During the academic year, Real Estate Research Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in Cheit Hall, Room 330.
Faculty Coordinator: Professor Nick Tsivanidis
To be added to the email list for the seminar, please contact Tom Chappelear at [email protected]
Spring 2023
| Tuesday, February 14 (joint with Trade) | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) | Clean Growth |
| March 1 (joint with Trade) | Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon) | Multimodal Transport Networks |
| March 8 | Joanna Venator (Boston College) | Title TBA |
| March 15 | Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern) | Title TBA |
| March 22 | Fernanda Rojas (Harvard) | Title TBA |
| April 12 | Joan Monras (Federal Reserve Bank of SF and CEPR) | Title TBA |
| May 3 | Gharad Bryan (LSE) | Title TBA |
Fall 2022
| August 31 | Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley) | The Political Economy of Transport Investment: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail |
| September 7 | Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) | A Bad Bunch: Asset Value Under-Reporting in the Mumbai Real Estate Market |
| September 28 | Can Huang (Berkeley Haas) | Networks in the Venture Capital Market |
| October 5 | Sizhu Lu (Berkeley Haas) | Network effects in venture capital financing |
| October 12 | Nick Tsivanidis (Berkeley Haas) | Spatial Spillovers from Urban Redevelopments: Evidence from Mumbai’s Textile Mills |
| Tuesday, October 25 (joint with Trade) | Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth) | Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions |
| November 9 | Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall) | Using High-Frequency Evaluations to Estimate Disparate Treatment: Evidence from Mortgage Loan Officers |
| November 16 | Jialan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis |
| November 30 | Antoine Levy (MIT/UC Berkeley) | The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains: Evidence from Millions of Housing Sales |
| December 7 | Winnie van Dijk (Harvard) | An Evaluation of the Right to Counsel in New York City’s Housing Court |
Spring 2022
| March 16 | Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth) | Putting Quantitative Trade Models to the Test: Evidence from India’s Trade Liberalization |
| April 13 | Tommaso Porzio (Columbia Business School) | Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions |
| April 20 | Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan) | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective |
| April 27 | Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School) | Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers |
Fall 2021
| September 15 | Juan Carlos Serrato (Duke) | Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China |
| September 22 | Jessie Handbury (Penn) | School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program |
| October 6 | Sam Asher (Johns Hopkins) | Residential Segregation in India: Evidence from 1.6m Neighborhoods |
| October 13 | Daniel Sturm (LSE) | Applying the Quantitative Urban Model to Cities in Developing Countries |
| October 20 | Klaus Desmet (SMU) | Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World |
| November 10 | David Atkin (MIT) | The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley |
| November 17 | Leah Boustan (Princeton) | Political Speech about Immigration to the US is More Positive but More Polarized Than Any Time in the Past 150 Years |
| December 1 | John Dingel (Chicago Booth) | Gains from Trade in Medical Services |
| December 8 | Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto) | Local Productivity Spillovers |
Spring 2021
| February 17 | Allison Shertzer (University of Pittsburgh) | Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth |
| February 24 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) | Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico |
| March 31 | Adam Osman (Illinois) | The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| April 7 | Stephan Heblich (Toronto) | The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| Monday, April 12, 4-5:30 p.m. | Diana van Patten (Yale) | Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company |
| April 14 | Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley) | Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption” (with R. Diamond) |
| Tuesday, April 20 (joint with Trade) | Fabian Eckhert (UCSD) | Title TBA |
| April 28 | Charlie Nathanson (Kellogg) | Housing Supply and Affordability: Evidence from Rents, Housing Consumption and Household Location |
| May 12 | Zhaogang Song (Johns Hopkins) | Asset Pricing with Cohort-Based Trading in MBS Markets |
Fall 2020
| October 7 | Katherine Wagner (Stanford) | Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance |
| October 14 | Shan Ge (NYU Stern) | Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty — Evidence from Variable Annuities |
| October 28 | Adrien Bilal | The Geography of Unemployment |
| November 4 | Aradhya Sood | Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India |
| November 11 | Taha Choukhmane | Default Options and Retirement Savings Dynamics |
| November 18 | Emil Verner | Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations |
| December 2 | Yiming Ma | The Passthrough of Treasury Supply to Bank Deposit Funding |
| December 9 | Michael Peters | European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier |
For more information about the Research Seminars, please contact Tom Chappelear, faculty assistant, at (510) 643-6109 or email him at [email protected].
