Finance Research Seminar The School of Finance hosts the Finance Research Seminar every semester. The seminar features a mix of researchers and faculty members from leading universities and research institutions. Join us! The Finance research seminar will take place every Tuesday at 12.15 for a full hour during the lecture weeks of the semester in room 01-103 (first floor in the main building), except where mentioned otherwise. For any questions concerning the organisation please contact Ass. Prof. Zeno Adams (zeno.adams@unisg.ch). => !!! The seminar of May 2nd (Luigi Guiso) is cancelled !!! <= Spring Term 2017 Date Speaker 28.02.2017 John Chalmers, University of Oregon "Is Conflicted Investment Advice Better than No Advice?" Host: Nic Schaub 07.03.2017 Florian Heider, ECB "Life Below Zero: Bank Lending Under Negative Policy Rates" Host: Jan Wrampelmeyer 14.03.2017 Stefano Corradin, ECB "The Importance of Being Special: Repo Markets During the Crisis" Host: Angelo Ranaldo 21.03.2017 Pierre Collin-Dufresne, EPFL "Informed Trading and Option Prices: Evidence from Activist Trading" Host: Angelo Ranaldo 28.03.2017 Marcel Prokopczuk, University of Hannover "What Makes the Market Jump?" Host: Roland Füss 18.04.2017 Magnus Dahlquist, Stockholm School of Economics "The Missing Risk Premium in Exchange Rates" Host: Paul Söderlind 25.04.2017 Andreas Fuster, Federal Reserve Bank of New York "The Time-Varying Price of Financial Intermediation in the Mortgage Market" Host: Martin Brown 02.05.2017 Gino Cenedese, Bank of England !!! Cancelled !!! Host: Angelo Ranaldo 09.05.2017 Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance !!! Room 01-308 !!! "Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth" Host: Martin Brown !!! 4:30-6:00 pm !!! 16.05.2017 Xin Zhang, Riksbank, Sweden "Monetary Normalizations and Customer Credit: Evidence from Fed Liftoff and Online Lending" Host: Martin Brown