By Presentation Date

2012

• December 13, 2012: Zach Sautner, University of Amsterdam
  “Contracting Between Firms: Empirical Evidence”
• December 6, 2012: Ayako Yasuda, UC Davis
  “Supply Uncertainty of the Bond Investor Base and the Leverage of the Firm”
• November 29, 2012: Oliver Spalt, Tilburg University
  “Conglomerate Investment, Skewness, and the CEO Long Shot Bias”
• November 15, 2012: Charles Jones, Columbia University
  “Revealing shorts: An examination of large short position disclosures”
• November 8, 2012: Dongmei Li, UC- San Diego
  “Innovative Capacity and the Asset Growth Anomaly”
• November 1, 2012: Yael Hochberg, Kellog
  “Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments”
• October 25, 2012: Philip Valta, HEC Paris
  “Financing Investment: The Choice Between Public and Private Debt”
• October 18, 2012: Vikrant Vig, London Business School
  “Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes”
• October 11, 2012: Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago
  “Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece”
• October 4, 2012: Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Chicago
  “Decomposing Value”
• September 27, 2012: Matteo Maggiori, Berkeley/NYU
  “Financial Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies”
• September 20, 2012: Mark Leary, Washington University St. Louis
  “A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America”
• September 13, 2012: Yildiray Yildarim, Syracuse University
  “The Subprime Virus”
• September 6, 2012: Zoran Ivkovich, Michigan State University
  “Strategic Performance Allocation in Institutional Asset Management Firms: Behold the Power of Stars and Dominant Clients”
• May 17, 2012: James Chapman, Bank of Canada
  “Efficiency and Bargaining Power in the Interbank Loan Market”
• April 26, 2012: Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University
  “Hidden Liquidity: Some new light on dark trading”
• April 19, 2012: David Lando, Copenhagen Business School
  “Financial Sector Linkages and the Dynamics of Bank and Sovereign Credit Spreads”
• April 5, 2012: Bryan Kelly, University of Chicago
  “Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees”

2011

• December 8, 2011: Ayako Yasuda, UC Davis
  
• December 1, 2011: Brett Green, Northwestern University
  “Asset Trading, News, and Liquidity in Markets with Asymmetric Information”
• November 18, 2011: Michel Robe, American University
  "Does ‘Paper Oil’ Matter? Energy Markets’ Financialization and Equity-Commodity Co-Movements"
• November 17, 2011: Johan Walden, University of California at Berkeley
  “Industrial Asset Pricing?”
• November 10, 2011: Francesca Cornelli, London Business School
  “Monitoring Managers: Does It Matter?”
• November 3, 2011: Alok Kumar, University of Miami
  “What is in a Name? Mutual Fund Flows When Managers Have Foreign Sounding Names”
• November 1, 2011: Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania
  “CEO Compensation and Responses to Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
• October 27, 2011: Ran Duchin, University of Michigan
  “Safer Ratios, Riskier Portfolios: Banks’ Response to Government Aid”
• October 20, 2011: David Robinson, Duke University
  “Getting an Early Start in Self-Employment”
• October 18, 2011: Radha Gopalan, Washington University at St. Louis
  “The Optimal Duration of Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence”
• October 13, 2011: Francis Longstaff, UCLA
  “Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe”
• October 6, 2011: Ernest-Ludwig Thadden, Univ of Mannheim
  “Repo Runs”
• September 29, 2011: Francois Gourio, Boston University
  “Credit Risk and Disaster Risk”
• September 22, 2011: Brent Glover, Carnegie Mellon Univ
  “Corporate Taxes, Leverage, and Business Cycles”
• September 15, 2011: Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania
  CANCELLED
• September 8, 2011: Terrence Hendershott, UC Berkeley
  “Are Institutions Informed About the News?”
• September 1, 2011: Susan Christoffersen, University of Toronto
  “What do consumers’ fund flows maximize? Evidence from their brokers’ incentives”
• May 5, 2011: Josef Zechner, WU Vienna
  Leverage Dynamics over the Business Cycle
• April 28, 2011: Bob Goldstein, University of Minnesota
  Modeling Credit Contagion via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs
• April 21, 2011: Joan Farre-Mensa, NYU
  Why are Most Firms Privately Held?
• April 14, 2011: Gordon Philips, University of Maryland
  Conglomerate Industry Spanning
• April 7, 2011: Huseyine Gulen, Purdue University
  The Cross-Section of Stock Returns and Incentive Pay
• March 31, 2011: Wei Xiong, Princeton University
  Dynamic Debt Runs
• March 17, 2011: Neng Wang, Columbia University
  The Economics of Hedge Funds: Alpha, Fees, Leverage, and Valuation
• February 24, 2011: Wei Yang, University of Rochester
  Size and Return: A New Perspective

