Hear professors from around the world speak on topics related to finance and managerial economics.
The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today.
For information about attending, please contact Denise Dobbs.
Please see below for our seminar schedule for the coming semester. We will also schedule seminars for the job market candidates at the beginning of next semester.
Last updated: January 9, 2024
2024 – 2025 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 09/06/2024 | Paymon Khorrami | Duke University | |
| Friday, 10/04/2024 | Clemens Sialm | University of Texas Austin | |
| Friday, 10/11/2024 | Xiabo Yu | University of Colorado Bouder | |
| Friday, 10/18/2024 | Shaun Davies | University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Friday, 10/25/2024 | Sean Myers | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Friday, 11/01/2024 | Anup Agarwal | University of Alabama | |
| Friday, 11/08/2024 | TBA | TBA | |
| Friday, 11/15/2024 | Dacheng Xiu | University of Chicago | |
| Friday, 12/06/2024 | Simon Gervais | Duke University |
Past Seminars
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 01/17/2024 | Hao Pang * | Duke University (Room 14.501 1:00 – 2:30) | |
| Friday, 01/19/2024 | Xiyue Li * | Univ of British Columbia | |
| Wednesday, 01/24/2024 | Patrick Blonien * | Rice University (Room 1.516 11:30) | |
| Friday, 01/26/2024 | Andrew Kane * | Duke University | |
| Wednesday, 01/31/2024 | Yury Olshanskiy * | MIT (Room 1.516 11:30) | |
| Friday, 02/02/2024 | Robin Young-hye Lee * | USC | |
| Friday, 02/06/2024 | Runjing Lu * | University of Alberta (Room 14.501 10:30) | |
| Friday, 02/09/2024 | Kristoffer Halskov * | Coppenhagen Business School | |
| Friday, 02/16/2024 | Ali Sanati * | American University | |
| Friday, 02/23/2024 | |||
| Friday, 03/01/2024 | Room 11.202 | ||
| Friday, 03/08/2024 | Xiaoji Lin | University of Minnesota | |
| Friday, 03/15/2024 | |||
| Friday, 03/22/2024 | Alp Simsek | Yale University (Room 11.202) | |
| Friday, 03/29/2024 | Stavros Panageas | UCLA | |
| Friday, 04/05/2024 | Vish Viswanathan | Duke University | |
| Friday, 04/12/2024 | Alexander Ljungvist | Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Friday, 04/19/2024 | Pulak Ghosh | Indian Institute of Management | |
| Friday, 04/26/2024 | Veronika Krepely Pool | Vanderbilt University | |
| Friday, 05/03/2024 | Simon Gervais | Duke University | |
| Friday, 05/10/2024 | Jonathan Berk | Stanford University (Room 1.508?) | |
| Friday, 05/17/2024 |
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 08/18/2023 | |||
| Friday, 08/25/2023 | |||
| Friday, 09/01/2023 | Matthew Ringgenberg | Univ of Utah | |
| Thursday, 09/08/2023 | Guofu Zhou | Washington Univ at St. Louis | |
| Friday, 09/15/2023 | |||
| Friday, 09/22/2023 | |||
| Friday, 09/29/2023 | Fall Finance Conference | ||
| Friday, 10/06/2023 | |||
| Friday, 10/13/2023 | |||
| Friday, 10/20/2023 | John Griffin | Univ of Texas at Austin | |
| Friday, 10/27/2023 | Yufeng Wu | University of Connecticut | |
| Friday, 11/03/2023 | Kathleen Hanley | Lehigh University | |
| Friday, 11/10/2023 | Brett Green | Washington Univ at St. Louis | |
| Friday, 11/17/2023 | Giorgia Piancentino | Univ of Southern California | |
| Friday, 11/24/2023 | Fall Break | ||
| Friday, 12/01/2023 | David McLean | Georgetown University | |
| Friday, 12/08/2023 | Yao Zeng | Univ of Pennsylvania | |
| Friday, 12/15/2023 | Carlos Avenancio-Leon | Univ of California San Diego |
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 01/20/2023 | Xu Lu | Stanford | |
| Thursday, 01/26/2023 | Emil Lakkis | University of Michigan | |
| Friday, 01/27/2023 | Charlotte Haendler | Boston College | |
| Thursday, 02/02/2023 | Yuchen Chen | University of Minnesota | |
| Friday, 02/03/2023 | Alex Priest | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Friday, 02/17/2023 | Yiming Ma | Columbia University | |
| Friday, 02/24/2023 | Mindy Xiaolan | UT Austin | |
| Friday, 03/03/2023 | Benjamin Keys | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Friday, 03/10/2023 | Jason Donaldson | Washington University | |
| Friday, 03/17/2023 | Spring break | ||
| Friday, 03/24/2023 | Urban Jermann | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Friday, 03/31/2023 | Michael Ewens | Columbia University | |
| Friday, 04/07/2023 | Dong Lou | London School of Economics | 9:00 am virtual |
| Friday, 04/14/2023 | Nadya Malenko | University of Michigan | |
| Friday, 04/21/2023 | Hank Bessembinder | ASU | |
| Friday, 04/28/2023 | Lukas Schmid | USC | |
| Friday, 05/05/2023 | Ran Duchin | Boston College |
*Candidate speakers
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 9/2/2022 | Constantine Yannelis | Chicago Booth | |
