Past Reading Groups
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 Apr 2019 |
Mikkel Baggesgaard Mertz (QMUL - PhD Student) "Labour market consequences of a criminal record" |
| 17 Nov 2021 |
Eugenio Merlano (QMUL - PhD Student) Title: TBA |
| 6 Oct 2021 |
Ezgi Kurt (QMUL - PhD Student) "Text-based methods: An overview" |
| 16 Apr 2019 |
Rodrigo Gorga Vera (QMUL - PhD Student) "Citizen monitoring and Politician's Accountability: Evidence from Twitter" |
| 30 Apr 2019 |
Elisa Facchetti (QMUL - PhD Student) "Exposure to crime and pupils’ outcome: Evidence from London" |
| 28 May 2019 |
Mikkel Baggesgaard Mertz (QMUL - PhD Student) "Labor Market Consequences of having a Criminal Record" |
| 30 Oct 2019 |
Eugenio Merlano (QMUL - PhD Student) "Boundary estimation in the regression-discontinuity design: Evidence for a merit- and need-based financial aid program" |
| 20 Nov 2019 |
Alexander Kontoghiorghes (QMUL - PhD Student) "Taking AIM at Heterogeneous Preferences and the Bequest Motive" |
| 27 Nov 2019 |
Laura Perez Cervera (QMUL - PhD Student) "E-information is Power? Internet and Allocation of Government Spending" |
| 11 Dec 2019 |
Hanifa Pilvar (QMUL - PhD Student) "The Health Outcomes of C-section: Evidence from a Large Health Care Program in Iran" |
| 10 Nov 2021 |
Mikkel Baggesgaard Mertz (QMUL - PhD Student) "DiD, Event Studies etc." |
| 19 Feb 2020 |
Elisa Facchetti (QMUL - PhD Student) "Two-way fixed effects estimators with heterogenous treatment effects" |
| 13 Oct 2021 |
Giulia Tozzi (QMUL - PhD Student) "Narco-Deforestation: The Environmental Effects of Coca Cultivation" |
| 20 Oct 2021 |
Viola Salvestrini (QMUL - PhD Student) "From minority to majority: How gender diversity affects the quality of decisions" (joint with Maddalena Ronchi) |
| 24 Nov 2021 |
Laura Perez Cervera (QMUL - PhD Student) Title: TBA |
| 3 Nov 2021 |
Gabriel Chaves Bosch (QMUL - PhD Student) "Earnings losses after job displacement" |
| 8 Dec 2021 |
Antonio Jose Leon Fernandez (QMUL - PhD Student) "Post-Audits Nepotism" |
| 15 Dec 2021 |
Yuting Wang (QMUL - PhD Student) Title: TBA |
| 19 Oct 2022 |
Alex Yarkin (Brown University) |
| 11 Oct 2018 |
Konstantinos Gkionis (QMUL - PhD Student) "Private Information and Price Regulation in the US Credit Card Market" by Scott Nelson |
| 18 Oct 2018 |
Ondrej Honzik (QMUL - PhD Student) "Benchmarks in Search Markets" by Darrell Duffie, Piotr Dworczak, and Haoxiang Zhu |
| 25 Oct 2018 |
Mina Mirshahi (QMUL - PhD Student) "Decomposing Firm Value" by Federico Belo, Vito Gala, Juliana Salomao and Maria Ana Vitorino |
| 1 Nov 2018 |
Yanbo Song (QMUL - PhD Student) "Uncertainty, Time-Varying Fear, and Asset Prices" by Itamar Drechsler |
| 8 Nov 2018 |
Haiqa Ali (QMUL - PhD Student) "Financial contracting and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Regulation of Trade Credit" by Emily Breza and Andres Liberman |
| 15 Nov 2018 |
Kazuhiro Hiraki (QMUL - PhD Student) "The Estimation of Option-Implied Measures under the Violation of the Martingale Restriction" |
| 29 Nov 2018 |
Fabio Calonaci (QMUL - PhD Student) "News Shocks and Asset Prices" by Lorenzo Bretscher, Aytek Malhozov and Andrea Tamoni |
| 6 Dec 2018 |
Dennis Iweze (QMUL - PhD Student) "A Theory of Debt Maturity: The Long and Short of Debt Overhang" by Douglas W. Diamond and Zhiguo He |
| 13 Dec 2018 |
Ali Ebadi (QMUL - PhD Student) "Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?" by R. David McLean and Jeffrey Pontiff |
| 22 Nov 2018 |
Dennis Iweze and Haiqa Ali (QMUL - PhD Students) "The Rise of the Equity Lending Market: Implications for Corporate Policies" by Pedro Saffi, Rafael Matta and Murillo Campello |
