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Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF)

 
These lunch meetings run Mondays during term time where CERF Fellows and the Finance and Accounting group in CJBS meet for informal talks and discussions. This initiative, meant to spread information and awareness of ongoing research within the area of finance in the University of Cambridge, has proven to be very popular and a welcome opportunity to discuss various academic questions in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.  Please contact cerf@jbs.cam.ac.uk for more information.
Working lunchtime talks :

2023-2024

Michaelmas  

16-Oct-23 

Kevin Schneider “Investment, Uncertainty, and U-Shaped Return Volatilities”. 

30-Oct-23

Carolin Hoeltken, University of Cambridge

13-Nov-23

Lucy Wang “Human capital reallocation of M&As - Inventor-level analysis” 

27-Nov-23

Tom Auld "The behaviour of political and financial markets around elections" 

Lent

 

5-Feb-24

Lennart Niermann (CERF Scholar) “The risk-debt spiral in sovereign self-fulfilling debt crises” 

12-Feb-24

Raghu Rau (CJBS,CERF) “Signs of trouble? Superstitions and mutual fund manager risk-taking” 

19-Feb-24

Buffet Lunch (no talk)

11-Mar-24

Marwin Mönkemeyer (Title TBD) 

Easter

 

13-May-24

Lucy Wang (Title TBD) 

20-May24

Xinyu Hou (Title TBD) 

3-Jun-24

Ting Yu (Title TBD) 

10-Jun-24

Naoki Yago (Title TBD) 

2022-2023

Michaelmas  

17-Oct-22 

 

Naoki Yago ‘Intervening against the Fed’ 

 

24-Oct-22 

 

Yuxia Zou “Why Do Investment Managers Abandon Sustainability?” 

 

14-Nov-22 

 

Xinyu Hou “Gambling for Redemption or Ripoff, and the Impact of Superpriority” 

Co-authored with Nobel Prize Laureate Philip H. Dybvig 

 

Lent

 

06-Feb-23 

 

Time Change 12:30-13:30 

 

Adam Shuaib “Do loan default risks change during stress periods? P2P lending during Covid-19"  

 

13-Feb-23 

 

Time Change 12:30-13:30 

Annalisa Tonnetto “Corporate Governance Networks and Financial Performance” 

 

13-Mar-23 

 

Zhenkai Ran

 

Easter

 

22-May-23 

 

Naveen Khanna ‘Battling to Create Unicorns: Reputation, Predation and Commitment Traps in Venture Capital’
 

05-Jun-23 

 

12:00-13:00 (time change!) 

Andrei Kirilenko 

2021-2022

Michaelmas

 

25-Oct-21

Shiqi Chen ‘Time-varying Value of Information Acquisition: Learning and Financial Decisions’

08-Nov-21

Raghu Rau ‘The Entrenchment Index (E-Index) revisited’

 

22-Nov-21

Shaoting Pi

Lent

 

17-Jan-22

Cindy Zheng 'What Determines and Exchange-traded Fund Launch?'

07-Feb-22

Elias Ohneberg 'Who you know matters: Portfolio Manager Networks and Career Concerns'

21-Feb-22

Bobby Reddy ‘The SPACtacular rise of the special purpose acquisition company: a retail investor’s worst nightmare’

07-Mar-22

Naoki Yago 'Monetary Transmission under Heterogeneous Exchange Rate Exposure' 

Easter

 

09-May-22

Niklas Schmitz 'The Downside Risk Channel of Monetary Policy' 

30-May-22

Marwin Moenkemeyer 'Institutional Investor Networks and Earnings Management' 
 

13-Jun-22

Shiqi Chen - No title yet

2019-2020

Michaelmas  

28-Oct-19

 

Bell Nareuporn Piyasinchai (CJBS): Why the Returns on ESG Investments are Indirect: Reputational and Spillover Effects

11-Nov-19

 

Sohnke Bartram (Warwick Business School)

18-Nov-19

 

Raghu Rau (CJBS)

25-Nov-19

 

Mehrshad Motahari (CERF Research Associate): Geography, Local Sentiment, and Market Anomalies

02-Dec-19

 

Argyris Tsiaras (CERF Research Associate)

Lent  

03-Feb-20

 

Mehrshad Motahari (CERF Research Associate): Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

10-Feb-20

 

Raghu Rau (CJBS) The death of trust in the finance industry

 

17-Feb-20

 

Raghu Rau (CJBS)

02-Mar-20

 

Marc Lipson (UVA)

 

09-Mar-20

 

Xinrui (Cindy) Zheng (CJBS)

2018-2019

Michaelmas  

8 October 2018

 

15 October 2018

Hui (Frank) Xu, CERF Research Associate

22 October 2018

 

29 October 2018

Scott Guernsey, CERF Research Associate: Product Market Competition and Long-Term Firm Value: Evidence from Reverse Engineering Laws

 

5 November 2018

Takashi Shibata (Visiting Professor)

12 November 2018

Adelphe Ekponon, CERF Research Associate: Macroeconomic Risk, Investor Preferences, and Sovereign Credit Spreads – Theoretical Part

19 November 2018

Walter Jansson, CERF Researcher : Measuring Economic Uncertainty: A Natural Language Processing Approach

26 November 2018

 

Lent  

11-Feb-19

 

Scott Guernsey (CERF Research Associate) “Stakeholder Orientation and Firm Value”, co-authored with Martijn Cremers (University of Notre Dame) and Simone Sepe (University of Arizona). SSRN link to the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3299889

 

 

18-Feb-19

 

Adelphe Ekponon (CERF Research Associate) “What Drives Corporate Asset Prices: Short- or Long-Run Risk?”, with C. Dorion and A. Jeanneret (HEC Montreal). The paper is at SSRN link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3116235.

 

 2017-2018

  1. Monday 7 November 2016, Room W4.04 CJBS, 1pm-2pm, Talk:  Jason Cen and David Chambers: Currency Regimes and Risk Premium
  2. Monday 13 February 2017, Mike Tehranchi, A Black-Scholes inequality: applications and generalisations
  3. Monday 13 March 2017, Elroy Dimson, Charikleia Kaffe and David Chambers, presenting work on US university endowments, US University Endowments over the long-run.
  4. Monday 8 May 2017, Yuan Li, R&D and the value premium
  5. Monday 15 May, 1-2pm, Room W4.03, Murillo Campello, Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America
  6. Monday 22 May, 1-2pm, Room W4.03, Vaska Atta-Darkua, Ethical Divesting and Firm Value.
  7. Monday 5 June, 1-2pm, Keynes House, KH107, Jisok Kang, Nominal Share Price Puzzles,
  8. Monday 12 June 1-2pm, Room W4.03, Thies Lindenthal, Time, Memory, and the Salience of the Reference Point. Amsterdam, 1650-1970.