Seminars 2011/2012

Friday September 2
Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector
Viral Acharya, Professor of Economics, Department of Finance
Stern School of Business, New York University
Scurfield Hall, SH 465
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector

Thursday September 15
The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings
Gunter Strobl, Kenan Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Scurfield Hall, SH 465
11 am - 12:30 pm

Friday September 23
Merger negotiations with stock market feedback
Espen Eckbo
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, SH 465
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Merger negotiations with stock market feedback

Friday October 7
Real Options and Risk Dynamics: 
Implications for the Cross-Section and Time-Series of Expected Returns
Dirk Hackbarth
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, SH 280
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Real Options and Risk Dynamics: Implications for the Cross-Section and Time-Series of Expected Returns

Friday, October 14
Crash risk and investor horizon
Julia Hui Zhu
Haskayne School of Business, SH 145
12 - 1 pm (Lunch Workshop)

Download: Crash Risk and Investor Horizon

Friday, November 4

Moral Hazard, Investment, and Firm Dynamics
Hengjie Ai
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, SH 465
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Moral Hazard, Investment, and Firm Dynamics

Friday, November 25
Jan Benna
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia, SH 462
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Strategic Investments, Technological Uncertainty, and Expected Return Externalities

Friday, January 13
Getting an Early Start in Self-Employment
David T. Robinson
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business, SH
11 am - 12:30 pm

Download: Getting an Early Start in Self-Employment

Friday, January 20 - Workshop - Using the Bloomberg, Eikon and Capital IQ data feeds in the Murray Edwards Trading and Finance Lab
Gordon Sick
University of Calgary: Haskayne School of Business
11 am - 12:30 pm

Friday, February 3
Jointly sponsored with the “Lunch at the Lab” seminar series at the Mathematics Department at the University of Calgary
T.R. (Tom) Hurd
McMaster University, SH 268
2 – 3:30 pm

Download: A Framework for Analyzing Contagion in Banking Networks

Friday, February 10

Entrepreneurs in the Boardroom
Yuan (Gloria) Tian
School of Banking & Finance, Australian School of Business
University of New South Wales
11 am - 12:30 pm   SH 268

Friday, March 16

Emilio OsambelaTBA
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper School of Business
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
11 am - 12:30 pm, Room SH 
TBA

Friday, March 23
SEMINAR CANCELLED
John Carrington Cox
MIT Sloan Management
11 am - 12:30 pm, Room SH

Friday, April 13

SEMINAR CANCELLED
Lukas Schmid
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
11 am - 12:30 pm, Room SH
TBA

Monday, June 11

Kai Li
University of British Columbia
TBA