Macro-Finance Reading Group
I am organizing a weekly macro-finance reading group at USC starting from 2020, a combination of virtual and in-person lectures. Here is the link to previous lectures.  We have a Google group macro-finance-workshop-usc@googlegroups.com that regularly sends out notification emails.   Membership open to the whole research community.​

Conference Discussions 

1. Discussion slides for "Intermediary Elasticity and Limited Risk-Bearing Capacity", by Yu An and Amy Huber, at FIFI 2024 conference. 
2. Discussions slides for "Intermediary Frictions and the Corporate Credit Cycle: Evidence From CLOs", by Quirin Fleckenstein, at WFA 2024.
3. Discussion Slides for "Voters, Bailouts, and the Size of the Firm", by Linda M. Schilling, at FIRS 2024.
4. Discussion slides for "Financial Intermedaries and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from a High-Frequency Identification", by Pablo Ottonello and Wenting Song, at CICF 2023.
5. Discussion slides for "Stop Believing in Reserves", by Sriya Anbil et al., at SFS Cavalcade 2023.
6. Discussion slides for "Risk-Free Rates and Convenience Yields Around the World", by William Diamond and Peter Van Tassel, at SFS Cavalcade 2023.
7. Discussion slides for "Fiscal Inflation and the Post-Covid Housing Boom", by William Diamond, Tim Landvoigt, and German Sanchez Sanchez, at UBC Winter Finance Conference 2023.
8. Discussion slides for "Macro-Finance Model with Sentiment" by Peter Maxted, at AFA 2023
9. Discussion slides for "Measuring the Velocity of Money" by Mattsson, Luedtke, and Takes, at AEA 2023.
10. Discussion slides for "Fragility of Safe Asset Markets" by Thomas Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan, at John Hopkins Carey Finance Conference 2022.
11. Discussion slides for "Intermediary-Based Equity Term Structure" by Kai Li and Chenjie Xu, at CICF 2022.
12. Discussion slides for "Granular Investors and International Bond Prices" by Faia, Salomao and Veghazy 2022, at UNC Junior Roundtable 2022.
13. Discussion slides for "Making Money" by Gary Gorton, Chase Ross, and Sharon Ross 2022,  at MFA 2022
14. Discussion slides for "Do non-banks need access to the lender of last resort? Evidence from fund runs" by Johannes Breckenfelder, Niklas Grimm, and Marie Hoerova, at Paris December Meeting 2021.
15. Discussion slides for "Monetary Policy Transmission in Segmented Markets", by Jens Eisenschmidt, Yiming Ma, and Anthony Lee Zhang, at Swedish House of Finance 2021 Conference "Money Markets in a New Era of Central Bank Policies".
16. Discussion slides for "Treasury Debt and the Pricing of Short-Term Assets" by Quentin Vandeweyer, at Oxford Said Macro-finance Conference 2021.
17. Discussion slides for "The Risks of Safe Assets" by Yang Liu, Lukas Schmid, and Amir Yaron, at EFA 2020
18. Discussion slides for "Benchmark Interest Rates when the Government is Risky" by Patrick Augustin, Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid, and Dongho Song, at WFA 2020
19. Discussion slides for "Heterogeneous Intermediary Asset Pricing" by Mahyar Kargar, at AFA 2020.

Lecture Slides

1. Summary of techniques (for PhDs) that I have collected on macro finance.  
2. My lecture slides, Risks of Shadow Banking in China, for the MBA class "FINANCE 377: China's Financial System" by Prof. Darrell Duffie.
3. Introduction to PhD students on Continuous-time Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance
4. A brief Literature Review of  Macroeconmics and Capital Structure.