2010

• December 9, 2010: Emir Hrnjic, National University of Singapore
  Market-wide sentiment, firm-level sentiment, and the IPO pricing process
• December 2, 2010: Ingrid Werner, Ohio State University
  Diving into Dark Pools
• November 18, 2010: Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University
  Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity
• November 11, 2010: Dale Rosenthal, University of Illinois - Chicago
  The Effect of Market Structure on Counterparty Risk
• November 4, 2010: Jess Cornaggia, Indiana University
  Why are Credit Ratings Useful?
• October 28, 2010: Lu Zhang, Ohio State University
  Investment-Based Momentum Profits
• October 25, 2010: Ron Kaniel, Duke University
  The Delegated Lucas Tree
• October 21, 2010: Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
  The effect of reference point prices on mergers and acquisitions
• October 18, 2010: Richmond Mathews, Duke University
  Doing Battle with Short Sellers: The Role of Blockholders in Bear Raids
• October 14, 2010: Alessandro Gavazza, New York University
  Demand Spillovers and Market Outcomes in the Mutual Fund Industry
• October 7, 2010: Laurent Fresard, HEC Paris
  Cross-Listing, Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price and the Learning Hypothesis
• September 30, 2010: Zsuzsanna Fluck, Michigan State University
  The Defeasance of Control Rights
• September 23, 2010: Veronika Pool, Indiana University
  Conflicting Family Values in Mutual Fund Families
• September 16, 2010: Hong Liu, Washington University
  Market Closure and Liquidity Premium Puzzle
• September 9, 2010: Haitao Li, University of Michigan
  No-Arbitrage Taylor Rules with Switching Regimes
• May 5, 2010: Andrew Lo, MIT
  
• April 22, 2010: Bruce Carlin, University of California - Los Angeles
  Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, and Financial Decision-Making
• April 8, 2010: Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina
  Mergers, Spin-offs, and Employee Incentives
• April 1, 2010: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University
  Balance Sheet Adjustments in the 2008 Crisis
• March 18, 2010: Richard Rosen, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  The impact of the originate-to-distribute model on banks before and during the financial crisis
• March 11, 2010: Abraham Ravid, Rutgers University
  Geography and Financial Contracts
• March 4, 2010: Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania
  Consensus, Control and Corporate Boards
• February 25, 2010: Heather Tookes, Yale University
  Do Investment Banks’ Relationships With Investors Impact Pricing? The Case of Convertible Bond Issues

