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Mitsui Life Finance Seminars

2009/2010
Seminars are Fridays from 10:30-12:00 unless otherwise indicated below. Rooms will vary.  If you would like to be added to the email distribution list, please contact Shelly Whitmer at sjmoore@umich.edu.

Fall 2009
Date Time Room Speaker Paper
Sept. 4 10:30-12:00 R2230 Samuel Lee
NYU

Signaling in Tender
Offer Games

Sept. 11 10:30-12:00 R2230 Benjamin Hermalin
Berkeley

Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance

Sept. 18 10:30-12:00 R2220 Jeffrey Coles
ASU

The Joint Determinants of Managerial Ownership, Board Independence, and Firm Performance

Sept. 25 10:30-12:00 R2230 David Robinson
Duke

The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms

Oct. 2 10:30-12:00 R2220 Toni Whited
Univ of Rochester

Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt

Oct. 9 10:30-12:00 R2230 Milton Harris
Univ of Chicago

Control of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders vs. Management

Oct. 16 10:30-12:00 R1240 Ilya Strebulaev
Stanford

The Evolution of Aggregate Stock Ownership: A Unified Explanation

Oct. 23 10:30-12:00 R2230 Martijn Cremers
Yale

Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation

Oct. 30 10:30-12:00 R2230 Jonathan Berk
Stanford

Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

Nov. 6 10:30-12:00 R2230 Frederico Belo
Univ of Minnesota

Labor Hiring, Investment and Stock Return Predictability in the Cross Section

Nov. 13 1:30-3:00 R2230 Ronald Masulis
Vanderbilt

Local Director Talent and Board Composition

Nov. 20 10:30-12:00 R2230 Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
NYU

The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium

Dec. 4 10:30-12:00 R2230 Raghu Rajan
Univ of Chicago

The Internal Governance
of Firms

Dec. 11 1:30-3:00 R2230 Chris Telmer
Carnegie Mellon

Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle

Winter 2010
Date Time Room Speaker Paper
Jan. 29 10:30-12:00 R2230 Mara Faccio
Purdue

Large Shareholder Diversification and Corporate Risk-Taking

Feb. 5 10:30-12:00 R2230 Efraim Benmelech
Harvard

Negotiating with Labor under Financial Distress

Feb. 12 1:30-3:00 R0210 Lauren Cohen
Harvard Business School

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Feb. 19 10:30-12:00 R2230 Chris Lundblad
Univ of North Carolina

Asset Fire Sales and Purchases and the International Transmission of Financial Shocks

Feb. 26 10:30-12:00 R2230 Lars Lochstoer
Columbia

Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets

Mar. 12 10:30-12:00 E1540 Pierre Collin Dufresne
Columbia

On the Relative Pricing of Long Maturity S&P 500 Index Options and CDX Tranches

Mar. 19 1:30-3:00 R0220 Hanno Lustig
UCLA

Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-balancing?

Mar. 26 10:30-12:00 R2230 Ravi Jagannathan
Northwestern

Why are we in a recession? The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!

Apr. 2 10:30-12:00 R2230 Andrew Karolyi
Cornell

What is Different about Government-Controlled Acquirers in Cross-Border Acquisitions?

Apr. 9 10:30-12:00 R2230 Vish Viswanathan
Duke

Collateral and Capital Structure

Apr. 23 1:30-3:00 R0210 Amir Sufi
Univ of Chicago

Explaining Corporate Capital Structure: Product Markets, Leases, and Asset Similarity