Finance Research Seminar
Location (unless indicated otherwise): WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) - H46, 1190 Wien, Heiligenstädter Strasse 46-48, seminar room 1 (ground floor) from 11 AM to 12.30 AM.
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We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management for some of the talks.
Winter Term 2011 :
October 7
Volker Laux (University of Texas)
Stock Option Vesting Conditions, CEO Turnover, and Myopic Investment (paper)
October 14
Adlai Fisher (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Dividend Strips and the Term Structure of Equity Risk Premia: A Case Study of Limits to Arbitrage (paper)
October 21
Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim)
Indexing Executive Compensation Contracts (paper)
October 28
Mao Ye (University of Illinois)
What’s Not There: The Odd-Lot Bias in TAQ Data (paper)
November 4
Augustin Landier (University of Toulouse)
The Risk-Shifting Hypothesis: Evidence from Subprime Originations (paper)
November 11
Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universteit Amsterdam)
Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets (paper)
November 18
Guillaume Plantin (University of Toulouse)
Inequality, Tax Avoidance, and Financial Instability (paper)
November 25
Adam Szeidl (UC Berkeley)
A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice (paper)
November 30th (Wednesday brown bag, 12:30-13:30)
Bjorn Eraker (Wisconsin): Dynamic Present Values and the Intertemporal CAPM
December 2
Pierre Mella-Barral (EDHEC Nice)
Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics (paper)
December 6 (Tuesday brown bag, 12:30-13:30, S3)
Jan Bena (UBC): The Lifecycle of the Economy-Wide Distribution of Leverage
December 9
Daniel Paravisini (Columbia University)
Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes (paper)
Wednesday 3.30 P.M., December 14
Jeffrey Brown (University of Illinois)
Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations (paper, accessible from within the WU network)
January 13
Josef Zechner (WU)
Granularity of Corporate Debt: Theory and Tests (paper, updated Jan 11)
January 20
Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
The Brain Gain of Corporate Boards: A Natural Experiment from China (paper)
January 27
Christian Schlag (University of Frankfurt)
The Role of Volatility Shocks and Rare Events in Long-Run Risk Models (paper)