FINANCE DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES


2012-2013 Seminar series

Spring 2013


Monday, April 15th 2013

Régis Blazy, Strasbourg University

"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom"


Monday, May 6th 2013

Michela Verardo, London School of Economics

"Does Herding Behavior Reveal Skill? An Analysis of Mutual Fund Performance"


Monday, May 13th 2013 - scheduled at 12:00

Philip Strahan, Boston College

"Exporting Liquidity: Branch Banking and Financial Integration"


Monday, May 27th 2013

Marcel Rindisbacher, Boston University

"Asset Pricing with Regime Dependent Preferences and Learning"


Exceptionally scheduled on Tuesday, May 28th 2013

Ilya A. Strebulaev, Stanford University

"A Supply Chain Model of Financing: The Capital Structure of Banks and Firms"


Monday, June 3rd 2013

Olivier Scaillet, University of Geneva

"Predictability Hidden by Anomalous Observations"


Monday, June 10th 2013

Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC

"Financial Strength and Trade Credit Provision: Evidence from Trucking Firms"


Monday, June 17th 2013

Marti Subrahmanyam, New York University

"The Microstructure of the European Sovereign Bond Market: A Study of the Euro-zone Crisis"



Fall 2012

Monday, October 15th 2012

Gilles Chemla, Imperial College

“Equilibrium Security Design and Liquidity Creation by Privately Informed Issuers”


Exceptionally scheduled on Wednesday, October 24th 2012

Paolo Pasquariello, University of Michigan

“Financial Market Dislocations”


Monday, November 12th 2012

Miguel Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

"Lending Relationships and the Effect of Bank Distress: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis"


Monday, November 19th 2012

Patrick Gagliardini, University of Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute

"Survival of Hedge Funds: Frailty vs Contagion"


Monday, November 26th 2012

Aneel Keswani, Cass Business School

“How Do Financial Firms Vote on their Own Kind?”


Monday, December 3rd 2012

Julien Hugonnier, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

“Capital Supply Uncertainty, Cash holdings, and Investment”


Monday, December 10th 2012

Sarah Draus, University of Naples Federico II, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance

“Circuit Breakers and Market Runs”