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Mitsui Life Finance Seminars

2005/2006

Date Speaker Paper
Sept. 9 Michael Brandt (Duke) "Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns"
Sept. 16 Costis Skiadas (Northwestern) "Dynamic Portfolio Choice and Risk Aversion"
Sept. 23 Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois) "Neighbors Matter: Community Effects and Stock Market Participation"
Sept. 30 Mara Faccio (Vanderbilt) "Reluctant Privatization"
Oct. 7 Itay Goldstein (Wharton) "Commitment to Overinvest and Price Informativeness"
Oct. 14 Sergei Sarkissian (McGill) "City Size and Fund Performance"
Oct. 21 Mark Grinblatt (UCLA)
 "Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence,
and Trading Activity"
Oct. 28 Raghu Sundaram (NYU) "Cross-Country Variations in Capital Structures: The Role of Bankruptcy Codes"
Nov. 4 Lu Zhang (Rochester) "Investment-Based Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings"

Nov. 11

 Mitch Petersen (Northwestern) "Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches"
Nov. 18 Naveen Khanna (Michigan State) "Good IPOs Draw in Bad: Inelastic Banking Capacity in the Primary Issue Market"
Dec. 2 Jaime Zender (Colorado) "Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
Dec. 8 John Graham (Duke) "Tax Shelters and Corporate Debt Policy"
Dec.16 Andrew Metrick (Wharton) "Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States"
March 11 Maureen O’Hara (Cornell)
 "Regulation and Return: The Role of Ambiguity"