2009

• December 10, 2009: Anh Le, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  Implied Bond Liquidity
• December 3, 2009: Clemens Sialm, University of Texas - Austin
  Mutual Fund Tax Clienteles
• November 19, 2009: Russ Wermers, University of Maryland
  Mutual Fund Performance and Governance Structure: The Role of Portfolio Managers and Boards of Directors
• November 12, 2009: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
  Liquidity Management in the Financial Crisis
• November 5, 2009: Jarrad Hartford, University of Washington
  The Importance of Industry Links In Merger Waves
• October 29, 2009: Holger Mueller, New York University - Stern
  Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices
• October 15, 2009: Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University
  Organization Capital and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
• October 8, 2009: Xiaoyan Zhang, Cornell University
  Shackling Short Sellers: The 2008 Shorting Ban
• October 2, 2009: Charles Hadlock, Michigan State University
  Financial Strength and Product Market Competition: Evidence from Asbestos Litigation
• September 24, 2009: Eva Carceles-Poveda, Stony Brook University
  Equity Issuance and Dividend Policy under Commitment
• September 17, 2009: Martijn Cremers, Yale University
  Thirty Years of Corporate Governance: Determinants & Equity Prices
• September 15, 2009: Juergen von Hagen, Indiana/University of Bonn
  The Forward Premium Puzzle and Latent Factors Day by Day
• September 10, 2009: Wall Boudry, New York University - Stern
  Investment Opportunities and Share Repurchases
• September 4, 2009: Viral Acharya, New York University - Stern
  Rollover Risk and market Freezes
• August 27, 2009: Marcus Opp, University of California - Berkeley
  Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation - Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage
• May 14, 2009: Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina
  WHAT SEGMENTS EQUITY MARKETS
• May 12, 2009: Wolf Wagner, Tilburg University
  THE RISK OF JOINT LIQUIDATION AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: DIVERSITY INSTEAD OF DIVERSIFICATION
• May 7, 2009: Abdullah Yavas, Penn State
  Boom and Bust Periods in Real Estate versus Financial Markets: An Experimental Study
• April 30, 2009: Jacob Sagi, Vanderbilt
  Dynamic Corporate Capital Stocks: Cross-sectional and Inter-temporal Stock Return Patterns
• April 23, 2009: Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania
  How does Household Consumption Respond to Income Shocks?
• April 16, 2009: Francisco Gomes, London Business School
  Fiscal Policy in an Incomplete Markets Economy
• April 9, 2009: Daniel Bergstresser, Harvard University
  'Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance
• April 2, 2009: Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  Pairwise Trade, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy
• March 31, 2009: David Denis, Purdue University
  Financial Flexibility and Capital Structure Policy Evidence from Pro-active Leverage Increases
• March 12, 2009: Sreedhar Bharath, University of Michigan
  The Changing Nature of Chapter 11

2008

• December 11, 2008: Jiro Kondo, Northwestern University
  The Self-Regulation of Enforcement: Evidence From Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
• December 4, 2008: Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
  Inheritance law and Investment in Family Firms
• November 20, 2008: Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland
  Price Impact and Spread: Bias-Free Estimates from Portfolio Transition Data
• November 13, 2008: Ioanid Rosu, Chicago Graduate School of Business
  Liquidity and Information in Order Driven Markets
• November 6, 2008: Nikolai Roussanov, Wharton
  Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets
• October 30, 2008: Sudheer Chava, Texas A & M
  Effect of Banking Crisis on Bank-Dependent Borrowers
• October 28, 2008: Aneel Keswani, City University, London
  Mutual Fund Distribution Channels and Investor Reaction To Past Performance
• October 23, 2008: Gib Metcalf, Tufts University
  
• October 16, 2008: Robert Dittmar, University of Michigan
  Ex Ante Skewness and Expected Stock Returns
• October 9, 2008: Raghuram Rajan, Chicago Graduate School of Business
  The internal Governance of Firms
• October 2, 2008: Gustavo Grullon, Rice University
  Real Options, Volatility, and Stock Returns
• September 25, 2008: Ola Bengston, Cornell University
  Investor Abilities and Financial Contracting: Evidence from Venture Capital
• September 18, 2008: Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics visiting MSU
  