Related Seminars at Berkeley Haas:
Spring 2020
| February 12 | Diego Puga (CEMFI) | Urban growth and its aggregate implications |
| Tuesday, February 18 (Evans 597, 3:30 p.m.) | Treb Allen (Dartmouth) | Trucks |
| March 11 | Clare Balboni (MIT) | In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities |
| Tuesday, April 7 | Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) | Spatial economics for granular settings |
| April 29 | Steve Redding (Princeton) | Consumption Access and Agglomeration: Evidence from Smartphone Data |
Fall 2019
| Friday, September 6 | Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) | Reference Points in the Housing Market |
| September 25 | Jessie Handbury (Wharton) | Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting |
| October 9 | Tim Landvoigt (Wharton) | Credit Cycles with Market-Based Household Leverage |
| October 23 | Adam Guren (BU) | Title TBA |
| October 30 | Tim McQuade (Stanford GSB) | Title TBA |
| November 6 | Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern) | Title TBA Joint with Finance |
| Friday, November 8, Room N170 | Dayin Zhang (Berkeley Haas) | Title TBA |
| November 13 | Theresa Kuchler (NYU Stern) | Title TBA |
| November 20 | Cindy Soo (Michigan Ross) | Title TBA |
| December 4 | Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia Business School) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance |
Spring 2019
| February 6 | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) | Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets |
| February 13 | Costas Arkolakis (Yale) | The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements |
| Thursday, February 21 | Stephen Terry (BU) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| February 27 | Erik Gilje (Wharton) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, March 7 | Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| March 13 | Speaker TBA | |
| March 20 | No Seminar | |
| March 27 | Spring Break: No Seminar | |
| April 3 | Policy Advisory Board Meeting: No Seminar | |
| April 10 | Susan Athey (Stanford) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, April 18 | Joint Berkeley-Stanford Finance Seminar | |
| April 24 | Jacopo Ponticelli (Kellogg) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, May 2 | Xavier Gabaix (Harvard) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| Thursday, May 9 | Emanuel Colonelli (Chicago Booth) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
Fall 2018
| August 29 | Edward Kung (UCLA) | Social Learning and Local Consumption Amenities: Evidence from Yelp |
| September 5 | Peter Ganong (Chicago) | Why Do Borrowers Default On Mortgages? Evidence from High-Frequency Data |
| September 12 | Nina Harari (Wharton) | Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia |
| Thursday, September 20 | Vikrant Vig (LBS) | The Political Economy of Bailouts
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| Sepbember 26 | Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard) | The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
| October 3 | Alex Bartik (UIUC) | Moving Costs and Worker Adjustment to Changes in Labor Demand: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data |
| Thursday, November 1 | Xavier Giroud (Columbia) | Firms’ Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| November 7 | Matt Turner (Brown) | Determinants of Equilibrium Particulate Exposure |
| Thursday, November 8 | Dean Karlan (Northwestern) | Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Credit Scores and Their Predictive Power
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| November 28 | Natalia Rigol (HBS) | Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in The Field |
| Thursday, December 6 | Emily Gallagher (UC Boulder) |
The Effect of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from ACA Marketplace Subsidies
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
Spring 2018
| January & February | Recruitment Seminars | |
| March 7 | Wei Xioing (Princeton) | Learning about the Neighborhood |
| March 14 | Tim McQuade (Stanford) | The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco |
| April 25 | Peter Ganong (Chicago) | Title TBA |
| May 2 | Alex Bartik (UIUC) | Title TBA |
| May 9 | Vikrant Vig (LSE) | Title TBA |
Fall 2017
