FINANCE SEMINARS
(PhDBA 239S)
Fall 2006
Updated: Dec. 11, 2006
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40
pm in Room C210 Cheit Hall (except for November 2 and November
21). These seminars are free and are open to the public.
September 7 Thursday
Jaksa Cvitanic (Cal Tech)
Optimal Contracts in Executive Compensation
Abstract (pdf
file)
Main Paper (pdf
file)
Paper #2 (pdf
file)
September 14 Thursday
Tarun Chordia (Emory University)
Credit Ratings and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns (with Doron Avramov,
University of Maryland; Gergana Jostova, George Washington University; and Alexander
Philipov, American Univeristy)
(pdf
file)
September 21 Thursday
Ravi Bansal (Duke University)
Risks for the Long Run: Estimation and Inference (with Dana Kiku
and Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania)
(pdf
file)
September 28 Thursday
Toni Whited (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Which Firms Follow the Market? An Analysis of Corporate
Investment Decisions (with Tor-Erik Bakke, University
of Wisconsin, Madison) (pdf
file)
October 5 Thursday
Holger Mueller (New York University)
Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations (with
Thomas Philippon, New York University)
(pdf
file)
October 12 Thursday
Michael Brandt (Duke University)
Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets
(with Alessandro Beber, University of Lausanne)
(pdf file)
October 19 Thursday
Jonathan Lewellen (Dartmouth College)
A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests (with Stefan Nagel,
Stanford University; and Jay Shanken, Emory University)
(pdf
file)
October 26 Thursday
Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois)
Toward A Quantitative Theory of Informed Finance
(with Stefan Krasa, University of Illinois)
(pdf
file)
November 2 Thursday
Joint Stanford-Berkeley Seminar at Stanford
2:30-6:00 pm, Graduate School of Business
South Building, Room S170
2:30-4:00 pm: Jeff Zwiebel, Stanford
Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation, and Managerial Entrenchment
(with Camelia Kuhnen, Northwestern University) (pdf
file)
Discussant: Chris Hennessy, Berkeley
4:00-4:20 pm: Coffee Break
4:20-5:50 pm: Richard Stanton, Berkeley
Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure (with
Jonathan Berk, UC Berkeley; and Josef Zechner, University
of Vienna)
(pdf file)
Discussant: Paul Pfleiderer,
Stanford
November 9 Thursday
Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Dynamic Investment, Capital Structure, and Debt Overhang
(with Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia University)
(pdf
file)
November 16 Thursday
Dmitry Livdan (Texas A & M University)
Futures Prices in a Production Economy with Investment Constraints (with
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Amir Yaron, University
of Pennsylvania)
(pdf
file)
November 21 Tuesday - 2:00-3:30 pm, Room C325 Cheit
Nicolae Gārleanu (University of Pennsylvania)
Demand-Based Option Pricing (with Lasse Pedersen, New York University;
and Allen Poteshman, University of Illinois)
(pdf
file)
November 23 Thursday
No Seminar -- Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 Thursday
Tom Noe (Tulane University)
Good IPOs Draw in Bad (with Naveen Khanna, Michigan State University;
and Ramana Sonti, Indian School of Business)
(pdf
file)
December 7 Thursday
Robert Novy-Marx (University of Chicago)
Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity and the Value Premium
(pdf
file)
December 14 Thursday
Alexander Vedrashko (UC Berkeley)
Informativeness of Managerial Stock Ownership and Market
Reaction to Stock Repurchase Announcements (with
Ilona Babenko, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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For more information about the Finance Seminars, please contact
June Wong, faculty assistant, at (510)642-1499 or e-mail her:
june@haas.berkeley.edu.
Faculty Coordinator, Fall Seminars: Professor Christopher
Hennessy
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