Under the guidance of Pr. Cecilia Parlatore, the NYU Stern Finance Reading Group discusses topical papers for research in Finance. In these meetings, students can keep up with the latest contributions to their field, while receiving exposure to relevant works in other fields of Finance. The reading group also offers a platform to sharpen presentation skills.
The reading group meets every other Tuesday at 9:15am in the Gruber room (KMC 9th floor).
To participate to the reading group, please email Pr. Cecilia Parlatore.
As it is quite demanding, the reading group is opened to students in their third year and up. Second-year students in their spring semester may occasionally join after explicit authorization from Pr. Parlatore.
To attend the reading group, you must submit a paper. There is no representation without taxation.
Every week, each student submits a paper online. Please submit a paper that you think is good. Pr. Parlatore reserves the right to veto a paper that she thinks is not suitable－after such a veto, you will be asked to submit an alternative.
From the submitted papers, Pr. Parlatore will choose 1 or 2 papers to be given as 20-minute presentations (by those who submitted them). 20-minute presenters typically prepare overheads.
Students whose submissions were not chosen for a 20-minute presentation are exposed to a risk of being called upon for a 5-minute presentation during the reading group meeting. Therefore, all students attending the reading group should be prepared for a 5-minute presentation.
Students who present for either 5 or 20 minutes are expected to be in command of the papers.
Papers must be submitted by Tuesday at 9:15am one week prior to the meeting (no exceptions!). The chosen 20-minute presentations will be known by noon on Friday, so that they have time to prepare.
Regular attendance is the norm.
Slides are meant to help you present, not to substitute your presentation.
The general rule for a clear presentation is one idea per slide.
7-8 slides should be more than enough for a 20-minute presentation.
Not everything in the paper belongs in a presentation, especially a 20-minute one.
Keep your slide formatting simple:
Avoid visual contamination by minimizing headers and most footers (number of slides, title of the presentation, and presenter name are ok).
Use the title to convey information!
If you are going to ignore it in your presentation, it shoudn't be on the slide.
Use pauses! Pause to separate ideas while you are presenting, and use \pause in your slides.
Don't abuse to \pause!
Slide transitions are important! What you say when going fromm one idea to the next has a big impact in how your presentation comes across.
Granular Instrumental Variables, 2022, Gabaix X. and Koijen R., NBER WP (slides)
How Much Do Idiosyncratic Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data, 2018, Amiti M. and Weinstein D., JPE (slides)
Who Can Tell Which Banks Will Fail?, 2022, Blickle K., Brunnermeier M., and Luck S., NBER WP
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress, 2022, He Z., Khorrami P., and Song Z., RFS
Benchmarking intensity, 2022, Pavlova A. and Sikorskaya T., RFS
The market price of fiscal uncertainty, 2012, Croce M., Nguyen T., and Schmid L., JME