Seminar Series

Seminar Series in November 2009

• Thursday, November 5, 2009: Jarrad Hartford , University of Washington
  • The Importance of Industry Links In Merger Waves
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, November 6, 2009: Scott Weisbenner , Dept of Finance
  • Money and Education
  • 2041 BIF@ 1:00pm
• Thursday, November 12, 2009: Victoria Ivashina , Harvard Business School
  • Liquidity Management in the Financial Crisis
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, November 19, 2009: Russ Wermers , University of Maryland
  • Mutual Fund Performance and Governance Structure: The Role of Portfolio Managers and Boards of Directors
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm

Seminar Series this Semester

December

• Thursday, December 3, 2009: Clemens Sialm , University of Texas - Austin
  • Title to be announced
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, December 4, 2009: Jaehoon Lee , Dept of Finance
  • Title to be announced
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, December 10, 2009: Anh Le , University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  • Title to be announced
  • Location to be announced @ 2:00pm
• Friday, December 11, 2009: Bruno Laranjeira , Dept of Finance
  • Title to be announced
  • Location to be announced @ 11:30am

Seminar Series thus far this Semester

January

• Tuesday, January 20, 2009: Breno Schmidt , USC
  • Costs and Benefits of "Friendly" Boards during Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, January 22, 2009: Albert Sheen , UCLA
  • Do Public and Private Firms Behave Differently? An Examination of the Investment in the Chemical Industry
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Tuesday, January 27, 2009: Anisha Ghosh , London School of Economics & Political Science
  • Asset Pricing with Regime Shifts in Consumption and Dividend Growth
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, January 29, 2009: Daniel Carvalho , Harvard
  • Incentives to Create or Relocate? Firm Investment and Credit Subsidies in an Emerging Market
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm

February

• Tuesday, February 3, 2009: Lorenzo Naranjo , NYU
  • Implied Interest Rates in a Market with Frictions
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, February 5, 2009: Jonathan Meer , Stanford
  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Peer Effects in Charitable Solicitation
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Tuesday, February 10, 2009: Dong Lou , Yale
  • A Flow-Based Explanation for Return Predictability
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, February 12, 2009: Jaewon Choi , NYU
  • Back to Basics: The Impact of Financial Leverage on Asset Pricing
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm

March

• Thursday, March 12, 2009: Sreedhar Bharath , University of Michigan
  • The Changing Nature of Chapter 11
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Tuesday, March 31, 2009: David Denis , Purdue University
  • Financial Flexibility and Capital Structure Policy Evidence from Pro-active Leverage Increases
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm

April

• Thursday, April 2, 2009: Ed Nosal , Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Pairwise Trade, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Friday, April 3, 2009: Birgir Petursson , Centre for Social and Economic Research
  • Lessons from the Icelandic Financial Crisis
  • 3007 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, April 9, 2009: Daniel Bergstresser , Harvard University
  • 'Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, April 16, 2009: Francisco Gomes , London Business School
  • Fiscal Policy in an Incomplete Markets Economy
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Friday, April 17, 2009: Murillo Campello and Rafael Matta , Dept. of Finance and Dept. of Economics
  • Venture Capital Partnerships: emergence, screening costs and efficiency
  • 3007 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, April 23, 2009: Dirk Krueger , University of Pennsylvania
  • How does Household Consumption Respond to Income Shocks?
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, April 30, 2009: Jacob Sagi , Vanderbilt
  • Dynamic Corporate Capital Stocks: Cross-sectional and Inter-temporal Stock Return Patterns
  • 243 Wohlers Hall@ 2:30pm

May

• Thursday, May 7, 2009: Abdullah Yavas , Penn State
  • Boom and Bust Periods in Real Estate versus Financial Markets: An Experimental Study
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:30pm
• Friday, May 8, 2009: Tim Johnson and Prachi Deuskar , Dept. of Finance
  • The Liquidity of the Market Portfolio
  • 3007 BIF@ 11:30am
• Tuesday, May 12, 2009: Wolf Wagner , Tilburg University
  • THE RISK OF JOINT LIQUIDATION AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: DIVERSITY INSTEAD OF DIVERSIFICATION
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:30pm
• Thursday, May 14, 2009: Christian Lundblad , University of North Carolina
  • WHAT SEGMENTS EQUITY MARKETS
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:30pm
• Friday, May 15, 2009: Marco Rocha , Dept. of Finance
  • On the Origin of the Species: Characterizing Firms' First Debt Issues and Their Implications
  • 3007 BIF@ 11:30am

July

• Thursday, July 16, 2009: Yilin Zhang , Dept. of Finance
  • How do oil shocks affect stock market risk?
  • 3041 BIF@ 11:30am

August

• Thursday, August 27, 2009: Marcus Opp , University of California - Berkeley
  • Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation - Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm

September

• Friday, September 4, 2009: Viral Acharya , New York University - Stern
  • Rollover Risk and market Freezes
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, September 10, 2009: Wall Boudry , New York University - Stern
  • Investment Opportunities and Share Repurchases
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Tuesday, September 15, 2009: Juergen von Hagen , Indiana/University of Bonn
  • The Forward Premium Puzzle and Latent Factors Day by Day
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, September 17, 2009: Martijn Cremers , Yale University
  • Thirty Years of Corporate Governance: Determinants & Equity Prices
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 18, 2009: Tim Johnson , Dept of Finance
  • Commodity Dependence and Stock Market Risks
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, September 24, 2009: Eva Carceles-Poveda , Stony Brook University
  • Equity Issuance and Dividend Policy under Commitment
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 25, 2009: Ola Bengtsson , Dept of Finance
  • Changing the Nexus: Evolution and Renegotiation of Venture Capital Contracts
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am

October

• Friday, October 2, 2009: Charles Hadlock , Michigan State University
  • Financial Strength and Product Market Competition: Evidence from Asbestos Litigation
  • 3041 BIF@ 9:30am
• Thursday, October 8, 2009: Xiaoyan Zhang , Cornell University
  • Shackling Short Sellers: The 2008 Shorting Ban
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, October 9, 2009: Elizabeth Risik , Dept of Finance
  • Signaling and Value Creation in Mergers
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, October 15, 2009: Andrea Eisfeldt , Northwestern University
  • Organization Capital and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, October 16, 2009: Tom Jacobs , Dept of Finance
  • Changing Market Perceptions of Who is Too Big to Fail During the Credit Crisis of 2007-2008
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Friday, October 23, 2009: Dhammika Dharmapala , College of Law
  • Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, October 29, 2009: Holger Mueller , New York University - Stern
  • Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm