FINANCE SEMINARS
(PhDBA 239S)
Spring 2007
Updated: May 17, 2007
The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 4:10-5:40
pm in Room C220 Cheit Hall (except for May 9). These seminars
are free and are open to the public.
February 15 Thursday
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (UC Berkeley/Economics Dept.)
International Financial Adjustment (with Hélène
Rey, Princeton University) (paper
link)
February 22 Thursday
Paul Tetlock (University of Texas, Austin)
More Than Words: Quantifying Language to Measure Firms' Fundamentals (with Maytal Saar-Tsechansky,
University of Texas; and Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies)
(pdf file)
March 1 Thursday
Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)
On the Return to Venture Capital (with Balázs Szentes, University of Chicago)
(pdf file)
March 8 Thursday
Michael Rebello (Tulane University)
Dynamic Governance (with Thomas Noe, Tulane University)
(pdf file)
March 15 Thursday
Kenneth Ayotte (Columbia University) -- Joint with Law
School
Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting
(with Patrick Bolton, Columbia University)
(pdf file)
March 22 Thursday
Hyun Shin (Princeton University)
Industrial Structure and Corporate Finance (with Se-Jik Kim, Seoul National University)
(pdf file)
March 29 Thursday
No Seminar -- Spring Break
April 5 Thursday
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University)
Mortgage Timing (with Ralph Koijen, Tilburg University;
and Otto Van Hemert, New York University) (pdf
file)
April 12 Thursday
David Scharfstein (Harvard University) -- Joint with Oliver
E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis
Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital:
Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs (with Paul
Gompers, Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner, Harvard University)
(pdf
file)
April 19 Thursday
João Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns (with
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and
Motohiro Yogo, University of Pennsylvania)
(pdf
file)
April 26 Thursday
Han Ozsoylev (University of Oxford)
Hype and Dump Manipulation (with Nevzat Eren, University
of Minnesota) (pdf
file)
May 3 Thursday
Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania)
The Equity Premium Implied by Production
(pdf
file)
May 9 WEDNESDAY
Joint Stanford-Berkeley Seminar at Berkeley
Room C230 Cheit Hall
2:30-5:40 pm
2:30-3:30 Joy Ishii, Stanford
Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in
the United States (with Paul Gompers, Harvard University;
and Andrew Metrick, University of Pennsylvania)
(pdf
file)
3:30-3:40 Discussant: Nancy Wallace, Berkeley
3:40-3:50 General Discussion
3:50-4:20 Break
4:20-5:20 Christopher Hennessy, Berkeley
A Dynamic Theory of Corporate Finance Based Upon Repeated
Signaling (with Dmitry Livdan, Texas A & M University; and
Bruno Miranda, UCLA)
(pdf
file)
5:20-5:30 Discussant: Peter DeMarzo, Stanford
5:30-5:40 General Discussion
May 24 Thursday
Bilge Yilmaz (University of Pennsylvania)
Deliberation and Security Design in Bankruptcy (with Hülya K. K. Eraslan,
University of Pennsylvania)
(pdf
file)
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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, Spring Seminars: Professor Christiine
Parlour
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