Finance Friday Workshops

Finance Department

Friday Workshops

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper	Time	Room
01/18/07 (Thursday)	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
01/23/07 (Tuesday)	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
01/26/07	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
01/30/07 (Tuesday)	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
02/02/07	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
02/06/07 (Tuesday)	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
02/09/07	Recruiting Seminar	TBD	TBD
02/16/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
02/23/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
03/02/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
03/09/07	Steven Grenadier Stanford University "Investment under Uncertainty and Time-Inconsistent Preferences"	2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m	CSOM 2-227
03/16/07	No Seminar	-	-
03/23/07	No Seminar	-	-
03/30/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon.	CSOM 2-227
04/06/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
04/13/07	Timothy C Johnson University of Illinois "Market Liquidity and Liquid Wealth"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
04/20/07	TBD	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
04/27/07	Motohiro Yogo The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "Why do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
05/04/07	David Scharfstein Harvard Business School "Skill vs Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
05/11/07	Dirk Hackbarth John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University "The Dynamics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Oligopolistic Industries"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227

For information on the seminar series, please email Irene Menasco kawal003@umn.edu or call the Finance Department at (612) 624 2888.

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Previous Speakers:

Fall 2006

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper	Time	Room
09/08/06	Michael Weisbach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Corporate Financial and Investing Policies When Future Financing is not Frictionless"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
09/22/06	Chris Hennessy, University of California at Berkeley "Corporate Financing Under Repeated Adverse Selection"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
09/29/06	Mara Faccio, Vanderbilt University "Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock Of Political Connections"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
10/06/06		10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
10/13/06	David Goldreich, Rotman School, University of Toronto "Behavioral Biases of Dealers in U.S. Treasury Auctions"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
10/20/06	Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University "Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
10/27/06		10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
11/03/06	Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University "Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
11/10/06		10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
11/17/06		10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
12/01/06	Michael Johannes, Columbia University "Understanding Index Option Returns"	10:30 a.m. - Noon.	CSOM 2-227
12/08/06		10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
12/15/06	Claire Rosenfeld Carlson School of Management "The Effect of Banking Relationships on Financially Distressed Firms"	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper	Time	Room
1/13/2006
1/18/2006	Lu Zhang University of Rochester	1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	CSOM 2-224
1/20/2006	Recruitment Seminar	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
1/25/2006	Marco Cagetti University of Virginia	1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	CSOM 2-224
1/27/2006	Recruitment Seminar	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
2/3/2006	Recruitment Seminar	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
2/7/2006	Recruitment Seminar	3:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	CSOM 2-224
2/8/2006	Recruitment Seminar	1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	CSOM 2-224
2/10/2006	Recruitment Seminar	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
2/13/2006	Recruitment Seminar CANCELLED	1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	CSOM 2-224
2/17/2006	Recruitment Seminar	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
2/23/2006	Recruitment Seminar	11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.	CSOM 2-207
3/03/2006	CANCELLED	10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	CSOM 2-227
3/10/2006	Andrea Frazzini University of Chicago Dumb Money: Mutual Fund Flows and Cross-Section of Stock Returns	10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	CSOM 2-227
3/17/2006	CANCELLED	10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	CSOM 2-227
3/24/2006
3/31/2006		10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	CSOM 2-227
4/07/2006	Lubo Litov Washington University Corporate Governance and Financing Policy: New Evidence	10:30 a.m.-Noon	CSOM 2-227
4/14/2006	Bernard Dumas INSEAD What can Rational Investors do about Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations	10:30 a.m.-Noon	CSOM 2-227
4/21/2006	Jeff Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Insurance Market	10:30 a.m.-Noon	CSOM 2-213
4/28/2006	Antoinette Schoar MIT Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them	10:30 a.m.-Noon	CSOM 2-227
5/5/2006	Open	10:30 a.m. - Noon	CSOM 2-227
5/12/2006	Xiaoyun Yu University of Minnesota The Role of Media in the Internet IPO Bubble	10:30 a.m.-Noon	CSOM 2-224

