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Past Conferences

Lecture by Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor, The Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, "India's Financial Sector Reforms: Fostering Growth While Containing Risk."

December 3, 2007, at 4:00 p.m.

Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Additionally, Rakesh Mohan will be available for one-on-one meetings on Monday, December 3, throughout the day, at the Econ Growth Center, 27 Hillhouse Avenue, by appointment only. This lecture is sponsored by The South Asia Studies Council, The International Center for Finance, and the Center for the Study of Globalization.

For information on the lecture or to make an appointment to see Rakesh Mohan one-on-one, please contact Peter Rondina at
+1 (203) 432-3630 or peter.rondina@yale.edu

Third Annual ICF Behavioral Sciences Conference
May 4-5, 2007

Hosted by Professors
Nicholas Barberis, Ravi Dhar, and Robert Shiller
Horchow Hall, General Motors Room
55 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
For information on the conference, please contact Brenda Bell at
+1 (203) 436-0782 or brenda.bell@yale.edu

Third Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference
May 3, 2007

Horchow Hall, General Motors Room
55 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
For more information, please contact Brenda Bell at +1 (203) 436-0782 or
brenda.bell@yale.edu.


The Yale School of Management Second Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference on Behavioral Approaches to Finance, Economics, and Marketing was held on June 9, 2006, at the Quinnipiac Club, downtown New Haven.
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The International Center for Finance and the Yale School of Management hosted the Fist Annual China Conference on April 21-22, 2006.
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Yale School of Management Investment Management Conference on October 7th, 2005.
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Behavioral Finance for the Quantitative Equity Practitioner: A Discussion of Recent Empirical Research May 6th, 2005 at International Center for Finance (ICF), Yale School of Management
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First Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference on behavioral approaches to Finance, Economics and Marketing on behavioral science at the International Center for Finance (ICF), Yale School of Management, May 7th, 2005
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Behavioral Economics Conference at the International Center for Finance (ICF) November 12 - 13, 2004
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International symposium on quantitative Chinese economic history
Jointly organised by International Center for Finance (Yale SOM)
China Center for Economic Research at Peking University (CCER)
June 21, 2004, Peking University, China
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In Chinese

Conference On the History of Financial Innovation, March 6th - 7th, 2003 Yale SOM
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Conference on Market Microstructure, June 7th-8th, 2002, Yale SOM
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Conference on Young Firms (Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Initial Public Offerings) April 4th-5th, 2002, Yale SOM
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Past Finance and Accounting Faculty Seminars
The 1998-1999 seminar schedule and earlier years are currently available. The Yale Economics Department Macroeconomics Workshop sometimes has finance-related papers of interest as well.

2007
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?
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 Krishnamurthy, 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?
Friday, September 7th   Hong Liu, Washington University
A New Explanation for Under Diversification
Wednesday, September 12 th   Amy Dittmar, University of Michigan
Why Do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets? This seminar will be held in Classroom A48.
Friday, September 21st   Erik Stafford, Harvard University
"Economic Catastrophe Bonds"
Friday, September 28th   Charles Jones, Columbia University
Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?
Friday, October 5th   Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, University of California at Los Angeles
Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing
Wednesday, October 10th   Bruno Biais, Toulouse School of Economics
Accident Risk, Limited Liability and Dynamic Moral Hazard. This is a joint seminar session with the Yale Department of Economics, Microeconomic Theory Workshop.
Friday, October 12th   Anthony Lynch, New York University
Explaining the Magnitude of Liquidity Premia: The Roles of Return Predictability, Wealth Shocks and State-Dependent Transaction Costs*
Friday, October 19th   Jeremy Stein, Harvard University
Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?
Friday, October 26th   Ronnie Sadka, University of Washington
Aggregate Earnings and Asset Prices
Friday, November 2nd   Michael Johannes, Columbia University
Sequential Learning About Predictability
Friday, November 9th   Peter Tufano, Harvard University
Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures - Paper Available at Seminar
Friday, November 16th   Murillo Campello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the technology Bubble
Friday, November 23rd   Thanksgiving Recess; No Seminar
Friday, November 30th   NBER Meetings; No Seminar
Friday, December 7th   5-Star Conference; No Seminar
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


