Seminars and events

Finance seminars

Finance seminars are held on Thursdays from 16:00 to 17:30. Seminar Coordinators are Peter Feldhutter, Alexander Gorbenko and Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen. 

For more information please contact:
Sami Said:

ssaid@london.edu
+44 (0) 20 7000 8205

Past seminars

AUT12

Date Speaker  Paper
20/11/2012 Motohiro Yogo (Federal Reserve of Monneapolis) 'The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers'
04/10/2012 Alex Edmans (The Wharton School of Management) 'Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage'
11/10/2012 Dimitris Papanikolaou (Kellogg School of Management) 'Technological Innovation: Winners and Losers'
18/10/2012 Ilya Strebulaev (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University) 'Investment Busts, Reputation, and the Temptation toBlend in with the Crowd'
25/10/2012 Christian Hellwig (Toulouse School of Management) 'A theory of asset prices based on heterogeneous information'
01/11/2012 Raplh S.J Koijen (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) 'Equity Yields'

08/11/2012

Atif Mian (University of California, Berkley. Hass School of Business and Department of Economics) 'What explains high unemployment? The aggregate demand channel'
15/11/2012 Arthur Korteweg (Stanford University Graduate School of Business) 'An Empirical (S, s) Model of Dynamic Capital Structure'
22/11/2012 Norman Schurhoff (Université de Lausanne) 'Dealer Networks: Market Quality in Over-The-Counter Markets'
29/11/2012 Stavros Panageas  (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and London School of Economics) 'An Overlapping-Arcs Model of Partial Integration, Asset Prices, and Capital Allocation' (Restrictions apply. No online copy available)
06/12/2012 Semyon Malamud (Swiss Finance Institute) TBC

SUM12

Date Speaker  Paper
03/05/2012 Lasse Pedersen (Stern School of Business, New York University) 'Betting Against Beta' & 'Embedded Leverage'
10/05/2012 Ilan Kremer (Stanford Graduate School of Business) 'The Optimal Design of Insurance Schemes for Preventing Liquidity Runs'
17/05/2012 Ronnie Sadka (Carroll School of Management, Boston College) 'Horizon Pricing'
24/05/2012 Matthew Rhodes-Kropf  (Harvard Business School) 'Financing Risk and Innovation'
31/05/2012 Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA Andersen School) 'Liquidity and Fragility in OTC Credit Derivatives Markets' (Restrictions apply. No online copy available)
07/06/2012 Hui Chen (MIT Sloan School of Management) 'Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity,and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads'
14/06/2012  Margarita Tsoutsoura (The University of Chicago Booth school of Business) 'Tax Evasion across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece'
28/06/2012 Luke Taylor (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 'Dynamic Debt Runs and Financial Fragility:Evidence from the 2007 ABCP Crisis'
05/07/2012 Ruediger Fahlenbrach (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) 'Institutional Investors and Mutual Fund Governance:Evidence from Retail -Institutional Fund Twins'

AUT11

Date Speaker  Paper
28/09/2011 Alon Brav (Duke University) 'The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition'
06/10/2011 Adriano Rampini (Duke University) 'Dynamic Risk Management'
13/10/2011 Andrea Prat (LSE) 'Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step'
20/10/2011 Philip Illeditch (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 'Information Inertia'
27/10/2011 Lubos Pastor (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago) 'Political uncertainty and risk premia'
03/11/2011 Andrew Ellul (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) 'Stronger Risk Controls, Lower Risk: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies'
10/11/2011 Murillo Campello (Cornell University and NBER) 'Is the Stock Market Just a Side Show?  Evidence from a Structural Reform'
17/11/2011 Peter DeMarzo (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

'Risking Other People's Money: Gambling, Limited Liability and Optimal Incentives'

24/11/2011 Espen Eckbo (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) 'Merger negotiations with stock market feedback'
01/12/2011 Francis Longstaff (UCLA Andersen School) 'Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the US and Europe'

SUM11

Date Speaker  Paper
28/04/2011 Enrique Schroth (University of Amsterdam) 'Search Frictions and the Illiquidity of Large Blocks of Shares'.
05/05/2011 Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University) 'The I-Theory of Money'
12/05/2011 Oliver Hart  (Harvard University) 'Inefficient provision of inside money by banks'
19/05/2011 Martin Oehmke (Columbia University) 'Should Derivatives be Senior?'
26/05/2011 Lasse Pedersen (New York University) 'Betting Against Beta'
02/06/2011 Malcolm Baker (Harvard Business School) 'Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Model'
09/06/2011

Jonathan Lewellyn (Dartmouth College)

'Investment and Cash Flow: New Evidence'

16/06/2011 Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth School of Business) 'Time Varying Risk Aversion'
30/06/2011 Michael Fishman (Kellogg School of Management) 'Uninformed Lending and Government Support of Loan Markets'

AUT10

Date Speaker  Paper
30/09/2010 Roni Michaely (Cornell University) 'What Drives the Value of Analysts' Recommendations:
Earnings Estimates or Discount Rate Estimates?'
More information
07/10/2010 Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics) 'Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios'
More information
14/10/2010 Tano Santos (Columbia University) 'Is the financial sector too big?'
More information
21/10/2010 Paul Tetlock (Columbia University) 'How Wise Are Crowds? Insights from Retail Orders and Stock Returns'
More information
28/10/2010 Ravi Bansal (Fuqua School of Business) 'Temperature, Aggregate Risk, and Expected Returns'
More information
04/11/2010 Josh Rauh (Kellogg School of Management) 'Policy Options for State Pensions Systems and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities'
More information
11/11/2010 Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School) 'Stock Price Fragility'
More information
18/11/2010 Augustin Landier (Toulouse University)

'Going for broke: New Century Financial Corporation, 2004-2006'
More information

25/11/2010 Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim) 'Indexing Executive Compensation Contracts'
More information
02/12/2010 Xiaoji Lin (London School of Economics and Political Science) 'Micro Frictions, Asset Pricing, and Aggregate Implications'


London Business School facade