• September 11, 2008: S. Vishwanathan, Duke University
  Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity
• September 4, 2008: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University
  The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk
• May 5, 2008: Harris Schlesinger, University of Alabama
  Changes in Risk and the Demand For Saving
• May 1, 2008: Julie Cullen, University of California - San Diego
  Implicit Performance Awards: An Empirical Analysis of the Labor Market for Public School Administrators
• April 24, 2008: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard
  Institutional Demand Pressure and Cost of Corporate Debt
• April 17, 2008: Enrichetta Ravina, NYU
  Love & Loans: The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets
• April 10, 2008: Murray Carlson, University of British Columbia
  Leverage Choice and Credit Spread Dynamics when Managers Risk Shift
• April 3, 2008: Motohiro Yogo, Wharton
  Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
• March 27, 2008: Lorenzo Garlappi, Univeristy of Texas - Austin
  Financial Distress and the Cross Section of Equity Returns
• March 13, 2008: Mike Roberts, Wharton
  
• March 6, 2008: Gustavo Manso, MIT
  Governance Through Exit and Voice: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders
• January 10, 2008: Michael Johannes, Columbia University
  Understanding Index Option Returns

2007

• December 12, 2007: Randy Walsh, University of Colorado - Boulder
  Race, Public Goods, and Neighborhood Choice
• December 6, 2007: Long Chen, Michigan State
  What Drives Stock Price movement?
• December 4, 2007: Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth
  Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth in Health Care
• November 29, 2007: Hui Chen, University of Chicago
  Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure
• November 27, 2007: Ralph Koijen, Tilburg University
  The Cross-section of Managerial Ability and Risk Preferences
• November 20, 2007: Aydogan Alti, University of Texas - Austin
  When Do High Stock Returns Trigger Equity Issues?
• November 15, 2007: Denis Gromb, London Business School
  FINANCIALLY CONSTRAINED ARBITRAGE AND CROSS-MARKET CONTAGION
• November 13, 2007: George Zanjani, New York Federal Reserve
  CATASTROPHE BONDS, REINSURANCE, AND THE OPTIMAL COLLATERALIZATION OF RISK TRANSFER?
• November 8, 2007: Stefan Nagel, Stanford
  Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect risk-Taking?
• November 1, 2007: Arthur Karteweg, University of Chicago
  Estimating Risk and Return of Infrequently-Traded Assets: A Bayesian Selection Model of Venture Capital
• October 25, 2007: Sergei Davydenko, University of Toronto
  Cash holdings and credit risk
• October 18, 2007: Antje Berndt, Carnegie Mellon
  Default Risk Premia and Asset Returns
• October 11, 2007: Alexei Tchistyi, New York University
  Optimal Mortgage Design
• October 4, 2007: Robert Novy-Marx, University of Chicago
  Operating Leverage
• September 27, 2007: Henrik Cronqvist, Ohio State
  Does Corporate Culture Matter for Firm Policies?
• September 20, 2007: Carola Schenone, University of Virginia
  Bankruptcy and Product-Market Competition: Evidence from the Airline Industry
• September 18, 2007: Jefferson Duarte, University of Washington
  
• September 13, 2007: Dirk Hackbarth, Washington University
  Stock Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions
• September 6, 2007: Zhi Da, Notre Dame
  Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds
• August 30, 2007: Amit Goyal, Emory
  Cross-Section of Option Returns and Volatility
• May 10, 2007: Serdar Dinc, Northwestern University
  The Decision to Privatize: Finance, Politics, and Patronage http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dinc/htm/Papers/Dinc%20&%20Gupta%20--%20The%20Decision%20to%20Privatize.pdf
• May 3, 2007: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton
  Portfolio Choice with Jumps: A Closed Form Solution
• April 26, 2007: Pietro Veronesi, Columbia University
  Entrepreneurial Learning, the IPO decision, and the post-IPO drop in firm profitability
• April 19, 2007: Efraim Benmelech, Harvard
  Redeployability and Collateral Pricing
• April 5, 2007: Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, Columbia University
  Do CEOs matter?
• March 27, 2007: Per Stromberg, SIFR
  What are firms? Evolution from Early business plans to public companies
• March 15, 2007: Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University
  Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation
• March 1, 2007: Atif Mian, Columbia University
  Dollars dollars everywhere, not a dime to lend: the cost of debt capacity constraints

