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The following is a list of all the seminars hosted by the finance group 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 / Affiliation Title
January 8 Zhiguo He
Northwestern University		 Dynamic Compensation Contracts with Private Savings [pdf]
January 11 Lars-Alexander Kuehn
University of British Columbia		 Asset Pricing with Real Investment Commitment [pdf]
January 15 Ashwini Agrawal
University of Chicago		 Corporate Governance Objectives of Labor Union Shareholders [pdf]
January 18
[3:45-5:15pm]		 Gara Mínguez Afonso
Princeton University		 Liquidity and Congestion [pdf]
[Location: RJR Auditorium]
January 22 Paige Ouimet
University of Michigan		 Control and Target Managerial Incentives in Acquisition Decisions [pdf]
[Location: Seminar room G]
January 29 Philipp Schnabl
Harvard University		 Financial Globalization and the Transmission of Credit Supply Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market [pdf]
[Location: Classroom G]
February 1
[3:45-5:15pm]		 Alejandro Ponce-Rodriguez
Stanford University		 Teaser Rate Offers in the Credit Card Market: Evidence from Mexico [pdf]
[Location: RJR Auditorium]
February 5 Martin Oehmke
Princeton University		 Liquidating Illiquid Collateral [pdf]
February 12 Lukas Schmid
Université de Lausanne		 Levered Returns [pdf]
February 19 Marcus Opp
University of Chicago		 Expropriation Risk and Technology [pdf]
February 22
[1:30-3:00pm]		 Alexei Tchistyi
New York University		 Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Subprime Lending [pdf]
February 26 Itay Goldstein
University of Pennsylvania		 Incentives for Information Production in Markets where Prices Affect Real Investment [pdf]
March 11 Nittai Bergman
MIT		 Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection [pdf]
March 18 Rajnish Mehra
U. of California, Santa Barbara		 Intermediated Quantities and Returns [pdf]
March 25 Nagpurnanand Prabhala
University of Maryland		 Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm [pdf]
March 26
[10:30-12:00]		 Douglas Diamond
University of Chicago		 Legal Systems, Bank Finance and Debt Maturity [pdf]
[Location: Classroom G]
April 1 Monika Piazzesi
University of Chicago		 Bond Positions, Expectations, and The Yield Curve [pdf]
April 8 Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics		 Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns [pdf]
April 11 Victoria Ivashina
Harvard University		 The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking [pdf]
April 15 Gerard Hoberg
University of Maryland		 Competition and the Market for Mergers and Acquisitions [pdf]
April 22 Pierre-Olivier Weill
U. of California, Los Angeles		 Crashes and Recoveries in Illiquid Markets [pdf]
April 29 Janice Eberly
Northwestern University		 Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs [pdf]
May 6 Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Goldman Sachs		 Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion via the Updating of Beliefs [pdf]


Fall 2007

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
September 4 Thomas Philippon
New York University		 The Equilibrium Size of the Financial Sector [pdf]
September 11 Daniel Paravisini
Columbia University		 Information and Incentives Inside The Firm: Evidence From Loan Officer Rotation [pdf]
September 18 Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
New York Universtiy		 Why Have Payouts by US Corporations Increased so Much? [pdf]
September 25 Mark Westerfield
Univ. of Southern California		 Disagreement and Learning in a Dynamic Contracting Model
[pdf]
October 2 Süleyman Başak
London Business School		 Dynamic Mean-Variance Asset Allocation [pdf]
October 9 David Musto
University of Pennsylvania		 Predatory Lending in a Rational World [pdf]
October 16 Roméo Tédongap
Handelshögskolan i Stockholm		 Consumption Volatility and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns [pdf]
October 23 Harjoat S. Bhamra
University of British Columbia		 The Levered Equuty Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework [pdf]
October 30 Eric Hilt
Wellesley College		 When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century [pdf]
November 6 Morten Sorensen
University of Chicago		 Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter? [pdf]
November 27 Ron Giammarino
University of British Columbia		 Leaders, Followers and Risk Dynamics in Industry Equilibrium [pdf]
December 4 Michael Roberts
University of Pennsylvania		 Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements [pdf]
December 11 Amit Seru
University of Chicago		 Securitization and Screening: Evidence From Subprime Mortgage Backed Securities [pdf]

Spring 2007

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
January 23 Alex Edmans
MIT		 Blockholders, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia
January 26 Gregor Matvos
Harvard University		 Strategic Proxy Voting
January 30 Hui Chen
University of Chicago		 Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure
January 31 Jiro Kondo
MIT		 Self-Regulation and Enforcement in Financial Markets: Evidence From Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
February 2 Nikolai Roussanov
University of Chicago		 Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status
February 6 Snehal Banerjee
Stanford University		 Learning from Prices and the Dispersion in Beliefs
February 7 Ramana Nanda
MIT		 Financing Constraints and Selection into Entrepreneurship
February 13 Dimitris Papanikolaou
MIT		 Investment-Specific Technological Change and Asset Prices
February 16 Adair Morse
University of Michigan		 Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villans?
February 20 Tomasz Piskorski
New York University		 Optimal Mortgage Design
February 26 Xavier Gabaix
MIT		 A Unified Hypothesis for Ten Puzzles about Stocks, Bonds and Exchange Rates
March 20 Kenneth Ayotte
Columbia University		 Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting [pdf]
March 27 Urban Jermann
University of Pennsylvania		 The Equity Premium Implied by Production [pdf]
April 3 Heitor Almeida
New York University		 Valuation and Performance of Firms in Complex Ownership Structures: An Application to Korean Chaebols [pdf]
April 6 Raghuram Rajan
University of Chicago		 Foreign Capital and Economic Growth [pdf]
April 10 João F. Gomes
University of Pennsylvania		 Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns [pdf]
April 17 José Scheinkman
Princeton University		 Long Term Risk: An Operator Approach [pdf]
April 24 Denis Gromb
London Business School		 Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion [pdf]


