Finance Seminar Series Spring 2006

Time & Venue

Speaker

Title of Presentation

Tue, Jan 17, 14.00, Room E 0.15 Zacharias Sautner (Said Business School) Corporate Governance and the Design of Stock Option Programs
Tue, Jan 24, 14.00, Room E 0.15 Andreas Madestam (Stockholm School of Economics)

Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders

Tue, Jan 31, 14.00, Room E 004 Mirela Predescu (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) The Performance of Structural Models of Default for Firms with Liquid CDS Spreads
Wed, Feb 1, 12.00, Room E 004 George Korniotis (University of Notre Dame)  
Tue, Feb 6, 14.00, Room E 1.17 Tolga Cenesizoglu  (University of California, San Diego)

Risk and Return Reaction of the Stock Market to Public Announcements about Fundamentals:Theory and Evidence

Tue, Feb 7, 14.00, E 004 Rocco Machiavello (LSE)  
Wed, Feb 15, 12.00, Room E 1.17  Bilal Zia (MIT) Financial Constraints and the (Mis)Allocation of Subsidized Credit - Evidence from Export Loans
March 7, 14.00, TI

Anna Pavlova

(London Business School)

Wealth Transfers and Portfolio Constraints
March 15, Postponed!

Peter Högfeldt (postponed!)

(Stockholm School of Economics)

Pyramidal Discounts: Tunneling or Overinvestment?

March 20, 16.00,       Room C 206

Andrei Shleifer

(Harvard)

Persuasion in Finance (paper)

The Economics of Persuasion

March 21, 14.00, Room TI

Ines Chaieb (Mc Gill University)

International Asset Pricing under Segmentation and PPP Deviations

March 22, 12.15, Room E 1.17

Devraj Basu (Warwick) 

Asset Pricing Anomalies and Time-Varying Betas: A New Specification test for Conditional Factor Models
March 28, 13.00, Room E 1.17

Enrico Perotti and Armin Schwienbacher (UvA)

Political Origin of Pension Funding
March 29, 12.15, Room E 020 Gilles Chemla (Imperial College) A Simple Model of Investment and Capital Structure Dynamics with Corporate Taxes and Bankruptcy Costs
April 5, 15.30, E 004 Ton Vorst (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Best of products combining different asset classes
April 11, 14.00, TI 

Irem Tuna

(Wharton) 

The Book-to-Price Effect in Stock Returns: Accounting for Leverage
April 18, 14.00, TI

Frederic Palomino

(HEC) 

Project Financing and the Provision of Insurance                        
April 19, 12.15, Room E 020

Albert Menkveld

(VU Amsterdam)

 
April 25, 14.00, TI (!) Charles M. Jones (Columbia Business School) Which shorts are informed?
Tue May 2, 14.00, TI

Tim Simin 

(Penn State)

Can Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?

Tue May 16, 16.00(!), TI

Robert Gibbons 

(MIT)

 
Tue May 23, 14.00, TI

Jeff Pontiff

(Boston College)

 
Tue May 30, 14.00, TI

Francesca Cornelli  

(London Business School) 

 
Wed May 31, 12.15, TI Martijn Cremers (Yale University)  
Wed June 7, 12.15, TBA Florencio Lopez (UvA)  
Wed June 14, 12.15, E008

Arvind Krishnamurthy

(Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)

Flight to Quality and Collective Risk Management
Tue June 20, 14.00, E008

Mark Flannery

(University of Florida)

Major Investments, Firm Financing Decisions, and Long-run Performance
Wed June 21, 12.15, E008 Luc Laeven (IMF) Corporate Governance, Regulation, and Bank Risk Taking
Tue June 27, Retreat

Ron Kaniel

(Duke)

 
Thu June 29, E 1.50 Mara Faccio (Vanderbilt University) Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock of Political Connections
     

 

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