2005
Friday, September 9th Rene Stulz, Ohio University
Why do firms become widely held? An analysis oft he dynamics of corporate ownership
Friday, September 16th Josh Coval, Harvard Business School
Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets
Friday, September 23rd Doug Diamond, University of Chicago
Money in a theory of banking
Friday, September 30th Doron Avramov , University of Maryland
Momentum and credit rating
Friday, October 7th Yale School of Management 2nd Annual Investment Management Conference
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Friday, October 14th Matt Richardson, New York University
The myth of long-horizon predictability
Friday, October 21st Gideon Saar, Cornell University
Individual investor trading and stock returns
Friday, October 28th Deniz Yavuz, PhD student, Yale University
Do Regulations Matter? Wealth Redistribution and the Cost of Equity
Friday, November 4th Vivian Wang, PhD student, Yale University
Stock Return dynamics under earnings management
Friday, November 11th Veterans Day, No Seminar
Friday, November 18th Behavioral Finance Conference
Friday, November 25th Thanksgiving Recess, No Seminar
Friday, December 2nd Five-Star Conference, New York University
Friday, December 9th Seminar Cancelled
December 20 - January 17 Winter Recess
Friday, January 20th Rajnish Mehra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Junior is Rich: Bequests as Consumption
Friday, January 27th Adriano Rampini, Northwestern University
Leasing, Ability to Repossess and Debt Capacity
Friday, February 3th Lu Zhang, University of Rochester
Anomalies
Friday, February 10th Cancelled
Friday, February 17th Lu Zheng, University of Michigan
Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds
Friday, February 24th Christine Parlour, Carnegie Mellon University
Credit Risk Transfer
March 3 - 20 Spring Recess
Friday, March 24th Tom Berglund, Swedish School of Economics
Do Foreign Investors Feel Threatened by Reduced Profitability?
Friday, March 31st Cancelled
Friday, April 7th Henri Servaes, London Business School
Mutual Funds Fees Around the World
Friday, April 14th Good Friday - No Seminar
Friday, April 21st Cancelled
Friday, April 28th Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?
Friday, May 5th Roman Inderst, INSEAD, France
CEO Compensatioin and Strategy Inertia?


2004
Thursday, August 5th Sheena Sethi - Iyengar, Columbia
Monday, August 23rd David Dunning, Cornell
Do people trust too much or too little? A psychological perspective
Friday, September 3rd Andrea Frazzini, Yale
The Disposition Effect and Under-reaction to News
Friday, September 10th Lubos Pastor, Chicago GSB
Was there a NASDAQ Bubble in the Late 1990s?
Friday, September 17th Belen Villalonga, Harvard
How do family ownership, control and management affect firm value?
Friday, September 17th No Seminar
Friday, October 1st Ray Fisman, Columbia University
Governance and CEO turnover: Do something or do the right thing
Friday, October 8th Sebastian Galiani, University of San Andres (Argentina)
Effects of Land Titling
Friday, October 15th Jessica Wachter, Wharton
Why is long-horizon equity less risky? A duration-based explanation of the value premium
Friday, October 22nd Joel Hasbrouck, New York University
Trading costs and returns for US equities: the evidence from daily data
Friday, October 29th Brad Barber, UC Davis
Who loses from trade? Evidence from Taiwan
Friday, November 5th Alexander Llundqvist, New York University
Conflicts of Interest in Sell-side Research and The Moderating Role of Institutional Investors
Friday, November 12 -13th Behavioral Science Conference - Yale SOM
Sudhakar V. Balachandran, Columbia University
Do voting rights Matter : Evidence from the adoption of equity-based compensation plans (Accounting)
Friday, November 19 -29th Thanksgiving Recess (No Seminar)
Friday, December 3rd Jeff Wurgler, New York University
Can mutual fund managers pick stocks? Evidence from their trades prior to earnings announcements
Friday, December 3rd Shiva Rajagopal, University of Washington
The Economic Implications of Corporate Financial Reporting(Accounting)
Five Star Conference, NYU
Wednesday, December 15th Lauren Cohen, University of Chicago
Loyalty Based Portfolio Choice - Eli Seminar
December 21 - January 2 Winter Recess (No Seminar)
Friday, January 14th Christian Leuz, Wharton
Why do Firms go Dark? Causes and Economic Consequences of Voluntary SEC Deregistrations (Accounting)
Wednesday, January 19th Amir Sufi, MIT
Agency and Renegotiation in Corporate Finance: Evidence from Syndicated Loan (Eli Seminar)
Friday, January 21st Daniel Paravisini, MIT
Constrained Banks, Constrained Borrowers
The Effects of Bank Liquidity on the Availability of Credit
(Eli Seminar)
Monday, January 24th Hongjun Yan
Natural Selection in Financial Markets:
Does It Work?
(Eli Seminar)
Wednesday, January 26th Efram Benmelech, Chicago
Asset Salability and Debt Maturity: Evidence from 19th Century American Railroads (Eli Seminar)
Friday, January 28th James Choi, Harvard
Extrapolative Expectations and the Equity Premium (Eli Seminar)
Wednesday, February 2nd Shimon Kogan, Berkeley
Distinguishing Bounded Rationality from Overconfidence in Financial Markets - Theory and Experimental Results (Eli Seminar)
Friday, February 4th Steve Huddart, Penn State
Jeopardy, Non-Public Information, and Insider Trading Around SEC 10-K and 10-Q Filings (Accounting)
Friday, February 4th Atif Mian, Chicago GBS
Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms?
Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market
(Accounting)
Friday, February 11th Geert Bekaert, Columbia
Growth Volatility and Financial Liberalization
Friday, February 18th Stewart Myers, MIT
A Theory of Takeovers and Disinvestment
Friday, February 25th Gary Gorton, Wharton
Bank Credit Cycles
March 4 - 21 Spring Recess
March 25th Good Friday (No Seminar)
Friday, April 1st Maureen O'Hara, Cornell
Regulation and Return: The Role of Ambiguity
Friday, April 8th Stijn Claessens, World Bank
Accessing International Equity Markets: What Firms from Which Countries Go Abroad?
Friday, April 15th Campbell Harvey, Duke
Survey and Field Research in Finance: Miscalibration and Corporate Actions
Friday, April 22nd No Seminar
Friday, April 29th Kenneth Froot, HBS
Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor Flows
Friday, May 6th Conference on Behavioral Finance for the Quantitative Equity Practitioner at Yale School of Management
Friday, May 13th Pascal Maenhout, INSEAD
Option-Implied Correlations and the Price of Correlation Risk


