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Finance Seminar Series

The 2008-09 seminar series is organized by Adriano Rampini and Lukas Schmid. Unless otherwise noted, the seminars are held from 10:30am to 12:00pm in seminar room 1 at the Fuqua School of Business. To download a pdf copy of the paper, click on the link next to the paper title (when available).

Fall 2008

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
September 2 Stefano Rossi
Stockholm School of Economics
Optimal Resolutions of Financial Distress by Contract [pdf]
September 9 Mara Faccio
Purdue University
Sheltering Corporate Assets from Political Extraction [pdf]
September 16 Adrien Verdelhan
Boston University
Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets [pdf]
September 23 Harold L. Cole
University of Pennsylvania
Self-Enforcing Stochastic Monitoring and the Separation of Debt and Equity Claims [pdf]
September 30 Veronica Guerrieri
University of Chicago
Fund Managers and Defaultable Debt [pdf]
October 7 Arthur G. Korteweg
Stanford University
Sequential Learning, Predictive Regressions, and Optimal Portfolio Returns [pdf]
October 14 Ian Martin
Stanford University
The Lucas Orchard [pdf]
October 21 Christian Julliard
London School of Economics
Can Rare Events Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle? [pdf]
October 28 Peter DeMarzo
Stanford University
Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment [pdf]
November 4 Wei Xiong
Princeton University
Delegated Asset Management and Capital Immobility [pdf]
November 11 Vikrant Vig
London Business School
Access to Collateral and Corporate Debt Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [pdf]
November 18 Matthew Spiegel
Yale University
Time Varying Corporate Capital Stocks and the Cross Section and Intertemporal Variation in Stock Returns [pdf]
November 25 Yuri Tserlukevich
HKUST
Employee Stock Options, Financing Constraints, and Real Investment [pdf]
December 2 Radhakrishnan Gopalan
Washington University
How do Defaults Affect Lead Arranger Reputation in the Loan Syndication Market? [pdf]
December 9 Jean-Charles Rochet
Université de Toulouse
Liquidity Risk and Corporate Demand for Hedging and Insurance [pdf]


Spring 2009

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
January 27 Jesse Edgerton
MIT
Taxes and Used Equipment: Evidence from Construction Machinery [pdf]
January 30
[3:30-5:00pm]
Antoinette Schoar
MIT
The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment [pdf]
[Location: Seminar Room G]
February 10 Moshe Cohen
MIT
Revisiting Corporate Governance Regulation: Firm Heterogeneity and the Market for Corporate Domicile [pdf]
March 24 Tobias Moskowitz
University of Chicago
Value and Momentum Everywhere [pdf]
March 27
[3:30-5:00pm]
Roni Michaely
Cornell University
Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence [pdf]
[Location: Seminar Room G]
March 31 Cristina Arellano
University of Minnesota
Firm Dynamics and Financial Development [pdf]
April 1
[3:30-5:00pm]
Mitchell Petersen
Northwestern University
Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act [pdf]
[Location: Seminar Room G]
April 7 Rui Albuquerque
Boston University
Advance Information and Asset Prices [pdf]
April 14 Jakub Jurek
Princeton University
Crash-neutral Currency Carry Trades [pdf]
April 21 Carola Frydman
MIT
Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms [pdf]
April 28 Neng Wang
Columbia University
A Unified Theory of Tobin’s q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management [pdf]

 

 


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