THE RODNEY WHITE MICRO FINANCE SEMINAR

Fall 2003

Thursday 3:00-4:30 PM, 211 SH-DH **

 

September 4                                  Ross Levine, University of Minnesota

                                                        “Bank Supervision and Corporate Finance”

 

September 11                                Xavier Gabaix, MIT

        “A Theory of Large Fluctuations in Stock Market Activity”

“A Theory of Power-Law Distributions in Financial Market Fluctuations”

 

September 18                                Augustin Landier, University of Chicago

“Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs: Theory and Evidence”

 

September 25                                Lasse Pedersen,  NYU

                                                        “Predatory Trading”

 

October 2                                       Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago

                                                        “More Banks, Less Crime? The Real and Social Effects of Bank Competition”

 

October 9                                       Ron Gilson (joint seminar with Law School)

“Understanding MACs: Moral Hazard in Acquisitions”

                                                        **NOTE: Seminar location for 10/9/03 only is SHDH 1206

                                               

October 16                                     Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago

                                                        "IPO Waves and Stock Prices"

 

October 23                                     Joseph Chen, USC (visiting MIT)

                                                       "CAPM Over the Long-Run: 1926-2001"

 

October 30                                     Nicholas Barberis, University of Chicago

                                                        "Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium"

 

November 6                                   Joshua Coval, HBS

                                                        "Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?"

 

November 13                                 Viral Acharya, LBS

                                                      "Understanding the Recovery Rates on Defaulted Securities"

 

November 20                                 Maria Vassalou, Columbia University

                                                        "Corporate Innovation and its Effects on Equity Returns"

 

November 27                                 Thanksgiving Break

                                                        No Seminar

 

December 4                                   Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Carnegie Mellon University

                                                        "Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion via the Updating of Beliefs"