#  Courses 

 



[**Ec980z Behavioral Finance**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/142690)  \[Spring 2025\]  
**Meeting Time:** Tuesdays, 12:00 - 2:00pm  
**Location: TBA**  
**Description:** This junior seminar will provide an overview of theoretical and empirical research on asset pricing that adopts a “behavioral” perspective, i.e. that considers the joint consequences of: (i) investors who have either less than fully rational beliefs or non-standard preferences; and (ii) various impediments to arbitrage. We will also spend considerable time fleshing out the implications of investor sentiment for corporate finance, macroeconomics, and public policy.

[**Ec1759 The Financial System and the Central Bank**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/142593)  \[Spring 2025\]  
**Meeting Time:** Mondays - Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:15pm  
**Location: TBA**  
**Description:** This course analyzes the modern financial system. Topics include: (i) the behavior of various types of intermediaries (e.g., banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, hedge funds); (ii) key elements of the system's plumbing and infrastructure; (iii) sources of systemic risk; and (iv) the multiple roles of the central bank as monetary policymaker, lender of last resort, and regulator.

[**Ec 3011 Graduate Student Workshop in Financial Economics**](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rg5WObqWT4pB-zQh1a-ln5OoDp48rTSCbRC9obTKlB0/edit?gid=0#gid=0) \[2024-2025 - Graduate Research Meeting\]  
**Meeting Time:** Friday 12:00 - 1:30pm  
**Location:** HBS Baker 102  
**Description:**  Participants discuss recent research in financial economics and present their own work in progress.

[**Seminar in Financial Economics**](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/units/finance/Pages/events.aspx) \[2024-2025 Seminar\]  
**Meeting Time:** Wednesday 3:30 - 4:50pm  
**Location:** Baker 102, Harvard Business School  
**Description:**  Participants discuss recent research in financial economics and present their own work in progress.