Wednesday Seminar Series 2007-2008

Wednesday Seminar Series  |  2007-2008

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All seminars, will take place from 12:00PM to 1:20PM in the Henry Kaufman Management Center at 44 West 4th Street, New York, in room KMC 4-80. Information on paper titles will be available before each seminar in the Seminars section of the Department of Finance web site.

Date   Speaker / Affiliation Topic
09/05 Lubos Pastor
University of Chicago
"Entrepreneurial Learning, the IPO Decision, and the Post-IPO Drop in Firm Profitability"
09/12 Hui Chen
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
"Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure"
09/19 Jonathan Berk
University of California,
Berkeley
"Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure"
09/26 Robin Greenwood
Harvard University
"Inexperienced investors and bubbles"
10/03 Ayako Yasuda
University of Pennsylvania
"Are Stars' Opinions Worth More? The Relation between Analyst Reputation and Recommendation Values"
10/10 Raman Uppal
London Business School
"Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility"
10/17 Eugene Kandel
Hebrew University
"Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"
10/24 Rene Stulz
Ohio State University
"Has New York become less competitive in global markets? Evaluating foreign listing choices over time"
10/31 Mark Grinblatt
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Are Mutual Fund Fees Competitive? What IQ-Related Behavior Tells Us"
11/07 Greg Duffee
University of California,
Berkeley
"Forecasting with the term structure: The role of no-arbitrage"
11/14 Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University
"Testing for Jumps and Estimating their Degree of Activity in High Frequency Financial Data"
11/21 No seminar
11/28 John Graham
Duke University
"The Cost of Debt"
12/05 Douglas Diamond
"Legal Systems, Bank Finance and Debt Maturity"
12/12 Recruiting
01/16 Recruiting  
01/23 Recruiting  
01/30 Recruiting  
02/06 Recruiting  
02/13 Recruiting  
02/20 Recruiting  
02/27 Recruiting
03/05 Michael Brandt
Duke University
"Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Option-Implied State Prices"
03/12 Laura Veldkamp
New York University
"Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management"
03/19 No Seminar--Spring Break
03/26 Toby Moskowitz
University of Chicago
"The Political Economy of Financial Regulations: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century"
04/02 William Schwert
University of Rochester
"The Variability of IPO Initial Returns"
04/09 Robert Whitelaw
New York University
"Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns"
04/16 Ravi Bansal
Duke University
"Risk for the Long Run: Estimation and Inference"
04/23 Paolo Fulghieri
The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Corporate governance, Finance, and the Real Sector"
04/30 Xavier Gabaix
New York University
"Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Model for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance"
05/07 Massimo Massa
INSEAD
"Stocks, Bonds and Debt Imbalance: The Role of Relative Availability of Bond and Bank Financing"
 

 Organizers:
 Xavier Gabaix   xgabaix@stern.nyu.edu 
 Kose John   kjohn@stern.nyu.edu