FINANCE DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES


2013-2014 Seminar series


Spring 2014


Monday, March 10th 2014

Adlai Fisher, Sauder School of Business

Heterogeneous Information Diffusion and Horizon Effects in Average Returns


Monday, March 17th 2014

Mungo Wilson, Saïd Business School

Earnings Announcements and Systematic Risk


Monday, March 24th 2014

Johan Hombert, HEC

Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence From France


Monday, March 31th 2014

Norman Schürhoff, HEC Lausanne

Dealer Networks


Monday, April 7th 2014

Sébastien Pouget, Toulouse School of Economics

Six hundred years of stock returns: The Bazacle company of Toulouse from 1372 to 1946


Monday, April 14th 2014

Rik Sen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat


Monday, April 28th 2014

Sabrina Buti, Rotman School of Management

Dark Pool Trading Strategies, Market Quality and Welfare


Monday, May 5th 2014

Jeffrey Pontiff, Boston College

Shareholder Nonparticipation in Valuable Rights Offerings: New Findings for an Old Puzzle


Monday, May 12th 2014

Clara Vega, Federal Reserve Board

The Behavior of High Frequency Trading in the U.S. Treasury Bond Market during the Crisis


Monday, May 19th 2014

Karin Thorburn, Norwegian School of Economics

Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?


Monday, June 16th 2014

Alvaro Cartea, University College London

Ultra-Fast Activity and Market Qualit



Fall 2013


Monday, October 7th 2013

Elvira Sojli, Rotterdam School of Management

"Stock Market Illiquidity, Funding Liquidity, and Bond Risk Premia"


Monday, October 14th 2013

Jérôme Dugast, Banque de France

"Limited Attention and News Arrival in Limit Order Markets"


Monday, November 18th 2013

Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA

"The Market for OTC Derivatives"


Monday, November 25th 2013

Olivier Le Courtois, E.M. Lyon

"The Tempered Multistable Approach and Asset Return Modeling"


Monday, December 2nd 2013

Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management

"The Personal Side of Relationship Banking"


Monday, December 9th 2013

Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics

"Does wage rigidity make firms riskier? Evidence from long-horizon return predictability"