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HBS Finance Unit/Harvard Economics Department Seminars, Fall 2008

Mar 4, 2009 Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation Antti Petajisto, Yale Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm Baker Library 103
Mar 11, 2009 The Failure of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives and Defaults (with Uday Rajan and Vikrant Vig) Amit Seru, University of Chicago Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm CGIS N050
Apr 1, 2009 Limits of Limits of Arbitrage David Thesmar, HEC Paris Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm Baker Library 103
Apr 8, 2009 Efficient Recapitalization Thomas Philippon, New York University Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm CGIS N050
Apr 15, 2009 Renegotiating Home Mortgages: Evidence from the Subprime Crisis Paul Willen, Boston Federal Reserve Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm Baker Library 103
Apr 22, 2009 Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness Annamaria Lusardi, Dartmouth University Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm Baker Library 103
Apr 29, 2009 Credit Traps Nittai Bergman, MIT Download Summary 5:00-5:30 pm CGIS N050

Please note: these seminars are held on Mondays from 4:00-5:30 pm in Littauer M-15 on the main campus.

Papers for the Econ Seminars can be downloaded at: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ec2770hf/Schedule/

Finance/Economics Ph.D. Lunch Seminar Series, Spring 2009

Feb 6, 2009 Broker-Dealer Risk Appetite and Commodity Returns Erkko Etula 90m, Download Summary 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
Feb 13, 2009 Debt Retirement and the Household Portfolio Alma mater matters: The value of school ties in the venture capital industry Tom Becker 45m, Tage Daniel Sunesson 45m 12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103
Feb 20, 2009 Realized Loss Aversion: Applications to Asset Allocation and the Equity Premium Puzzle Adam Clark Joeseph 90m 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
Feb 27, 2009 Connected Stocks(w/ Christopher Polk) Option Returns and the Liquidity of the Underlying Miguel Anton 45m, Daniel Shoag 45m 12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103
Mar 6, 2009 Forced Sales and House Prices Stefano Giglio 90m 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
Mar 13, 2009 Amplification of uncertainty in illiquid markets Elias Albagi 90m Download Summary 12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103
Mar 20, 2009 Consumer Biases and Firm Ownership Ryan Bubb 90m Download Summary 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
Apr 3, 2009 Project Selection in the Oil and Gas Industry John Beshears 90m 12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103
Apr 10, 2009 Liquidity Provision and Information in Electronic Order Driven Markets The acquisitiveness of youth: CEO career concerns and acquisition behavior Laura Serban 45m, Soojin Yim 45m 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
Apr 17, 2009 Private Information and Prices in Equilibrium Negotiating with Labor under Financial Distress (with Efraim Benmelech (Harvard University and NBER) and Nittai K. Bergman (MIT Sloan and NBER) Stefan Hunt 45m, Ricardo Enriquez 45m 12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103
Apr 24, 2009 Liquidity Constraints in Venture Capital (tentative) Insuring Human Capital Risk: A Life-Cycle Perspective(tentative) Richard Townsend 45m, Andreas Fuster 45m Download Summary 12:00-1:30 pm Econ. Dept. - Littauer M-16
May 1, 2009 Network Effects and Corporate Governance (tentative)
TBA
Kelly Shue 45m, Lori Santikian 45m
12:00-1:30 pm HBS - Baker Library 103

Please note: all seminars will be held from 12:00-1:30 pm

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For an advance copy of a presentation paper please call or e-mail Adam C. Scarano at (617) 495-4708. (subject to availability). Copies of each paper will be available at the respective presentations.

Questions, comments and suggestions regarding this web site may also be directed towards Adam C. Scarano at the number or email address listed above.

2005-2006

Financial Economics Workshops (on main HU campus)

Feb 13, 2006 Pietro Veronesi - Chicago, GSB
"Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Littauer M-15
Mar 6, 2006 Rustam Ibragimov - Harvard
"The Limits of Diversification When Losses May Be Large"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Littauer M-15
Mar 20, 2006 Michael Roberts, Penn - Wharton
"Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Littauer M-15
Apr 3, 2006 Toby Moskowitz - Chicago GSB
"The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from Usury Laws in the U.S. During the 19th Century"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Littauer M-15
Apr 10, 2006 Adriano Rampini - Northwestern - Kellogg
"New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Littauer M-15
Fall 2005
Sep 14, 2005 Multi-Period Corporate Default Prediction with Stochastic Covariates (with Leandro Saita and Ke Wang) 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Sep 21, 2005 Daniel Wolfenzon, New York University, Stern School of Business
Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance (with Morten Bennedsen, Kasper Nielsen and Francisco Pérez-González)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Sep 28, 2005 Owen Lamont, Yale School of Management
Dumb Money: Mutual Fund Flows and the Cross-section of Stock Returns (with Andrea Frazzini)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Oct 5, 2005 Mitch Peterson, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Oct 12, 2005 Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns (with Christopher J. Malloy and Tobias J. Moskowitz)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Oct 19, 2005 Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, Economics Department
Persuasion in Finance
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Oct 26, 2005 Martin Gruber, New York University, Stern School of Business
Participant Reaction and the Performance of Funds Offered by 401(k) Plans
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Nov 2, 2005 Kent Daniel, Goldman Sachs
Testing Factor-Model Explanations of Market Anomalies
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Nov 9, 2005 Chester Spatt, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Equilibrium Asset Pricing And Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Nov 16, 2005 Campbell Harvey, Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business
Global Growth Opportunities and Market Integration
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Nov 22, 2005 Chris Malloy, London Business School
Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market (with Lauren Cohen and Karl B. Diether)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Nov 30, 2005 Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Stock Returns and Volatility: Pricing the Short-Run and Long-Run Components of Market Risk" (with Joshua Rosenberg)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Baker Library 102
Dec 7, 2005 Luis Viceira, Harvard Business School
Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios
Baker Library 102 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

If you would like a copy of a paper for, or have any questions about, a seminar held in Baker Library, please call or e-mail Adam C. Scarano at (617) 495-4708, ascarano@hbs.edu.

If you would like a copy of a paper for a seminar held in Sceience Center 252, please download them at the Economics Department iSite or pick one up outside Littauer Room 214 prior to the seminar. If you have a problem obtaining these papers, please call or e-mail Ann Richards at 617-496-3690, ann_richards@harvard.edu.