Fall 2011
Last Updated: November 30, 2011
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 11:10 am-12:30 pm in room C210 Cheit Hall (except for November 10). These seminars are free and are open to the public.
Faculty Coordinator, Fall Seminars: Professor Marcus Opp
August 25 Thursday
Introductory Session
September 1 Thursday
Kelly Shue (University of Chicago)
Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Ulrike Malmendier
September 8 Thursday
Nicholas Barberis (Yale University)
Testing Theories of Investor Behavior Using Neural Data (with Peter Bossaerts, Colin Camerer, Cary Frydman, and Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Terrance Odean
September 15 Thursday
Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago)
Political Uncertainty and the Risk Premia (with Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Richard Stanton
September 22 Thursday
Hanno Lustig (University of California, Los Angeles)
Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-Wide Government Guarantees (with Bryan Kelly, University of Chicago; and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Willie Fuchs
September 29 Thursday
Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
Renegotiation-Proof Contracts with Moral Hazard and Persistent Private Information (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Brett Green
October 6 Thursday
Ricardo Lagos (New York University)
Trade Dynamics in the Market for Federal Funds (with Gara Afonso, Federal Reserve Bank of New York) (paper link)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Nicolae Gârleanu
October 13 Thursday
Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation (with Manuel Adelino, Dartmouth College; and Felipe Severino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Atif Mian
October 20 Thursday
Douglas Diamond (University of Chicago)
Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy (with Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Jim Wilcox
October 27 Thursday
Morten Sorensen (Columbia University)
Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior (with Arthur Korteweg, Stanford University) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Dwight Jaffee
November 3 Thursday
Elu Von Thadden (University of Mannheim)
Repo Runs (with Antoine Martin and David Skeie, Federal Reserve Bank of New York) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Marcus Opp
November 10 Thursday
Joint Berkeley-Stanford Seminar (2:00-5:20 pm)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Knight Management Center, Class of 1968 Building, Room C1062:00-3:00 pm Stefan Nagel , Stanford, Sizing Up Repo (with Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University; and Dmitry Orlov, Stanford University) (pdf file)
3:00-3:15 pm Discussion: Atif Mian, Berkeley
3:15-3:30 pm Floor Discussion
3:30-3:50 pm Break
3:50-4:50 pm Terry Hendershott, Berkeley, Are Institutions Informed About News? (with Dmitry Livdan, UC Berkeley; and Norman Schürhoff, University of Lausanne) (pdf file)
4:50-5:05 pm Discussion: Jonathan Berk, Stanford
5:05-5:20 pm Floor Discussion
November 17 Thursday
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy (with Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Martin Lettau
November 24 Thursday
No Seminar – Thanksgiving
December 1 Thursday
Adriano Rampini (Duke University)
Dynamic Risk Management (with Amir Sufi, University of Chicago; and S. Viswanathan, Duke University) (paper link)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Christine Parlour
December 8 Thursday
Martijn Cremers (Yale University)
Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Valuation (with Allen Ferrell, Harvard Law School) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Dmitry Livdan
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
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