| September 6 | Charles Nathanson (Kellogg) | Speculative Dynamics of Prices and Volume |
| September 13 | Brian Melzer (Kellogg) | Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment |
| September 20 | Theresa Kuchler (NYU Stern) | House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice |
| September 27 | Owen Zidar (Chicago Booth) | Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century |
| October 4 | Anthony DeFusco | Regulating Household Leverage |
| October 11 | John Mondragon | Refinancing in a Recession |
| October 25 | Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA) | The Cross Section of MBS Returns |
| November 15 | Treb Allen | The Geography of Path Dependence |
| November 29 | Ralph Koijen | Quantitative Easing in the Euro Area: The Impact on Risk Exposures and Asset Prices |
| Monday, December 4 | Daniel Sturm (LSE) | The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London |
| December 6 | Daniel Paravisini | Discretion and Bias in Consumer Credit |
Spring 2017
| February 15 | Kyle Herkenhoff (Minnesota) | Can’t Pay or Won’t Pay? Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default |
| March 1 | Ed Glaeser (Harvard) | A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics
and The Dynamics of Physical Urban Change |
| Tuesday, March 7 | Gianluca Violante (NYU) | Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence
Joint with Macro: 2-4 p.m., 597 Evans Hall |
| March 15 | Phillipp Schnabl (NYU) | Banking on Deposits: Maturity Transformation without Interest Rate Risk |
| Monday, March 20 | <span1′:2,’2′:’Constantine Yannelis’}”2′:8705,’3′:{‘1′:0},’12’:0,’16’:10}”>Constantine Yannelis (NYU) |
Asymmetric Information and Strategic Default in Student Loans
Joint with the Goldman School of Public Policy |
| April 12 | Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley) | City Density and Assortative Matching |
| April 19 | Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po) | A third way between integrated Vienna and segregated Chicago? An Urban Equilibrium Model with Production Externalities and Rent Controls Applied to Paris Urban Area |
| April 26 | Vernon Henderson (LSE) | Building the city: urban transition and institutional frictions |
| May 3 | Ulrike Malmendier (Berkeley Haas) | Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice – Evidence from Residential Mortgages |
Fall 2016
| August 31 | Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin) | Neighborhood Choices and Neighborhood Effects |
| September 7 | Adrien Matray (Princeton) | Bank Branch Supply and the Unbanked Phenomenon |
| September 14 | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) | From Proliferation to Parsimony in Behavioral Economics? New Methods and Evidence on Three Fronts |
| September 21 | James Vickrey (NY Fed) | Financial Regulation and Mortgage Lending |
| October 12 | Calvin Zhang (Berkeley Haas) | A Shortage of Short Sales: Explaining the Under-Utilization of a Foreclosure Alternative |
| October 14 | Sanket Korgaonkar (Berkeley Haas) | The Limited Benefits of Debt Renegotiation |
| October 19 | David Berger (Northwestern) | House Prices and Consumer Spending |
| October 26 | Haoyang Liu (Berkeley Haas) | Do Government Guarantees Inhibit Risk Management?” |
| November 16 | Joe Vavra (Booth) | Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy |
| November 30 | Jan Eberly (Kellogg) | The Housing Crisis and the Rise in Student Loans |
| December 7 | David Scharfstein (Harvard) | Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and its Aftermath |
Spring 2016
| 2/17/16 | Brigitte Madrian (Harvard Kennedy) | Who is Easier to Nudge? |
| 2/24/16 | Paul Gertler (Berkeley Haas) | When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town |
| 3/2/16 | Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern) | Social networks and Housing Market Investments |
| 3/16/16 | Gilles Duranton (Wharton) | The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France |
| 3/30/16 | Amit Seru (Chicago Booth) | The Market for Financial Advisor Misconduct |
| 4/6/13 | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) | How Segregated is Urban Consumption? |
| 4/20/16 | Raj Chetty (Stanford) | The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates |
| 5/11/16 | Brett Green (Berkeley Haas) | Ratings, Securitization, and Credit Supply |
