Finance Seminars Spring 2011

Seminar responsibles: Karin S. Thorburn, Carsten Bienz and Aksel Mjøs

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Previous seminars

* Joint seminar with Department of Economics 

Time and place

Lecturer

Title

Friday 14.01, 10.30-12.00, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Marc Gabarro, London Business School

Top Executive Mobility and Firm Specific Skills

Monday 17.01, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Metzger, London School of Economics

How do CEOs matter? The Effect of Industry Expertise on Acquisition Returns

Thursday 20.01, 12.15-13.45, Aud. 14

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Tyler Hull, Brandeis University

Do Local and International Venture Capitalists Play Well Together? A Study of International Venture Capital Investments

Friday 21.01, 12.15-13.45, Aud. 14

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Karolin Kirschenmann, University of Mannheim

Credit rationing in small business bank relationships

Monday 24.01, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Francisco Santos, Stanford University

IPO underpricing and long-term underperformance

Tuesday 25.01, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Evgeny Plaksen, University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute

The Value of your Advisor's Advice: An M&A perspective

Wednesday 26.01, 12.15-13.45, Terje Hansen's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Arie Gozluklu, Bocconi University

Inflation, Stock Market and Long-Term Investors: Real Effects of Changing Demographics

Thursday 27.01, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Ramin Baghai, London Business School

Equity Ownership and Product Prices

Friday 28.01, 12.15-13.45, Terje Hansen's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Viktar Fedaseyeu, Boston College

Debt Collection Agencies and the Supply of Consumer Credit

Monday 31.01, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Javed Ahmed, University of California at Berkeley

Competition in lending and credit ratings

Tuesday 01.02, 12.15-13.45, Terje Hansen's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Theodosios Dimopoulos, London Business School

Preemptive Bidding, Target Resistance and Takeover Premia: An Empirical Investigation

Monday 07.02, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Oliver Levine, University of Pennsylvania

Acquiring Growth

Wednesday 16.02, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Guido Ruta, New York University

Securitization: why, when and how

Friday 18.02, 12.15-13.45, Karl Borch's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Yiqun (Ethan) Mou, Columbia Business School

Limits to Arbitrage and Commodity Index Investment: Front-Running the Goldman Roll

Friday 11.03, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Kent Womack, University of Toronto

What Drives the Value of Analysts' Recommendations: Earnings Estimates or Discount Rate Estimates?

Tuesday 22.03, 12.15-13.45, Terje Hansen's Aud.

Job Market Talk: Ph.D. Candidate Gyuri Venter, London School of Economics

Short-sale Constraints and Creditor Runs

Friday 25.03, 12.15-13.30, Terje Hansen's Aud.

Dr. Charlotte Østergaard, BI Norwegian School of Management

The Marginal Value of Cash, Cash Flow Sensitivities, and Bank-Finance Shocks in Nonlisted Firms

Friday 01.04, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Denis Gromb, INSEAD

Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion

Friday 08.04, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Ernst Eberlein, University of Freiburg

Unlimited Liabilities, Reserve Capital Requirements and the Taxpayer Put Option

Friday 15.04, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Dr. Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University

The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings

Friday 29.04, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Jennifer Conrad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cross-Market and Cross-Firm Effects in Implied Default Probabilities and Recovery Values
- CANCELLED

Friday 06.05, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Ralf Elsas, LMU Munich

Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions

Friday 13.05, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics

An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal

Thursday 19.05, 12.15-13.30, Karl Borch's Aud.

Prof. David Thesmar, HEC Paris

Monetary Policy and Risk-Shifting: Evidence from the Subprime Market

Friday 27.05, 12.15-13.30

Prof. B. Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth College/NHH

Merger Negotiations with Stock Market Feedback

Friday 10.06, 12.15-13.30, Aud. 24

Dr. Johannes Skjeltorp, Norges Bank

Why do listed firms pay for market making in their own stock?