Finance Seminars
The Finance Seminar is usually held on Wednesdays from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm , unless otherwise indicated. Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizers Jonathan Berk and Peter Koudijs.
Please select the Meet the Speaker link below (•) to view the current schedule or email Miriam Torres for an appointment (GSB faculty only).
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Spring 2013 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
Meet the Speaker |
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| April 3 | Vish Viswanathan Duke University |
Financial Intermediary Capital | 11:30 AM - 1 PM C106 |
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| April 10 | Leo Bursztyn UCLA |
Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment | 11:30 AM - 1PM C106 |
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| April 17 | Yuri Tserlukevich Arizona State University |
Can Idiosyncratic Cash Flow Shocks Explain Asset Pricing Anomalies | 11:30 AM - 1 PM C106 |
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| April 24 | Andrew Ang Columbia Business School |
Asset Pricing in the Dark: The Cross Section of OTC Stock | 11:30 AM - 1 PM C106 |
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| May 1 | Joint Stanford - Berkeley Seminar |
2:00-3:00 pm Presentation: Kenneth Singleton, Stanford 3:00-3:15 pm Discussion: Annette Vissing-Jorgenson |
2:00-5:20 PM C105 |
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| May 8 | John Campbell Harvard University Department of Economics |
An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility with Stefano Giglio, Christopher Polk, and Robert Turley |
11:30 AM - 1 PM C106 |
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| May 15 | Steve Ross MIT |
The Recovery Theorem | 11:30 AM - 1PM C106 |
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| May 22 | Jennifer La'O The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
A Traffic Jam Theory of Recessions | 11:30 AM - 1PM C106 |
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Winter 2013 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
Meet the Speaker |
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| January 11 | Wenxin Du Harvard University |
Local Currency Sovereign Risk | 11:45 AM -1:15 PM SE102 |
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| January 16 | Gabriel Chodorow-Reich UC Berkeley - Joined with Economics |
The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the 2008-09 Financial Crisis | 12:00-1:15 pm C102 |
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| January 23 | Adam Clark-Joseph Harvard University |
Exploratory Trading | 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Oberndorf Event Center - N302C |
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| January 25 | Jacopo Ponticelli Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Court Enforcement and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Bankruptcy Reform in Brazil | 12:00- 1:15 PM M105 |
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| January 28 | Timothy McQuade Harvard University |
Stochastic Volatility and Asset Pricing Puzzles | 11:45 AM-1:15 PM SE102 |
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| February 1 | Marco Di Maggio MIT |
Market Turmoil and Destabilizing Speculation | 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM SE102 |
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| February 20 | Lars Lochstoer Columbia Business School |
Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium: The Asset Pricing Implications | 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM G101 |
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| February 22 | Cami Kuhnen Northwestern University |
Asymmetric Learning from Financial Information | 11:45 AM -1:15 PM M109 |
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| February 27 | John Friedman Harvard Kennedy School |
Active VS. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out In Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM SE107 |
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| March 6 | Jean-Noel Barrot HEC Paris School of Management |
Financial Strength and Trade Credit Provision: Evidence from Trucking Firms | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM P107 |
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| March 13 | Marcus Opp UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (Visiting Stanford) |
A Theory of Dynamic Resource Misallocation and Amplification | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM P107 |
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| March 20 | Motohiro Yogo Minneapolis FED |
The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM P107 |
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Autumn 2012 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
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| September 26 | Ed Van Wesep The University of North Carolina |
The Idealized Electoral College Voting Mechanism and Shareholder Power | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| October 3 | Ing-Haw Cheng University of Michigan |
Wall Street and the Housing Bubble |
11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| October 10 | Michael Roberts The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania (visiting Stanford GSB) |
Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy? | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| October 17 | Andrei Shleifer Harvard University Department of Economics |
Money Doctors | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| October 24 | Hyun Shin Princeton University |
Capital Flows, Cross-Border Banking and Global Liquidity (joint with Valentina Bruno) | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| October 31 | Joint Berkeley and Stanford Seminar (Berkeley) |
2:00-5:00 pm, Koret Classroom (F320) Capital Structure and Taxes: What Happens When You (Also) Subsidize Equity? (with Frédéric Panier and Pablo Villanueva)
2:50-3:05 pm Discussant: Gustavo Manso, Berkeley
3:05-3:20 pm Floor Discussion
3:20-3:40 pm Break
3:40-4:30 pm Paper 2: Marcus Opp, Berkeley
4:30-4:45 pm Discussant: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford
4:45-5:00 pm Floor Discussion
5:00-6:00 pm Wine & Cheese for faculty (in room F310)
6:15 pm Dinner at Oliveto Restaurant for faculty
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Koret Classroom, Room F320 |
| November 7 | Antoinette Schoar MIT Sloan School of Management (Distinguished Visiting Scholar) |
House Prices, Collateral and Self-Employment (Abstract) Manuel Adelino, Duke University; AntoinetteSchoar, MIT and NBER; Felipe Severino, MIT |
11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| November 14 | Effi Benmelech Kellogg School of Management |
Did the Community Reinvestment Act Lead to Risky Lending? | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| November 28 | Amir Sufi University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Household Balance Sheets, Consumption, and the Economic Slump | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |
| December 5 | Philip Bond Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota |
Wall Street Occupations: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs | 11:30 AM - 1 PM Lane-Lyons Rooms at Arrillaga (Alumni) Center |
| December 12 | Toby Moskowitz University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies | 11:30 AM - 1 PM SE107 |