2006

• November 16, 2006: Andrea Frazzini, University of Chicago
  The earnings announcement premium and trading volume
• November 9, 2006: Xavier Gabaix, MIT
  The Linearity-Inducing Class: A Modelling Tool Yielding Closed Forms for Asset Prices
• November 2, 2006: Chris Malloy, London Business School
  Rewriting History
• October 19, 2006: Yael Hochberg, Northwestern University
  A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• October 12, 2006: Michael Faulkender, Washington University
  Why are Firms Using Interest Rate Swaps to Time the Yield Curve?
• October 5, 2006: Morten Sorensen, University of Chicago
  Learning by Investing: Evidence from Venture Capital
• September 28, 2006: Luis Viceira, Harvard
  Global Currency Hedging
• September 21, 2006: Thomas Philippon, NYU
  The y-Theory of Investment
• September 14, 2006: Rebecca Zarutskie, Duke University
  
• September 7, 2006: Otto van Hemert, NYU
  Life-Cycle Housing and Portfolio Choice with Bond Markets
• July 27, 2006: Josh White, Allen Poteshman, and Neil Pearson, Dept of Finance
  Does Option Trading Impact Underlying Stock Prices?
• July 20, 2006: Sophie Ni, Dept of Finance
  Stock Option Returns
• July 6, 2006: Neil Pearson and Brian Henderson, Dept of Finance
  Patterns in the issuance of structured equity products
• June 29, 2006: Brandon Julio, Dept of Finance
  Overcoming Overhang: Agency Costs, Investment, and the Option to Repurchase Debt
• May 11, 2006: Kent Womack, Dartmouth
  When Shouldn't Investors Listen to Analysts
• May 3, 2006: Zhiwu Chen, Yale
  Press Freedom and Economic Development
• April 27, 2006: Peter Tufano, Harvard
  Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing
• April 26, 2006: Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College
  Competing with the NYSE
• April 20, 2006: Amir Sufi, University of Chicago
  The Real Effects of Debt Certification: Evidence from the Introduction of Bank Loan Ratings
• April 19, 2006: Eric Gettleman and Liz Risik, Dept of Finance
  Option Market Overreaction to Stock Price Changes
• April 13, 2006: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Northwestern University
  Long-run stockholder consumption risk and asset returns
• April 6, 2006: Bo Becker, UIUC
  City size and financial development
• April 5, 2006: Tom Jacobs, Dept of Finance
  Investor Reaction in Option Markets
• March 30, 2006: Mark Germase, UCLA
  Ties that Truly Bind: Non-Competition Agreements, Executive Compensation and Firm Investment
• March 29, 2006: Xiaoyan (Sophie) Ni, Dept of Finance
  Stock Option Returns
• March 16, 2006: Michael Brandt, Duke University
  Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets
• March 15, 2006: Qian Deng, Dept of Finance
  Volatility Dispersion Trading
• March 9, 2006: David Laibson, Harvard
  Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds
• March 2, 2006: Mark Grinblatt, UCLA
  Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity
• February 15, 2006: Brandon Julio, Dept of Finance
  Overcoming Leverage Induced Investment Distortions: Evidence from Corporate Debt Repurchases
• January 18, 2006: Hilal Yilmaz, Dept of Economics
  Applications of Conditional Value-at-Risk Estimation with Quantile Regression
• January 11, 2006: Brian Henderson, Dept of Finance
  Convertible Bonds: New Issue Performance and Arbitrage Opportunities

2005

• December 8, 2005: Todd Milbourn, Washington University
  Credit Ratings as Coordination Mechanisms
• December 1, 2005: Jeffrey Coles, ASU
  