Fall 2006

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
September 5 Augustin Landier
New York University		 Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much? [pdf]
September 12 Antonio Bernardo
Univ. of California, Los Angeles		 Motivating Entrepreuneurial Activity in a Firm [pdf]
September 19 Péter Kondor
University of Chicago		 Risk in Dynamic Arbitrage: Price Effects of Convergence Trading [pdf]
September 26 Nicholas Barberis
Yale University		 What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-standing Preference-based Explanation [pdf]
October 3 Jonathan Berk
University of California, Berkeley		 Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure [pdf]
October 10 Toni Whited
University of Wisconsin		 The Corporate Propensity to Save [pdf]
October 17 Riccardo Colacito
U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		 Risks for the Long Run and the Real Exchange Rate [pdf]
October 24 Kewei Hou
Ohio State University		 What Factors Drive Global Stock Returns? [pdf]
November 7 Ilya Strebulaev
Stanford University		 Firm Size and Capital Structure [pdf]
November 14 Hanno Lustig
Univ. of California, Los Angeles		 The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk [pdf]
November 28 Andrew Abel
University of Pennsylvania		 Investment, Valuation, and Growth Options [pdf]
December 6 Thomas Sargent
New York University		 Fragile Beliefs and the Price of Model Uncertainty [pdf]
[Smith Breeden seminar, joint with UNC]


Spring 2006

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
January 13 Todd Gormley
MIT		 Banking Competition in Developing Countries: Does Foreign Bank Entry Improve Credit Access?
January 17 David Matsa
MIT		 Capital Structure as a Strategic Variable: Evidence from Collective Bargaining
January 20 Camelia Kuhnen
Stanford University		 Social Networks, Corporate Governance and Contracting in the Mutual Fund Industry - The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking
January 24 Ola Bengtsson
University of Chicago		 A Study of Repeated Relationships between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
January 27 Hengjie Ai
University of Minnesota		 Incomplete Information and Equity Premium in Production Economies
February 1 Vito Gala
University of Chicago		 Investment and Returns
February 3 Igor Makarov
MIT		 Forecasting the Forecasts of Others: Implications for Asset Pricing
February 7 Yuhai Xuan
Harvard University		 Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions
February 24 Gustavo Manso
Stanford University		 Motivating Innovation
February 27 Amil Dasgupta
London School of Economics		 The Price of Conformism [pdf]
March 7 Mitchell Petersen
Northwestern University		 Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches [pdf]
March 21 Daniel Wolfenzon
New York University		 Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance [pdf]
March 28 Martin Lettau
New York University		 Reconciling the Return Predictability Evidence: In-Sample Forecasts, Out-of-Sample Forecasts, and Parameter Instability [pdf]
April 4 Mikhail Chernov
Columbia University		 No-Arbitrage Macroeconomic Determinants of the Yield Curve [pdf]
April 11 E. Han Kim
University of Michigan		 Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge? [pdf]
April 25 Vinay Nair
University of Pennsylvania		 Weak Shareholder Rights: A Product Market Rationale [pdf]
April 28 Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University		 Persuasion in Finance [pdf]
[Smith Breeden seminar, joint with UNC]


Fall 2005

Date Speaker / Affiliation Title
September 13 Wouter Dessein
University of Chicago		 Organizing for Synergies: Allocating Control to Manage the Coordination-Incentives Tradeoff [pdf]
September 20 Bilge Yılmaz
Univerisity of Pennsylvania		 Asymmetric Information and Financing with Convertibles [pdf]
September 27 Narayan Naik
London Business School		 Role of Managerial Incentives, Flexibility, and Ability: Evidence from Performance and Money Flows in Hedge Funds [pdf]
October 4 Josh Lerner
Harvard Business School		 Specialization and Success: Evidence from Venture Capital [pdf]
October 11 Atif Mian
University of Chicago		 Uncovering Collateral Constraints [pdf]
October 20 Adriano Rampini
Northwestern University		 Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity [pdf]
October 25 Ilan Kremer
Stanford University		 On Regret and Options - A Game Theoretic Approach for Option Pricing [pdf]
November 1 Hassan Naqvi
National University of Singapore		 Banking Crises and the Lender of Last Resort: How crucial is the role of information? [pdf]
November 15 Lu Zhang
University of Rochester		 Investment-Based Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings [pdf]
November 29 Adlai Fisher
University of British Columbia		 SEOs, Real Options, and Risk Dynamics: Empirical Evidence
December 6 Aydoğan Altı
University of Texas, Austin		 Why Do Investors Chase Return Trends? [pdf]
December 13 Guillaume Plantin
Carnegie Mellon University		 "Weight of Money" Pricing and Speculative Dynamics

 

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