2003
Friday, September 19th Hong Zhang (Dissertation Proposal)
Dynamic Beta, Time- Varying Risk Premium, and Momentum
Wednesday, September 24th Marco pagano, University of Salerno
The Political Economy of Corporate Governance
Friday, October 3th Bjorn Jorgensen, Columbia University
Disclosure, Betas and Information Quality  (Accounting)
Marios Panayides (PhD candidate, statistics department)
The Specialist's Participation in Quoted Prices and NYSE's Price Continuity Rule  (Dissertation Proposal)
Friday, October 10th Mitchell Petersen, Kellogg
Does the Source of Capital Affect Capital Structure?
Friday, October 17th Lily Qiu (Dissertation Proposal)
Which Institutional Investors Monitor?
Friday, October 24th Akiko Fujimoto (Dissertation Proposal)
Macroeconomic Sources of Systematic Liquidity
Sugata Roychowdhury, MIT
Management of Earnings through the Manipulation of Real Activities that affect cash flow from operations (Accounting)
Friday, October 31st Gerard Hoberg (Dissertation Proposal)
Strategic Underwriting in Initial Public Offers
Friday, November 7th Joost Driessen, University of Amsterdam
A Portfolio Perspective On Option Pricing
Anomalies
Friday, November 14st John Core, Wharton
When efficient contracts require risk-averse executives to hold equity: Implication for option valuation, for relative performance evaluation, and for corporate governance debate (Accounting)
Friday, November 21st Hiu Ou - Yang, Duke University
Incentives and Performance in the Presence of Wealth Effects and Endogenous Risk
Friday, December 5th Five Star Conference, New York University
Friday, December 12th Kose John, New York University
A Theory of Comparative Corporate Governance
Institutions, Markets and Growth: A Theory of Comparative Corporate Governance
Design of Corporate Governance
Wednesday, December 17th Heather Elise Tookes, Cornell University
Information, Trading and Market Interactions: Cross_Sectional Implications of Insider Trading
Wednesday, January 14th Motohiro Yogo , Harvard
A Consumption-based Explanation of Expected Stock Returns
Friday, January 16th Stefan Nagel , Harvard
Trading Rules and Trading Volume
Wednesday, January 21st Stavros Panageas , MIT
Speculation, OverPricing and Investment - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Wednesday, January 28th Vinay Nair, New York University
Corporate Governance and Internal Organization
Friday, January 30th James Vickery, MIT
Corporate Risk Management and the Structure of Loan Contracts
Friday, February 20th Nick Barberis, University of Chicago
Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium
Friday, February 27th Murillo Campello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility and Corporate Investment
Wednesday, March 17th Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
Circulation of Ideas: Firms versus Markets
Friday, March 26th Steve Brown, New York University
Double or Nothing: Pattern of Equity Fund Holdings and Transactions
Friday, April 2nd Ken French, Dartmouth
Financing Decisions: Who Issues Stock?
Friday, April 16th Edward Glaeser, Harvard
Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices
Friday, April 23rd Charles Wasley, University of Rochester
Research Design Issues and Related Inference Problems Underlying Tests of the Market Pricing of Accounting Information
Friday, April 30th Jonathan Berk, University of California - Berkeley
A Rational Model of the Closed-End Fund Discount
Friday, May 7th René Stulz , Ohio State University
Why do Country Characteristics matter so much for Corporate Governance?
Froystein Gjesdal, University of Florida
A Steady State Growth Valuation Model: A Note on Accounting and Valuation (Accounting)
Friday, May 14th Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
The Costs of Entrenched Boards
Powerpoint Presentation - The Costs of Entrenched Boards
Friday, May 28th Chongfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Capital Asset Pricing Model Integrating both Firm and Market