• November 18, 2005: Andrew Karolyi, Ohio State
  Private benefits of control, ownership, and the cross-listing decision
• November 9, 2005: Dirk Jenter, MIT
  Industry Cycles, CEO Turnover, and Relative Performance Evaluation
• November 4, 2005: Jianjun Miao, Boston University
  Investment, Consumption and Hedging under Incomplete Markets
• November 3, 2005: Joshua Rauh, University of Chicago
  Who Manages Pension Fund Risk
• October 27, 2005: Heitor Almeida, NYU
  
• October 20, 2005: Gur Huberman, Columbia University
  What is the NPV of Expected Future Profits of Money Managers
• October 13, 2005: Matt Spiegel, Yale
  Cross-sectional Variation in Stock Returns: Liquidity and Idiosyncratic Risk
• October 6, 2005: Daniel Wolfenzon, NYU
  Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance
• September 30, 2005: Nick Barberis, Yale
  Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices
• September 22, 2005: Bernie Yeung, NYU
  Corporate Stability and Economic Growth: Is What's Good for General Motors Good for America?
• September 8, 2005: Eugene Kandel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Selling Hopes: Managerial Overstatement of Growth Options
• May 5, 2005: Allen Poteshman, UIUC
  Demand-Based Option Pricing
• April 28, 2005: Jeffrey Kubik, Syracuse University
  Outsourcing Mutual Fund Management: Firm Boundaries, Incentives, and Performance
• March 17, 2005: Nittai Bergman, MIT
  Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation
• March 10, 2005: Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago
  Do Liquidation Values Affect Financial Contracts? Evidence from Commercial Loan Contracts and Zoning Regulation
• March 3, 2005: Mihir Desai, Harvard
  Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Depreciations
• February 25, 2005: Jose Liberti, London Business School
  How Does Organizational Form Matter? Distance, Communication and Soft Information
• February 17, 2005: Mark Seasholes, UC Berkeley
  Predictable Behavior, Profits, and Attention
• February 11, 2005: Rangarajan Sundaram, NYU
  A Simple Unified Model for Pricing Derivative Securities with Equity, Interest-rate, and Default Risk
• January 20, 2005: Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania
  Household Risks and the Demand for Housing Commitments

2004

• December 9, 2004: Armando Gomes, University of Pennsylvania
  Why do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Equity, Convertibles and Debt?
• December 2, 2004: Brad Barber, UC Davis
  Who loses from trade? Evidence from Taiwan
• November 18, 2004: Henri Servaes, London Business School
  The Response of Industry Rivals to Control Threats
• November 11, 2004: Maureen O'Hara, Cornell
  Regulation and Return: The Role of Ambiguity
• November 4, 2004: Robert McDonald, Northwestern University
  Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers
• October 29, 2004: Steve Figlewski, NYU
  Estimation Error in the Assessment of Financial Risk Exposure
• October 21, 2004: Malcolm Baker, Harvard
  Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
• October 14, 2004: Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University
  New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints
• October 8, 2004: Chris Hennessy, UC Berkeley
  Beyond Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities: Using Indirect Inference to Estimate Costs of External Funds
• September 30, 2004: Raj Chetty, UC Berkeley
  Dividend Taxes and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut
• September 23, 2004: David Hirshleifer, Ohio State
  Do Investors Overvalue Firms with Bloated Balance Sheets?
• September 9, 2004: Jay Wang, UIUC
  The ABCs of Mutual Funds: A Natural Experiement on Fund Flows and Performance
• May 13, 2004: Kenneth French, Dartmouth
  Financing Decisions: Who Issues Stock?
• May 6, 2004: Moshe Milevsky, York University
  Financial Economic Valuation of Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits in Variable Annuities
• April 29, 2004: David Scharfstein, MIT
  Organizatinal Scope and Investment: Evidence from the Drug Development Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Firms
• April 22, 2004: Antonio Bernardo, UCLA
  Motivating Entrepreneurial Activity in a Firm
• April 15, 2004: Lu Zhang, Rochester
  Economic Fundamentals, Risk, and Momentum Profits
• April 8, 2004: Viral Acharya, London Business School
  On the Capital Structure Implications of Bankruptcy Codes
• April 1, 2004: Greg Duffee, UC Berkeley
  A No-Arbitrage Term Structure Model without Latent Factors
• March 18, 2004: Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
  A New Monopoly-Creating Phase of Bank Consolidation? The Effect of the Merger of Fleet and BankBoston on Middle Market Borrowers in New England
• March 11, 2004: Heitor Almeida, NYU
  A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership in Family Business Groups
• March 4, 2004: Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT
  Cash Flow and Investment Project Outcomes: Evidence from Bidding on Oil and Gas Leases

