Summer Term 2008

Engelbert Dockner (Wirschaftsuniversität Wien) - Choice of Rating Technology and Price Formation in Imperfect Credit Markets
Jaksa Cvitanic (California Institute of Technology) - Optimal contracts in continuous time
Christopher Hennessy (UC Berkeley) - Debt, bargaining, and credibility in firm-supplier relationships
Toni Whited (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - What gives? A Study of Firms' Reactions to Cash Shortfalls
Tomas Björk (Stockholm School of Economics) - Time Inconsistent Stochastic Control
Antoon Pelsser (University of Amsterdam) - Approximate Solutions for Indifference Pricing under General Utility Functions
Ilan Cooper (Tel Aviv University) - Real Investment and Risk Dynamics
Harjoat Bhamra (University of British Columbia) - The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework
Wei Xiong (Princeton University) - Delegated Asset Management and Market Segmentation
Terrance Odean (Haas School of Business, Berkeley) - Day Trading in Equilibrium
Raffi Amit (Wharton School) - Familiy Control of Firms and Industries
Jonathan Berk (UC Berkeley) - Return persistance and fund flows in the worst performing mutual funds
Tim Adam (National University of Singapore) - Strategic Risk Management and Product Market Competition
Neng Wang (Columbia University) - Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment
Alexander Muermann (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) - Financing Risk Transfer under Governance Problems: Mutual versus Stock Insurers
Vito D. Gala (London Business School) - Irreversible Investment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns in General Equilibrium
Ralf Elsas (Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) - The Impact of Default Risk on Equity Returns: Evidence from a Bank-based Financial System