Micro Finance Seminar

Spring 2004

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

(* Please note: although most Micro Seminars are on Thursdays,
some Micro Seminars in Spring 2004 will take place on Tuesdays.
Please check below for specific dates.)

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	TBA
Thursday March 25	Laurent Calvet - Harvard	TBA
Thursday April 1	Michael Roberts - Duke	TBA
Thursday April 8	Andrew Winton - Minnesota	TBA