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Mitsui Life Financial Research Center

Finance Seminars Winter 2006

Fridays at 1:30 p.m. in Room W2760

Wednesdays at 4:35 p.m. in Room D0235

Note: Unless otherwise noted, the hyperlinked papers on this page are in Microsoft Word format.
January 13 Victoria Ivashina (Stern NYU)
“The Effects of Syndicate Structure of Loan Spreads”
January 18
Juhani Linnainmaa (Anderson UCLA)
"Learning and Stock Market Participation"
January 20 Isil Erel (MIT)
'The Effects of Bank Mergers on Loan Prices: Evidence from the U.S."
January 25
Lukasz Pomorski (University of Chicago)
"'Follow the Leader: Peer Effects in Mutual Fund Portfolio Decisions "
January 27 Dalida Kadyrzhanova (Columbia)
"Does Governance Pay, or Is Entrenchment the Way? Merger Gains and Antitakover Provisions"
February 1
Xiaotong Vivian Wang (Yale)
"Stock Return Dynamics under Earnings Management"
February 3 Irina Stefanescu (University of No. Carolina)
"Capital Structure Decisions and Corporate Pension Plans"
February 8
Camelia Kuhnen (Stanford)
"Social Networks, Corporate Governance and Contracting in the Mutual Fund Industry"
February 10 Yuhai Xuan (Harvard)
"Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEO's Internal Capital Allocation Decisions"
February 15
Elod Takats (Princeton)
"A Theory of 'Crying Wolf ': The Economics of Money Laundering Enforcement"
February 17 Gustavo Manso (Stanford)
"Motivating Innovation"
February 22

Zacharias Sautner (University of Oxford)
"Corporate Governance and the Design of Stock Option Programs"
February 24 Peter Kondor (London School of Economics)
"Risk in Dynamic Arbitrage: Price Effects of Convergence Trading"
March 10 Steve Kaplan (Chicago)
"What are Firms? Evolution from Early Business Plans to Public Companies"
March 17 Eric Zitzewitz (Stanford)
"The Rise of Teams in Fund Management"
March 24  Francis Longstaff (UCLA)
"An Empirical Analysis of the Pricing of Collateralized Debt Obligations"
March 31 Peter De Marzo (Stanford)
"A Continuous-Time Agency Model of Optimal Contracting and Dynamic Capital Structure"
April 7 Francesca Cornelli (LBS)
April 14 Martin Lettau (NYU)
April 21 Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
"The Disciplining Role of Non-Controlling Shareholders"

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