2002
Friday, September 6th Dan Bernhardt, University of Illinois-Urbana
Analysts compensation and forecasts: theory, tests, and evidence
Who herds?
Friday, September 13st Sydney Ludvigson, NYU
Expected Returns and Expected Dividend Growth
Friday, September 20th Paola Sapienza, Kellogg
The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment
Friday, September 27th Asli Demirguc-Kunt, World Bank
Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Size Matter?
Friday, October 4th Brian Hall, Harvard
Managing Option Fragility
Friday, October 11th Oleg Bondarenko, University of Illinois – Chicago
Statistical Arbitrage and Securities Prices
Friday, October 18th Holger Mueller, NYU
Credit Risk Analysis and Security Design
Friday, October 25th Ravi Jagannathan, Kellogg
Risk Reduction in Large Portfolios: Why Imposing the Wrong Constraint Helps
Friday, November 1st Reena Agarwal, Georgetown
Portfolio Preferences of Foreign Institutional Investors
Friday, November 8th Shyam V. Sunder, Kellogg
Investor Access to Conference Call Disclosures: Impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure on Information Asymmetry
Friday, November 15th Anna Pavlova, MIT
Offsetting the Incentives: Risk Shifting, and Benefits of Benchmarking in Money Management
Friday, November 22nd Peter Blair Henry, Stanford
Risk Sharing and Asset Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monday, December 2nd Harrison Hong, Stanford U
Friday, December 6th Jere Francis, University of Missouri
Tuesday, December 10th Jeremy Stein, Harvard University
When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity-Dependent Firms
Friday, December 13th Dan Gode, NYU
Inferring the Cost of Capital Using the Ohlson-Juettner Model
Friday, January 10th Christopher Malloy, UChicago
Friday, January 17th Yuhang Xing, ColumbiaU
Firm Investments and Expected Equity Returns
Friday, January 24th Jose Liberti, UChicago
Initiative, Incentives and Soft Information
How Does Delegation Impact the Role of Bank Relationship Managers?
Tuesday, January 28th Lily Fang, Wharton
Investment Bank Reputation and the Price and Quality of Underwriting Services
Thursday, January 30th Robert Novy-Marx, Berkeley
An Equilibrium Model of Investment Under Uncertainty
Friday, January 31th TBA
Monday, February 3rd Antti Petajisto, MIT
What Makes Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down?
Wednesday, February 5th Lance Young, Rochester
Trading Activity, Price Patterns and Overreaction
Friday, February 7th Paul Chaney, Vanderbilt
The Price-Earnings Relation in Troubled Times: The Case of Arthur Andersen
Friday, February 14th Tuomo Vuolteenaho, Harvard University
Bad Beta, Good Beta
Friday, February 21st Rajnish Mehra, UC-Santa Barbara
Junior Must Pay: Pricing the Implicit Put in Privatizing Social Security
Friday, February 28th Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton
Optimal Expectations
Thursday, March 6th Conference on the History of Financial Innovations
Friday, March 7th Conference on the History of Financial Innovations
Friday March 28th Raman Uppal, London Business School
Ambiguity Aversion and the Puzzle of Own-Company Stock in Pension Plans
Friday, April 4th Suleyman Basak, London Business School
Risk Management with Benchmarking
Friday, April 11th Ray C. Fair, Yale University
Risk Aversion and Stock Prices
Friday, April 25th Darius Palia, Rutgers
The Joint Effect of Relationship Lending on Loan Interest Rates, Collateral, and Fees: Evidence From Small Business Data
Friday May 2nd Francis Longstaff, UCLA
Optimal Recursive Refinancing and the valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Friday, May 9th Roni Michaely, Cornell
Expected Return and Asset Pricing
Friday, May 16th Stephen LeRoy, University of California - Santa Barbara
Rational Exuberance
Friday, May 23th Toni Bernardo, UCLA
Capital budgeting in multi-division firms: Information, agency, and incentives