Fall 2015
| 8/26/15 | Adi Sunderam (HBS) | Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom |
| 9/2/15 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) | State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation |
| 9/9/15 | Remi Jedwab (GWU) | The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2010 |
| 9/16/15 | Solomon Hsiang (Berkeley-Goldman) | Climate Change and the Migration of Global Agriculture: Evidence from Australia, Brazil, China, Europe and the United States |
| 9/23/15 | Benjamin Keys (Chicago Harris) | Interest Rates and Equity Extraction During the Housing Boom |
| 9/30/15 | Greg Kaplan (Princeton) | Consumption and House Prices During the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence |
| 10/7/15 | Jessica Shui (Berkeley) | Does experience matter? The impact of agent experience on real estate transactions |
| 10/21/15 | Nirupama Kulkarni (Berkeley Haas) | Regional Inequality, Credit Rationing and Uniform Mortgage Pricing |
| 11/4/15 | Atif Mian (Princeton) | Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide |
| 11/18/15 | Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State) | Systemic Mistakes in the Mortgage Market and Lack of Financial Sophistication |
| 12/2/15 | Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard) | Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles |
| 12/9/15 | Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia) | Mortgage Refinancing, Consumer Spending, and Competition: Evidence from the Home Affordable Refinancing Program |
Spring 2015
| 1/14/15 | Daan Struyven (MIT) | Housing Lock: Dutch Evidence on the Impact of Negative Home Equity on Household Mobility |
| 1/21/15 | Hoai-Luu Nguyen (MIT) | Do Bank Branches Still Matter? The Effect of Closings on Local Economic Outcomes |
| 1/28/15 | Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Harvard) | Debtor Protections and the Great Recession |
| 2/4/15 | Anthony DeFusco (Wharton) | Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls |
| 2/11/15 | Harrison Hong (Princeton) | When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town |
| 2/18/15 | John Campbell (Harvard) | Inattention and Inertia in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market |
| 2/25/15 | Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan) | Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? A New Approach to Funding Biomedical Innovation |
| 3/4/15 | Silvana Tenreyro (LSE) | The Transmission of Monetary Policy Operations through Redistributions and Durable Purchases |
| 3/11/15 | Manuel Adelino (Duke Fuqua) | Changes in the Buyer Composition and the Expansion of Credit During the Boom |
| 3/18/15 | Todd Sinai (Wharton) | How Parents’ Wealth Influences the Housing Decisions of their Children |
| 4/1/15 | Adam Storeygard (Tufts) | Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa? |
| 4/9/15 | Erik Hurst (Chicago Booth) | Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market |
| 4/22/15 | Camelia Kuhnen (UNC) | Non-Cognitive Abilities and Loan Delinquency: The Role of Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Financial Distress |
| 4/29/15 | Monika Piazzesi (Stanford) | Payments, Credit and Asset Prices |
| 5/6/15 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton) | Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities |
| 5/13/15 | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU Stern) | Phasing Out the GSEs |
Fall 2014
| 9/10/2014 | Rebecca Diamond (Stanford GSB) | Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Seeking by State and Local Governments |
| 9/17/2014 | Enrico Moretti (Berkeley) | Growth in Cities and Countries |
| 9/24/2014 | Jiro Yoshida (Penn State & Berkeley Haas) | Firm-Specific Investments, Product Market Competition, and the Risk of Corporate Value |
| 10/1/2014 | Patrick Bayer (Duke) | Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem |
| 10/8/2014 | Jiakai Chen (Berkeley Haas) | Off-Balance Sheet Financing and Bank Capital Regulation: Lessons from Asset-Backed Commercial Paper |
| 10/22/2014 | Anna Amirdjanova (Berkeley Haas) | Insider Trading: Effects on Agents with Limited Rationality |
| 11/5/2014 | Daniel Shoag (Harvard Kennedy) | Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big Box Bankruptcies |
