Finance Group


Finance Seminars (PhDBA 239S)


Spring 2012


Last Updated: February 22, 2012


The seminars are scheduled every Thursday from 11:10 am-12:30 pm in room C220 Cheit Hall (except for May 2). These seminars are free and are open to the public.


Faculty Coordinator, Spring Seminars:  Professor Marcus Opp

March 8 Thursday

Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Friends in High Places (with Christopher Malloy, Harvard University)  (pdf file))
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Terrance Odean

March 15 Thursday

Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
The I Theory of Money (with Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University). Paper is available on website (Markus Brunnermeier) and will be updated in the next few weeks.
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Jim Wilcox

March 22 Thursday

Marcus Opp (University of California, Berkeley)
Topic TBA
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Martin Lettau

March 29 Thursday

Spring Break - No Seminar

April 5 Thursday

Miguel Cantillo (IESE Business School, University of Navarra)
Dynamic Investment with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard (pdf file) - Paper will be updated.
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Dwight Jaffee

April 12 Thursday

Alp Simsek (Harvard University)
Topic TBA
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Nicolae Gārleanu

April 19 Thursday

Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
Topic TBA
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Nancy Wallace

April 26 Thursday

Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Topic TBA
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Alexei Tchistyi

May 2 Wednesday

Joint Berkeley-Stanford Seminar
at Berkeley, Time and Room TBA

May 10 Thursday

Martin Oehmke (Columbia University)
Topic TBA
Pre-seminar faculty member:  Johan Walden

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