Summer Term 2006

Vasant Naik (Lehman Brothers) - Global Savings-Investment Imbalances: A Look through the Life-Cycle Model
Michael Halling (University of Vienna) - Equity Return Prediction: Are Coefficients Time-Varying?
Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute) - Financial Markets as a Behavioral Laboratory: An Empirical Behavioral Model for Price Formation
Klaus Ritzberger (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna) - Corporate Control and the Stock Market
Erwan Morellec (HEC Lausanne) - Stock Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions
Liam Brunt (HEC Lausanne) - Do Banks Generate Financial Market Integration?
Pierre Mella-Barral (HEC Paris) - Which way to Grow? Merging, Allying, or Buying Assets
Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics) - A Search-Based Theory of the On-the-Run Phenomenon
Andrei Simonov (Stockholm School of Economics) - Shareholder Homogeneity and Firm Value: The Disciplining Role of Non-Controlling Shareholders
Lorenzo Garlappi (University of Texas (Austin) - Default Risk, Shareholder Advantage, and StockReturns
Wolfgang Bühler (Universität Mannheim) - Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, and OptimalCapital Structure under Incomplete Accounting Information
Josef Zechner (University of Vienna) - Human Capital, Bankruptcy, and Capital Structure
David Feldman (University of New South Wales) - The CAPM Relation for Inefficient Portfolios
Martijn Cremers (Yale) - Active and Passive Positions by Mutual Funds
Kai Li (University of British Columbia) - Corporate Boards and the Leverage and Debt Maturity Choices
Urosevic Branko (University of Belgrade)
Li Jin (Harvard)