The Stephen A. Buser Colloquium Series in Financial Economics
Schedule for 2007
-2008
Fisher 800

Spring Quarter 2008

4/4/08 Greg Duffee University of Berkeley

Forecasting with the Term Structure: The Role of No-Arbitrage

4/11/08 Bo Becker University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

The Decision to Go Private

4/18/08 Joshua Coval Harvard Business School Economic Catastrophe Bonds
5/2/08 Efraim Benmelech Harvard University Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
5/7/08 René Stulz The Ohio State University

Securities laws, disclosure, and national capital markets in the age of financial globalization

5/14/08 Rick Johnston The Ohio State University

The effects of sell-side debt research on debt and equity markets

5/16/08 Jonathan Lewellen Dartmouth College Institutional investors and the limits of arbitrage
5/23/08 Gordon Phillips University of Maryland Competition and Product Market Synergies in Mergers and Acquisitions

Winter Quarter 2008

1/11/08

Long Chen

Michigan State University

What Drives Stock Price Movement?

1/18/08 Fousseni Chabi-Yo Bank of Canada

Dynamic Asset Allocation, Heterogeneity of Preferences, Cross Section of Volatility, Skewness, and Expected Returns: Theory and Evidence

1/25/08 Paul Zurek University of Pennsylvania

Momentum and Long-Run Risks

2/1/08 Lars Kuehn University of British Columbia

Asset Pricing with Real Investment Commitment

2/15/08 Lukas Schmid University of Pennsylvania

Levered Returns

2/20/08 (11:30am-1:00pm) Jose Gonzalo Rangel New York University

The Factor-Spline-GARCH Model for High and Low Frequency Correlations

2/22/08 Zahi Ben-David University of Chicago Manipulation of Collateral Values by Borrowers and Intermediaries
2/29/08

Joseph Engelberg

Northwestern University

Costly Information Processing: Evidence from Earnings Announcements

3/7/08 Henrik Cronqvist The Ohio State University Estimating the Effect of Large Shareholders using a Geographic Instrument

Autumn Quarter 2007

9/21/07 Ayako Yasuda University of Pennsylvania The Economics of Private Equity Funds
9/28/07 Haitao Li University of Michigan

Econometric Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models with No-Arbitrage Constraint

10/3/07 PhD Brown Bag
(Brad Edwards, Yingdi Wang, Jia Chen, Jongha Lim, and Scott Yonker)
The Ohio State University  
10/5/07 Jiro Kondo Northwestern University Self-Regulation and Enforcement in Financial Markets: Evidence from Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
10/10/07 René Stulz The Ohio State University Why do private acquirers pay so little compared to public acquirers?
10/12/07 Michael Roberts University of Pennsylvania

Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements

10/24/07 Kewei Hou The Ohio State University Resurrecting the Size Effect: Firm Size, Profitability Shocks, and Expected Stock Returns
10/26/07 Paul Schultz University of Notre Dame

Rational Cross-Sectional Differences in Market Efficiency: Evidence from Mutual Fund Returns

10/31/07 Ingrid Werner The Ohio State University The Changing Nature of Chapter 11
11/2/07 Amit Seru University of Chicago Do Conglomerates Stifle Innovation?
11/9/07 Murillo Campello University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the Technology Bubble

11/14/07 G. Andrew Karolyi The Ohio State University

Common Patterns in Commonality in Returns, Liquidity, and Turnover Around the World

11/16/07 Stewart Myers MIT Capital Allocation
11/28/07 Roger Loh The Ohio State University Investor Inattention and the Underreaction to Stock Recommendations

Summer 2007

8/8/07 Alvaro Taboada The Ohio State University The Impact of Changes in Bank Ownership Structure on the Allocation of Capital

Wednesday Finance Seminars are held in Fisher 800 from 11:30am to 1:00pm as are all other seminars unless otherwise indicated.
Friday seminars are held in Fisher 800 from 10:30am to noon.
Schedule subject to change.