Finance Group


FINANCE SEMINARS
(PhDBA 239S)
Fall 2008
Updated: Oct. 1, 2008


The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40 pm in Room C210 Cheit Hall. These seminars are free and are open to the public.


September 4 Thursday

Charles Lee (Stanford University)
Tunneling in China:  the Remarkable Case of Inter-Corporate Loans (with Guohua Jiang and Heng Yue, Peking University)  (pdf file)

September 11 Thursday

Sudipto Bhattacharya (London School of Economics and MIT)
Control Rights over Intellectual Property:  Corporate Venturing and Bankruptcy Regimes (with Sergei Guriev, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia)  (pdf file)

September 18 Thursday

Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
An Estimation of Economic Models with Recursive Preferences (with Xiaohong Chen, Yale University; and Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics)  (pdf file)

September 25 Thursday

No Seminar

October 2 Thursday

Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Market-Based Corrective Actions (with Philip Bond, University of Pennsylvania; and Edward Simpson Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)  (pdf file)

October 9 Thursday

Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)
Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? (with Robert Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania)

October 16 Thursday

Raghu Rajan (University of Chicago)
The Internal Governance of Firms (with Viral Acharya, New York University; and Stewart Myers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

October 23 Thursday

Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment  (with Rajkamal Iyer, University of Amsterdam)

October 30 Thursday

Camelia Kuhnen (Northwestern University)
Topic TBA

November 6 Thursday

Joint Stanford Seminar at Stanford

November 13 Thursday

Hanno Lustig (UCLA)
A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance  (with YiLi Chien, Purdue University; and Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania)  (pdf file)

November 20 Thursday

TBA

November 27 Thursday

No Seminar -- Thanksgiving Holiday

December 4 Thursday

John Campbell (Harvard University)
Topic TBA

 

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.


Faculty Coordinator, Fall Seminars:  Professor Christine Parlour