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See also the Entrepreneurship Seminars, organized by Yael Hochberg (Finance) and Scott Stern (Managment & Strategy)

Seminars
Offered through the support of the Zell Center for Risk Research.

In many cases, you may click on the presenter's name to view his/her web page, and on the paper title to view the paper or abstract. Copies of the papers will be available at the Finance Department, Room 401 Jacobs Center. Finance seminars will take place in Room 101 unless otherwise noted.

The seminar organizers are David A. Matsa and Snehal Banerjee.

The seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Spring 2009
Date	Presenter	Paper Title
March 4Room G27	Guillaume Plantin, London Business School	"Equilibrium Subprime Lending" (Coauthor Igor Makarov) (PDF 1.73MB/ 45 pages)
March 11 Room160	Jeremy Graveline, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota	"Exchange Rate and Volitility and the Forward Premium Anomaly" (PDF 378/ 43pages)
March 18 Room160	Hui Chen, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	" A Unified Theory of Tobin's q,Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management" (Coauthors Patrick Bolton and Neng Wang) (PDF 447KB/ 53 pages)
April 1	Enrichetta Ravina, Columbia Business School, Columbia University	“Love & Loans: The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets.”
April 8	Jiang Wang, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	"Liquidity of Corporate Bonds" (Coauthors Jack Bao and Jun Pan) (PDF 276 KB/ 52 pages)
April 15	Peter DeMarzo, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University	"Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment" (Coauthors Michael Fishman, Zhiguo He, Neng Wang) (PDF 485 KB/ 52 pages)
April 22	Steve Kaplan, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago	"Which CEO Chacteristics and Abilities Matter?" (Coauthors Mark M. Klebanov and Morten Sorensen) (PDF 278 KB/ 55 Pages)
April 29	Maureen O'Hara, The Johnson School, Cornell University	"Liquidity and Valuation in an Uncertain World" (Coauthor David Easley) (32pages)
May 6	Sheridan Titman, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas	"Credit Rating Targets" (Coauthors Armen Hovakimian and Ayla Kayhan) (52 Pages)
May 13	Tobias Adrian, New York Federal Reserve	" CoVaR" (Coauthor Markus K. Brunnermeier) (PDF 200KB/ 30pages)
May 20	Nick Bloom, Economics Department, Stanford University	"Really Uncertain Business Cycles" (Coauthors Max Floetotto and Nir Jaimovich) (PDF 2.25MB/ 34 Pages)
May 27 G05	Bruce Carlin, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles	"Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evoluation of Investor Sophistication" (Coauthor Gustavo Manso" (PDF 239KB/ 31 pages)
June 10	John Graham, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University	"The Real Effects of Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Financial Crisis" (PDF 326KB/52 pages)