Finance Seminar Series 2011-2012
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Paper
9/23/11
Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania
The Effect of Liquidity on Governance
10/7/11
Douglas Breeden
Duke University
Consumption as a Leading Indicator
10/28/11
Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago
Time Varying Risk Aversion
11/2/11
R. David McLean
University of Alberta, visiting MIT
Share Issuance and Cash Savings: International Evidence
11/11/11
Gregor Matvos
University of Chicago
Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified
Conglomerates
11/18/11
Loriana Pelizzon
University of Venice, visiting MIT
Stock Market Returns and Corporate Governance in Capital Market Equilibrium
12/9/11
Bryan Kelly
University of Chicago
Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-Wide Government Guarantees
12/15/11
Utpal Bhattacharya
Indiana University
Conflicting Family Values in Mutual Fund Families
2/22/12
Jialan Wang
Washington University in St. Louis
Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates
3/14/12
Mila Getmansky Sherman
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Crisis and Hedge Fund Risk
3/16/12
Justin Murfin
Yale University
Small Lending Big: The real effects of trade credit demands on constrained suppliers
3/23/12
Charles Hadlock
Michigan State University
Managers Who Lack Style: Evidence from Exogenous CEO Changes
3/30/12
Laurent Fresard
University of Maryland
Competitive Pressure and Corporate Policies
4/18/12
Roger Edelen
University of California, Davis
Investor Base, Cost of Capital, and Firm Performance: The Case of Post-Issuance Anomalies
4/20/12
Burton Hollifield
Carnegie Mellon University
What Broker Charges Reveal about Mortgage Credit Risk
4/27/12
Alon Brav
Duke University
The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition
5/2/12
Mathijs Van Dijk
Erasmus University
Do firms issue more equity when markets are more liquid?
5/4/12
Michael Weisbach
Ohio State University
Finance-Motivated Acquisitions