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Mitsui Life Finance Seminars

2011/2012
Seminars are Fridays from 10:30-12:00 unless otherwise indicated below. If you would like to be added to the email distribution list, please contact Shelly Whitmer at sjmoore@umich.edu.

Winter 2012
Date Time Room Speaker Paper
Feb 17 10:30-12:00 R0240 Jerry Hoberg
University of Maryland		 Redefining Financial Constraints: A Text-Based Analysis
Feb 24 10:30-12:00 R0240 Bo Becker
Harvard		 Reaching for Yield in the Corporate Bond Market
Mar 9 10:30-12:00 R0240 Stephen Figlewski
NYU		 What is Risk Neutral Volatility?
Mar 16 10:30-12:00 R0240 Daniel Wolfenzon
NYU		 Estimating the Value of The Boss: Evidence from CEO Hospitalization Events
Mar 21 4:00-5:30 R1240 Mike Weisbach
Ohio State		 Financing-Motivated Acquisitions
Mar 23 10:30-12:00 R0240 Terrance Odean
UC Berkeley		 Bubbling with Excitement: An Experiment
Mar 30 10:30-12:00 R0240 Alexander Ljungqvist
NYU		 Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure
Apr 6 10:30-12:00 R0240 David Yermack
NYU		 Tailspotting: How disclosure, stock prices and volatility change when CEOs fly to their vacation homes
Apr 13 10:13-12:00 R2210 Alok Kumar
University of Miami		 What is in a Name? Mutual Fund Flows When Managers Have Foreign Sounding Names
Apr 20 10:30-12:00 R0240 Steven Kaplan
University of Chicago		 Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

 

Fall 2011
Date Time Room Speaker Paper
Sept 9 10:30-12:00 R2220 Ross Levine
Brown University		 The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Banks
Sept 16 10:30-12:00 R2310 Nicolae Garleanu
UC Berkeley		 Dynamic Trading with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs
Sept 23 10:30-12:00 R2220 Tomasz Piskorski
Columbia University		 Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide
Sept 30 10:30-12:00 R2220 Joey Engelberg
UC San Diego		 Anchoring and the Cost of Capital
Oct 7 10:30-12:00 R2220 Kelly Shue
University of Chicago		 Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers
Oct 14 10:30-12:00 R2220 Malcolm Baker
HBS		 Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Model
Oct 21 10:30-12:00 R2220 Martijn Cremers
Yale University		 Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Valuation
Oct 28     Fall Break No Seminar
Nov 4 10:30-12:00 R2220 Jules Van Binsbergen
Northwestern		 Equity Yields
Nov 11 10:30-12:00 R2220 Todd Milbourn
Washington University		 To Each According to His Ability? CEO Pay and the Market for CEOs
Nov 18 10:30-12:00 R2220 Ilona Babenko
Arizona State University		 Money Left on the Table: An Analysis of Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plans
Nov 25     Thanksgiving No Seminar
Dec 2 10:30-12:00 R2220 Will Goetzmann
Yale University		 New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Dec 9 10:30-12:00 R2220 Andrea Eisfeldt
UCLA		 The Joint Dynamics of Internal and External Finance
Dec 16 10:30-12:00 R2220 Kevin Murphy
University of Southern California		 Are US CEOs Paid More?
New International Evidence