During Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, Vikas Agarwal, Kevin Mullally, Yuehua Tang, and I organized the Virtual Asset Management Seminar Series (VAMSS) to facilitate scholars seeking feedback on newer work during the pandemic. The videos of the seminars presented during the series are available below:
Fall 2020
| Date/Video Link | Presenter | Paper |
| 26-Aug | Jiacui Li (U. Utah) | “What Drives the Size and Value Factors?“ |
| 9-Sep | Yao Zeng (Wharton) | “Bank Debt versus Mutual Fund Equity in Liquidity Provision“ |
| 23-Sep | Yang Song (U. Washington) | “The Smart Beta Mirage“ |
| 7-Oct | Oleg Gredil (Tulane U.) | “Diversifying Private Equity“ |
| 21-Oct | David Schumacher (McGill U.) | “The Global Menus of Funds” |
| 4-Nov | Ran Xing (Aarhus U.) | “A Horizon Based Decomposition of Mutual Fund Skill Using Transaction Data” |
| 18-Nov | Ian Appel (Boston College) | “Active Short Selling by Hedge Funds” |
| 2-Dec | Michael Young (U. Missouri) | “Phantom of the Opera: ETF Shorting and Shareholder Voting“ |
| 16-Dec | Sehoon Kim (Florida) | “Sustainability Preferences Under Stress: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows During COVID-19” |
Spring 2021