Winter Term 2007

Adlai Fisher (University of British Colombia) - Conditional Risk, Overconditioning, and the Performance of Momentum Strategies
Gordon Phillips (University of Maryland) - Real and Financial Industry Booms and Busts
Felix Meschke (University of Minnesota) - The Rise and Fall of Portfolio Pumping Among U.S. Mutual Funds
Andrea Eisfeldt (Northwestern University) - Financing Shortfalls and the Value of Aggregate Liquidity
Eckhard Platen (University of Technology Sydney) - A Benchmark Approach to Finance
Damir Filipovic (Vienna Institute of Finance) - Non-Monotone Risk Measures and Monotone Hulls
Jason Huafeng Chen (University of British Columbia) - Return Comovement
Loriana Pelizzon (Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia) - Credit Derivatives, Capital Requirements and Opaque OTC Markets
Vikram Nanda (Arizona State University) - Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs?
Kristian Miltersen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) - Real Options with Uncertain Maturity and Competition
Sheridan Titman (University of Texas at Austin) - Financial Structure, Liquidity, and Firm Locations
Michael Brandt (Duke University) - Gutmann Public Lecture: What Do Government Bond Investors Care About: Credit Quality or Liquidity?
Alexander Wagner (University of Zurich) - The Executive Turnover Risk Premium
Jeffrey Zwiebel (Stanford University) - Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation, and Managerial Entrenchment
Rohit Rahi (London School of Economics) - Arbitrage Networks
Susan Christoffersen (McGill University) - Fund Flows vs. Family Flows: Evidence from the Cross Section of Brokers