| 14 Feb 2019 |
Haiqa Ali (QMUL - PhD Student) "Managers with and without Style: Evidence Using Exogenous Variation" by Charles J. Hadlock, Joshua R. Pierce, and C. Edward Fee |
| 21 Feb 2019 |
Kazuhiro Hiraki (QMUL - PhD Student) "Margin-based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price" by Nicolae Gârleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen |
| 28 Feb 2019 |
Dennis Iweze (QMUL - PhD Student) "Performance-Sensitive Debt" by Gustavo Manso, Bruno Strulovici, and Alexei Tchistyi |
| 7 Mar 2019 |
Ondrej Honzik (QMUL - PhD Student) "Finding a Good Price in Opaque Over-the-Counter Markets" by Haoxiang Zhu |
| 14 Mar 2019 |
Yanbo Song (QMUL - PhD Student) "Financial Market Dislocations" by Paolo Pasquariello |
| 28 Mar 2019 |
Ali Ebadi (QMUL - PhD Student) "The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest" by Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam |
| 25 Apr 2019 |
Mina Mirshahi (QMUL - PhD Student) "Short Selling and the Price Discovery Process" by Juan (Julie) Wu and Ekkehart Boehmer |
| 9 May 2019 |
Dennis Iweze (QMUL - PhD Student) "Optimal Contracting and Corporate Policies" |
| 16 May 2019 |
Ondrej Honzik (QMUL - PhD Student) "Trading Fast and Slow: Competition Between Heterogeneous Liquidity Providers in an Order Driven Market" |
| 11 Apr 2019 |
Denys Iliasov (QMUL - MRes Student) "New Evidence on Measuring Financial Constraints: Moving Beyond the KZ Index" (Charles J. Hadlock and Joshua R. Pierce) |
| 16 Oct 2019 |
Alex Kontoghiorghes (QMUL - PhD Student) "Does Hedging Affect Firm Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment" by Gilje and Taillard |
| 30 Oct 2019 |
Haiqa Ali (QMUL - PhD Student) "Immigration, innovation and wage: a tale of two brain drain events in the UK" |
| 6 Nov 2019 |
Dennis Iweze (QMUL - PhD Student) "Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Savings or Foreign Taxes" by Michael W Faulkender, Kristine W Hankins, Mitchell A Petersen |
| 13 Nov 2019 |
Mina Mirshahi (QMUL - PhD Student) "A Model of Monetary Policy and Risk Premia" by Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov, and Philipp Schnabl |
| 20 Nov 2019 |
Ali Ebadi (QMUL - PhD Student) Discussion Title: TBA |
| 27 Nov 2019 |
Denys Iliasov (QMUL - PhD Student) "International Corporate Governance Spillovers: Evidence from Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions" by Rui Albuquerque, Luis Brandão-Marques, Miguel A Ferreira, Pedro Matos. |
| 4 Dec 2019 |
Ondrej Honzik (QMUL - PhD Student) "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Liquidity" by Albert Menkveld and Marius Zoican |
| 11 Dec 2019 |
Yu Bai (QMUL - Visiting PhD Student) "Comparing Asset Pricing Models" by Barillas and J. Shanken |
| 12 Feb 2020 |
Haiqa Ali (QMUL - PhD Student) "Employment Protection, Investment, and Firm Growth" by John Bai, Douglas Fairhurst, and Matthew Serfling. |
| 19 Feb 2020 |
Alex Kontoghiorghes (QMUL - PhD Student) "Taking AIM at the Bequest Motive" by Alex Kontoghiorghes |
| 26 Feb 2020 |
Ali Ebadi (QMUL - PhD Student) "Why Don’t We Agree? Evidence from a Social Network of Investors" by J. Anthony Cookson and Marina Niessner |
| 4 Mar 2020 |
Ondrej Honzik (QMUL - PhD Student) "High‐Frequency Trading around Large Institutional Orders" by Vincent van Kervel and Albert J. Menkveld |
| 11 Mar 2020 |
Denys Iliasov (QMUL - PhD Student) "Corporate Control around the World" by Gur Aminadav, Elias Papaioannou: forthcoming in The Journal of Finance. |
| 18 Mar 2020 |
Mina Mirshahi (QMUL - PhD Student) Discussion Title: TBA |