Koffman Seminar Series

Fall 2024

Gaurav Kankanhalli - Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pittsburgh 

  • "Uncertainty Creates Zombie Firms: Implications for Industry Dynamics and Creative Destruction" with Kevin Aretz (University of Manchester), Murillo Campello (Cornell University), and Kevin Schneider (University of Cambridge)

Toomas Laarits - Assistant Professor of Finance, New York University

  • "The Retail Habitat" with Marco Sammon (Harvard)

Minmo Gahng - Assistant Professor of Finance, Cornell University

  • "Selling Private Equity Fees" with Blake Jackson (University of Florida)

Lin Peng - Krell Chair Professor of Finance, Baruch College

  • "Wisdom or Whims? Decoding Investor Trading Strategies with Large Language Models" with Shuaiyu Chen (Purdue University) and Dexin Zhou (Baruch College)

Gaurav Kankanhalli - Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2024

Sean Flynn - Assistant Professor of Finance, Cornell University

  • "Social Connections and Bank Deposit Funding" with Jing Wang (Missouri).

Emmanuel Yimfor - Assistant Professor of Finance, Columbia University

  • "Board Diversity in Private vs. Public Firms" with Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt) and James P. Weston (Rice).

Fall 2023

Marius Guenzel - Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Pennsylvania

  • "Excess Commitment in R&D" with Tong Liu (MIT).

Yu Shan - Assistant Professor of Finance, Syracuse University

  • "Intangible Customer Capital and Banking Resilience" with Joel F. Houston (Florida) and Hongyu Shan (Fordham).