2001
Friday, September 14th Cancelled
Rescheduled for Friday, October 5th
Friday, September 21st Tano Santos, Chicago
Referrals
Friday, September 28th Andrew Metrick, Wharton
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Friday, October 5th Owen Lamont, Chicago
Short Sale constraints and stock returns
Friday, October 12th Paolo Fulghieri, INSEAD
Friday, October 19th Randall Mørck, U. Alberta
Value Enhancing Capital Budgeting and Firm-Specific Stock Returns Variation
Friday, October 26th Abraham Ravid, Rutgers
The Effect of Leverage on Bidding Behavior: Theory and Evidence from the FCC Auctions
Friday, November 2nd Stefan Reichelstein, Stanford
Stock Price, Earnings and Book Value in Managerial Performance Measures
Friday, November 9th Francis Longstaff, UCLA (canceled)
Friday, November 30th Doug-Hyun Ahn, UNC-Chapel Hill
Portfolio Performance Measurement: A Martingale Approach
Friday, December 7th Simon Gervais, Wharton
Delegated Monitoring of Fund Managers: an Economic Rationale
Friday, December 14th Steve Kaplan, Chicago
Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses
Winter Recess, December 21st-January 14th
Friday, January 11th Recruiting: Amit Goyal, UCLA
Idiosyncratic Risk Matters!
Tuesday, January 15th Recruiting: Nicolae Garleanu, Stanford
Securities Lending, Shorting, and Pricing
Friday, January 18th Recruiting: Jeremy Ko, MIT
Counterparty Disclosures and Concentrations of Risk
Friday, January 25th Jonathan C. Glover, Carnegie Mellon
Excessive intervention, the collusion problem, and information system design
Friday, February 1st James Dow, London Business School
Active Agents, Passive Principals:  Does High-Powered CEO Compensation Really Improve Incentives?
Tuesday, February 5th Recruiting: Martijn Cremers, NYU
Multifactor Efficiency, State Variables and Bayesian Inference
Thursday, February 8th Recruiting: Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard
CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment
Friday, February 8th Andrew Ang, Columbia
Stock Return Predictability: Is it There?
Friday, February 15th Darrel Duffie, Stanford
Valuation in Dynamic Bargaining Markets
Tuesday, February 19th Recruiting: Lian Peng, Duke
Learning with Capacity Constraints
Friday, February 22nd Jeff Busse, Emory
Bayesian Alphas and Mutual Fund Persistence
Friday, March 1st Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia
Probabilistic Aspects of Portfolio Analysis
Spring Recess, March 8th - 24th
Friday, April 5th Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and IPOs Conference
Friday, April 12th No seminar
Friday, April 26th Vojislav Maksimovic, Maryland
Structuring the Initial Offering: Who to Sell to and How to Do it
Tuesday, April 30th Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina
Does Analyst Following Increase Upon the Restriction of Insider Trading?
Friday, May 10th Michael Fishman, Northwestern
Optimal Long-Term Financial Contracting with Privately Observed Cash Flows
Friday, May 17th Andres Almazan, Texas-Austin
Intra-Industry Capital Structure Dispersion: How Do Capital Structures Differ Among Competitors?
Friday, May 24th Ravi Jaganathan, Northwestern


