Fall 2008 Seminars

All seminars will take place in 2350 UH and will start at 10:30 am. The Fall schedule is as follows:

9/12: Cami Kuhnen (Northwestern)
Executive pay, hidden compensation and managerial entrenchment

9/18: Dale Rosenthal - Heavy Tails in Commodity Returns

9/25: Faye Wang - Leverage Management

9/26 Craig Furfine (Chicago Fed/Northwestern U.)
Electronic limit order books during uncertain times: Evidence from Eurodollar futures in 2007

10/9: Bob Chirinko -Equity Overvaluation and Capital Misallocation?: A Revealed Preference Approach

10/10 Neil Pearson (UIUC/MIT)
Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices

10/16: Gib Bassett - Diversification with fat-tails

10/17 Campello Murillo (UIUC)
Corporate Financing and Investment: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier

10/24 Ann Sherman (DePaul)
Endogenous entry and partial adjustment in IPO auctions: Are institutional investors better informed?

11/3 Doug Evanoff (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
The Effects of Mandated Financial Counseling on Household Mortgage Decisions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

11/14 Zhi Da (Notre Dame University)
Dividend Smoothing and Predictability

11/21 Jay Wang (UIUC)
The good, the bad or the expensive? Which mutual fund managers join hedge funds?

11/24 Faye Wang (UIC)
Motivating Loan Officers: An Analysis of Salaries and Piece Rates Compensation