FINANCE SEMINARS
(PhDBA 239S)
Spring 2005
Updated: May 10, 2005
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40
pm in Room C135 Cheit Hall. These seminars are free and are
open to the public.
February 17 Thursday
Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA)
Homeownership as a Constraint on Asset Allocation
(with Stephen Cauley, UCLA; and Andrey Pavlov,
Simon Fraser University and CIRANO)
(pdf file)
February 24 Thursday
Tan Wang (University of British Columbia)
A Simple Theory of Asset Pricing under Model Uncertainty
(with Leonid Kogan, MIT)
(pdf file)
March 3 Thursday
Enrico Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
The Political Economy of Dominant Investors (with
Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, Université de Lausanne
and CEPR) (pdf
file)
March 10 Thursday
Stephen Ross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Things I Don't Know About Finance (no
paper)
March 17 Thursday
Robert Shiller (Yale University)
Irrational Exuberance and the President's Plan for Personal
Accounts (pdf
file)
March 24 Thursday
No Seminar -- Spring Break
March 31 Thursday
Bruno Biais (University of Toulouse and CEPR)
Dynamic Security Design (with Thomas Mariotti, University
of Toulouse; Guillaume Plantin, Carnegie Mellon University;
and Jean-Charles Rochet, University of Toulouse)
(pdf
file)
April 7 Thursday
Malcolm Baker (Harvard University; visiting at Stanford)
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the
Path of Least Resistance (with Joshua Coval and Jeremy
Stein, Harvard University) (pdf
file)
April 14 Thursday
Mitchell Petersen (Northwestern University)
Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets:
Comparing Approaches
(pdf file)
April 21 Thursday
Josef Zechner (University of Vienna)
Market Discipline and Internal Governance in the Mutual
Fund Industry (with Thomas Dangl, Vienna University of Technology; and Youchang Wu, University
of Vienna) (pdf
file)
April 28 Thursday
Robert McDonald (Northwestern University)
Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When
There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers
(pdf file)
May 5 Thursday
Roman Inderst (INSEAD and London School of Economics)
Keeping the Board in the Dark: CEO Compensation and Entrenchment
(with Holger Mueller, New York University)
(pdf file)
May 11 WEDNESDAY
Joint Berkeley-Stanford Seminar -- at Berkeley
Room C220 Cheit Hall, 2:30-5:40 pm
2:30-3:30 Speaker: Ulrike Malmendier (Stanford)
Superstar CEOs (with Geoffrey Tate, University of
Pennsylvania)
(pdf file)
3:30-3:40 Discussant: Anusha Chari (University of
Michigan and Berkeley)
3:40-3:50 General Discussion
3:50-4:20 Break
4:20-5:20 Speaker: Richard Stanton (Berkeley)
Liquidity and Closed End Funds (with Martin Cherkes,
Princeton University; and Jacob Sagi, UC Berkeley)
5:20-5:30 Discussant: Darrell Duffie (Stanford)
5:30-5:40 General Discussion
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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 Jonathan Berk
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