Winter Term 2008

Christian Leuz (University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business) - Voluntary Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock
Russ Wermers (University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business) - False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas
Karl Schmedders (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management) - Bond Ladders and Optimal Portfolios
Kristian R. Miltersen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) - Risky Corporate Debt with Finite Maturity
Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics) - Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors
Fabio Maccheroni (Università Bocconi) - Risk Measures: Rationality and Diversification
Lucio Sarno (University of Warwick, Warwick Business School) - The Forward Volatility Bias: A New Puzzle in Foreign Exchange
Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA, Anderson School of Management) - Options Trading Activity and Firm Valuation
Christopher Hennessy (University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business) - Security Design, Liquidity, and the Informational Role of Prices
Stephen Shore (Johns Hopkins University) - Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility
Hansjörg Albrecher (Johannes Kepler University Linz) - Tax and Dividend Payments in Collective Risk Theory
Wayne R. Landsman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School) - Do Investors Understand Really Dirty Surplus?
Gustavo Manso (MIT, Sloan School of Management) - Performance-Sensitive Debt
David Musto (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton) - High Water Marks in Competitive Capital Markets