| Friday, 9/9/2022 | Amiyotash Purnanandam | University of Michigan | |
| Friday, 9/16/2022 | Manuel Adelino | Duke University | |
| Friday, 9/23/2022 | Jarrad Harford | Washington | |
| Friday, 9/30/2022 | Francois Gourio | Chicago Federal Reserve | |
| Friday, 10/7/2022 | UTD Conference | ||
| Friday, 10/14/2022 | Lone Star Conference | ||
| Friday, 10/21/2022 | Hong Liu | Washington University | Room 2.717 |
| Friday, 10/28/2022 | William Fuchs | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Friday, 11/4/2022 | Geoffrey Tate | University of Maryland | |
| Friday, 11/11/2022 | Jennie Bai | Georgetown University | |
| Friday, 11/18/2022 | Alok Kumar | University of Miami | |
| Friday, 11/25/2022 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Friday, 12/2/2022 | Christine Parlour | Berkley | |
| Friday, 12/9/2022 | Yao Zeng | Wharton School of Business | Room 14.501 |
*Candidate speakers
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 3/6/2020 | Bo Bian | University of British Columbia |
| Friday, 3/13/2020 | Zhi Da | University of Notre Dame |
| Friday, 3/20/2020 | Spring Break | |
| Friday, 3/27/2020 | Hui Chen | MIT |
| Friday, 4/3/2020 | Stefan Zeume | University of Michigan |
| Friday, 4/10/2020 | Todd Gormley | Washington Univ in St. Louis |
| Friday, 4/17/2020 | Tim McQuade | Stanford University |
| Friday, 4/24/2020 | Boris Vallee | Harvard University |
| Friday, 5/1/2020 | Selale Tuzel | University of Southern California |
*Candidate speakers
Seminar time in the Spring is Friday from 10:30 am -12:00 pm
Due to COVID-19 all Spring 2020 Seminar’s were canceled.
Seminars in the Fall will be virtual and times may vary, please check here for start times and links one week before the seminar.
| Date | Name of the Speaker | School |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 9/6/19 | Winston Dou | University of Pennsylvania |
| Friday 9/13/19 | Kewei Hou | Ohio State University |
| Friday 9/20/19 | Jeff Coles | University of Utah |
| Friday 9/27/19 | Francesco D’Acunto | Boston College |
| Friday 10/4/19 | UTD Finance Conference | |
| Friday 10/11/19 | Brian Melzer | Dartmouth College |
| Friday 10/18/19 | ||
| Friday 10/25/19 | Off Week | FMA |
| Friday 11/1/19 | Tobias Berg | Frankfurt School of Business |
| Tuesday 11/5/19 | Tarun Ramadorai | Imperial School of London |
| Friday 11/8/19 | TCU Conference | |
| Friday 11/15/19 | Travis Johnson | Univ of Texas at Austin |
| Friday 11/22/19 | ||
| Friday 11/29/19 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Friday 12/6/19 | Yuehua Tang | University of Florida |
| Date | Speaker | School |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 1/9/19 | Gregory Eaton (Room 12.210) | Oklahoma State University |
| Wednesday, 1/16/19 | Alex Chinco | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Friday, 1/18/19 | Denis Sosyura | Arizona State University |
| Wednesday, 1/23/19 | Dmitriy Muravyev | Boston College |
| Friday, 1/25/19 | Michael Hasler | University of Toronto |
| Wednesday, 1/30/19 | Ruidi Huang | University of Illinois |
| Friday, 2/1/19 | Siyu Lu | Carnegie Mellon |
| Wednesday, 2/6/19 | Ramin Baghai | Stockholm School of Economics |
| Friday, 2/8/19 | Michael Wittry | University of Washington |
| Wednesday, 2/13/19 | Donghwa Shin | Princeton |
| Friday, 2/15/19 | Bo Bian | London Business School |
| Wednesday, 2/20/19 | Christoph Schiller | University of Toronto |
| Friday, 2/22/19 | David Sovich | Washington University St. Louis |
| Wednesday, 2/27/19 | Ishita Sen | London Business School |
| Friday, 3/1/19 | Xiaoyun Yu | Indiana University |
| Friday, 3/15/19 | Lauren Cohen | Harvard Business School |
| Friday, 3/29/19 | Yuliy Sannikov | Stanford University |
| Friday, 4/5/19 | Itay Goldstein | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Friday, 4/12/19 | Vikas Agarwal | Georgia State University |
| Friday, 4/19/19 | Ben Iverson | Brigham Young University |
| Friday, 4/26/19 | Camelia Kuhnen | University of North Carolina |
| Date | Name of Speaker, School |
|---|---|
| Friday, 9/14/2018 | David Schoenherr, Princeton University |
| Friday, 9/28/2018 | Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin |
| Friday, 10/19/2018 | Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University |
| Friday, 10/26/2018 | Heber Farnsworth, University of Oklahoma |
| Wednesday, 10/31/2018 | Gilles Chemla, Imperial College London |
| Friday, 11/2/2018 | Vincent Glode, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Friday, 11/9/2018 | Ryan Israelsen, Michigan State University |
| Friday, 11/30/2018 | Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College |
Finance Program Resources at the Jindal School
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