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The Rodney L. White Micro Finance Seminar
Spring 2005
Thursdays (*and select Tuesdays) 3:00
PM - 4:30 PM, 211 SHDH
| Thursday, January 20th |
Sebastian Ludmer |
"Illiquid
Assets and Self-Control" |
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| Thursday, January 27th |
Efraim Benmelech |
"Asset
Salability and Debt Maturity: Evidence from 19th Century American
Railroads" |
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| * Tuesday, February 1st |
Lauren Cohen |
"Loyalty
Based Portfolio Choice" |
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| Thursday, February 3rd |
Amir Sufi |
"Agency
and Renegotiation in Corporate Finance: Evidence from Syndicated Loans" |
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| * Tuesday, February 8th |
(no seminar) |
(rescheduled for Tuesday, February 22nd) |
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| Thursday, February 10th |
Joy Ishii |
"Interconnection
Pricing and Compatibility in Network Industries: ATM Networks in the
Banking Industry" |
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| * Tuesday, February 15th |
Alexei Tchistyi |
"Security
Design with Correlated Hidden Cash Flows: The Optimality of Performance
Pricing" |
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| Thursday, February 17th |
Selale Tuzel |
"Corporate
Real Estate Holdings and the Cross Section of Stock Returns" |
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| * Tuesday, February 22nd |
Ilan Guedj |
"Ownership
vs. Contract: How Vertical Integration Affects Investment Decisions
in Pharmaceutical R&D" |
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| Thursday, February 24th |
Daniel Wolfenzon, NYU |
"Should
Business Groups be Dismantled?
The Equilibrium Costs of Efficient Internal Capital Markets" |
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| * Tuesday, March 1st |
Steven Drucker, Stanford |
"Information
Asymmetries and the Effects of Banking Mergers on Firm-Bank Relationships" |
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| Thursday, March 3rd |
Lucy White, HBS |
"Crises
and Capital Requirements in Banking" |
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| Thursday, March 10th |
(Spring Break) |
(no seminar) |
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| Thursday, March 17th |
Mara Faccio, Vanderbilt
Curriculum
Vitae |
"Political
Connections and Corporate Bailouts" |
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| Thursday, March 24th |
Hyun Song Shin, LSE |
"Marking-to-Market:
Panacea or Pandora’s Box?" |
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| Thursday, March 31th |
Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard |
(Joint Seminar with Law School)
"What
Matters in Corporate Governance?" |
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| Thursday, April 7th |
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, World Bank |
"Finance,
Inequality and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence" |
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| Thursday, April 14th |
Sydney Ludvigson, NYU |
"Euler
Equation Errors" |
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| Thursday, April 21st |
Peter DeMarzo, Stanford |
"A
Continuous-Time Agency Model of
Optimal Contracting and Capital Structure" |
(updated 4/18/05)
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