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Browse the archives below to find information and working papers from past guest seminars hosted by the department of finance.
| 10/9/09 | Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| 10/9/09 | Murray Carlson, University of British Columbia |
| 10/16/09 | Paul Vaaler, Carlson School of Management "Legal System and Rule of Law Effects on US Cross-Listing to Bond by Emerging Market Firms" (pdf) |
| 10/30/09 | Nicolae Gârleanu, University of California, Berkeley "Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price" (pdf) |
| 11/13/09 | Sergey Tsyplakov, The University of South Carolina "Originator Performance, CMBS Structures and Risk of Commercial Mortgages" (pdf) |
| 11/20/09 | Mikhail Chernov, London Business School |
| 12/4/09 | Terrance Odean, University of California, Berkeley "Once Burned, Twice Shy: How Pride and Regret Affect the Repurchase of Stocks Previously Sold" (pdf) |
| 12/11/09 | Henrik Cronqvist, Claremont McKenna College "Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior?" (pdf) |
| 1/30/09 | Christian Julliard, London School of Economics |
| 2/13/09 | Zhiguo He, University of Chicago |
| 2/20/09 | Martin Oehmke, Columbia University |
| 3/6/09 | Geert Bekaert, Columbia University |
| 3/27/09 | Johan Walden, UC-Berkeley |
| 4/3/09 | Amir Sufi, University of Chicago "House Prices, Homeowner Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis" (pdf) |
| 4/24/09 | Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago |
| 9/26/08 | Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University "Investment-Specific Technological Change and Asset Prices" (pdf) |
| 10/3/08 | Jeffery Zwiebel, Stanford University "Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment" (PDF) |
| 10/17/08 | Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA "Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics" |
| 10/24/08 | Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania "Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status" (pdf) |
| 11/5/08 | Gianni de Nicolai, International Monetary Fund "Banking Crises and Crises Dating: Theory and Evidence" (pdf) |
| 12/12/08 | Joshua Rauh, University of Chicago |
9/28/07 |
S. Vish Viswanathan, Duke University |
10/5/07 |
Wei Jiang, Columbia University "Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows" (pdf) |
10/26/07 |
Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania "Market-Based Corrective Actions: The Case of Bank Supervision" (pdf) |
11/9/07 |
Philip Dybvig, Washington University in Saint Louis |
11/14/07 |
Steven A. Sharpe, Federal Reserve Board "Expectations of Risk and Return Among Household Investors: Are their Sharpe Ratios Countercyclical?" (pdf) |
11/16/07 |
Adrien Verdelhan, Boston University |
12/7/07 |
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania "Valuable Information and Costly Liquidity: Evidence from Individual Mutual Fund Trades" (pdf) |
3/9/07 |
Steven Grenadier, Stanford University "Investment under Uncertainty and Time-Inconsistent Preferences" (pdf) |
4/13/07 |
Timothy C Johnson, University of Illinois |
4/27/07 |
Motohiro Yogo, University of Pennsylvania |
5/4/07 |
David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School "Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs" (pdf) |
5/11/07 |
Dirk Hackbarth, Washington University "The Dynamics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Oligopolistic Industries" (pdf) |
9/8/06 |
Michael Weisbach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Corporate Financial and Investing Policies When Future Financing is not Frictionless" (pdf) |
9/22/06 |
Chris Hennessy, University of California at Berkeley "Corporate Financing Under Repeated Adverse Selection" |
9/29/06 |
Mara Faccio, Vanderbilt University "Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock Of Political Connections" |
10/13/06 |
David Goldreich, Rotman School, University of Toronto "Behavioral Biases of Dealers in U.S. Treasury Auctions" |
10/20/06 |
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University "Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?" |
11/3/06 |
Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University "Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity" |
12/1/06 |
Michael Johannes, Columbia University "Understanding Index Option Returns" |
12/15/06 |
Claire Rosenfeld, Carlson School of Management "The Effect of Banking Relationships on Financially Distressed Firms" |
3/10/06 |
Andrea Frazzini, University of Chicago "Dumb Money: Mutual Fund Flows and Cross-Section of Stock Returns" (pdf) |
4/7/06 |
Lubo Litov, Washington University "Corporate Governance and Financing Policy: New Evidence" (pdf) |
4/14/06 |
Bernard Dumas, INSEAD "What can Rational Investors do about Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations" (pdf) |
4/21/06 |
Jeff Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Insurance Market" (pdf) |
4/28/06 |
Antoinette Schoar, MIT "Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them" (pdf) |
5/12/06 |
Xiaoyun Yu, University of Minnesota |
9/9/05 |
Alon Brav, Duke University "Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage" |
9/16/05 |
Richard Roll, University of California at Los Angeles "Liquidity and the Law of One Price: The Case of the Futures/Cash Basis" |
9/30/05 |
Cesare Robotti, Federal Reserve Bank "Asset Pricing Models and Economic Risk Premia: A Decomposition" |
10/21/05 |
Naveen Khanna, Michigan State University "Good IPO's Draw in Bad: Inelastic Banking Capacity in the Primary Issue Market" |
11/4/05 |
Robert Marquez, University of Maryland "Governance Mechanisms and Corporate Disclosure" |
11/11/05 |
Peter Bossaerts, California Institute of Technology "Markowitz in the Brain" |
12/2/05 |
Simon Gervais, Duke University "Overconfidence, Investment Policy and Manager Welfare" |
12/9/05 |
Holger Mueller, New York University "Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations"
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1/21/05 |
Murray Frank, University of British Columbia "The Market Impact of Corporate News Stories" |
1/28/05 |
Armando Gomes, University of Pennsylvania "Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Equity, Convertibles and Debt?" |
3/22/05 |
Mike Lemmon, University of Utah "Shareholder Welfare and Bid Negotiation in Freeze-Out Deals: Are Minority Shareholders Left Out in the Cold?" |
4/1/05 |
Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota "Bank Loans, Bonds, and Information Monopolies across the Business Cycle with Joao Santos" |