2003

• December 18, 2003: Bhaskaran Swaminathan, Cornell
  How Does the Corporate Bond Market Value Capital Investments and Accruals
• December 11, 2003: Jeff and Scott Weisbenner Brown, UIUC
  The Determinants and Consequences of Employer Match Policy in 401(k) Plans
• December 9, 2003: Neil, Scott Weisbenner and Zoran Ivkovich Pearson, UIUC
  The Disposition Effect and Housholds' Stock Trades: the Importance of Relative Performance and Dividends
• December 4, 2003: Simi Kedia, Harvard
  Do Executive Stock Options Generate Incentives for Earnings Management? Evidence from Accounting Restatements
• November 13, 2003: Joshua Coval, Harvard
  Judging Fund Managers by the Company they Keep
• November 7, 2003: Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland
  Firm Specific Resources, Financial Market Development, and Growth of US Multinationals
• October 30, 2003: Joao Gomes, Wharton
  Asset Pricing Implications of Firms' Financing Constraints
• October 10, 2003: Jun Pan, MIT
  An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia
• September 25, 2003: Jeff Wurgler, NYU
  A Conditional Characteristics Model of Stock Returns
• September 18, 2003: Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
  Stock Prices and IPO Waves
• September 11, 2003: John Griffin, Yale
  Investor Behavior over the Rise and Fall of Nasdaq
• September 4, 2003: Arturo Bris, Yale
  Efficiency and the Bear: Short Sales and Markets around the World
• May 7, 2003: John Graham, Duke University
  Payout Policy in the 21st Century
• April 17, 2003: William Gentry, Columbia University
  Effects of Share Prices Relative to Fundamental Value on Stock Issuances and Repurchases
• April 10, 2003: Mark Grinblatt, UCLA
  Debt Policy, Corporate Taxes, and Discount Rates
• April 4, 2003: Judith Chevalier, Yale
  Price Competition and Valuation Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble
• March 20, 2003: Anthony Bernardo, UCLA
  Capital Budgeting in Multi-Division Firms: Information, Agency, and Incentives
• March 6, 2003: Adam Ashcraft, University of Chicago
  Are Bank Holding Companies a Source of Strength to their Subsidiaries
• February 11, 2003: Joshua White, Harvard
  External Habit Formation and the Home Bias Puzzle
• February 10, 2003: Jonathan Rueter, MIT
  Are IPO Allocations For Sale? Evidence From The Mutual Fund Industry
• January 16, 2003: Jeffrey Tate, Harvard
  Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market\'s Reaction
• January 14, 2003: Robin Greenwood, Harvard
  Evidence For A Debt Financing Channel In Corporate Investment