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper
9/9/2005	Alon Brav Duke University Costly Communication, SHareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage
9/16/2005	Richard Roll University of California at Los Angeles Liquidity and the Law of One Price: The Case of the Futures/Cash Basis
9/30/2005	Cesare Robotti Federal Reserve Bank Asset Pricing Models and Economic Risk Premia: A Decomposition
10/21/2005	Naveen Khanna Michigan State University Good IPO's Draw in Bad: Inelastic Banking Capacity in the Primary Issue Market
11/4/2005	Robert Marquez University of Maryland Governance Mechanisms and Corporate Disclosure
11/11/2005	Peter Bossaerts California Institute of Technology Markowitz in the Brain
12/2/2005	Simon Gervais Duke University Overconfidence, Investment Policy and Manager Welfare
12/9/2005	Holger Mueller New York University Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper
1/21/2005,	Murray Frank Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia "The Market Impact of Corporate News Stories"
1/28/2005	Armando Gomes The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Equity, Convertibles and Debt?"
3/18/2005	Spring Break
3/22/2005* (Tuesday) 1pm-2:30pm	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?"
3/25/2005	A. Cevdet Aydemir Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
4/1/2005	Andrew Winton Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota "Bank Loans, Bonds, and Information Monopolies across the Business Cycle" with Joao Santos
04/08/2005	Postponed until 9/9/2005 Alon Brav Duke University
4/22/2005	NR Prabhala Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Fall 2004

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper
9/10/2004	Dirk Jenter Sloan School of Management , MIT "Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation" with Nittai Bergman
9/17/2004	David C. Smith Carlson School of Management "Look at Me Now: The Role of Cross-Listing in Attracting U.S. Shareholders"
9/24/2004	Faculty Retreat
10/01/2004	Andrew Rose Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley "Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk"
10/08/2004
10/15/2004	Zsuzsanna Fluck, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University "Venture Capital Contracting and Syndication: An Experiment in Computational Corporate Finance"
10/22/2004	Gene Amromin, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve "From the horse's mouth: Gauging stock market expectations ane their determinants from surveys of household investors"
10/29/2004	CANCELLED NR Prabhala Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland "The fall of ESO repricing: Governance reform or reform gone awry?"
11/05/2004	Dan Wolfenzon Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University "A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups"
11/12/2004
11/19/2004	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" Time & Room Change - Friday, 12/17/04, 1pm-2pm in CSOM 2-213

Spring 2004

Date	Speaker, Title of Paper
30-Jan-04	Gordon Phillips (University of Maryland), "The Industry Life-Cycle and Financial Dependence: Does Firm Organization Matter?," with Vojislav Maksimovic.
3-Feb-04	Rajesh Aggarwal , University of Virginia. Access, Common Agency, and Board Size (with Dhananjay Nanda).
6-Feb-04	Sheri Tice, Tulane University.
13-Feb-04	Karl Lins, University of Utah.
16-Feb-04	Phil Strahan , Boston College. Banks' Advantage in Hedging Liquidity Risk: Theory and Evidence from The Commmerical Paper Market.
20-Feb-04	Michelle Lowry, Pennsylvania State University. Does Disclosure Deter or Trigger Litigation? (with Laura Field and Susan Shu)
27-Feb-04	Julie Wulf, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Are Managerial Perks Primarily a Form of Private Benefit? (with Raghu Rajan).
5-Mar-04	Randall Morck, University of Alberta. The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm in Canada.
16-Apr-04	Pierluigi Balduzzi, Boston College. What Do We Do with Our Pension Money? Recent Evidence from 401(k) Plans (with Julie Agnew).
23-Apr-04	Francesca Cornelli, London Business School.
30-Apr-04	John Graham, Duke University. Do Dividend Clienteles Exist? Evidence on Dividend Preferences of Retail Investors (with Alok Kumar)
7-May-04	Lorenzo Garlappi, University of Texas - Austin. Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach

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