Department of Finance 

Seminars in Finance

Seminars are, unless otherwise noted, held on Fridays, 10.15-11.30 in Room 750.

Job Talk organizer: Roméo Tédongap

Spring 2012

Job Talk
13 January in room 328

Roine Vestman, SIFR
Limited Stock Market Participation Among
Renters and Home Owners


Job Talk
20 January in room 750
Thomas Maurer, London School of Economics
Asset Pricing Implications of Demographic Change

Job Talk
26 January, 12.00, at SIFR
Dmitriy Muravyev, University of Illinois
Order Flow and Expected Option Returns

Job Talk
27 January in room 750
Mehdi Karoui, McGill University
Option-Implied Equity Premia and the Predictability of Stock Market Returns

Job Talk
10 February in room 750
Isacco Piccioni, University of North Carolina
Rationalizing Size, Value, and Momentum Effects with an Asymmetric CAPM


Seminar organizers: Ulf von Lilienfeld and Francesco Sangiorgi

16 March in room 750
Peter Kondor, Central European University
Inefficient Investment Waves 

23 March in room 138
Kristian Rydqvist, Binghamton University
Imperfect Competition in Uniform-Price Auctions

30 March in room 750
Jules Van Binsbergen, Northwestern University
Measuring Rents in the Mutual Fund Industry

13 April in room 750
Vikrant Vig, London Business School
Cancelled

20 April in room 750
Antje Berndt, Carnegie Mellon University
What Broker Charges Reveal about Mortgage Credit Risk

27 April Public lecture at: The Royal Coin Cabinet, Slottsbacken 6, Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Professor Marco Pagano, Professor of Economics, Facoltà di Economia, Università di Napoli Federico II and ECGI Fellow
"Market Transparency and Company Disclosure"
Please register for the lecture on the following web site: The ECGI Annual Lecture

4 May in room 750
David Thesmar, HEC
Categorization Bias in the Stock Market

11 May in room 750
Konstantin Milbradt, MIT Sloan School of Management
Maturity Rationing 

25 May in room 750
Dilip Mookherjee,  Boston University
Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with West Bengal Potato Farmers 

1 June in room 750
Adrien Verdelhan, MIT Sloan School of Management

8 June in room 138
Holger Mueller, New York University Stern School of Business 
Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms


Fall 2011

2 September
Guillaume Plantin, Toulouse School of Economics
Inequality, Tax Avoidance, and Financial Instability

9 September
Konstantinos E. Zachariadis, The London School of Economics
Delegated Activism and Disclosure

16 September
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Redefining Financial Constraints: a Text-Based Analysis

23 September
Veronika Krepely Pool, Indiana University Kelley School of Business
No Place Like Home: Familiarity in Mutual Fund Manager Portfolio Choice

30 September
Dong Lou, London School of Economics
Attracting Investor Attention through Advertising

7 October
Augustin Landier, Toulouse School of Economics 
The Risk-Shifting Hypothesis: Evidence from Subprime Originations

14 October
New Speaker
Tore Ellingsen, SSE
Paying for Staying: Managerial Contracts and the Retention Motive
Cancelled Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston


21 October
Daniel Paravisini, Columbia Business School
Social Proximity and Loan Outcomes: Evidence from an Indian Bank


28 October
Anna Pavlova, London Business School
Asset Prices and Institutional Investors


4 November
James Dow, London Business School
Public Commitment to Bailouts and Endogenous Economic Instability


11 November Cancelled
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University
Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms


18 November
Andrea Vedolin, London School of Economics
International Correlation Risk


25 November
Bo Becker, Harvard Business School 
Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge


2 December
Stefano Giglio, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Credit default swap spreads and systemic financial risk


9 December
Juhani Linnainmaa, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 
Positive Portfolio Factors


16 December ROOM 348
Alex Edmans, University of Pennsylvania
Contracting With Synergies



Spring 2011


Job Talk
14 January at SIFR
Juliusz Radwanski, Vienna Graduate School of Finance
Can Long-Run Risks Explain the Distress Puzzle?