2000
Friday, September 8 Maria Vassalou (Columbia)
"News related to future GDP growth as risk
factors in equity returns"
Friday, September 15 Yrjö Koskinen (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Debt and Information Acquisition in the Presence of a Large Shareholder"
Friday, September 22 Ananth Madhavan (USC)
"Liquidity in an Automated Auction"
Tuesday, September 26 Luis Viceira (Harvard) (MACRO SEMINAR)
"A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset Allocation"
Friday, September 29 Armando Gomes (Wharton)
"Takeovers and Freezeouts"
Friday, October 6 Andrew Karolyi (Ohio State)
"A New Approach to Measuring International Financial Contagion"
Friday, October 13 Marc Zenner (UNC-Chapel Hill)
"Pay for Peformance? Government Regulation and the Structure of Compensation Contracts"
Friday, October 20 Joshua Coval (Michigan)
"Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?"
Friday, October 27 Steve Grenadier (Stanford)
"Option Exercise Games: An Application to the Equilibrium Investment Strategies of Firms"
Friday, November 3 Jeremy Stein (Harvard)
"Breadth of Ownership and Stock Returns"
Friday, November 10 BehavioralFinance Conference
Friday, November 17 Dimitri Vayanos (MIT)
"Equilibrium and Welfare in Markets with Financially Constrained Arbitrageurs"
Friday, December 1 Florencio López de Silanes (Harvard)
"Soft Lending and Hard Landing:  Related Lending in Mexico"
Wednesday, December 6 Recruiting: Malcolm Baker (Harvard)
"Market Timing and Capital Structure"
Friday, December 8 Nick Barberis (Chicago)
"Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Individual Stock Returns"
Wednesday, December 13 Evan Gatev (Yale SOM)
"How Do Market Risk Expectations Affect Prices?"
Friday, December 15 Frank X.Diebold (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Distribution of Realized Exchange Rate Volatility "
December 23 -January 15 Christmas Break
Friday, January 19

Recruiting:Lasse Pedersen (Stanford)
"Adverse Selection and Re-Trade"
Tuesday, January 23


Recruiting: Belén Villalonga(UCLA)
(joint with the Strategy group)
" Does Diversification Cause the 'Diversification Discount' "
Wednesday, January 24

Recruiting: Kewei Hou (Chicago)
"Information Diffusion and Asymmetric Cross-Autocorrelations in Stock Returns"
Friday, January 26 Recruiting: Jennifer Huang (MIT)
"Taxable or Tax-Deferred Account? Portfolio Decision with Multiple  Investment Goals"
Monday, January 29 Recruiting: Li Jin (MIT)
"CEO Compensation, Diversification, and Incentives "
Wednesday, January 31 Recruiting: Viral Acharya (NYU)
"A Theory of Systemic Risk and Design of Prudential Bank Regulation"
Friday, February 2 Richard Stanton (Berkeley)
"EMM Estimation of Affine and Nonaffine TermStructure Models"
Friday, February 9 S. Viswanathan (Duke)
"Financing Auction Bids"
Friday,February 16



Conference: "Financial Systems and Crises"
Speakers:
   Franklin Allen (Wharton): 'Banking and Markets'
   Sheridan Titman (Texas-Austin): 'Feedback from Stock Prices to Cash Flows'
   Geert Bekaert (Columbia): 'Does Financial Liberalization Spur Economic Growth?'
Friday, February 23

Raj Singh (University of Minnesota)
" Optimal Imprecision and Ignorance"
Friday, March 2 Daniel Collins (University of Iowa)
"Errors in Estimating Accruals: Implications for Empirical Research"
Friday, March 23 Antonio Bernardo (UCLA)
Friday, March 30 Avner Kalay (Utah)
"Voluntary Lack of Trade and its Effects on Short Term Information Asymmetry"
Friday, April 6 Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby (UCLA)
"Going Public  WhenYou Can in Biotechnology "

Friday,April 20

Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton)
"The Effects of Discrete and Possibly Random Sampling on the Estimation ofContinuous-Time Diffusions"

Friday,April 27

S.P. Kothari (MIT) 
"How Much Do Firms Hedge with Derivatives?"

Friday, May 4

Domenico Cuoco (Wharton)
"Optimal Dynamic Trading Strategies with Risk Limits"

Friday, May 11

Maureen O'Hara (Cornell)
"Information and the Cost of Capital"

Friday, May 18

Peter Tufano (Harvard)



