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Seminars


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All Center Fellows are welcome to attend the conferences. Contact Mary Ann Nelson for information about dates, times and locations. Papers will be available in PDF format. (unless otherwise indicated) --click on it to view. The Yale Economics Department Macroeconomics Workshop has Finance-related papers of interest as well.

Yale School of Management
Finance and Accounting Seminar
2006-2007
11:35am-12:50pm


Fall 2006
Friday, September 8th* John Campbell, Harvard University
Down or out: Assessing the welfare costs of household investment mistakes
Friday, September 15th Seminar cancelled
Friday, September 22nd* Mark Grinblatt, UCLA, The Anderson School
Sensation seeking, overconfidence and trading activity
Friday, September 29th Peter Kondor , University of Chicago
Risk in Dynamic Arbitrage: Price Effects of Convergence Trading
Friday, October 6th Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Market Based Regulation and the Informational Content of Prices
Friday, October 13th Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, New York University, The Stern School of Business
Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?
Friday, October 20th Camelia Mariana Kuhnen, Northwestern University
The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking
Friday, October 27th** Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Friday, November 3rd Francis Longstaff, UCLA, The Anderson School
An empirical analysis of the pricing of collateralized debt obligations
Friday, November 10th NBER Meetings, No Seminar
Friday, November 17th** Yaniv Grinstein, Cornell University
CEO Compensation and Board Structure
Friday, November 24th Thanksgiving Recess, No Seminar
Friday, December 1st Five-Star Conference, New York University
Friday, December 8th Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
The Limit Order Effect
Wednesday, January 10th Alex Edmans, MIT, Sloan School of Management
Blockholders, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia
Friday, January 12th Nikolai Roussanov, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Diversification and Its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status
Wednesday, January 17th Jiro E. Kondo, MIT, Sloan School of Management
Self-Regulation and Enforcement in Financial Markets: Evidence From Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
Thursday, January 18th Amit Seru, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Do Conglomerates Stifle Innovation?
Friday, January 19th Snehal Banerjee, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Learning from Prices and the Dispersion in Beliefs
Wednesday, January 24th Penje Gao, Northwestern University
Herding, Information Aggregation and Momentum Effects
Thursday, January 25th Adair Morse, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains?
Spring 2007
Friday, February 2nd Augustin Landier, New York University
Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
Friday, February 9th Utah Conference; No Seminar
Friday, February 16th Andrew Metrick, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Economics of Private Equity Funds
Friday, February 19th Daniel Wolfenzon, New York University
Do CEOs matter?
Thursday, February 22nd Christopher Malloy, London Business School
Rewriting History
Friday, February 23rd Ravi Bansal, Duke University
Risks for the Long Run: Estimation and Inference
Monday, February 26th Atif Mian, University of Chicago School of Business
Estimating the Effect of Hierarchies on Information Use
Friday, March 2nd Toni Whited, University of Wisconsin
The Corporate Propensity to Save
Wednesday, March 7th Peter Blair Henry, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation
March 9th-23rd Spring Recess; No Seminars
Friday, March 30th NBER Conference - No Seminar
Friday, April 6th Good Friday Holiday; No Seminar
Friday, April 13th David Hirshleifer, University of California at Irvine
Psychological Bias as a Driver of Financial Regulation
Friday, April 20th Mikhail Chernov, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Understanding Index Option Returns
Friday, April 27th Arvind Krishamurthy, Northwestern University
Intermediated Asset Prices
Friday, May 4th Behavioral Science Conference; No Seminar
Friday, May 11th Raman Uppal, London Business School
What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?

All seminars will be held in Room A53 unless otherwise indicated.
*Room A60
**Room B60

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