Finance Seminars 2007/2008

The Finance Group Seminar Series is supported by funding from Man Investments.

The seminars are held on a Thursday during term time in LT3 at 16.00, unless indicated otherwise.

For further information on the seminars, please contact:

Sabina Khanom at skhanom@london.edu or +44 (0)20 7000 8203

Date	Speaker	Title of Paper

Autumn
4 Oct	Lu Zhang University of Michigan	Investment-Based Expected Stock Returns
11 Oct	Amir Yaron University of Pennsylvania	Risks For the Long Run: Estimation and Inference
18 Oct	Peter Carr Courant Institute NYU/Bloomberg	Robust Replication of Default Contingent Claims
25 Oct	Narayan Naik/ Tarun Ramadorai London Business School/Oxford	Hedge Funds: Performance, Risk, and Capital Formation
1 Nov	Michael Roberts University of Pennsylvania	Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements
8 Nov	Emmanuel Farhi Harvard	Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates
15 Nov	Alexander Dyck University of Toronto	Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud ?
22 Nov	Rebecca Zarutskie Duke University	On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capita- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms
29 Nov	Elu Von Thadden University of Mannheim	How Does Liquidity Affect Government Bond Yields?

Spring
20 March	Mike Weisbach University of Pennsylvania	Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless

Summer
24 Apr	Andrew Metrick University of Pennsylvania	The Economics of Private Equity Funds
1 May	Wei Xiong Princeton University	Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets
8 May	Darrell Duffie Stanford University	Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing
15 May	Urban Jermann University of Pennsylvania	The Equity Premium Implied by Production
22 May	Efraim Benmelech Harvard University	Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
29 May	Bruno Biais Toulouse University	Liquidity shocks and order book dynamics
5 June	Lauren Cohen Harvard University	Sell Side School Ties
12 June	Ilya Strebulaev Stanford University	The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework
19 June	Ricardo Caballero MIT	Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode
26 June	WFA Conference