FINANCE SEMINAR ARCHIVES

SPRING 2009

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

1/30/09

Christian Julliard (London School of Economics)

Can Rare Events Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle?

2/13/09

Zighuo He (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Dynamic Bank Runs

2/20/09

Martin Oehmke (Columbia University)

Liquidating Illiquid Collateral

3/6/09

Geert Bekaert (Columbia University)

What Segments Equity Markets?

3/13/09

Peter DeMarzo (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)

SEMINAR CANCELLED

3/27/09

Johan Walden (UC-Berkeley, Haas School of Business)

Banking and Asset Prices

4/3/09

Amir Sufi (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

House Prices, Homeowner Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis

4/24/09

Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze

 

FALL 2008

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

9/26/08

Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern, Kellogg School of Business)

Investment-Specific Technological Change and Asset Prices

10/3/08

Jeffery Zwiebel (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)

Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment

10/17/08

Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA, Economics Department)

Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics

10/24/08

Nick Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business)

Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status

11/5/08

Gianni de Nicolo (International Monetary Fund)

Banking Crises and Crises Dating: Theory and Evidence

12/12/08

Joshua Rauh (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Capital Structure and Debt Structure

 

SPRING 2008

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

3/28/08

Sreedhar Bharath (University of Michigan)

The Changing Nature of Chapter 11

4/4/08

Charles Phelps (University of Rochester)

Medical Insurance: Risk Spreading vs. Moral Hazard Revisited

4/11/08

Neng Wang (Columbia University, Graduate School of Business)

Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment

4/18/08

Yuliy Sannikov (UC-Berkeley, Department of Economics)

A Learning Model of Dividend Smoothing

4/25/08

Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois)

Beyond Cash Flow and the Voting Rights: Valuation and Performance of Firms in Complex Ownership Structures

5/9/08

Sudipto Bhattacharya (London School of Economics)

Control Rights over Intellectual Property: Corporate Venturing and Bankruptcy Regimes

5/16/08

Monika Piazzesi (University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business)

Bond Positions, Expectations, And The Yield Curve

 

FALL 2007

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

9/28/07

S. Vish Viswanathan (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity

10/5/07

Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School, Columbia University

Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows

10/26/07

Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Market-Based Corrective Actions: The Case of Bank Supervision

11/9/07

Philip Dybvig (Olin School of Business, Washington University in Saint Louis)

Collected Works of Stephen A. Ross: Some Highlights

11/14/07

Steven A. Sharpe (Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board)

Expectations of Risk and Return Among Household Investors: Are their Sharpe Ratios Countercyclical?

11/16/07

Adrien Verdelhan (Department of Economics, Boston University)

Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets

12/7/07

David Musto (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Valuable Information and Costly Liquidity: Evidence from Individual Mutual Fund Trades

 

SPRING 2007

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

3/9/07

Steven Grenadier (Stanford University)

Investment under Uncertainty and Time-Inconsistent Preferences

4/13/07

Timothy C Johnson (University of Illinois)

Market Liquidity and Liquid Wealth

4/27/07

Motohiro Yogo (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Why do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?

5/4/07

David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School)

Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

5/11/07

Dirk Hackbarth (John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University)

The Dynamics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Oligopolistic Industries

 

FALL 2006

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

9/8/06

Michael Weisbach (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Corporate Financial and Investing Policies When Future Financing is not Frictionless

9/22/06

Chris Hennessy (University of California at Berkeley)

Corporate Financing Under Repeated Adverse Selection

9/29/06

Mara Faccio (Vanderbilt University)

Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock Of Political Connections

10/13/06

David Goldreich (Rotman School, University of Toronto)

Behavioral Biases of Dealers in U.S. Treasury Auctions

10/20/06

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University)

Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?

