Finance Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Burridge Center for Finance
Finance seminars meet on Fridays from 11:00am-12:15pm in KOBL 204 unless otherwise noted.
Papers are available upon request. Please email Leeds Faculty Support (facsupport@colorado.edu)
Seminars are open to Leeds faculty and PhD students, or by permission.
Fall 2026 Presenter Schedule
Date | Room | Presenter | Affiliation |
Friday, September 11, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Purnoor Tak | NYU Stern |
Friday, September 18, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Agathe Pernoud | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Friday, October 2, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Matthew Denes | Carnegie Mellon University |
Friday, October 9, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Rabih Moussawi | Villanova University |
Friday, October 23, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Pat Adams | University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
Friday, October 30, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Yud Izhakian | NYU Stern |
Friday, November 13, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Sumudu Watugala | Indiana University |
Friday, November 20, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Livia Yi | Boston College |
Friday, December 4, 2026 | KOBL 204 | Sumit Agarwal | National University of Singapore |
Spring 2027 Schedule
Date | Room | Presenter | Affiliation |
Friday, February 5, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Nikolai Roussanov | University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
Friday, February 12, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Christopher Stanton | Harvard Business School |
Friday, February 19, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Stefan Nagel | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Friday, February 26, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Jeff Pontiff | Boston College |
Friday, March 5, 2027 | KOBL 204 | John Griffin | University of Texas – Austin |
Friday, March 26, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Michael Weber | Purdue University/ESMT Berlin |
Friday, April 2, 2027 | KOBL 204 | James Choi | Yale School of Management |
Friday, April 9, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Sophie Calder-Wang | University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
Friday, April 16, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Brett Green | Washington University in St. Louis |
Friday, April 23, 2027 | KOBL 204 | Tania Babina | University of Maryland |
Sumudu Watugala
Kelley School of Business - Indiana University
Research interests: Financial intermediaries, investments, international finance, asset management, financial crisis, disasters, emerging markets, energy, and commodities
Hanyi (Livia) Yi
Carroll School of Management - Boston College
Research interest: Corporate finance
Sumit Agarwal
National University of Singapore
Research interests: applied microeconomics, household sustainability, financial institutions, fintech,
behavioral economics, real estate and urban economics
Agathe Pernoud
Matt Denes
Rabih Moussawi
Patrick Adams
Yud Izhakian
Jason Donaldson
Marshall School of Business - USC
Agathe Pernoud
Matt Denes
Rabih Moussawi
Patrick Adams
Yud Izhakian
Jason Donaldson
Marshall School of Business - USC
Sumudu Watugala
Kelley School of Business - Indiana University
Research interests: financial intermediaries, investments, international finance, asset management, financial crisis, disasters, emerging markets, energy, and commodities
Hanyi (Livia) Yi
Carroll School of Management - Boston College
Research interest: corporate finance
Sumit Agarwal
National University of Singapore
Research interests: applied microeconomics, household sustainability, financial institutions, fintech,
behavioral economics, real estate and urban economics
Nikolai Roussanov
Wharton School of Business - University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: asset pricing, econometrics., household finance and macroeconomics
Christopher Stanton, Stefan Nagel, Jeffrey Pontiff
John Griffin
McCombs School of Business - Universtiy of Texas at Austin
Research interests: asset pricing, empirical methods, international finance, investment management
Michael Weber
Purdue University & ESMT Berlin
Research interests: macroeconomics, asset pricing, international finance and household finance
James Choi
Yale School of Management
Research interests: analytics, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, behavioral science, consumer behavior, decision-making, economics, financial markets
Sophie Calder-Wang
Wharton School of Business - University of Pennsylvania
Research interests industrial organization, digitization and urban economics
Brett Green
Olin School of Business - Washington University of St. Louis
Research interests: economics, microeconomics/industrial organization, corporate finance, finance/investments, financial economics
Tania Babina
Robert H. Smith School of Business - University of Maryland
Research interests: corporate finance, innovation, labor and finance
TBD