financial markets: reputation is not enough (Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna) )

2024-02-08 13:00: Board Gender Diversity, Innovation Ambidexterity, and Firm Performance (Ranjani Krishan)

2024-02-12 17:00: Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy (Sir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford))

2024-02-19 17:00: The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966. (Kofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-22 12:00: Nonparametric conditional factors for unbalanced panels (Paul Schneider (Swiss Finance Institute) )

2024-02-26 17:00: How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks. (David Neckar (WTW Financial Solutions))

2024-03-07 13:00: The Origins of Random Choice (Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial College London))

2024-03-11 17:00: How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.   (Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta))

2024-05-02 13:00: Policy Portfolio for Banks: Deposit Insurance and Ex-post Liquidity Injection (Lin Shen (Insead))

2024-05-15 14:30: Cavalcade 2024 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-16 12:30: Money Management and Real Investment (Simon Gervais (Duke))

2024-05-30 13:00: Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms (Chi-Yang Tsou (University of Manchester))

2024-06-13 13:00: Estimating the Private Value of Financial Statement Statistics; the abstract is below.  I hope to have a revised version ready closer to the actual presentation date. (Prof. Russell Lundholm (University of British Columbia))

2024-09-13 12:00: 2024 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-09-14 09:00: 2024 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-10-17 12:30: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Joanna Kusiak (King's College))

2024-10-31 12:30: Urban Spatial Distribution of Housing Liquidity (Francisco Amaral (University of Zurich))

2024-11-14 13:00: Hidden in plain sight: Influential sets in linear regression (Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (WU Vienna))

2024-11-28 13:00: Student Loan Forgiveness (Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago))

2025-01-30 12:30: Strategic Disclosure with Fake and Real News (Ilan Guttman (NYU Stern0)

2025-02-03 17:00: A new history of the interwar Bank of England (Dr Robert Yee (University of Oxford))

2025-02-13 12:30: Cryptocurrency ownership (Manju Puri (Duke))

2025-02-17 17:00: The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72. (Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital))

2025-02-27 12:30: Strategic competition and donor interests: An econometric approach to the market for the allocation of climate development aid for renewable energy projects (Cristina Penasco Paton (Banque de France))

2025-03-03 17:00: What does it mean to Democratize Finance? (Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-13 13:00: Measuring the Informativeness of Audit Reports: A Machine Learning Approach (Reining Petacchi (Georgetown))

2025-03-17 17:00: Money: a Treasury-centric view (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London))

2025-05-08 13:00: Farmland as an Asset Class: Investors, Returns and Real Effects (Pedro Gete (IE University))

2025-05-14 14:30: CERF Cavalcade (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-05-22 13:00: Identifying and exploiting alpha in linear asset pricing models with many potential risk factors (Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (UCS) )

2025-06-05 12:30: Tax Incentives and Venture Capital Risk-Taking (Murillo Campello (Cornell University) )

2025-06-19 13:00: Aggregation and Convexity in the Provision of Dynamic Incentives (Thomas Hemmer (Rice Business School))

2025-06-30 12:00: Cambridge - Duke Exchange Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-07-01 09:00: Cambridge - Duke Exchange Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-09-26 12:00: Cambridge Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2025 Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-09-27 09:00: Cambridge Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2025 Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-02-02 17:00: 'Muddling through or tunnelling through?’ UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism and the Great Inflation (Ryland Thomas (Bank of England))

2026-02-16 17:00: Bonds without borders: the Eurobond market (Chris O’Malley)

2026-03-02 17:00: The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective (Dr Chetun Patel (King’s College London))

2026-03-16 17:00: Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92 (Dr William Turkington (HM Treasury))