FINANCE SEMINARS
(PhDBA 239S)
Spring 2006
Updated: April 28, 2006
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40
pm in Room C220 Cheit Hall (except for April 17 and May 3). These seminars
are free and are
open to the public.
January 17 Tuesday 4:10-5:40 pm -- Recruiting Seminar
Peter Kondor (London School of Economics)
Risk in Dynamic Arbitrage: Price Effects of Convergence
Trading
January 19 Thursday -- Recruiting Seminar
Gustavo Manso (Stanford University)
Motivating Innovation
January 24 Tuesday 12:30-2:00 pm -- Recruiting Seminar
Georgios Skoulakis (Northwestern University)
Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Bayesian Learning
February 2 Thursday
Greg La Blanc (UC Berkeley)
Tax Farming and Time Consistency: Capital Structure and
Contract Design in Pre-Modern Finance
February 9 Thursday
No Seminar
February 16 Thursday
No Seminar
February 23 Thursday
Michael Schwarz (UC Berkeley)
Bid Ask Spreads and Market Microstructure: Are Narrow
Spreads Always Feasible?
(pdf
file)
February 24 Friday 3:30-5:00 pm, Room C135 Cheit Hall
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns
(with Christopher Malloy, London Business School;
and Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago) (pdf
file)
February 27 Monday 12:30-2:00 pm -- Recruiting Seminar,
Room C210 Cheit Hall
Igor Makarov (MIT)
Forecasting the Forecasts of Others: Implications for
Asset Pricing (with Oleg Rytchkov, MIT)
(pdf
file)
March 2 Thursday
Dirk Jenter (MIT)
CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation
(with Fadi Kanaan, MIT)
(pdf
file)
March 9 Thursday
Utpal Bhattacharya (Indiana University)
Is Stock Picking Declining Around the World? (with
Neal Galpin, Indiana University) (pdf
file)
March 16 Thursday
Matthew Richardson (New York University)
The Myth of Long Horizon Predictability (with Jacob Boudoukh, Arison School of Business,
IDC; and Robert Whitelaw, New York University)
(pdf
file)
March 23 Thursday
Robert Goldstein (University of Minnesota)
On the Relation Between the Credit Spread Puzzle and
the Equity Premium Puzzle (with Long Chen, Michigan State University; and
Pierre Collin-Dufresne, University of California-Berkeley)
(pdf
file)
March 30 Thursday
No Seminar -- Spring Break
April 6 Thursday
John Morgan (UC Berkeley)
Securities Auctions under Moral Hazard: Theory and Experiments
(with Shimon Kogan, Carnegie Mellon University)
(pdf
file)
April 13 Thursday
Clemens Sialm (University of Michigan)
Investment Taxes and Equity Returns
(pdf
file)
April 17 MONDAY -- Joint with Economics Department
Martin Weitzman (Harvard University)
Risk, Uncertainty, and Asset-Pricing 'Antipuzzles'
(pdf
file)
Room S480, Executive Learning Classroom, Haas School (4:00-5:30
pm)
April 27 Thursday
Vicky Henderson (Princeton University)
Executive Exercise Explained: Patterns for Stock Options
(pdf
file)
May 3 WEDNESDAY
Joint Stanford-Berkeley Seminar at Berkeley
Room S489, Career Center Classroom
2:30-5:40 pm
2:30-3:30 Anat Admati and Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford
The "Wall Street Walk" as a Form of Shareholder Activism
(pdf
file)
3:30-3:40 Discussant: Christine Parlour, Berkeley
3:40-3:50 General Discussion
3:50-4:20 Break
4:20-5:20 Terry Odean, Berkeley
Do Noise Traders Move Markets? (pdf
file)
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, Spring Seminars: Professor Richard Stanton
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