Finance and Economics Division : Finance Seminar Spring 2011

Finance Seminar
Thursdays, 2:15-3:45
Uris Hall

Spring 2011 Schedule
Coordinators: Andrew Hertzberg, Martin Oehmke, and Maxim Ulrich

Date	Speaker	Title
February 24th	Yacine Ait-Sahalia	Modeling Financial Contagion Using Mutally Exciting Jump Processes (with Julio Cacho-Diaz and Roger Laeven)
March 3rd	Martin Lettau	Shocks and Crashes (with Sydney Ludvigson)
March 10th	Steven Kaplan	The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment (with Tobias Moskowitz and Berk Sensoy)
March 17th	Spring Break
March 24th	Anna Obizhaeva	Market Microstructure Invariants (with Albert Kyle
March 31st	Camelia Kuhnen	Serotonin and Risk Taking: How do Genes Change Financial Choices? (with Gregory Samanez-Larkin and Brian Knutson)
April 7th	Christian Opp	Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation: Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage (with Marcus Opp and Milton Harris)
April 14th	Snehal Banerjee	Information Quality and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns (with Chris Armstrong and Carlos Corona)
April 21st	Darrell Duffie	Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing (with Bruno Strulovici)
April 28th	Anat Admati	Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive (with Peter DeMarzo, Martin Hellwig and Paul Pfleiderer
May 5th	Nicholas Souleles	Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 (with Jonathan Parker, David Johnson and Robert McClelland)
May 12th	Motohiro Yogo	Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice (with Ralph Koijen and Stijm Van Nieuwerburgh)