Research Seminars
Seminars are typically held on Fridays from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the SunTrust Room (BAS S326) or on Zoom. Exceptions are noted on the schedule. Papers are distributed to department members by email. To obtain a copy of a seminar paper or to request a presentation date, please contact Professor Benjamin Jansen (benjamin.jansen@mtsu.edu).
*Presentation is part of the PERI Seminar Series
Spring 2026
External
- January 23rd: Cayman Seagraves, University of Tulsa, at 2:30pm in BAS N127
- February 2nd: Shawn O’Donogue, FINRA, 1:30pm N127
- February 3rd: Anna Lukianova, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at 2:00pm
- February 4th: Cara Haughey, Michigan State University, at 2:00pm
- February 5th: Ryan Voges, University of Utah, at 2:00pm
- February 6th: Barron Tsai, Duke University, 1:00pm
- March 27th: Joshua Smith, Trevecca Nazarene University
Internal
- March 20th: Benjamin Jansen
- April 17th: Ifeoluwa Osungbure
Fall 2025
External
- September 19th: James Flynn, Miami University
- September 26th: Emily Mitchell, Assistant Vice President and Regional Executive FRB-Atlanta, and Justin Shadley, Senior Business Analyst FRB-Atlanta
- October 17th: Paul Niekamp, Ball State University
Internal
- October 10th: Tuan Nguyen
Previous Academic Years
Spring 2025
External
- January 27th:Yueliang (Jacques) Lu, Clemson University
- January 29th: Shiang Liu, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
- January 31st: Jing-Chi (George) Chen, University of Memphis
- March 7th: Philip Economides, Texas Tech University
- March 26th: Arthur Laffer, Distinguished Lecture Series
- April 11th: Xinxin Li, Ithaca College
- April 18th: Svetlana Petrova, University of New Hampshire
Internal
- April 4th: Quan Qi, “Securities Lending and the Fragility in Money Market Mutual Funds: Evidence from Cash Collateral Management”
Fall 2024
External
- November 1st: Qiping Huang, University of Dayton
- October 4th: David Blake Johnson, University of Central Missouri, “Guns, Law Enforcement, and Death in the United States of America”
Internal
- December 6th: Benjamin Jansen, “Insider Trading as a Compensation Mechanism”
- October 11th: Riza Bayrak, MTSU visiting faculty member, “Why Individuals’ Economic Decision-Making Processes Differ in Terms of Environmental Sensitivity and Pro-environmental Behavior: Empirical Research” and “Is it possible to change individual behavior patterns toward the Pro-environmental Behavior: Experimental Research with Behavioral Economics Practices”
Spring 2024
External
- February 19th: Zicheng (Leo) Xiao, University of South Florida,“Measuring Information Quality by Topic Attention Divergence: Evidence from Earnings Calls”
- February 23rd: David Slusky, University of Kansas
- February 26th: Xinxin Zhan, University of South Carolina,“CLO Managers’ Trading Relationships and the Structure and Pricing of CLOs”
- February 27th: Quan Qi, University of Kentucky,“Mutual Fund Derivative Usage, Fire-sale Spillovers, and Corporate Bond Market Fragility”
- February 23rd: Bernard Tawiah, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group,“Third-party auditor liability and trade credit policies.”
- March 15th: Elif Demiral Saglam, Austin Peay State University
- April 19th: Maria Ptashkina, Princeton University
Internal
- February 2: Benjamin Jansen, MTSU, “Risk is neither Sufficient nor Necessary to Generate a Return on Investment”
- May 3: Feyisayo Oyolola, MTSU, “Immigration of Healthcare Workers on Native Health”
Fall 2023
External
- October 27th: Eden Volkov, Employee Benefit Research Institute, “The Effect of Dependent Health Insurance Coverage on Parental Health Care Use: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act”
Fall 2022
External
- November 11th: Matthew Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
- November 4th: Henry Thompson, University of Mississippi*
- September 23rd: Kartik Misra, Sewanee: The University of the South
- September 16th: M. Scott King, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga*
Spring 2022
External
- April 29th: Carolina Castilla, Colgate University
- April 22nd: Tom Zylkin, University of Richmond
- April 15th: Sebastian Leguizamon, Western Kentucky University*
- April 1st: Joseph Haslag, University of Missouri
- March 18th: Matthew Hampton, Austin Peay
- February 11th: Audrey Redford, Western Carolina University*
Internal
- July 9: Ali Mahmoud, MTSU, “Trade Elasticities and Effect of Tariffs: Evidence from Three U.S. Industries”
- June 25: Nicholas Clarke, MTSU, “Do Managers Use Reference Points? Evidence from Stock Repurchases”
- February 25: Kevin Zhao, MTSU, “Do Chinese Government Controlled Firms Harm and Cheat American Investors?”
Fall 2021
External
- November 5th: Hannah Gabriel, Sacramento State University, “Multinational Activity and Banking: The Effects of Ownership Status on Exporters”
- October 29th: Traviss Cassidy, University of Alabama, “Government Fragmentation and Economic Growth”
- October 8th: Peter Haslag, Vanderbilt University, “COVID-19 Migratory Response and the Municipal Debt
Market”
- September 17th: Gueyon Kim, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Trade-Induced Restructuring and New Work”
- September 10th: Tim Riley, University of Arkansas, “The complexity materiality of ESG ratings: Evidence from ESG funds”
- September 3rd: Bryan Caplan, George Mason University, “Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing”
Internal
- October 23: Benjamin Jansen, MTSU, “Law of One Price Violation in Parent-Subsidiary Price Relations”
Spring 2021
External
- May 7th: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, University of Virginia, “The introduction of Prep and HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity”
- April 30th: Claudia Williamson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, “Are Economic Arguments Against Immigration Missing the Boat? The Fiscal Effects of the Mariel Boatlift”
- April 2nd: Brian Albrecht, Kennesaw State University, “Price Competition and the Use of Consumer Data”
- March 12th: Marcus Painter, Saint Louis University, “Consumer response to corporate political statements: Evidence from geolocation data”
- March 5th: Andy Puckett, University of Tennessee, “Option Skills”
- February 19th: Alice Bonaimé, University of Arizona, “How Does Capital Structure Impact Product Prices? Evidence from the Airline Industry”
Fall 2020
External
- November 6th: Elif Demiral Saglam, Austin Peay State University, “Competitiveness and Employability”
- October 30th: Colin Gilstrap, University of Toledo, “Two’s company, three’s a crowd: Ownership concentration and stock returns”
Spring 2020
External
- January 31: Kevin Mullally, University of Central Florida
Internal
- June 19: Aaron Gamino, MTSU, “The effects of prescription monitoring programs and medical marijuana laws on days of bad physical health”
- February 7: Sarah Ji, MTSU, “Human Capital, Investment Riskiness, and Investment Policy”
Fall 2019
External
- November 8: Samar Ashour, University of Arkansas
- November 6: Nicholas Clarke, Florida State University
- November 1: Caleb Houston, Mississippi State University
- October 25: Yan Ma, Kobe University
- October 18: Joshua Smith, Trevecca Nazarene University
Internal
- November 15: Wisarut Suwanprasert, MTSU
- October 11: Sona Esona, MTSU, “Economic Growth, Size of Government, Judicial System, and Corruption in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA): A Panel Data Analysis”
