LAC Finance Workshop

Faculty with research or teaching interests in financial economics are invited to join our community by emailing the organizer, Caleb Stroup (Davidson College)

Our interests span financial economics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. We are affiliated with the Conference of Macroeconomists from Liberal Arts Colleges. 

Past workshop schedules:

Spring 2023 programming was organized by Abigail Hornstein (Wesleyan) and held on zoom, with the link emailed roughly a week prior to registered faculty. 

• Friday March 17, 1-2pm EST – discussion of Silicon Valley Bank led by Matthew Botsch

• Thursday March 30, 7:30-9pm EST – presentation by Udara Peiris of “Corporate legacy debt, inflation, and the efficacy of monetary policy” (joint work with Charles A.E. Goodhart, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, and Xuan Wang) followed by a social hour

• Thursday April 27, 7:30-9pm EST – presentation by Ryuichiro Izumi and a social hour

Fall 2022 workshop was organized by Abigail Hornstein (Wesleyan). Friday December 16, 2-5:30pm EST – mini-conference:

• • • 2-2:30pm – Shannon Mudd (Haverford) joint with a recent Haverford alum, “Access to College Funding”

    • 2:45-3:15pm – Ethan Struby and Michael Connolly, “The Fed’s Portfolio, Treasury Buybacks, and Changes in Local Supply”

    • 3:30-4pm – Yang Fan, Lubomir Litov, Mu-Jeung Yang, and Todd Zenger, “Technological Uniqueness and Competitive Advantage”  Paper and appendix

    • 4:15-4:45pm – Matthew Botsch and Isaiah West (Bowdoin ’19), “Are Foreign Buyers Making Housing Unaffordable? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Vancouver”

Spring 2022 workshop schedule was:

• Thursday February 24, 7-8 pm EST – Dan Tortorice presented “A Theory of Social Impact Bonds”

• Friday March 18, 1:30-3 pm EST – Steven Schmeiser presented “Board of Discord”

• Thursday April 21, 7-8:30 pm EST – Tanseli Savaser presented “Does trade secret protection promote business entry rates in the US” (joint with Asli Leblebicioglu & Elif Sisli Ciamarra)

The schedule for 2024 onwards will be determined in March/April; please contact the lead organizer if you’d like to present research.