11/3/06

Andrea Eisfeldt (Northwestern University)

Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity

12/1/06

Michael Johannes (Columbia University)

Understanding Index Option Returns

12/15/06

Claire Rosenfeld (Carlson School of Management)

The Effect of Banking Relationships on Financially Distressed Firms

 

SPRING 2006

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

3/10/06

Andrea Frazzini (University of Chicago)

Dumb Money: Mutual Fund Flows and Cross-Section of Stock Returns

4/7/06

Lubo Litov (Washington University)

Corporate Governance and Financing Policy: New Evidence

4/14/06

Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)

What can Rational Investors do about Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations

4/21/06

Jeff Brown (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Insurance Market

4/28/06

Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

5/12/06

Xiaoyun Yu (University of Minnesota)

The Role of Media in the Internet IPO Bubble

 

FALL 2005

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

9/9/05

Alon Brav (Duke University)

Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage

9/16/05

Richard Roll (University of California at Los Angeles)

Liquidity and the Law of One Price: The Case of the Futures/Cash Basis

9/30/05

Cesare Robotti (Federal Reserve Bank)

Asset Pricing Models and Economic Risk Premia: A Decomposition

10/21/05

Naveen Khanna (Michigan State University)

Good IPO's Draw in Bad: Inelastic Banking Capacity in the Primary Issue Market

11/4/05

Robert Marquez (University of Maryland)

Governance Mechanisms and Corporate Disclosure

11/11/05

Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology)

Markowitz in the Brain

12/2/05

Simon Gervais (Duke University)

Overconfidence, Investment Policy and Manager Welfare

12/9/05

Holger Mueller (New York University)

Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations

 

SPRING 2005

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

1/21/05

Murray Frank (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia)

The Market Impact of Corporate News Stories

1/28/05

Armando Gomes (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Equity, Convertibles and Debt?

3/22/05

Mike Lemmon (Eccles School of Business, University of Utah)

Shareholder Welfare and Bid Negotiation in Freeze-Out Deals: Are Minority Shareholders Left Out in the Cold?

4/1/05

Andrew Winton (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

Bank Loans, Bonds, and Information Monopolies across the Business Cycle with Joao Santos

 

FALL 2004

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

9/10/04

Dirk Jenter (Sloan School of Management , MIT)

Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation with Nittai Bergman

9/17/04

David C. Smith (Carlson School of Management)

Look at Me Now: The Role of Cross-Listing in Attracting U.S. Shareholders

10/1/04

Andrew Rose (Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley)

Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk

10/15/04

Zsuzsanna Fluck (Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University)

Venture Capital Contracting and Syndication: An Experiment in Computational Corporate Finance

10/22/04

Gene Amromin (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve)

From the horse's mouth: Gauging stock market expectations and their determinants from surveys of household investors

11/5/04

Dan Wolfenzon (Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University)

A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

11/19/04

Bob McDonald (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers

12/17/04

Vijay Yerramilli

Optimal Investment Structure for a Start-Up Firm: Flexibility versus Incentives

 

SPRING 2004

 

Date

Speaker (Affiliation)

Presentation Title

1/30/04

Gordon Phillips (University of Maryland)

The Industry Life-Cycle and Financial Dependence: Does Firm Organization Matter? with Vojislav Maksimovic

2/3/04

Rajesh Aggarwal (University of Virginia)

Access, Common Agency, and Board Size with Dhananjay Nanda

2/16/04

Phil Strahan (Boston College)

Banks' Advantage in Hedging Liquidity Risk: Theory and Evidence from The Commercial Paper Market

2/20/04

Michelle Lowry (Pennsylvania State University)

Does Disclosure Deter or Trigger Litigation? with Laura Field and Susan Shu

2/27/04

Julie Wulf (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Are Managerial Perks Primarily a Form of Private Benefit? with Raghu Rajan

3/5/04

Randall Morck (University of Alberta)

The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm in Canada

4/16/04

Pierluigi Balduzzi (Boston College)

What Do We Do with Our Pension Money? Recent Evidence from 401(k) Plans with Julie Agnew

4/30/04

John Graham (Duke University)

Do Dividend Clienteles Exist? Evidence on Dividend Preferences of Retail Investors with Alok Kumar

5/7/04

Lorenzo Garlappi (University of Texas, Austin)

Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach

 

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