Internal Brown Bag Seminars
For further information concerning the Finance Seminars, please contact our seminar organizers Oguzhan Karakas and Nadya Malenko.
SPRING 2013
| DATE | SPEAKER & TOPIC | DETAILS |
| Wed 2/20 |
Felipe Restrepo Gomez | 12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 2/27 |
John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin Did Banks Facilitate Fraud in Securitized Loans? |
1:15-2:30pm Fulton 235 |
| Wed 3/13 |
Julian Franks, London Business School The Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study |
12-1:15pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 3/20 |
Anna Kovner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York How do Global Banks Scramble for Liquidity? Evidence from the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Freeze of 2007 |
12-1:15pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 3/27 |
Nadya Malenko A Theory of LBO Activity Based on Repeated Debt-Equity Conflicts |
12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 4/3 |
Jun Qian External Financing from Dividends: Evidence from Japanese Business Groups |
12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 4/17 |
Pierluigi Balduzzi The Real Effects of Financial Volatility: The Bank Lending Channel |
12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 4/24 |
Yingzhen Li | 12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
| Wed 5/1 |
Cliff Holderness |
12-1:00pm Fulton 220 |
Fall 2012
| DATE | SPEAKER & TOPIC | DETAILS |
| Wed 9/12 |
Namho Kang | 12-1pm Fulton 210 |
| Wed 9/19 |
Xueping Wu, City University of Hong Kong Growth Uncertainty and the Persistence of Investment and Financial Policies |
12-1:15pm Fulton 513 |
| Wed 10/3 |
Erik Gilje Does Local Access to Finance Matter? Evidence from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Shale Booms |
12-1pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 10/24 |
Dmitriy Muravyev Execution Timing in Equity Options |
1:30-2:30pm Fulton 513 |
| Wed 10/31 |
Ambrus Kecskes , Virginia Tech University Do Analysts' Preferences Affect Corporate Policies? |
12-1:15pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 11/7 |
Jerome Taillard Why are firms with greater insider ownership worth less? |
12-1pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 11/14 |
Thomas Chemmanur Optimal Disclosure and Litigation Rules Around Initial Public Offerings |
12-1pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 11/28 |
Sergei Davydenko, University of Toronto, visiting MIT Insolvency, Illiquidity, and the Risk of Default |
12-1:15pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 12/5 |
Oguzhan Karakas The Impact of Creditor Control on Corporate Bond Pricing and Liquidity |
12-1pm Fulton 115 |
| Wed 12/12 |
Dong Lou, London School of Economics Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations |
12-1:15pm Fulton 130 |