Friday Seminar Series 2008-2009

Friday Seminar Series  |  Fall 2008

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The Friday Seminar Series is an informal opportunity for doctoral students and faculty to present ongoing research work. Any handouts or preliminary papers available before the seminar will only be posted on the web. The seminars will take place from 12:00 to 01:20 p.m. in the Henry Kaufman Management Center at 44 West 4th Street, New York, in room KMC 4-80. Brown bag lunches are available to those arriving before 12:00. Topic titles will be available before each seminar in the Seminars section of the Department of Finance web site.

Date Speaker / Affiliation Topic
09/05 Dino Palazzo
New York University
"Firm's Cash Holdings and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"
09/12 Richard Roll
UCLA
"Options Trading Activity and Firm Valuation"
09/19 Xavier Gabaix
New York University
"Detail-Independent Contracting, with an Application to CEO Incentives"
09/26 Eric Ghysels
University of North Carolina
"Skewness and the Bubble" 
10/03 Stephen Figlewski
New York University
"Estimating the Implied Risk Neutral Density for the U.S. Market Portfolio"
10/10 Holger Mueller
New York University
"Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices"
10/17 Rik Sen
New York University
"Are Pre-Planned Insider Sales Strategically Timed?"
10/24 P&T Meeting
10/31 P&T Meeting
11/7 Lorenzo Naranjo
New York University
"What Is the Risk-Free Rate? A Model and Empirical Tests in a Market with Frictions"
11/14 Guido Baltussen
New York University
"Downside risk aversion, fixed income exposure, and the value premium puzzle"
11/21 Samuel Lee
New York University
"Market Liquidity, Active Investment, and Markets for Information"
12/5 Five Star Conference
12/8 Jaewon Choi
New York University
"Back to Basics : The Impact of Financial Leverage on Asset Pricing"
note: This seminar takes place on a Monday.
12/12 Recruiting
12/15 Hae Jin Chung
New York University
TBA
note: This seminar takes place on a Monday.
02/20 Thomas Philippon
New York University
“Equivalence Theorems for Financial Bailouts”
02/27 Matthew Pritsker
Federal Reserve Board
New York University
"Large Investors: Implications for Equilibrium Asset Returns, Shock Absorption, and Liquidity"
03/13 Sendhil Mullainathan
Harvard
"Misperceiving Financial Prices: A Field Experiment in Insurance"
03/20 No Seminar -- Spring Break
 
03/27 Viral Acharya
New York University
"Labor Laws and Innovation"
04/03 Kose John
New York University
"Agency Costs of Idiosyncratic Volatility, Corporate Governance, and Investment"
04/24 Ashwini Agrawal
New York University
"The Impact of Investor Protection Law on Financing and Investment Policy: Evidence from the Blue Sky Laws"
05/01 Marcin Kacperczyk
New York University
""A Time to Shine: Mutual Fund Managers' Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle""
 

 Organizers:
 Yakov Amihud    yamihud@stern.nyu.edu 
 Marcin Kacperczyk    mkacperc@stern.nyu.edu