Finance  

Seminar Series

Spring 2009

Time & Place Speaker Paper Title
January 22, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
2505 Van Munching Hall
Ethan Cohen-Cole,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Household Bankruptcy Decision: the role of social stigma vs. information sharing
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January 23, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1415 Van Munching Hall
Bo Sun, University of Virginia Asset Returns with Earnings Management
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January 27, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
2505 Van Munching Hall
Alejandro Drexler, MIT The Effect of the Number of Lending Banks on The Liquidity Constraints of Firms:  Evidence From a Quasi-experiment
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January 29, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
2505 Van Munching Hall
Georgy Chabakauri, LBS Asset Pricing in General Equilibrium with Constraint
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February 6, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Caroline Mueller, HEC Economic Growth, Business Cycles, and Expected Stock Returns
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February 12, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
2515 Van Munching Hall
Ivan Shaliastovich, Duke Learning, Confidence and Option Prices
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February 13, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Richard Lowery, Carnegie Mellon Imperfect Monitoring and Fixed Spreads in the Market for IPOs
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February 27, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Allan Timmerman, UCSD Portfolio Sorts and Tests of Cross-Sectional Patterns in Expected Returns
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March 6, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Neng Wang, Columbia A Unified Theory of Tobin’s q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management
March 13, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas Credit Rating Targets
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March 27, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Xiaoyan Zhang, Cornell Evaluating Asset Pricing Models Using the Second Hansen-Jagannathan Distance
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April 3, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
S. "Vish" Viswanathan, Duke Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity
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April 17, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns
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April 24, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Michael Fishman, Northwestern Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment
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May 6, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
2515 Van Munching Hall
Wei Xiong, Princeton Dynamic Bank Runs
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May 8, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Patrick Bolton, Columbia Outside and Inside Liquidity
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May 15, 2009
10:30 a.m. - Noon
1333 Van Munching Hall
Bart Lambrecht, Lancaster University Capital Structure, Liquidity and Transferable Human Capital in Competitive Equilibrium
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Fall 2008

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