Explore past Clarence Tow Lectures in Finance.

External Seminar Series

Fall 2025
DateSpeaker
September 12, 2025Sugata Ray (University of Alabama)
September 19, 2025Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School)
October 3, 2025Pari Sastry (Wharton)
October 10, 2025David Bates Memorial Conference
October 31, 2025Stefan Zeume (UIUC)
November 5, 2025Giulio Trigilia (University of Rochester)
November 14, 2025Gerald Hoberg (University of Sourther California)
December 5, 2025Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia)

Spring 2025

DATE

SPEAKER

February 7

Riccardo Sabbatucci

Wharton

February 14

Tony Zhang

Federal Reserve Board

February 21

Ping Liu

Purdue University

February 28

Andrea Vedolin

Boston University

March 14

Parinitha Sastry

Columbia University

March 26

Jiekun Huang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 4

Tong Liu

MIT

April 11

Stuart Vincent Craig

UW-Madison

April 18

Matt Billett

Indiana University

May 2

Richard Thakor

University of Minnesota

May 9

Benjamin Golez

University of Notre Dame

Spring 2024
DateSpeaker
January 26Anthony DeFusco
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 2Matteo Binfare
University of Missouri
February 9San Byung Seo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 14Daniel Bauer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 16Martin Grace
Temple University
March 1Chuck Fang
Drexel University
March 22Colin Ward
University of Minnesota
March 29Josh Lerner
Harvard University
April 5Filippo Mezzanotti
Northwestern University
May 1David Zhang
Rice University
May 3Constantine Yannelis
University of Chicago
May 10Ishita Sen
Harvard University

Fall 2023
DateSpeaker
August 25Casey Rothschild
Wellesley College
September 1Mike Wittry
Ohio State University
September 8David Schreindorfer
Arizona State University
September 15Ting Xu
University of Toronto
September 22Tatyana Deryugina
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 29Manuel Adelino
Duke University
October 6Pete Kyle
University of Maryland
October 13Kenneth Ahern
University of Southern California
October 20Eliezer Fich
Drexel University
October 27David Dicks
Baylor University
November 10Alex Hsu
Georgia Tech
November 17Dongho Song
John Hopkins University
December 1Jan Bena
University of British Columbia
December 8Corina Mommaerts
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Spring 2023
DateSpeaker
January 20Shan Ge
New York University
February 3Nadya Malenko
University of Michigan
February 10Daron Acemoglu
MIT
February 17Michael Ewens
Columbia University
February 24David Robinson
Duke University
March 3Manju Puri
Duke University
March 10Matteo Maggiori
Stanford University
March 24Tony Cookson
University of Colorado at Boulder
March 31Mike Gallmeyer
University of Virginia
April 14Tracy Wang
University of Minnesota
April 21Anita Mukherjee
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 28Wenyu Wang
Indiana University
May 5Gordon Philips
Dartmouth

Fall 2022
Datespeaker
September 7Xiaoyun Yu
Indiana University and SAIF
September 9Paige Ouimet
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
September 23Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago
October 7Michael S. Weisbach
Ohio State University
October 14Joan Farre-Mensa
University of Illinois Chicago
October 28Jaroslav Borovicka
New York University
November 11Uday Rajan
University of Michigan
November 18Tyler Jensen
Iowa State University
December 2Jeremy Stein
Harvard University
December 9Yufeng Wu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Internal Brown Bag Seminar Series

Fall 2025
DateSpeaker
October 8, 2025Cameron Ellis
October 15, 2025Siegfried Anyomi
October 22, 2025Yitao Zhong
October 29, 2025Runyu Zhang
November 5, 2025Jiajie Xu
November 12, 2025Ziyang Jia
November 19, 2025Meghan Esson
December 3, 2025Petra Sinagl
December 10, 2025Haocheng Xu

Spring 2025

DATE

SPEAKER

January 24Anand Vijh
March 7Tom Rietz
March 12Petra Sinagl
April 2Hsiang-hung Tien
April 9Umang Khetan
April 16Cameron Ellis
April 23Meghan Esson
April 30John Lewis
May 7Maris Jensen

Spring 2024
DateSpeaker
January 31Foti Grigoris
February 7Petra Sinagl
February 21Amrita Nain
February 28Yangen Li
March 6Haocheng Xu
March 20Runyu Zhang
March 27Cameron Ellis
April 3Hsiang-hung Tien
April 10Jiajie Xu
April 17Sepehr Roudini
April 24John Lewis

