Micro Finance Seminar

Spring 2004

Thursdays 3:00-4:30 PM, 211 SH-DH

Thurs January 15	Joshua Rauh - MIT	"Investment and Financing Constraints: Evidence from the Funding of Corporate Pension Plans"

Thursday January 22	Morten Sorensen - Stanford	"How Smart is Smart Money? An Empirical Two-Sided Matching Model of Venture Capital"

Thursday January 29	Motohiro Yogo - Harvard	"A Consumption-Based Explanation of Expected Stock Returns"

Tuesday February 3	Marcin Kacperczyk - Michigan	"Asset Allocation under Distribution Uncertainty"

Thursday February 5	Yigal Newman - Stanford	"Illiquidity Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from European Telecom Bond Issuance"

Tuesday February 10	Vinay B. Nair - NYU	"Governance Mechanisms and Equity Prices"

Thursday February 12	Ionid Rosu - MIT	"A Dynamic Model of the Limit Order Book"

Tuesday February 17	Ilya Strebulaev - London Business School	"Do Tests of Capital Structure Theory Mean What They Say?"

Thursday February 19	Adam Szeidl - Harvard	"Consumption Commitments and Asset Prices"

Tuesday February 24	Pierre Olivier-Weill - Stanford	"Leaning Against the Wind"

Thursday February 26 (tentative)	David Skeie - Princeton	"Money and Modern Bank Runs"

Thursday March 4	Itay Goldstein - Duke	"Demand-Deposit Contracts and the Probability of Bank Runs"

Thursday March 18	Wei Xiong - Princeton	"Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles"

Thursday March 25	Laurent Calvet - Harvard	"Asset Prices with Multifrequency Regime-Switching and Learning: A Volatility Feedback Specification"

Thursday April 1	Michael Roberts - Duke	"Do Firms Rebalance Their Capital Structures?"

Thursday April 8	Andrew Winton - Minnesota	"Booms, Busts, and Fraud"

Thursday April 15	Francisco Perez-Gonzalez - Columbia	"The Impact of Acquiring 'Control' on Productivity: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants"

* Wednesday, April 21 (Joint Seminar w/ Law School) * Location: Room T-145 LAW SCHOOL	Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago	"The State of U.S. Corporate Governance 2004"