Koffman Seminar Series

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Fall 2026

Sept. 11, 2026

Christian Kontz, Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Notre Dame. 

  • "From Markets to Meters: How Index Investing Affects Utility Rates" 

Fall 2025

Huan Tang, Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Pennsylvania

Quentin Dupoint, Swan Family Ignatian Assistant Professor - Georgetown University

Jawad Addoum, Associate Professor of Finance- Cornell University

Yuchen Chen, Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Ali Sanati, Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate - American University

Leyla Han, Assistant Professor of Finance - Boston University

Spring 2025

Runjiing Lu - Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, University of Toronto

Max Miller - Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvar University

Ali Sanati - Assistant Professor of Finance & Real Estate, American University

Si Cheng - Associate Professor of Finance, Syracuse University

Matthias Fleckenstein - Associate Professor of Finance, University of Deleware

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).