Spring 2008
Last Updated: May 14, 2008
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40 pm in Room C110 Cheit Hall (except for March 6 and May 14). These seminars are free and are open to the public.
February 7 Thursday
Alexei Tchistyi (New York University)
Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Subprime Lending (with Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University) (pdf file)
February 14 Thursday
No Seminar
February 21 Thursday
Tim Johnson (London Business School and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Liquid Capital and Market Liquidity (pdf file)
February 28 Thursday
Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute)
What Determines Market Impact? How Efficient Prices Coexist with the Heavy Tails of Supply and Demand (with Austin Gerig and Fabrizio Lillo, Santa Fe Institute; and Henri Waelbroeck, Pipeline Financial Group) (pdf file)
March 6 Thursday — Note new time: 4:35-6:00 pm
Jun Pan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Excess Volatility of Corporate Bonds (with Jack Bao, MIT) (pdf file)
March 13 Thursday
Amir Sufi (University of Chicago)
The Composition and Priority of Corporate Debt: Evidence from Fallen Angels (with Joshua Rauh, University of Chicago) (pdf file)
March 20 Thursday
No Seminar
March 27 Thursday
No Seminar — Spring Break
April 3 Thursday
Jianjun Miao (Boston University)
The Timing and Returns of Mergers and Acquisitions in Oligopolistic Industries (with Dirk Hackbarth, Washington University-St. Louis) (pdf file)
April 10 Thursday
Stavros Panageas (University of Pennsylvania)
Young, Old, Conservative and Bold: The Implications of Finite Lives and Heterogeneity for Asset Prices (with Nicolae Gârleanu, UC Berkeley) (pdf file)
April 17 Thursday
Philip Bond (University of Pennsylvania)
Information-Based Trade (with Hülya Eraslan, University of Pennsylvania) (pdf file)
April 24 Thursday
Ioanid Rosu (University of Chicago)
Liquidity and Information in Order Driven Markets (pdf file)
May 1 Thursday
Jennifer Conrad (University of North Carolina)
Skewness and the Bubble (with Robert Dittmar, University of Michigan; and Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina) (pdf file)
May 8 Thursday
Nittai Bergman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection (with Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University) (pdf file)
May 14 WEDNESDAY
Joint Stanford-Berkeley Seminar at Berkeley
2:30-5:40 pm, Room C220 Cheit Hall2:30-3:30 Johan Walden, Berkeley
Bank Lending and the Term Structure (with Christine Parlour and Richard Stanton, UC Berkeley) (pdf file)3:30-3:50 General Discussion
3:50-4:20 Break
4:20-5:20 Arthur Korteweg, Stanford
Risk and Return Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Companies (with Morten Sorensen, University of Chicago) (pdf file)5:20-5:30 Discussant: Tom Davidoff, Berkeley
5:30-5:40 General Discussion
For more information about the Finance Seminars, please contact June Wong, faculty assistant, at (510)642-1499 or e-mail her: [email protected].
Faculty Coordinator, Spring Seminars: Professor Christine Parlour
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