2008-09 Finance Seminars
The Arjay Miller Distinguished CFO Lecture
Meet with Jeff Epstein (for GSB faculty only)
The Finance Seminar is usually held on Wednesdays from 1:30-3:00 pm , unless otherwise indicated.
Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizers Arthur Korteweg and Francisco Perez-Gonzalez.
- Meet the Speaker (for GSB faculty only)
Please select the link above to view the current schedule, then email Malisa Young for an appointment.
Spring 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1 | Hongjun Yan Yale University |
Nickels versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies and Asset Prices | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| April 3 Friday |
Mordecai Kurz Stanford University |
Diverse Beliefs and Time Variability of Risk Premia | 12:00-1:30 PM S150 |
| April 8 | Tano Santos Columbia University |
Outside and Inside Liquidity | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| April 15 | Chris Malloy Harvard Business School |
Sell Side School Ties | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| April 22 | David Matsa Kellogg School of Management |
Growing Out of Trouble? Managerial Responses to Risk of Corporate Liability | 12:00-1:30 PM S161 |
| April 29 | Amit Seru University Chicago |
The Failure of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives and Defaults | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| May 6 | Shawn Cole Harvard Business School |
Default and Punishment: Incentives and Lending Behavior in Indian Banks | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| May 13 | Joint Berkeley and Stanford | 2:30-3:30 pm The Valuation of Long-Dated Assets Speaker: Ian Martin, Stanford University 3:30-3:50 pm General Discussion Discussant: TBA, UC Berkeley 3:50-4:20 pm Break 4:20-5:20 pm Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation - Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage Speaker:: Marcus Opp, UC Berkeley 5:20-5:40 pm General Discussion Discussant: Anat Admati, Stanford |
Room C210 Cheit Hall UC Berkeley |
| May 20 | Matt Spiegel Yale University |
Dynamic Corporate Capital Stocks: Cross-sectional and Inter-temporal Stock Return Patterns | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| May 27 | Liran Einav Stanford University |
Empirical analysis of subprime lending | 1:30-3:00 PM S150 |
| Jun 3 | Alan Kraus University of British Columbia |
Corporate Social Responsibility, Stocks Prices and Tax Policy | 12:00-1:30 PM S162 |
Winter 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 9 | Xavier Vives IESE Business School |
Dynamic Trading and Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek | 12:00-1:30 PM S151 |
| February 11 | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
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| February 18 | Jess Cornaggia Univeristy of Texas Dallas |
Does access to external finance improve productivity? Evidence from a natural experiment. | 1:30-3:00 PM S161 |
| February 25 | Cesare Fracassi UC Los Angeles |
Corporate Finance Policies and Social Networks | 12:00-1:30 PM S162 |
| March 4 | Konstantin Milbradt Princeton Univeristy |
Trading and Valuing Toxic Assets |
1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| March 11 | Lasse Pedersen New York University |
Dynamic Trading with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
Fall 2008 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 24 | Nick Barberis Yale University |
A Model of Casino Gambling (paper will not be posted) |
1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| October 1 | Itay Goldstein University of Pennsylvania |
Market-Based Corrective Actions | 1:30-3:00 PM S150 |
| October 8 | Lubos Pastor University of Chicago |
Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| October 15 | Raghu Rajan University of Chicago |
Illiquidity and Interest Rate Policy | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| October 22 | Antoinette Schoar MIT Sloan School of Management |
The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment | 1:30-3:00 PM S150 |
| October 29 | Camelia Kuhnen Northwestern University |
The Influence of Affect on Beliefs, Preferences and Financial Decisions | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| November 6 Thursday |
Joint Stanford and Berkeley Seminar | 2:30-3:30 pm Predictive Regressions: A Present-Value Approach Speaker: Jules van Binsbergen 3:30-3:50 pm General Discussion Discussant: Martin Lettau 3:50-4:20 pm Break 4:20-5:20 pm The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns Speaker: Nicolae Garleanu 5:20-5:40 pm General Discussion Discussant: Jonathan Berk |
2:30-5:40 PM S152 |
| November 12 | Hanno Lustig UC Los Angeles |
Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| November 19 | Jun Pan MIT Sloan School of Management |
Liquidity of Corporate Bonds | 1:30-3:00 PM S162 |
| December 3 | John Campbell Harvard University |
Forced Sales and House Prices | 1:30-3:00 PM SIEPR Conference Rm A Econ Dept - Landau Bldg |