Summer 2001 Finance Workshop
Wednesday,
June 13
Will Goetzmann
Geert Rouwenhorst
Long-Term Global Market Correlations Word document
Wednesday,
June 20
Roger Ibbotson The Supply of Stock Market Returns
Wednesday,
June 27
Harry Mamaysky Interest rates and the durability of consumption goods
Wednesday,
July 11
Steve Ross TBA
Wednesday,
July 18
Zhiwu Chen TBA
Wednesday,
July 25
Matthew Spiegel A Theory of Mutual Funds: Optimal Fund Objectives and Industry Organization
Wednesday, August 1 David DeRosa Recent Inovations in Japanese Monetary Policy
Wednesday, August 8 Werner Stanzl TBA
Wednesday, August 15 Andrew Jeffrey TBA


Fall 1999 Finance Workshop
September
10th
Malcom Baker
Harvard
"The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate Stock Returns"
September
17th
Joel Hasbrouck
NYU
"Liquidify in the Futures Pits: Inferring Market Dynamics from Incomplete Data"
September
24th
Terrance Odean
UC Davis
"Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First?"
October
1st
Chris Mayer
Wharton
"Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market"
October
8th
George Constantinides
Chicago
"Asset Pricing and Heterogeneous Consumers with Limited Participation: Empirical Evidence"
October
15th
Niall Ferguson
(author),
Andrei Shleifer
(Harvard)
Opening Conference of the International Center for Finance on"The History of Global Finance"
October
22nd
Evan Gatev
Yale
October
27th Joint with Economics
Francesca Cornelli
LBS/Wharton
"Risk Arbitrage and Takeover"
October
29th
Nagpurnanand Prabhala
November
5th
Gur Huberman
Columbia
December
3rd
Jiang Wang
MIT
December
10th
John Heaton
Northwestern


ICF Conference on the History of Global Finance
October 15, 1999
8:30
Continental Breakfast
GM Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue
9:00-10:15
Larry Neal
University of Illinois
How It All Began: The Monetary and Financial Architecture of Europe, 1648-1815
10:15-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Niall Ferguson
Oxford University
War, Revolution and the Bond Market from the Napoleonic Wars to the First World War
12:00-1:30
Lunch at the Lawn Club
1:30-2:45
Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University
Investor Protection: Origins, Consequences, Reform


Spring 2000 Finance and Accounting Workshop
Tuesday, January 18 Werner Stanzl (Eli)
Columbia
"Arbitrage-free Price Update-and Impact Functions"
Friday, January 21 Francisco Gomes (Eli)
Harvard
"Loss Aversion and the Demand for Risky Assets"
Tuesday, January 25 Jessica Wachter (Eli)
Harvard
"Optimal Portfolio Allocation for an Investor with Utility Over Compensation"
Friday, January 28 Anchada Charoenrock (Eli)
UMichigan
"The Role of Capital Structure in Tests of Asset-Pricing Models: Theory and Empirical Evidence"
Tuesday, February 1 Antoninette Schoar
UChicago
Friday, February 4 Monika Piazzesi (Eli)
Stanford
An Econometric Model of the Yield Curve with Macroeconomic Jump Effects"
Friday, February 11 Heiltor Almeida (Eli)
UChicago
Friday, February 18 Shlomo Benartzi (Eli)
UCLA
"Why Do Employees Invest Their Retirement Savings in Company Stock?"
Friday, February 25 Gregory Willard
MIT
TBA
Friday, March 3 Doron Nissim
Columbia
TBA
Friday, March 24 Judy Chavalier
UChicago
TBA
Friday, March 31 Mark Grinblatt
Yale/UCLA
TBA
Friday, April 7 Stephen Penman
Columbia
TBA
Friday, April 14 Ken Singleton
Stanford
TBA
Friday, April 28 All-day Conference on Market Microstructure
ICF/JMF
Friday, May 5 Andre Perold
Harvard
TBA
Friday, May 12 Dan Collins
U of Iowa
TBA


Summer 2000 Finance & Accounting Workshop
Wednesday, June 14 Will Goetzmann TBA
Wednesday, June 21 Shyam Sunder Tour SOM lab in Room B74
Wednesday, June 28 Ray Fair Events That Shook the Market
Wednesday, July 5 TBA TBA
Wednesday, July 12 Werner Stanzl Optimal Liquidity Trading
Wednesday, July 19 Antonio Bernardo
UCLA
TBA
Wednesday, July 26 Hua He Modeling Term Structures of Swap Spreads
Wednesday, August 2 Jon Ingersoll Incentive Stock Options
Wednesday, August 9 Andrew Jeffrey TBA
Wednesday, August 16 Tanya Beder
Caxton Corporation
Quantitative Methods in Hedge Funds
Wednesday, August 23 Matt Spiegel TBA
 
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