Guest Seminar 2000-2004
Browse the archives below to find information and working papers from past guest seminars hosted by the department of finance.
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" |