September 6	Malcolm Baker, Harvard Business School "A Catering Theory of Dividends"
September 13	Toni Whited, University of Michigan Business School "External Finance Constraints and the Intertemporal Pattern of Intermittent Investment"
September 20	E. Han Kim, University of Michigan Business School "To Steal or Not to Steal: Firm Attributes, Legal Environment, and Valuation"
September 27	Guojun Wu, University of Michigan "Stock Market Manipulation: Theory and Evidence" (324K .pdf)
October 4	Amy Dittmar, Indiana University "Divestures and Divisional Investment Policies"
October 11	Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago "Money in a Theory of Banking"  "Liquidity Shortages and Banking Crises" (304k.pdf)
October 18	Rafael LaPorta, Harvard Business School "What Works in Securities Laws?"
October 25*	Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT (room D0235)
November 1	Rob Stambaugh, Wharton "Inference about Survivors"
November 8	Robert Dittmar, Indiana University "Consumption, Dividends, and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"
November 15	Andrei Shleifer, Harvard Business School "Media Bias"
November 22	Mara Faccio, University of Notre Dame "Politically-connected firms: Can they squeeze the State?" (340k .pdf)
November 29	No Seminar Thanksgiving Holiday
December 6	Rene Stulz, Ohio State University "Daily cross-border equity flows: pushed or pulled?"
January 10	Simon Johnson, MIT "Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth" (760k .pdf)
January 17	Arnoud Boot, University of Amsterdam "Disagreement and Flexibility: A Theory of Optimal Security Issuance and Capital Structure" (608k .pdf)
April 4	Nejat Seyhun, (Michigan) "Is Book-to-Market Ratio a Risk Factor?"
April 11	Gautam Kaul, (Michigan) "Value Versus Glamour"