Wednesday Seminar Series 2008-2009

Wednesday Seminar Series  |  Fall 2008

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Wednesday fall semester seminars, will take place from 12:25PM to 1:45PM 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
09/03 Steven Kaplan
University of Chicago
"Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?"
09/10 Adlai Fisher
University of British Columbia
"Conditional Risk, Overconditioning, and the Performance of Momentum Strategies"
09/17 Raghuram Rajan
University of Chicago
"The Internal Governance of Firms"
09/24 Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University
"Local Thinking"
10/01 Mihir Desai
Harvard University
"Taxes, Dividends and International Portfolio Choice"
10/08 Dwight Jaffee
University of California-Berkeley
"Insurance Equilibrium with Monoline and Multiline Insurers"
10/15 Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
UCLA
"Why Has Trading Volume Increased?"
10/22 Andrew Lo
MIT
"What Happened to the Quants in August 2007?"
"What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data"
10/29 Bruce Carlin
UCLA
"A Dynamic Model of Financial Innovation and Investor Sophistication"
11/05 Ingolf Dittmann
Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Providing Effort and Risk-Taking Incentives: The Optimal Compensation Structure for CEOs"
11/12 Lemma Senbet
University of Maryland
"Law, Organizational Form and Taxes: A Stakeholder Perspective"
11/19 Wayne Ferson
University of Southern California
"Measuring the Timing Ability of Fixed Income Mutual Funds"
11/26 No Seminar
12/03 Paul Oyer
Stanford University
"Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity"
12/10 Hui Chen
MIT
"Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk"
12/17 Recruiting Seminar
02/18 Neng Wang
Columbia University
"A Unified Theory of Tobin’s q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management"
02/25 Rajkamal Iyer
University of Amsterdam
"Interbank Contagion at Work"
03/04 Michael Lemmon
University of Utah
"Survival of the fittest? Financial and economic distress and restructuring outcomes in Chapter 11"
03/11 Michael Roberts
Wharton School
"The Pecking Order, Debt Capacity, and Information Asymmetry"
03/18 No Seminar  
03/25 Narasimhan Jegadeesh
Emory University
"Risk and Expected Returns of Private Equity Investments: Evidence Based on Market Prices"
04/01 Michael Fishman
Northwestern University
"Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment"
04/08 David Scharfstein
Harvard University
"Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008"
04/15 Ron Kaniel
Duke University
"Equilibrium Prices in the Presence of Delegated Portfolio Management"
04/22 Marco Pagano
University of Naples
"Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity"
04/29 Andrew Abel
Wharton School
"Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information and Transactions Costs"
05/06 Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics and Political Science
"An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal"
05/18 Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University
"Unstable Banking"
Note: This seminar is on a Monday
 

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