Faculty with research interests in finance and economics are invited participate by emailing the organizer, Caleb Stroup. We are affiliated with LAMAC.
2027 Spring organized by Caleb Stroup
Cody Couture (Hamilton College) “Informational Content of Congressional Wealth”
Puspa Amri and Rocky Intan (Lafayette College) “Is There a Credit Constituency? Inequality, Bank Credit, and Voting in Advanced Economies”
John Caskey (Swarthmore College) “Municipal Bankruptcy & Fiscal Distress”
Michael Gelman (Claremont McKenna College) “What Drives Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume? Temporary Shocks vs Persistent Characteristics”
2026 Fall organized by Caleb Stroup
Dong Cheng (Colgate University) “Natural Disasters and Asset Prices: Evidence from Winter Storm Uri”
Lillian Trotter (Furman University) “The Q-Theory of Mergers: Evidence from the First Two American Merger Movements”
Abigail Hornstein and Caleb Stroup (Weslyan and Davidson) “The Labor Market for Corporate Leaders: Evidence from a quarter million directors and officer appointments”
Gregory Phelan (Williams College) “Can Ethereum Survive a Run? Hidden Fragility in Crypto’s Proof-of-Stake Model”
2024-25 organized by Caleb Stroup
Giorgi Nikolasishivili (Wake Forest) "Measuring Dynamic Transmission using Pass-Through Impulse Response Functions"
Yang Jie (Lafayette), "The Impact of ESG on Director Career Prospects"
Konstantin Platonov (Loyola Marymount) "The Forward Premium Anomaly: Overlapping Generations, Multiple Equilibria, and Confidence Shocks"
2023-24 and mini-conference organized by Abigail Hornstein.
Shannon Mudd (Haverford) “Access to College Funding”
Ethan Struby and Michael Connolly, “The Fed’s Portfolio, Treasury Buybacks, and Changes in Local Supply”
Yang Fan, Lubomir Litov, Mu-Jeung Yang, and Todd Zenger, “Technological Uniqueness and Competitive Advantage”
Matthew Botsch and Isaiah West (Bowdoin), “Are Foreign Buyers Making Housing Unaffordable?”
discussion of Silicon Valley Bank led by Matthew Botsch
"Corporate legacy debt, inflation, and the efficacy of monetary policy” Udara Peiris
2022 organized by Abigail Hornstein
Dan Tortorice, “A Theory of Social Impact Bonds”
Steven Schmeiser, “Board of Discord”
Tanseli Savaser, “Does trade secret protection promote business entry rates in the US”
About the organizer:
Caleb Stroup is Associate Professor of Economics at Davidson College. Their research is on mergers and acquisitions and the market for corporate executives and directors. Please contact them to join the community or to present research.