The Stephen A. Buser Colloquium Series in Financial Economics
Schedule for 2008
-2009
Fisher 800

Spring Quarter 2009

4/03/09 Marios Panayides University of Utah Multimarket Trading, Volume Dynamics and Market Integration
4/10/09 (joint w/Accounting) Luzi Hail University of Pennsylvania Equity Cross-Listings in the U.S. and the Price of Debt
4/17/09 Zahi Ben-David The Ohio State University  
4/24/09 Vincent Glode Carnegie Mellon University Information Spillovers and Performance Persistence in Private Equity Partnerships
4/30/09 Sumit Agarwal Fleet Boston Financial

Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice and Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

5/06/09 Serdar Dinc MIT  
5/08/09 Gilles Hilary HEC Paris Accounting Quality and Catastrophic Market Events.
5/20/09 Rose Liao The Ohio State University World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
5/29/09 Brent Ambrose Pennsylvania State University Does It Pay to Read Your Junk Mail?
6/12/09 Jay Hartzell University of Texas Is a Higher Calling Enough?
6/29/09 Anil Makhija The Ohio State University  

Winter Quarter 2009

1/16/09 (joint w/Accounting) John Core University of Pennsylvania Asset Pricing in Imperfect Markets
1/20/09 (11:30-1pm) Byoung-Hyoun Hwang Emory University Distinguished Behavioral Models of Momentum
1/23/09 Dong Lou Yale University

A Flow-Based Explanation for Return Predictability

1/27/09 (11:30-1pm) Breno Schmidt USC Costs and Benefits of “Friendly” Boards during Mergers and Acquisitions
1/30/09 Jack Bao MIT

Structural Models of Default and the Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Yield Spreads

2/4/09 Xiaoyan Zhang Cornell University International Stock Return Comovements
2/6/09 Paolo Fulghieri University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Size and Scope of Human Capital Intensive Firms
2/12/09 Berk Sensoy USC Club Deals in Leveraged Buyouts
2/13/09 Samuel Lee Stockholm School of Economics Market Liquidity, Active Investment, and Markets for Information
2/17/09 Usman Ali Yale University Analysts’ Use of Public Information and the Profitability of their Recommendation Revisions
2/27/09 Stefan Nagel Stanford University

Learning from Inflation Experiences

3/6/09 Isil Erel The Ohio State University Financial Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities
3/18/09 Ulf Axelson Stockholm School of Economics Investment Banking Careers

Autumn Quarter 2008

9/17/08 Karl Diether The Ohio State University

When Constraints Bind

9/26/08 Pedro Matos University of Southern California

When Banks are Insiders: Evidence from the Global Syndicated Loan Market

10/3/08 G. Andrew Karolyi The Ohio State University Why do foreign firms leave U.S. equity markets? An analysis of deregistrations under SEC Exchange Act Rule 12h-6
10/15/08 Ph.D. Students The Ohio State University  
10/22/08 Rose Liao The Ohio State University Corporate Block Acquisitions Around the World
10/29/08 René M. Stulz The Ohio State University

Why do Hedge Funds’ Worst Returns Cluster? Common Liquidity Shocks vs. Contagion

10/31/08 Benjamin Hermalin University of California, Berkeley Firm Value and Corporate Governance: How the Former Determines the Latter
11/7/08 Lauren Cohen Harvard Business School Sell Side School Ties
11/19/08 Fousseni D. Chabi-Yo The Ohio State University Pricing Kernels with Coskewness and Volatility Risk
11/21/08 Toni Whited University of Wisconsin-Madison Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt
12/5/08 10:30 a.m.

12/5/08 1:30 p.m.

Robert Dittmar

Amy Dittmar

University of Michigan Ex Ante Skewness and Expected Stock Returns

Why Do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets?

12/10/08 S. Viswanathan Duke University Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity

Summer Quarter 2008

7/16/08 (11:30am-1:00pm) Jérôme Taillard The Ohio State University Thriving in the midst of financial distress? An analysis of firms exposed to asbestos litigation
7/23/08 (11:30am-1:00pm) Jung-Min Kim The Ohio State University Failure Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns
8/6/08 (11:30am-1:00pm)

Taylor D. Nadauld

The Ohio State University

The Role of the Securitization Process in the Expansion of Subprime Credit

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

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.