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Spring 2012 Brown Bag Seminars

1/18/12 Philip Bond The Effect of Government Guarantees without Risk-Shifting
1/25/12 Murray Frank Investment and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital. How Good is the Standard Model?
2/1/12 Stephen Parente Micro Simulation of Early Health Savings Account Adoption and Policy Proposals
2/8/12 Raj Aggarwal Internal Capital Markets and Unrelated Acquisitions
2/15/12 Tracy Wang First Year in Office: How Do New CEOs Create Value?
2/22/12 Jianfeng Yu Extrapolative Expectation and Asset Pricing Puzzles
2/29/12 Huijun Wang Does Effort Matter? A Study on Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance
3/7/12 Amanda Heitz Blockholder Preference on Governance: Insights from VC-Backed IPOs
3/21/12 Tao Shen Credit Spreads and Investment: Aggregate and Firm Level Evidence
3/28/12 Moto Yogo Insurance Regulation and Policy Firesales
4/4/12 Sergiy Dubynskiy Learning-by-Doing and Asset Prices
4/11/12 Raj Singh Effect of Non-Tradability on Risk Aversion
4/18/12 Santiago Bazdresch  
4/25/12 Gordon Alexander How Informed Are Predictive and Reactive Short Sellers around Earnings Announcements?

 

Fall 2011 Brown Bag Seminars

9/7/11

 Bob Goldstein Dividend Dynamics

9/14/11

 Tao Shen A Dynamic Learning Model of Takeovers

9/21/11

 Andrew Winton Lender Moral Hazard and Reputation in Originate-to-Distribute Markets

9/28/11

 Amanda Heitz The Social Costs and Benefits of Too-Big-To-Fail Banks: A Bounding Exercise

10/5/11

 John Boyd What Made US Banks Susceptible to a Systemic Crisis?

10/12/11

 Daniil Osipov Does solvency regulation always reduce product market competition? Evidence from the EU life insurance industry
10/19/11 Huijun Wang Precautious Exploration of Mutual Fund Investment
10/26/11 Doriana Ruffino

Estimating Return Parameters with Short Historical Data: The Case of U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
11/2/11 Jun Li Investment-specific shocks and momentum profits
11/9/11 Santiago Bazdresch

Product Differentiations and Stock Returns: Theory andEvidence on Differentiations-Return Dynamics
11/16/11 Sergey Dubynskiy Investment and Stock Returns Correlation Puzzle
11/30/11 Hongda Zhong Higher Incentives Lead to Lower Effort? Optimal Contracting with Heterogeneous Altruistic Agents
12/7/11 Jeremy Graveline Exchange Rate Dynamics and International Risk Sharing
12/14/11 Junyan Shen Investor Sentiment and the Economic Forces

 

Spring 2011 Brown Bag Seminars

1/28/11 Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesapolis Health Delta
3/4/11 Santiago Bazdresch  
3/25/11 Tao Shen and Huijun Wang  
4/1/11 Jun Li and Sergiy Dubynskiy  
4/6/11

Amanda Heitz

 

Hongda Zhong

Estimating Bounds on the Present Discounted Value of Economics of Scale in Large Banks

Continuouos Time Agency Problem
4/13/11 Santiago Bazdresch  
5/11/11 Murray Frank Bank Loan Search

 

Fall 2010 Brown Bag Seminars

8/4/10 Jianfeng Yu Investor Sentiment and Anomalies
9/29/10 Fan Yang  
10/6/10 Daniil Osipov  
10/8/10 Philip Bond Bankers and Regulators
10/13/10 Tao Shen Huijun Wang  
10/22/10 Jeremy Graveline The Cost of Short-Selling Liquid Securities
10/27/10 Sergiy Dubynskiy and Jun Li  
11/10/10 Pedram Nezafat Corporate Capital Structure Variation over Time: Capital Market Driven or Investment Driven?
11/17/10 Xiaoji Lin, London School of Economics Micro Frictions, Asset Pricing and Aggregate Implications
12/15/10 Tracy Wang Competition and Corporate Fraud Waves

 

Spring 2010 Brown Bag Seminars

3/2/10

Tao Shen and Huijun Wang

 Literature Review
3/10/10 Murray Frank and Pedram Nezafat Credit Market Timing
3/22/10 Doriana Ruffino Robust Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis
5/11/10 Xiaoyun Yu Do Financial intermediaries During IPOs Affect Long-Term Firm Mortality Rates?
5/19/10 Pedram Nezafat High Frequency Capital Structure Decisions: Theory and Empirical Test
5/26/10 Fan Yang A Production-Based Model on teh Cross- Section Predictability of Commodity Futures Returns
6/4/10 Yihui Pan The Determinants and Impact of Executive-Firm Matches
6/11/10 Daniil Osipov Trade-off and pecking Order Theories of Capital Structure: The Case of the UK Insureance Industry
6/19/10 Raj Aggarwal An Empircal Investivgation of Internal Governance

 

Fall 2009 Brown Bag Seminars

9/3/09

Huijun Wang

Tao Shen

Predictability of Excess Returns on Foreign Currency Portfolios and Foreign Equity Portfolios

Replication and Extension: Invvestmenta nd Value, A Neoclassical Benchmark
9/9/09 Yihui Pan The Determinants and Impact of Executive-Firm Matches
9/16/09 Tracy Wang Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation
9/23/09 Xiaoyun Yu Information From Relationship Lending: Evidence from Loan Defaults in China
9/30/09 Frederico Belo A Labor-Augmented Investment-Based Asset Pricing Model
10/28/09 Jianfeng Yu Psychological Anchors, Underreaction, Overreachtion, and Asset Prices
11/11/09

Jun Li

Daniil Osipov

Investment-based Asset Pricing

Literature Review on Parial Adjustment Toward Target Capital Structures
12/2/09

Fan Yang

Pedram Nezafat

Literature Review of Commodity Pricing

Literature Review of Asset Prices and Business Cycles
12/9/09 Frederico Belo Is Investment in Public Capital Good News for the Stock Market?
12/16/09 Jianfeng Yu A Sentiment-Based Explanation of Forward Premium Puzzle

 

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