Winter Term 2005

Bing Liang (University of Massachusetts) - Do Market Timing Hedge Funds Time the Market?
Per Strömberg (SIFR) - What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies
Nicolae Garleanu (University of Pennsylvania) - Demand-Based Option Pricing
Alexander Stomper (University of Vienna) - How Leverage affects Pricing: Theory and Evidence
Alois Geyer (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) - Life-Cycle Asset Allocation
Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth College) - The Toehold Puzzle
Charlotte Ostergaard (Norwegian School of Management) - U.S. Banking Deregulation, Small Businesses, and Interstate Insurance of Personal Income
Hans Degryse (CentER-Tilburg University) - SMEs and Bank Lending Relationships: The Impact of Mergers
Ed Nosal (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) - Moral Hazard and the Design of Bank Liabilities
Burcin Yurtoglu (University of Vienna) - The Effects of Ownership Concentration and Identity on Investment Performance: An International Comparison
Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University) - Firm Size and Capital Structure
Engelbert Dockner (University of Vienna) - Leaders, Followers, and Risk Dynamics in Industry Equilibrium
Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago) - Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices