Workshops - Fall 2008

All workshops will be held at 11:00am in 2190 Grainger Hall unless otherwise noted.

Papers are available for download in pdf format, or in 5269 Grainger Hall.  If there are any questions, contact Danielle Saunders, (608) 262-6032.

Date
Author
Affiliation
Paper
9/5/2008

Tiantian Gu, Bin Zhao

UW-Madison  
9/12/2008 Amir Yaron University of Pennsylvania Risks For the Long Run: Estimation and Inference
9/19/2008 David Musto University of Pennsylvania High Water Marks in Competitive Capital Markets
9/26/2008 Ralph Koijen University of Chicago Predictive Regressions: A Present-Value Approach
10/3/2008 Lucian Taylor University of Pennsylvania Why Are CEOs Rarely Fired? Evidence from Structural Estimation
10/10/2008 Roger Edelen UC Davis What Do Soft-Dollars Buy? Performance, Expense Shifting, Agency Costs
10/17/2008 Michael Goldstein Babson College Dealer Behavior and the Trading of Newly Issued Corporate Bonds
11/7/2008 Jiro Kondo Northwestern University The Self-Regulation of Enforcement: Evidence from Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
11/14/2008 Roni Michaely Cornell University  Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence
11/21/2008 Craig Lewis Vanderbilt University Expected Bankruptcy Costs
12/5/2008 Tor-Erik Bakke UW-Madison How do Shocks to Financial Development Affect Plant Performance?
12/12/2008 Ayako Yasuda University of Pennsylvania Capital Supply Uncertainty of Institutional Bond Investors and the Leverage of the Firm

 

 

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