McCombs School of Business
Department of Finance
Seminars : 2008-09 Seminars

2009-10 Seminar Series

NOTE: The seminars will be held at 11:00 a.m. on the date scheduled below.

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Room
09/03/2009
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nicolae Garleanu UC Berkeley Legacy Room
Paper: Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviation from the Law of One Price
09/10/2009
11:00am - 12:30pm
Adriano Rampini Duke Legacy Room
Paper: Collateral and Capital Structure
09/17/2009
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Arthur Korteweg Stanford Legacy Room
Paper: Corporate Credit Spreads Under Parameter Uncertainty
09/24/2009 Joshua Coval Harvard Legacy Room
Paper: Do Powerful Politicians cause Corporate Downsizing?
10/01/2009 John Graham Duke Legacy Room
Paper: Capital Allocation and Delegation of Decision-Making Authority within Firms
10/08/2009
11:00am - 12:30pm
Matt Spiegel Yale Legacy Room
Paper: Mutual Fund Risk and Market Share Adjusted Fund Flows
10/15/2009 Joshua Rauh Northwestern Legacy Room
Paper: Fiscal Imbalances and Borrowing Costs: Evidence from State Investment Losses
10/29/2009
11:00am - 12:30pm
Allan Timmermann USCD Legacy Room
Paper: What is the Shape of the Risk-Return Relation?
11/3/2009*
11:00-12:30pm
Mark Westerfield USC Legacy Room
Paper: Optimal Financing in the Presence of Monitoring: Debt Contracts and Recapitalization in Distress
11/05/2009
11:00am - 12:30pm
Hanno Lustig UCLA Legacy Room
Paper: Size Anomalies in US Bank Stock Returns: Your Tax Dollars at Work?
11/12/2009 Michael Jensen Harvard Legacy Room
Paper: Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality
11/19/2009
11:00am – 12:30pm
Stefan Nagel Stanford Legacy Room
Paper: Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?
12/03/2009 Peter DeMarzo Stanford Legacy Room
Paper: TBA
12/10/2009 Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Northwestern Legacy Room
Paper: TBA


*NOTE: seminar is on Tuesday

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