Fall 2013
Updated: December 11, 2013
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 11:10 am-12:30 pm in room C210 Cheit Hall. These seminars are free and are open to the public.
Faculty Coordinator, Fall Seminars: Professor Brett Green
August 29 Thursday
Ming Yang (Duke University)
Optimality of Debt under Flexible Information Acquisition (paper link)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Brett Green
September 5 Thursday
Ralph Koijen (London Business School)
Shadow Insurance (with Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota); paper will not be posted. Will also discuss The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers (with Motohiro Yogo) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Ulrike Malmendier
September 12 Thursday
Dong Lou (London School of Economics)
Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News (with Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, Harvard University) (pdf file)
Pre-seminar faculty member: Marcus Opp
September 19 Thursday
Philipp Schnabl (New York University)
Who Borrows from the Lender of Last Resort? (with Itamar Drechsler, New York University; Thomas Drechsel, London School of Economics; and David Marques-Ibanez, European Central Bank) (pdf file)
September 26 Thursday
David Scharfstein (Harvard University)
Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates (with Adi Sunderam, Harvard University) (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: William Fuchs
October 3 Thursday
Erik Loualiche (MIT)
Asset Pricing with Entry and Imperfect Competition (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Dmitry Livdan
October 10 Thursday
Samuli Knüpfer (London Business School)
IQ and Mutual Fund Choice (with Mark Grinblatt, UCLA; Seppo Ikäheimo and Matti Keloharju, Aalto University) (pdf file)
October 17 Thursday
Ohad Kadan (Washington University, St. Louis)
Systematic Risk (with Fang Liu and Suying Liu, Washington University, St. Louis) (pdf file)
October 24 Thursday
Eric Budish (University of Chicago)
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response (with Peter Cramton, University of Maryland; and John Shim, University of Chicago) (paper link)
October 31 Thursday
Enrichetta Ravina (Columbia University)
Risk Aversion and Wealth: Evidence from Person-to-Person Lending Portfolios (with Daniel Paravisini and Veronica Rappoport, London School of Economics) (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Adair Morse
November 7 Thursday
Raj Iyer (MIT)
Do Depositors Monitor Banks? (with Manju Puri, Duke University; and Nicholas Ryan, Harvard University) (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Jim Wilcox
November 14 Thursday
Pete Kyle (University of Maryland)
Market Microstructure Invariance: Theory and Empirical Tests (with Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland) (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Johan Walden
November 21 Thursday
Suleyman Basak (London Business School)
A Model of Financialization of Commodities (with Anna Pavlova, London Business School) (paper link)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Gustavo Manso
November 28 Thursday
No Seminar – Thanksgiving Holiday
December 5 Thursday
Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University)
CEO Investment Cycles (with Yihui Pan, University of Utah; and Tracy Yue Wang, University of Minnesota) (paper link)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Terrance Odean
December 12 Thursday
Patrick Bolton (Columbia University)
A Dynamic Tradeoff Theory for Financially Constrained Firms (with Hui Chen, MIT; and Neng Wang, Columbia University) (pdf file)
Pre-Seminar faculty member: Dwight Jaffee
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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