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Faculty Seminars

 

2006-07 Finance Seminars


Spring 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 4

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Stern
New York University

The Wealth-Consumption Ratio: A Litmus Test for Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Models

[ PDF 545KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

April 11

Stefan Nagel
Stanford University

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomics Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

[ PDF 198KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S161

April 18

Joao Gomes
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns

[ PDF 295KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

April 25

Han Ozsoylev
Said Business School
University of Oxford

Hype and Dump Manipulation

[ PDF 205KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

May 2

Urban Jermann
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

The Equity Premium Implied by Production

[ PDF 465KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

May 9

Chris Hennessey,
Berkeley and Joy Ishii,
Stanford

A Dynamic Theory of Corporate Finance Based upon Repeated Signaling

[ PDF 580KB]

and

Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States

[ PDF 554KB]

2:30 - 5:30 pm/ UC Berkeley
Room C230, Cheit Hall

May 16

Aydogan Alti
University of Texas @ Austin

When do High Stock Returns Trigger Equity Issues?

[ PDF 342KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

May 23

Bilge Yilmaz
Wharton School

Deliberation and Security Design in Bankruptcy

[ PDF 220KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

May 25
Friday

Martin Schneider [ PDF 105KB]
New York University

Inflation and the Price of Real Assets

[ PDF 434KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L103

May 30

Robert Novy-Marx
Chicago GSB

Operating Leverage

[ PDF 250KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S150

 

Winter 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 12
Friday

Gregor Matvos [ PDF 340KB]
Harvard University

Strategic Proxy Voting

[ PDF 340KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L103

January 19
Friday

Dimitris Papanikolaou [ PDF 63KB]
MIT

Investment-Specific Technological Change and Asset Prices

[ PDF 611KB]

10:30-Noon/S160

January 22
Monday

Nikolai Roussanov [ PDF 76KB]
University of Chicago

Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status

[ PDF 891KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S172

January 24
Wednesday

Viktor Todorov [ PDF 40KB]
Duke University

Variance Risk Premium Dynamics

[ PDF 638KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S172

January 29
Monday

Arthur Korteweg [ PDF 97KB]
University of Chicago

The Costs of Financial Distress Across Industries

[ PDF 345KB]

10:30-Noon/L103

January 31
Wednesday

Yang Lu [ PDF 20KB]
New York University

Pricing and Performance of Loans Bundled with Underwriting

[ PDF 255KB]

Noon-1:30pm/ S160

February 2
Friday

Jiro Kondo [ PDF 50KB]
MIT

Self-Regulation and Enforcement in Financial Markets: Evidence from Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD

[ PDF 386KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L103

February 5
Monday

Erica Li [ PDF 55KB]
University of Rochester

Corporate Governance, the Cross Section of Returns, and Financing Choices

[ PDF 401KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L103

February 12
Monday

Bruce Carlin [ PDF 33KB]
Duke University

Strategic Price Complexity in Retail Financial Markets

[ PDF 310KB]

Noon-1:30pm/ S172

February 23
Friday

Dirk Jenter [ PDF 21KB]
MIT

Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know, and When Do They Know It?

[ PDF 178KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

March 5
Monday

Hui Chen [ PDF 61KB]
University of Chicago

Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure

[ PDF 520KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L103

March 14
Wednesday

Viral Acharya [ PDF 83KB]
London Business School
(Visiting Faculty Stanford GSB through March 07)

Draft:
Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation1

[ PDF 593KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S171

 

Fall 2006

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

September 27

Toni Whited
University of Wisconsin

Which Firms Follow the Market? An Analysis of Corporate Investment Decisions (joint work with Tor-Erik Bakke)

[ PDF 337KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S152

October 4

Holger Mueller
New York University

Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations (joint work with Thomas Phillipon)

[ PDF 276KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S182

October 10
Tuesday

Michael Brandt
Duke University

Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets (joint work with Alessandro Beber)

[ PDF 280KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S152

October 18

Jon Lewellen
Dartmouth University

On the Volatility of the Equity Premium (joint work with Stefan Nagel)

1:30-3:00 pm/S182

October 24
Tuesday

Vinay Nair
Wharton University
Corporate Governance Seminar to be held at the Law School

 

2:15-4:00 pm/Law School

October 25

Dan Bernhardt
University of Illinois

Toward a Quantitative Theory of Informed Finance (co-authored with Stefan Krasa)

[ PDF 153KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S181

November 2
Thursday

Joint Stanford - Berkeley Seminar at Stanford

Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation, and Managerial Entrenchment (by Camelia Kuhnen and Jeff Zwiebel)

[ PDF 287KB]

Presenter: Jeff Zwiebel
Discussant: Chris Hennessy

 

Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure (by Jonathan Berk, Richard Stanton and Josef Zechner)

[ PDF 323KB]

Presenter: Richard Stanton
Discussant: Paul Pfleiderer

2:30-6:00 pm/S170

November 8

Neng Wang
Columbia University

Dynamic Investment, Capital Structure, and Debt Overhang (joint work with Suresh Sundaresan)

[ PDF 416KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S152

November 15

Dmitry Livdan
Texas A&M University

Future Prices in a Production Economy with Investment Constraints (joint work with Leonid Kogan and Amir Yaron)

[ PDF 314KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S152

November 17

Lasse Pedersen [ PDF 44KB]
New York University

Demand-Based Option Pricing (joint work with Nicolae Garleanu and Allen Poteshman)

[ PDF 417KB]

Noon-1:15 pm/L103

November 28
Tuesday

Steven Kaplan
Chicago University
Corporate Governance Seminar to be held at the Law School

How has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOs (with Bernadette A. Minton)

[ PDF 103KB]

2:15-4:00 pm/Law School Room 230

December 6

Michael Lemmon
University of Utah

The Response of Corporate Financing and Investment to Changes in the Supply of Credit: A Natural Experiment

[ PDF 302KB]

1:30-3:00 pm/S152