FINANCE SEMINARS
Fall 2004
Updated: December 13, 2004
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 9 Thursday
Jeremy Bulow (Stanford University)
Accounting for Stock Options (with John Shoven, Stanford University)
(pdf file)
September 16 Thursday
Anusha Chari (University of Michigan; visiting at the Haas School)
Acquiring Control in Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Stock Market (with Paige Ouimet and Linda Tesar, University of Michigan)
(pdf file)
September 23 Thursday
Adlai Fisher (University of British Columbia)
Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for SEO Event
Studies and Long-Run Performance (with Murray Carlson and Ron Giammarino,
University of British Columbia) (pdf file)
September 30 Thursday
Burton Hollifield (Carnegie Mellon University)
Financial Intermediation and the Costs of Trading in an Opaque Market
(with Richard Green, Carnegie Mellon University; and Norman Schürhoff,
HEC Lausanne and FAME)
(pdf file)
October 7 Thursday
Martin Cherkes (Princeton University)
A Positive Theory of Closed-End Funds as an Investment Vehicle
(pdf file)
October 14 Thursday
Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Financial Slack and Tests of the Pecking Order's Financing Hierarchy
(with Mark Leary, Duke University)
(pdf file)
October 21 Thursday
Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)
Was There a Nasdaq Bubble in the Late 1990s? (with Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago)
(paper
link)
October 28 Thursday
Francis Longstaff (UCLA)
Financial Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Illiquid Markets
(pdf file)
November 4 Thursday
Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)
Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence from the Mortgage-Backed
Securities Market (with Xavier Gabaix, MIT; and Olivier
Vigneron, Deutsche Bank) (paper
link)
November 11 Thursday
No Seminar -- Veterans' Day Holiday
November 18 Thursday
Antoinette Schoar (MIT)
Politically Connected CEOs and Corporate Outcomes: Evidence from France
(with Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago; Francis Kramarz, ENSAE-CREST;
and David Thesmar, ENSAE-CREST)
(pdf file)
November 25 Thursday
No Seminar -- Thanksgiving Day Holiday
December 2 Thursday
Joint Stanford-Berkeley Seminar (at Stanford)
3:00-6:00 pm, Room 107 Littlefield
Greg Duffee, Berkeley
Term Structure Estimation Without Using
Latent Factors (pdf file)
Discussant: Ken Singleton, Stanford
Stefan Nagel, Stanford
Do Fluctuations in Wealth Generate Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Micro-Evidence on
Individuals' Asset Allocation (with Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University)
(pdf file)
Discussant: Jacob Sagi, Berkeley
December 9 Thursday
Shimon Kogan (UC Berkeley)
Distinguishing Bounded Rationality from Overconfidence
in Financial Markets--Theory and Experimental Results
(pdf file)
December 16 Thursday
Lars Lochstoer(UC Berkeley)
Expected Returns and the Business Cycle: Heterogeneous
Agents and Heterogeneous Goods (paper link) (Room C210)
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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 Jonathan Berk
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