Finance Workshop
For information concerning this workshop, please email Allison Harris or phone her at 773.834.2079. She is located in Room 343 of the Charles M. Harper Center.Schedule
Tuesday seminars will be held from 1:20 - 3:00 p.m. in Harper Center Room 03.Copies of the papers will be available in Harper Center Room 03 as well.
Spring Quarter 2008
April 1
"Investment-Specific Technological Change and Asset Prices"
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern UniversityApril 8
"Sell Side School Ties"
Andrea Frazzini, Chicago GSBApril 15
"Imperfect Competition in the Interbank Market
for Liquidity as a Rationale for Central Banking"
Viral Acharya, LBS
April 22
“Why do U.S. firms hold so much more cash than they used to?”
Rene Stulz, Ohio State UniversityApril 29
"Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse"
Steve Haber, StanfordMay 6
"Are Mutual Fund Fees Competitive? What IQ-Related Behavior Tells Us"
Mark Grinblatt, UCLA
May 13
“Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Model for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance"
Xavier Gabaix, NYUMay 20
TBA
John Graham, DukeMay 27
TBA
Chicago GSBJune 3
TBA
Eduardo Schwartz, UCLAJune 10
TBA
Bing Han, UT Austin