2002

• December 12, 2002: Lisa Meulbroek, Harvard
  Company Stock in Pension Plans: How Costly Is It
• December 5, 2002: Ajay Khorana, Georgia Institute of Technology
  The Game of the Name: Valuation Effects of Name Changes in a Market Downturn
• November 21, 2002: Brian Hall, Harvard
  Managing Option Fragility
• October 22, 2002: Jennifer Carpenter, NYU
  Portfolio Performance and Agency
• October 17, 2002: William Goetzmann, Yale
  Investor Sentiment in Japanese and U.S. Daily Mutual Fund Flows
• October 10, 2002: Pedro Santa-Clara, UCLA
  International Risk Sharing is Better Than You Think (or Exchange Rates are Much Too Smooth
• September 19, 2002: Michael and Murillo Campello Weisbach, UIUC
  A Demand for Corporate Liquidity: A Theory and Some Evidence
• September 19, 2002: Murillo and Michael Weisbach Campello, UIUC
  A Demand for Corporate Liquidity: A Theory and Some Evidence
• September 13, 2002: David Musto, Wharton
  The Market for Record-Date Ownership
• September 5, 2002: Andrew Samwick, Dartmouth
  Empire-Builders and Shirkers: Investment, Firm Performance, and Managerial Incentives
• April 25, 2002: Harrison Hong, Stanford
  Does Fund Size Erode Performance? Organizational Diseconomies and Active Money Management
• April 18, 2002: Mitch Petersen, Northwestern University
  Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence From the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks
• April 2, 2002: David Ikenberry, Rice University
  Underreaction to Firm Specific News Events: The Case of Stock Splits
• March 26, 2002: Allen and Michael Weisbach Poteshman, UIUC
  Horses And Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure From Shareholder And Manager Perspectives
• March 26, 2002: Michael and Allen Poteshman Weisbach, UIUC
  Horses And Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure From Shareholder And Manager Perspectives
• March 7, 2002: Timothy Johnson, London Business School
  Unifying Underreaction Anomalies
• February 26, 2002: Carola Schenone, Northwestern University
  The Effect of Banking Relationships On A Firm's Cost Of Equity In Its IPO
• February 21, 2002: Daniel Bergstresser, MIT
  Market Concentration And Loan Portfolios In Commercial Banking
• February 5, 2002: Ohad Kadan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Discrete Prices and Competition in a Dealer Market
• January 29, 2002: Oguzhan Ozbas, MIT
  Integration, Organizational Processes and Allocation of Resources
• January 24, 2002: Woodrow Johnson, Columbia University
  Pooling Externalities in Mutual Funds
• January 22, 2002: Yiming Qian, NYU
  Human-Capital Intensive Firms: Capital Structure and Top Management Compensation
• January 17, 2002: Jayanthi Sunder, NYU
  Information Spillovers and Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence
• January 8, 2002: Jeffrey Brown, Sr. Economist, Council of Economic Advisors
  Does the Internet Make Markets mMore Competetive. Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry

2001

• December 6, 2001: Amy Dittmar, Indiana University
  Costless versus Costly Signalling:Theory and Evidence from Share repurchases
• November 29, 2001: Terrence Odean, UC Davis
  All That Glitters: The effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors
• November 15, 2001: Anand Vijh, University of Iowa
  Sector Fund Performance
• November 8, 2001: Jeffery Abarbanell, Kenan-Flagler Business School
  Biased Forecasts or Biased Earnings?
• November 8, 2001: Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
  The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Costs of Taxing New Technology
• November 1, 2001: Robert McDonald, Northwestern University
  The Tax (Dis)advantage of a Firm Issuing Options on its own Stock
• October 25, 2001: Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin
  Greener Pastures and the Impact of Dynamic Institutional Preferences
• October 18, 2001: Dan Bernhardt, UIUC
  Earnings Forecast Bias: Theory, Tests and Evidence
• October 15, 2001: Anderson Silva, UIUC
  Structural Analysis of Multiple-Unit Auctions: Recovering Bidders' Valuations in Auctions with Dominant Bidders
• October 11, 2001: Antoinette Schoar, MIT
  Managing With Style: The Effect of Managers on Investment and Financing Decisions
• October 4, 2001: Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Carnegie Mellon University
  Do Bonds Span the Fixed Income Markets? Theory and Evidence for Unspanned Stochastioc Volatility
• September 20, 2001: Jay Ritter, University of Florida
  Why Has IPO Underpricing Increased Over Time?
• August 30, 2001: Owen Lamont, University of Chicago
  Short Sale Constraints