DERA Seminar Series: Outside Perspectives

October 16
Alon Brav, Duke University
Topic: Governance by Persuasion: Hedge Fund Activism and the Market for Corporate Influence

November 3
Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado at Boulder
Topic: Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital

October 3
Mohini Singh, CFA Institute
Topic: Data and Technology: Transforming the Financial Information Landscape

May 18
Dan Egan, Betterment Investment Company
Topic: Evidence-Based Improvements to Investor Behavior: The Betterment Approach

February 23
David Yermack, New York University
Topic: Blockchains and the Future of Financial Markets and Governance

October 8
Chris Plantier, Investment Company Institute
Topic: Regulated Funds, Emerging Markets, and Financial Stability

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

April 6
Grant Passmore and Denis Ignatovich, Aesthetic Integration
Topic: Formal Verification: A Way to Ensure the Safety and Fairness of Financial Algorithms

December 2
AnnaMaria Lusardi, George Washington University
Topic: The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy

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

May 1
Jay Ritter, University of Florida
Topic: IPOs and Capital Raising

January 27
Michael Greenberg, RAND Corporation
Topic: Fair Value, Historical Cost, and Systemic Risk

July 26
Amit Seru, University of Chicago
Topic: Securitization of Residential Loan Originations: A Retrospective Review

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

June 29
Gary Gorton, Yale University
Topic: Shadow Banking and the Financial Crisis

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

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

June 4
John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Did Subjectivity Play a Role in CDO Credit Ratings?

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
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

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

• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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