The Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program attracts senior researchers in the profession for short-term (1 week) visits to the Commission. The visits are intended to promote staff development by providing opportunities for SEC economists to learn from and interact with leading academic researchers in areas of interest to the Commission. DERA staff nominates and selects the distinguished scholars based on their body of work and knowledge of economic issues relevant to the Division’s ongoing research agenda. Selected scholars deliver a lecture or series of lectures on their area of expertise and have an opportunity to meet with staff outside of the Division to share their insights and to learn about the institutional details relevant to their research programs. Below is a list of distinguished scholars who have visited the SEC:

September 24 - 28
Miklos Vasarhelyi, Rutgers University
Topic: Implications of cognitive tools on accounting, reporting and auditing

October 15 - 19
Jonathan Berk, Stanford University
Topic: Money Management in Equilibrium

October 22 - 26
Kevin Murphy, University of Southern California
Topic: Executive Compensation

November 5 - 9
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Topic: Firm Organization and Corporate Finance

September 5-8
Brad Barber, University of California, Davis
Topic: Retail Investors, Mutual Funds, and Gender Bias in Finance Professions

September 11-15
Jean Helwege, University of California, Riverside
Topic: Liquidity in Bond Markets

October 16-20
Alon Brav, Duke University
Topic: Hedge Fund Activism

November 13-17
Randall Morck, University of Alberta
Topic: The Great Pyramids of America

December 11-15
Lawrence Glosten, Columbia University
Topic: Stock Market Manipulation and Its Regulation: An economic and legal analysis of manipulation

December 12-16
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Financial Fragility

October 5-11
Roger Debreceny, Shidler College of Business,University of Hawaii
Topic: XBRL/Structured Data, Financial Statement Fraud Detection, Financial Statement Ratios, Assurance, XBRL Capital Market Implications

August 29-September 2
Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris
Topic: Market Microstructure

August 8-12
Steve Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology School of Systems and Enterprises
Topic: Financial Statement Analysis, Fraud Detection

May 23-27
John Griffin, Haas School of Business
Topic: Over-the-Counter Markets

November 1-5
Andrew Lo, MIT
Topic: Foundations of Financial Behavior, Adaptive Markets and Big Data

September 15-17
Terrence Hendershott, Haas School of Business
Topic: Over-the-Counter Markets

August 31-September 3
Jianqing Fan, Princeton
Topic: Robust Measurement of Earning Surprises

August 24-28
Gideon Saar, Cornell University
Topic: Market Microstructure

August 3-6
Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
Topic: Asset Management

July 27-31
Jeffrey Coles, University of Utah
Topic: Executive Pay

June 15-19
Kerry Back, Rice University
Topic: Limit Order Books with Imperfectly Competitive Liquidity Provision

April 6-14
Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Institutional Investors and Governance

December 15-19
Craig Holden, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Topic: Model of Optimal Trading and Buy-Side Trading Strategies

November 10-14
Robert Stine, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Text Analytics and Its Application

October 20-24
Michelle Lowry, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
Topic: IPO's and Corporate Governance

September 22-26
Albert P. Kyle, Robert Smith School of Business, University of MD
Topic: An Introduction to Market Microstructure Invariance

July 28-August 1
Andrew Karolyi, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Topic: Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma

June 23-27
Alex Butler, Jones School of Business, Rice University
Topic: Causal Inference through Natural Experiments

May 27-30
Patricia Dechow, Haas Business School, University of Berkeley
Topic: Earnings Quality and the SEC