Seminar Series

Seminar Series this Semester

March

• Friday, March 2, 2012: Sadra Amiri Moghadam ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am
• Friday, March 9, 2012: Slava Fos ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am

April

• Friday, April 6, 2012: Taehyun Kim ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am
• Friday, April 13, 2012: Charu Agarwal ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am
• Friday, April 20, 2012: Li Wang ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am
• Friday, April 27, 2012: Tolga Caskurlu ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am

May

• Friday, May 4, 2012: Ping Liu ,
  • Title to be announced
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am

Seminar Series thus far this Semester

August

• Friday, August 26, 2011: Dmitriy Muravyev ,
  • Option Expected Returns
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am

September

• Thursday, September 1, 2011: Susan Christoffersen , University of Toronto
  • “What do consumers’ fund flows maximize? Evidence from their brokers’ incentives”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 2, 2011: Fabricio D'Almeida ,
  • "Heterogeneous sensitivity of firm investment to Q: the role of operational flexibility".
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, September 8, 2011: Terrence Hendershott , UC Berkeley
  • “Are Institutions Informed About the News?”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 9, 2011: Jaehoon Lee ,
  • "Treasury Bill Yields: Overlooked Information."
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, September 15, 2011: Itay Goldstein , University of Pennsylvania
  • CANCELLED
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 16, 2011: Lifeng Gu ,
  • "Innovation risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
  • 3041 BIF@ 10:00am
• Thursday, September 22, 2011: Brent Glover , Carnegie Mellon Univ
  • “Corporate Taxes, Leverage, and Business Cycles”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 23, 2011: Prachi Deuskar ,
  • "Effect of Regret"
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, September 29, 2011: Francois Gourio , Boston University
  • “Credit Risk and Disaster Risk”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, September 30, 2011: Chanatip Kitwiwattanachai ,
  • "The Recovery Factor in Credit Default Swaps"
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am

October

• Thursday, October 6, 2011: Ernest-Ludwig Thadden , Univ of Mannheim
  • “Repo Runs”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, October 7, 2011: Yilin Zhang ,
  • "Income Inequality and Asset Prices: A Cross-country Study".
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, October 13, 2011: Francis Longstaff , UCLA
  • “Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, October 14, 2011: Mao Ye ,
  • "What’s Not There: The Odd-Lot Bias in the Consolidated Tape and TAQ Data"
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Tuesday, October 18, 2011: Radha Gopalan , Washington University at St. Louis
  • “The Optimal Duration of Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, October 20, 2011: David Robinson , Duke University
  • “Getting an Early Start in Self-Employment”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, October 27, 2011: Ran Duchin , University of Michigan
  • “Safer Ratios, Riskier Portfolios: Banks’ Response to Government Aid”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm

November

• Tuesday, November 1, 2011: Todd Gormley , University of Pennsylvania
  • “CEO Compensation and Responses to Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, November 3, 2011: Alok Kumar , University of Miami
  • “What is in a Name? Mutual Fund Flows When Managers Have Foreign Sounding Names”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, November 10, 2011: Francesca Cornelli , London Business School
  • “Monitoring Managers: Does It Matter?”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, November 11, 2011: Dirk Hackbarth ,
  • “Granularity of Corporate Debt: Theory and Tests”
  • 2041 BIF@ 11:30am
• Thursday, November 17, 2011: Johan Walden , University of California at Berkeley
  • “Industrial Asset Pricing?”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Friday, November 18, 2011: Michel Robe , American University
  • "Does ‘Paper Oil’ Matter? Energy Markets’ Financialization and Equity-Commodity Co-Movements"
  • 426-428 Mumford Hall@ 12:00pm
• Wednesday, November 30, 2011: Joshua Pollet , Michigan State University
  • “RISK AND EXPECTED RETURNS OF PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS: EVIDENCE BASED ON MARKET PRICES”
  • 240 Wohlers Hall@ 2:00pm

December

• Thursday, December 1, 2011: Brett Green , Northwestern University
  • “Asset Trading, News, and Liquidity in Markets with Asymmetric Information”
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm
• Thursday, December 8, 2011: Ayako Yasuda , UC Davis
  • Title to be announced
  • 3007 BIF@ 2:00pm

January

• Friday, January 27, 2012: Mahdi Rastad ,
  • Capital Structure Pre-Balancing: Evidence from Convertible Bonds
  • 241 Wohlers Hall@ 11:30am