Finance  

Seminar Series

The Finance Seminars are presented on Friday mornings from 10:30 a.m. until 12 noon in 1333 Van Munching Hall. Deviations from the standard day, time and location will be publicized on this Web site as well as in the e-mail announcement that is sent prior to each seminar. To be included on the e-mail announcement list, send an e-mail to Michele Drummond.

Fall 2008

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Date Speaker Paper Title
Sept. 5 Lauren Cohen, Harvard Sell Side School Ties
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Sept. 12 Kerry Back, Texas A&M Open Loop Equilibria and Perfect Competition in Option Exercise Games
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Sept. 26 Michael Lemmon, University of Utah The Joint Determinants of Managerial Ownership, Board Independence, and Firm Performance
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Oct. 3 Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Oct. 14 Atif Mian, University of Chicago The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Location: 2509 Van Munching Hall
Oct. 17 Sudipto Bhattacharya, LSE Control Rights over Intellectual Property: Corporate Venturing and Bankruptcy Regimes
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Oct. 31 Bruno Feunou, Universite de Montreal Generalized Affine Models
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Nov. 4 Luc Laeven, International Monetary Fund Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Location: 2509 Van Munching Hall
Nov. 7 Rajkamal Iyer, Amsterdam Business School Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Nov. 11 Berk Sensoy, USC  Investor Abilities and Financial Contracting: Evidence from Venture Capital
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Location: 2509 Van Munching Hall
Nov. 14 Nandini Gupta, Indiana University The Decision to Privatize: Finance, Politics, and Patronage
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Nov. 18 Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Emory Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Location: 2509 Van Munching Hall
Dec. 5

Dobrislav Dobrev, Federal Reserve Board

Duration-Based Volatility Estimation
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Noon