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"