MITSUI LIFE | Mitsui Life Finance Workshops

Note: Unless otherwise noted, the hyperlinked papers on this page are in Microsoft Word format.

September 9	Michael Brandt (Duke) "Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns"
September 16	Costis Skiadas (Northwestern) "Dynamic Portfolio Choice and Risk Aversion"
September 23	Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois) "Neighbors Matter: Community Effects and Stock Market Participation"
September 30	Mara Faccio (Vanderbilt) "Reluctant Privatization"
October 7	Itay Goldstein (Wharton) "Commitment to Overinvest and Price Informativeness"
October 14	Sergei Sarkissian (McGill) "City Size and Fund Performance"
October 21	Mark Grinblatt (UCLA) "Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence," and Trading Activity
October 28	Raghu Sundaram (NYU) "Cross-Country Variations in Capital Structures: The Role of Bankruptcy Codes"
November 4	Lu Zhang (Rochester) "Investment-Based Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings"
November 11	Mitch Petersen (Northwestern) "Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches"
November 18	Naveen Khanna (Michigan State) "Good IPOs Draw in Bad: Inelastic Banking Capacity in the Primary Issue Market"
December 2	Jaime Zender (Colorado) "Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
December 8	John Graham (Duke) "Tax Shelters and Corporate Debt Policy"
December 16	Andrew Metrick (Wharton) "Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States"