| 11/19/2014 | Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) | Efficient Credit Policies in a Housing Debt Crisis |
| 12/3/2014 | Taylor Nadauld (BYU Marriott) | Final Demand for Structured Finance Securities |
| 12/10/2014 | Efraim Benmelech (Northwestern Kellogg) | The Real Effects of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles |
| 12/17/2014 | Nate Baum-Snow (Brown) | Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies |
Spring 2014
| 1/17/2014 | Adam Guren | Harvard |
| 1/22/2014 | Cecile Gaubert | Princeton |
| 1/31/2014 | Christopher Palmer | MIT Sloan |
| 2/5/2014 | Jonathan Dingel | Columbia |
| 2/12/2014 | Scott Baker | Stanford |
| 3/12/2014 | William Kerr | HBS |
| 3/19/2014 | Joao Cocco | LBS |
| 4/9/2014 | Rossen Valkanov | UCSD |
| 4/16/2014 | Walker Hanlon | UCLA |
| 4/23/2014 | Maisy Wong | Wharton |
| 4/30/2014 | Rodney Ramcharan | Federal Reserve Board |
Fall 2013
| 9/11/2013 | Amnon Lehavi | IDC, Herzliya |
| 9/18/2013 | Donald Davis | Columbia |
| 9/25/2013 | Martin Schneider | Stanford |
| 10/2/2013 | Pablo Kurlat | Stanford |
| 10/9/2013 | Mark Garmaise | UCLA |
| 10/30/2013 | Adam Ashcraft | NY Fed |
| 11/6/2013 | Jessie Handbury | Wharton |
| 11/20/2013 | Selale Tuzel | USC |
Spring 2013
| 1/16/2013 | David Rappoport | Yale |
| 1/21/2013 | Rebecca Diamond | Harvard |
| 1/23/2013 | Amir Kermani | MIT |
| 1/28/2013 | Cindy Soo | Wharton |
| 1/30/2013 | Victor Couture | Toronto |
| 2/13/2013 | Marco Di Maggio | MIT |
| 2/20/2013 | Tim Landvoigt | Stanford |
| 3/13/2013 | Andra Ghent | Arizona State University |
| 4/3/2013 | Adair Morse | UCB |
Fall 2012
| 9/5/2012 | David Sraer | Princeton |
| 9/19/2012 | Yael Hochberg | Northwestern |
| 10/3/2012 | Panle Barwick | MIT |
| 10/10/2012 | Itzhak Ben-David | Ohio State |
| 10/17/2012 | Fernando Ferreira | Wharton |
| 10/31/2012 | Matt Turner | Toronto |
| 11/7/2012 | David Albouy | Michigan |
| 11/14/2012 | Patrick Bayer | Duke |
| 11/21/2012 | Barney Hartman-Glaser | |
| 11/28/2012 | Amit Seru | Chicago |
| 12/12/2012 | Robert Novy-Marx | Rochester |
Spring 2012
| 1/20/2012 | Hyun Soo Choi | Princeton |
| 1/25/2012 | Antje Berndt | Carnegie Mellon |
| 2/1/2012 | Yong Suk Lee | Brown |
| 2/22/2012 | Johannes Stroebel | Stanford |
| 2/29/2012 | Edward Kung | Duke |
| 3/21/2012 | Joao Cocco | LBS |
| 4/11/2012 | Aleh Tsyvinski | Yale |
| 4/25/2012 | Sumit Agarwal | Fed Chicago |
Fall 2011
| 9/7/2011 | Jesse Rothstein | UCB |
| 9/14/2011 | Semyon Malamud | Ecole Poly Federale De Lausanne |
| 9/21/2011 | James Wilcox | UCB |
| 10/5/2011 | Nikolai Roussanov | Penn |
| 10/12/2011 | Boris Albul | UCB |
| 10/19/2011 | Matteo Maggiori | UCB |
| 10/26/2011 | Andra Ghent | CUNY |
| 11/2/2011 | Igor Makarov | LBS |
| 11/9/2011 | Anastasia Kartasheva | Penn |
| 11/16/2011 | Vish Viswanathan | Duke |
| 11/30/2011 | James Vickery | Fed NY |
Spring 2011
| 3/2/2011 | Joao Santos | Fed NY |
| 3/9/2011 | Pratish Patel | UCB |
| 3/16/2011 | Arthur Korteweg | Stanford |
| 3/30/2011 | Gary Gorton | Yale |
| 4/6/2011 | Nathan George | UCB |
| 4/13/2011 | Joe Gyourko | Wharton |
| 4/20/2011 | Wei Xiong | Princeton |
| 4/27/2011 | Enrico Moretti | UCB |
| 5/4/2011 | Paul Waddell | UCB |
Fall 2010
| 9/1/2010 | Atif Mian | UCB |
| 9/8/2010 | Nancy Wallace | UCB |
| 9/15/2010 | Wei Xiong | Princeton |
| 9/22/2010 | Robert Helsley | UCB |
| 9/29/2010 | Adam Ashcraft | Fed NY |
| 10/6/2010 | Alexei Tchistyi | UCB |
| 10/13/2010 | Anna Scherbina | UC Davis |
| 10/20/2010 | Amit Seru | Chicago |
| 10/27/2010 | Andrew Lo | MIT |
| 11/3/2010 | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh | NYU |
| 11/10/2010 | Edward Glaeser | Harvard |
| 11/17/2010 | Ayako Yasuda | UC Davis |
| 11/24/2010 | Gary Richardson | UC Irvine |
Spring 2010
| 1/20/2010 | Robert Novy-Marx | Chicago |
| 1/27/2010 | Yves Zenou | UCB |
| 2/3/2010 | Sumitra Jha | Stanford |
| 2/10/2010 | Yuming Fu | National Univeristy of Singapore |
| 2/17/2010 | Tracy Turner | Kansas State University |
| 2/24/2010 | James Vickery | Fed NY |
| 3/3/2010 | Nils Kok | Maastricht |
| 3/10/2010 | William Goetzmann | Yale |
| 3/17/2010 | Paolo Sodini | Stockholm School of Economics |
| 3/31/2010 | Gilles Duranton | Toronto |
| 4/7/2010 | Dennis Epple | Carnegie Mellon |
| 4/14/2010 | Giovanni Peri | UC Davis |
| 4/28/2010 | Christopher Meyer | Columbia/Fed NY |
| 5/5/2010 | Burton Hollifield | Carnegie Mellon |