The Brazilian Finance Society (SBFin), in partnership with researchers from several Brazilian and international centers, invites all interested parties to participate in the series of virtual seminars on Finance.

The Virtual Brazilian Finance Seminar aims to connect Brazilian researchers linked to postgraduate programs in economics in Brazil and abroad to debate research in different areas of financial economics.

Registration is completely free and a certificate will be issued for participants.

 

Format

1. Each seminar will comprise of a 45-minute presentation followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.

2. Each seminar will require its own registration.
 

 

Seminars schedule

 

 

Date: August 25, 2023

Time: 04:00 PM - Sao Paulo Time (GMT-3)

Title: “TBA”

Speaker: Natasha Sarin (Yale Law School)

Access link (Zoom): https://usp-br.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcOmrrDIoGtHIzUSS7hu8EV8sqNoNFhz5#/registration 

 

 

Past Seminars

 

Date: May 26, 2023 

Title: “Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access”

Speaker: José Ignacio Cuesta (Stanford University) | Youtube Recording

 

Date: October 28, 2022

Title: "The Labor Effects of Judicial Bias in Bankruptcy" 

Speaker: Flavio Moraes (FGV EPGE)

 

Date: August 26, 2022 

Title: "Strategically Staying Small: Regulatory Avoidance and the CRA" 

Speaker: Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)

 

Date: June 26, 2022 

Title: Learning a functional control for high-frequency finance | 

Speaker: Laura Leal (Goldman Sachs | Princeton University)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: May 27, 2022

Title: The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil∗

Speaker: Julia Fonseca (University of Illinois)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: April 29, 2022 

Title: Granular Investors and International Bond Prices: Scarcity-Induced Safety∗ |

Speaker: Juliana Salomão (University of Minnesota)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: March 25, 2022 

Title: "Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows" 

Speaker: Dejanir Silva (Purdue University)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: December 3, 2021

Title: Payout policies and taxes: Conflicts between large shareholders and minority ones

Speaker: Walter Novaes (PUC-Rio)

Paper

 

Date: October 29, 2021 

Title: The Bond, Equity, and Real Estate Term Structures

Speaker: Andrei S. Gonçalves (University of North Carolina)

Paper

 

Date: September 24, 2021 

Time: 4:00 PM (GMT-3)

Title: The strategic choice of peers in M&A valuations

Speaker: Rodrigo Verdi (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: August 27, 2021 

Title: The Working Capital Credit Multiplier

Speaker: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois)

Paper | Youtube Recording

 

Date: October 9, 2020

Title: Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World

Speaker: Pedro Matos (University of Virginia - Darden School of Business)

Paper 

 

Date: September 25, 2020

Title: Ownership Concentration and Firm Value: New Evidence from Owner Stakes in IPOs

Speaker: Borja Larrain (PUC /Chile - Business School)

Paper 

 

Date: August 28, 2020

Title: Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance

Speaker: Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics)

Paper Youtube Recording

 

Date: August 14, 2020

Tema: Should Information be Sold Separately? Evidence from MiFID II

Speaker: Lira Mota (Columbia Business School)

PaperYoutube recording

 

Date: July 31, 2020

Title: Hedging Risk Factors

Speaker: Bernard Herskovic (UCLA)

PaperYoutube recording

 

Date: July 3, 2020

Title: Betting on conditional alphas

Speaker: Marcelo Fernandes (FGV EESP)

Youtube recording

 

Date: June 16, 2020

Title: Under-diversification and idiosyncratic risk externalities

Speaker: Felipe Iachan (FGV EPGE)

PaperYoutube recording

 

Date: June 5, 2020

Title: Securities Lending and Information Acquisition

Speaker: Pedro Saffi (JBS - Cambridge University)

PaperYoutube recording

 

Data: May 22, 2020

Title: The Effect of Firm Cash Holdings on Monetary Policy

Speaker: André C. Silva (Nova SBE)

Paper 

 

Date: May 8, 2020

Title: Price Transparency in OTC Equity Lending Markets: evidence from a loan fee benchmark

Speaker: Bruno Giovannetti (FGV EESP)

PaperYoutube recording