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Seminar Speaker Series

The Seminar Speaker Series invites outside professors to speak at The McCombs School of Business to share their research. The seminars are held on Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters at 11:00 a.m. in the Legacy Events Room. They're open to faculty and Ph.D. students. Please check back, as scheduled events may change. 

Spring 2013 Speaker Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Location Paper
3/07 Lukas Schmidt Duke University Legacy Room 3.202 Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Consumption Risk
3/21 Wayne Ferson USC Legacy Room 3.202 Performance Measurement with Market and Volatility Timing and Selectivity
 3/28 David Sraer Princeton Legacy Room 3.202 Speculative Betas
4/04 Lu Zhang Ohio State University Legacy Room 3.202 An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search
4/11 Ivo Welch UCLA Legacy Room 3.202 "Disaster Risk and the Equity Premium" and "Long-Term Capital Budgeting"
4/16 Ilya Strebulaev* Stanford University Legacy Room 3.202 Investment Busts, Reputation, and the Temptation to Blend in with the Crowd
4/25 Ravi Bansai Duke University Legacy Room 3.202 Temperature, Aggregate Risk, and Expected Returns    
5/02 Matteo Maggiori Princeton/NYU Legacy Room 3.202 Conditional Risk Premia in Currency Markets and Other Asset Classes
   *Indicates a Tuesday Seminar      

 

Fall 2012 Speaker Schedule

Date Speaker  Affiliation Location   Paper
9/13 Braydyn Breon-Drish Stanford Legacy Room  3.202 Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: Anything Goes
9/20 Murray Carlson UBC Legacy Room  3.202 Leverage and the Limits of Arbitrage Pricing
9/27 Bill Wilhelm University of VA UTC 4.132 Traders vs. Relationship Managers: Reputational Conflicts     
10/4 Christian Opp       Wharton UTC 4.132 Learning, Active Investors, and the Returns of Financially Distressed Firms
10/11 S. Vish Viswanathan Duke GSB 3.138 Financial Intermediary Capital        
 10/25 Paul Povel             University of Houston Legacy Room  3.202 Getting to Know Each Other: The Role of Toeholds in Acquisitions
11/1 Ulf Axelson London School of Economics Legacy Room  3.202 Wall Street occupations: An equilibrium theory of overpaid jobs
11/5 Joel Watson             UCSD GSB 3.106 Contractual Chains
11/9    Kent Daniel Columbia GSB 5.153 Momentum Crashes    
11/29 Hank Bessembinder Utah Legacy Room  3.202 Predatory or Sunshine Trading? Evidence from Crude Oil ETF Rolls
12/6 Ivan Shaliastovich Wharton Legacy Room 3.202, seminar 10:15 Volatility, the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices    
 12/7     John Hatfield Stanford GSB 3.106, seminar at 3:45pm Promoting School Competition Through School Choice
 12/11 Michael Grubb  MIT Legacy Room  3.202 Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock
 *Indicates a Tuesday seminar

 

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