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Past Brown Bag Lunches
The following is a list of all the brown bag lunch finance seminars held at Fuqua in the past few years. To download a pdf copy of a paper, click on the link next to the paper title (when available).
Spring 2008
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| February 6 |
Dong Chen
Duke economics dept. |
The Monitoring and Advisory Functions of Corporate Boards: Theory and Evidence |
February 13
[12:15-1:15] |
Jim Cox / Rich Mathews |
The Impact of Pleading Standards on Class-Action Lawsuit Settlements / Empty Voting and Efficiency
[joint with the Law School] |
| February 27 |
Mathijs van Dijk |
Resurrecting the Size Effect: Firm Size, Profitability Shocks, and Expected Stock Returns |
| March 5 |
Craig Burnside
Duke economics dept. |
The Econometrics of Cross-sectional Asset Pricing |
| March 12 |
Manju Puri |
Who Runs? The Importance of Depositor Relationships in Bank Panics |
March 26
[10:30-12:00] |
Doug Diamond
University of
Chicago |
Legal Systems, Bank Finance and Debt Maturity [pdf] |
| April 2 |
Ivan Shaliastovich
Duke economics dept. |
Learning, Long-Run Risks and Asset Price Jumps [pdf] |
| April 9 |
Paul Borochin |
The Effect of Management Organization on Hedge Fund Decisions and Performance |
| April 16 |
Bill Mayew |
The Power of Voice: Managerial Affective States and Future Firm Performance [pdf]
[Seminar Room C] |
| April 23 |
Manju Puri |
Managerial Attitudes and Corporate Actions [pdf] |
April 30
[12:15-1:15] |
Steven Schwarcz / David Robinson |
Systemic Risk [pdf; outline] / Strategic Alliances, Venture Capital, and the Going Public Decision [pdf]
[joint with the Law School, Law School Room 4042] |
| May 7 |
Rebecca Zarutskie |
Competition and Specialization in Credit Markets |
| May 7 |
Pino Lopomo |
The Economics of Contingent Re-Auctions [pdf] |
Fall 2007
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| September 12 |
Rich Mathews |
Empty Voting and Efficiency
[Seminar Room 2] |
| October 3 |
Dong Chen
Duke economics dept. |
Are Bad Monitors Bad for the Firm? Empirical Evidence on Association Between Independent Directors and Firm Performance |
| October 17 |
Diego Garcia
U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Information Sales and Strategic Trading
[Seminar Room 2] |
| October 24 |
Justin Murfin / Paul Borochin |
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| November 7 |
Jules van Binsbergen |
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| November 14 |
Adriano Rampini |
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Spring 2007
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| February 21 |
S. "Vish" Viswanathan |
Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity |
| February 28 |
Qi Chen |
Directors' Ownership in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry |
| March 7 |
Ravi Bansal |
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| March 14 |
Alon Brav |
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance |
| March 21 |
Naveen Khanna
Michigan State University |
Can Board of Directors Save Corporate America? The Impossibility of Efficient Boards |
| March 28 |
Jules Van Binsbergen |
Predictive Regressions: A Present-Value Approach [pdf] |
| April 4 |
Wadia Haddaji |
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| April 11 |
Hengjie Ai |
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| April 18 |
Ralph Koijen |
Mortgage Timing [pdf] |
| April 25 |
Ron Kaniel |
Price Drift as an Outcome of Differences in Higher Order Beliefs |
| May 2 |
Magnus Dahlquist
Stockholm School of Economics
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Direct Evidence of Dividend Tax Clienteles [pdf] |
Fall 2006
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 30 |
Ronald Gallant |
A Statistical Inquiry into the Plausibility of Recursive Utility [pdf] |
| September 6 |
Rebecca Zarutskie |
The Importance of Venture Capital in New Firm Creation |
| September 13 |
Itay Goldstein
University of Pennsylvania |
Market-Based Intervention and Non-Revealing Prices: The Case of Government Supervision of Banks |
| September 20 |
Wadia Haddaji |
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| September 27 |
Runeet Kishore / Jie Yang |
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| October 4 |
Fei Ding |
Brokerage Commissions, Perquisites, and Delegated Portfolio Management |
| October 11 |
Simon Gervais |
Ethics, Employment Contracts, and Firm Value |
| October 25 |
Bin Wei |
Managerial Ability, Open-End Fund Flows, and Closed-End Fund Discounts |
| November 1 |
Raman Kumar |
Beta May Not Be Dead After All: A New Framework for Measuring and Correcting the Bias in Cross-Sectional Tests of the CAPM |
| November 8 |
Nataliya Khmilevska
Duke economics dept. |
ICAPM and Macroeconomic Announcements |
| November 14 |
Victor Todorov
Duke economics dept. |
Variance Risk Premium Dynamics |
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