The Stephen A. Buser Colloquium Series in Financial Economics
Schedule for 2009-2010
Fisher 800

Winter Quarter 2010
1/13/10 Manuel Adelino MIT Do Investors Rely Only on Ratings? The Case of Mortgage-Backed Securities
1/22/10 Nickolay Gantchev The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania The Costs of Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Sequential Decision Model
1/27/10 Wesley Gray Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago Do Hedge Fund Managers Identify and Share Profitable Ideas?
1/29/10 Ulrike Malmendier University of California, Berkeley Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
2/10/10 Sergey Chernenko Harvard University The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation
2/12/10 Michael Weisbach, Berk Sensoy The Ohio State University Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising
2/17/10 Alberto Plazzi UCLA Anderson School of Management International Stock Return Correlation: real or financial integration? A structural present-value approach
2/19/10 Tarun Chordia Goizueta Business School, EMORY  
2/26/10 Martin Oehmke Columbia University  
3/05/10 Motohiro Yogo The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania  
3/12/10 Gurdip Bakshi Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland  
       

Spring Quarter 2010
4/02/10 Zhiguo He Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago  
4/07/10 Alex Edmans The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania  
4/09/10 Laura Starks McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin  
5/07/10 Amir Sufi Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago  
5/14/10 Alon Brav Fuqua School of Business, Duke University  
5/21/10 (joint w/accounting) Shiva Rajgopal University of Washington  
       
       
       
       

Autumn Quarter 2009
9/04/09 Scott Yonker The Ohio State University Geography and the Market For CEOs
9/09/09 Ji-Woong Chung The Ohio State University Leveraged Buyouts of Private Companies
9/11/09 Fousseni Chabi-Yo The Ohio State University Default Risk, Idiosyncratic Coskewness and Equity Returns
9/18/09 Fousseni Chabi-Yo The Ohio State University Expected Returns and Volatility of Fama-French Factors
9/25/09 Sophie Shive University of Notre Dame,
Mendoza College of Business		 Mispricing of Dual-Class Shares:
Profit Opportunities, Arbitrage, and Trading
10/02/09 Ohad Kadan Washington University-St. Louis Industry Recommendations
10/7/09 Paul Schultz University of Notre Dame

Regulatory Uncertainty and Market Liquidity: The 2008 Short Sale Ban’s Impact on Equity Option Markets
10/09/09 Andrew Ellul Kelley School of Business,
Indiana University		 Control Motivations and Capital Structure Decisions
10/14/09 Anil Makhija The Ohio State University

What Does CEOs' Personal Leverage Tell Us About Corporate Leverage?
10/16/09 (joint w/Accounting) Rachel Hayes David Eccles Scholar School of Business, 
The University of Utah		 Retention and Accelerated Vesting
11/04/09 Matthew Wynter,
Nan Liu, and
Yee Jin Jang 		The Ohio State University                                 
The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University		 The Fall of Lehman,
 Collateral appreciation and credit expansion, and
A Test of the Theory of Tax Clienteles for Dividend Policies
11/06/09 Mark Garmaise UCLA Anderson
School of Management		 After the Honeymoon: Relationship Dynamics Between Mortgage Brokers and Banks  
11/13/09 William Goetzmann Yale University New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
11/18/09 Zahi Ben-David The Ohio State University Do Hedge Funds Provide Liquidity When It Is Most Needed?
11/20/09 Lubos Pastor University of Chicago,
Booth School of Business		 On the Size of the Active Management Industry
12/04/09 Joshua Pollet Eli Broad College of Business,
Michigan State University		 Risk and Expected Returns of Private Equity Investments: Evidence Based on Market Prices
12/11/09 Christopher Jones University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business New Orders and Asset Prices
12/16/09 Lu Zhang Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan		  

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