Guest Seminar 2000-2004

9/10/04	Dirk Jenter, MIT "Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation"
9/17/04	David C. Smith, University of Minnesota "Look at Me Now: The Role of Cross-Listing in Attracting U.S. Shareholders"
10/1/04	Andrew Rose, University of California-Berkeley "Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk"
10/15/04	Zsuzsanna Fluck, Michigan State University "Venture Capital Contracting and Syndication: An Experiment in Computational Corporate Finance"
10/22/04	Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve "From the horse's mouth: Gauging stock market expectations and their determinants from surveys of household investors"
11/5/04	Dan Wolfenzon, New York University "A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups"
11/19/04	Bob McDonald, Northwestern University "Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers"
12/17/04	Vijay Yerramilli, University of Houston "Optimal Investment Structure for a Start-Up Firm: Flexibility versus Incentives"

1/30/04	Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland "The Industry Life-Cycle and Financial Dependence: Does Firm Organization Matter?"
2/3/04	Rajesh Aggarwal, University of Virginia "Access, Common Agency, and Board Size"
2/16/04	Phil Strahan, Boston College "Banks' Advantage in Hedging Liquidity Risk: Theory and Evidence from The Commercial Paper Market"
2/20/04	Michelle Lowry, Pennsylvania State University "Does Disclosure Deter or Trigger Litigation?"
2/27/04	Julie Wulf, University of Pennsylvania "Are Managerial Perks Primarily a Form of Private Benefit?"
3/5/04	Randall Morck, University of Alberta "The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm in Canada"
4/16/04	Pierluigi Balduzzi, Boston College "What Do We Do with Our Pension Money? Recent Evidence from 401(k) Plans"
4/30/04	John Graham, Duke University "Do Dividend Clienteles Exist? Evidence on Dividend Preferences of Retail Investors"
5/7/04	Lorenzo Garlappi, University of Texas, Austin "Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach"

9/12/03	Mitchell A. Petersen, Northwestern University "Does the Source of Capital Affect Capital Structure?, with Michael Faulkender"
10/3/03	Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University "Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates"
10/10/03	Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and The Growth of U.S. Multinationals"
10/17/03	Robert Marquez, University of Maryland "Lending Booms and Lending Standards"
10/24/03	Jim Gunderson, University of Minnesota
10/31/03	Vijay Yerramilli, University of Minnesota
11/7/03	Gustavo Grullon, Rice University "Can Managers Forecast Aggregate Market Returns?"
12/5/03	Jay Hartzell, University of Texas at Austin "Explaining Corporate Governance: Boards, Bylaws, and Charter Provisions"
12/12/03	Rick Green, Carnegie Mellon University "Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets"

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