Job Talk
Wednesday 19  January at 12.00 in Room 550 
Kim Peijnenburg, Tilburg University
Life-Cycle Asset Allocation with Ambiguity Aversion and Learning

Job Talk
21 January at 10.15 in Room 550 
Benjamin Golez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra  
Expected Returns and Dividend Growth Rates Implied in Derivative Markets

Job Talk
Wednesday 26 January at 12.00 in Room 750
Hitesh Doshi, McGill University
The Term Structure of Recovery Rates

Job Talk
Thursday 27 January  at 12.00 in Room 750
Joni Kokkonen, Aalto University School of Economics
Better Safe than Sorry: Bulls, Bears, and Optimal International Portfolio Choice under Disappointment Aversion

Job Talk
28 January at 10.15 in Room 750
Bige Kahraman, Yale University
Do Mutual Fund Brokers Exploit Investors Through Their Fee Schedules?

Job Talk
Thursday 3 February at 12.00 in Room 550
Ramin Baghai, London Business School
Equity Ownership and Product Prices

Job Talk
4 February at 10.15 in Room 550
Melissa Porras Prado, Rotterdam School of Management  
The Price of Prospective Lending: Evidence from Short Sale Constraints

Job Talk
Wednesday 9 February at 12.00 in Room Torsten
Elizabeth Foote, London School of Economics
Credit Lines and Capital Adequacy

Job Talk
11 February at 10.15 at SIFR
Angie Andrikogiannopoulou, Princeton University
Estimating Risk Preferences from a Large Panel of Real-World Betting Choices

Job Talk
Wednesday 16 February at 12.00 in Room 550
Yelena Larkin, Cornell University
Product Demand Characteristics, Brand Perception, and Financial Policy

Job Talk
Thursday 17 February at 12.00 in Room 750
Daniel Metzger, London School of Economics
How do CEOs matter? The Effect of Industry Expertise on Acquisition Returns

Job Talk
18 February at 10.15 in Room 750
Dragana Cvijanovic, London School of Economics
Real Estate Prices and Firm Capital Structure

11 March
Raman Uppal, EDHEC Business School
Asset Prices with Heterogeneity in Preferences and Beliefs

18 March
Philip Valta, HEC
Competition and the Cost of Debt

24 March (12.00 - 1.00 at SIFR)
Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago
On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends

25 March (in room 328)
Hening Liu, Manchester Business School
Ambiguous growth and asset prices in production economies

1 April (in room 328)
Florian Heider, European Central Bank
Risk-sharing or risk-taking? Hedging, margins and incentives

8 April
Elena Carletti, European University Institute
Asset Commonality, Debt Maturity and Systemic Risk 

15 April
New speaker: Mike Burkart, SSE
Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers
Cancelled:Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Private and Public Merger Waves

29 April
Clifford Holderness, Boston College
Do Differences in Legal Protections Explain Differences in Ownership Concentration?

6 May
Roman Inderst, University of Frankfurt
Loan Prospecting

13 May 
Francesco Franzoni, USI Lugano
Hedge Fund Stock Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

20 May    
Martin Oehmke, Columbia University
Should Derivatives be Senior?

27 May Cancelled
Amit Seru, University of Chicago
Information, Credit and Organization Design.



Fall 2010

September 3
Andrew Hertzberg, Columbia Business School
Exponential Individuals, Hyperbolic Households.

September 10
Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago
The Effect of Succession Taxes on Family Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

September 17
Stefan Ruenzi, Universität Mannheim
Commonality in Liquidity: A Demand-Side Explanation.

September 24
Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
Corporate Governance in the Presence of an Activist Investor (joint with Jonathan Cohn)

October 1
Ning Zhu, University of California
Security Supply and Bubbles: A Natural Experiment from the Chinese Warrants Market.

October 8 (at 13:15) 
Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University
Nogiating with Labor under Financial Distress.

October 15
Anjan Thakor, Olin Business School
Paper 1:
Are Financial Crises Inevitable?
Paper 2: Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis? Regulating Bank Leverage When There Is Rent Seeking and Risk Shifting.

October 22
Kathy Yuan, London School of Economics
Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment.

October 29
Konrad Raff, SIFR
Information Externalities in Corporate Governance.

November 5
Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt
Differences in Portfolios across Countries: Economic Environment versus Household Characteristics.

November 12
James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India.

November 19
Jeffrey Zwiebel, The Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Ececutive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment, joint with Camelia Kuhnen

November 26
Per Östberg,  Swiss Finance Institute, University of Zurich
Money and Liquidity in Financial Markets.

December 3
Todd A. Gormley, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

December 17
Zhiguo He,
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
A Model of Capital and Crises.


If you wish to receive announcements of upcoming seminars please contact: Kirsti Karijord Palo

 

 
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