Fall 2023
DateSpeaker
August 30Sepehr Roudini
September 6Umang Khetan
September 13Yi Hao
September 20Siegfried Anyomi
September 27Richard Peter
October 18Tom Rietz
October 25Siegfried Anyomi
November 1Cameron Ellis
November 8Meghan Esson
November 15Maris Jensen
November 29Luciano De Castro Filho
December 6Petra Sinagl

Spring 2023
DateSpeaker
February 22John Lewis
March 1Petra Sinagl
March 8Richard Peter
March 29Robert Owen (Economics)
April 12Amrita Nain
April 19Sepehr Roudini
April 26Ela Seyed Alikhani
May 3Siegfried Anyomi

Fall 2022
DateSpeaker
August 26Brooke Wang
September 2Jasmine Shu
September 16Hyunbok Wee
September 30Joseph Arthur
October 12Jasmine Shu
October 26Cameron Ellis
November 2Jiajie Xu
November 16Umang Khetan

More past seminars

Spring 2022
DateSpeaker
January 28
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.		Soohun Kim, KAIST (virtual)
Capital Allocation and the Market for Mutual Funds: Inspecting the Mechanism
February 11
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.		Martijn Boons, Tilburg (virtual)
Dynamic Asset (Mis)Pricing: Build-up versus Resolution Anomalies
February 18
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Petra Sinagl, Iowa
Each Time, It is Really Different: Heterogeneous Crises and Asset Prices
March 4
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Tor-Erik Bakke, UIC
The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity Policy
March 11
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.		Xiaoyan Zhang, Tshinghua (virtual)
When Do Informed Short Sellers Trade? Evidence from Intraday Data and Implications for Informed Trading Models
March 25
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Tim McQuade, UC Berkeley
The Contribution of High-skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
April 1
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Mariassunta Gianetti, Stockholm School of Economics (virtual)
Supply Chain Risk: Changes in Supplier Composition and Vertical Integration
April 15
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		George Jiang, Washington State
High Beta Stock Valuation around Macroeconomic Announcements
April 22
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Ravi Bansal, Duke (virtual)
Identifying preference for early resolution from asset prices
April 29
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		James Weston, Rice
May 6
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Art Durnev, Iowa

Fall 2021
DateSpeaker
August 27Tingting Liu, Iowa State University
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations
September 10Tetyana Balyuk, Emory University
Small Bank Financing and Funding Hesitancy in a Crisis: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
September 17Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Scope, Scale, and Competition: the 21th Century Firm
September 24Jaewoo Kim, University of Oregon
Do Managers Voluntarily Disclose to Guide Themselves Through Policy Uncertainty? A Managerial Learning Perspective
October 8Umang Khetan, University of Iowa
Price Discovery in Over-the-counter Markets: Evidence from Foreign Exchange
October 15Robert Owen, University of Iowa
Rethinking the Foundations of Economics and Finance
October 29Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago
Re-Imag(in)ing Price Trends
November 12Art Durnev, University of Iowa
Disasterification of Corporate Finance
November 19Michael O'Doherty, University of Missouri
The Long Horizon Returns of Stocks, Bonds, and Bills: Evidence from a Broad Sample of Developed Markets
December 3Jasmine Shu, University of Iowa
The Wall and Wall Street
Joseph Arthur, University of Iowa
The Value Relevance of Impact Ratios
December 10Sepehr Roudini, University of Iowa
Policy Enforcement, Partisanship, and Corporate Performance

Spring 2021
DateSpeaker
March 5Chris Penney, University of Iowa
Does Tail Risk Explain the Hidden Risk of Zero-R2 Hedge Funds?
March 12Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University
Interest Rates and the Distribution of Housing Wealth
March 19Kewei Hou, Ohio State University
Security Analysis: An Investment Perspective
March 26Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial  College
Signaling through Carbon Disclosure
April 2Tengjia Shu, University of Iowa
Identifying Signals of the Cross Section of Stock Returns
April 9Chris Odinet, Collegge of Law, University of Iowa
Predatory Fintech and the Politics of Banking
April 16Laurent Barras, McGill University
Hedge Fund Performance under Misspecified Models
April 23Hyunbok Wee, University of Iowa
Estimating Nonlinear Investment-q Relation in the Presence of Measurement Error
May 7Phillipp Illeditsch, Texas A&M
Demand Disagreement