The Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, in collaboration with SEC University, hosts an ongoing Outside Perspectives Series where academic and industry speakers are invited to discuss topics of current interest to SEC staff. These one and a half hour talks target a broader set of Commission staff than attendees of our traditional academic series, including staff from rule-writing divisions and senior policymakers. The series allows SEC staff to learn from and interact with experts in topics of special importance and/or of broad interest to the Commission. For a list of upcoming and previous seminars, see below.
Recent Speakers
Fall 2016
November 3
Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado at Boulder
Topic: Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital
October 3
Mohini Singh, CFA Institute
Topic: TBA
Spring 2016
May 18
Dan Egan, Betterment Investment Company
Topic: Evidence-Based Improvements to Investor Behavior: The Betterment Approach
Winter 2016
February 23
David Yermack, New York University
Topic: Blockchains and the Future of Financial Markets and Governance
Past Outside Perspectives Speakers
Fall 2015
October 8
Chris Plantier, Investment Company Institute
Topic: Regulated Funds, Emerging Markets, and Financial Stability
Summer 2015
July 22
Stefan Hunt, UK FCA
Topic: Is Financial Disclosure for Consumers Ever Effective? Evidence from UK Field, Lab and Natural Experiments
June 23
Karel Engelen, International Swaps Derivatives Association (ISDA)
Topic: OTC Derivative Taxonomy
Spring 2015
April 6
Grant Passmore and Denis Ignatovich, Aesthetic Integration
Topic: Formal Verification: A Way to Ensure the Safety and Fairness of Financial Algorithms
Fall 2014
December 2
AnnaMaria Lusardi, George Washington University
Topic: The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy
Summer 2014
August 27
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang, Cornell University
Topic: Can Short-Selling Help Correct Under-Pricing
August 19
Steven Crawford, University of Houston
Topic: The CEO-Employee Pay Ratio
Spring 2014
May 1
Jay Ritter, University of Florida
Topic: IPOs and Capital Raising
Winter 2014
January 27
Michael Greenberg, RAND Corporation
Topic: Fair Value, Historical Cost, and Systemic Risk
Summer 2013
July 26
Amit Seru, University of Chicago
Topic: Securitization of Residential Loan Originations: A Retrospective Review
Fall 2012
December 12
Ethan Mollick, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: The Dynamics of Crowdfunding
October 25
John Core, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Is U.S. CEO Compensation Broken?
October 5
John Julsman, Hulsman Enterprises
Topic: A Discussion of the European Financial Crisis
Summer 2012
June 29
Gary Gorton, Yale University
Topic: Shadow Banking and the Financial Crisis
Fall 2011
October 12
Jordan Seigel, Harvard University
Topic: What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms
September 29
Christian Leuz, University of Chicago
Topic: Disclosure-related
Spring 2011
May 12
Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University
Topic: Flow toxicity, liquidity crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading
February 17
Merritt Fox, Columbia Law School
Topic: The Effectiveness of Mandatory Disclosure: an Empirical Test of the Line of Business Regulations
Summer 2010
June 4
John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Did Subjectivity Play a Role in CDO Credit Ratings?
Spring 2010
May 13
Andrew Metrick, Chief Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers and Yale University; and Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado
Topic: corporate governance ratings
April 29
Frank Hatheway, Chief Economist, Claude Courbois, Managing Economist, Director of Research, and Nick Hirschey, NASDAQ
Topic: high frequency trading on NASDAQ
April 27
John Morrall, Former Deputy Administrator for OIRA; Richard Williams, Managing Director, Regulatory Studies Program, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; and Michael Livermore, Executive Director, Institute for Policy Integrity, NYU School of Law
Topic: economic analysis in federal rulemaking
April 1
Robert Shiller, Yale University
Topic: The Case for Trills Giving the People and Their Pension Funds a Stake in the Wealth of the Nation
February 22
Adam Ashcraft, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Topic: asset-backed securities
February 9
Sean Dobson and Laurie Goodman,, Amherst Securities
Topic: mortgage markets
January 7
Ian Domowitz, Milan Borkovec, and Kevin O’Connor, Investment Technology Group (ITG)
Topic: measuring the price impact of stock trading
Fall 2009
December 3
Juhani Linnainmaa, The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
Topic: investor characteristics and stock market participation
November 10
Sal L. Arnuk, Themis Trading
Topic: high frequency trading
November 5
Jeffrey Blockinger, Chief Legal Officer, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group; Thomas Fritsch, General Counsel, Plainfield Asset Management LLC; and Edward McNamara, General Counsel, Plainfield Direct, Inc.
Topic: hedge fund compliance
Summer 2009
Andrei Kirilenko, CFTC
Sophie Shive, University of Notre Dame
Fabrizio Ferri, Harvard University
David Reeb, Temple University
Avri Ravid, Rutgers University
Lee Pinkowitz, Georgetown University
James Vickrey, New York Fed
Spring 2009
Srinivasan Sankaraguruswamy, National University of Singapore
Kose John, New York University
Milton Harris, University of Chicago
Russ Wermers, University of Maryland
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
Jennifer Carpenter, New York University
Fall 2008
Jay Dahya, Baruch College/CUNY
Brad Barber, UC Davis
Alex Frino, University of Sydney
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board
Alex Edmans, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Yung, University of Colorado
Summer 2008
Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland
Gerard Hoberg, University of Maryland
Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University
Jim Hsieh, George Mason University
Ugur Lel, Federal Reserve Board
Gjergji Cici, William and Mary
Spring 2008
Jack Cooney, Texas Tech University
Otto Van Hemert, New York University
Harold Mulherin, University of Georgia
Laura Starks, University of Texas
Lalitha Naveen, Temple University
Fall 2007
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University
Richard Evans, University of Virginia
Andrew Karolyi, Ohio State University
Mila Getmansky, UMass - Amherst
Mark Mitchell, CNH Partners
Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2007
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley Department of Economics
Pete Kyle, University of Chicago
Gregory Duffee, University of California, Berkeley
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Gary Gorton, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
Alon Brav, Duke University
JB Heaton, Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar and Scott, LLP
Fall 2006
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University
Robert Engle, New York University
Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Berk, University of California, Berkeley
Terry Hendershott, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Brennan, University of California, Los Angeles and London School of Business