DATE	Speaker	INSTITUTION / AREA	TOPIC
14 Dec	Professor Ernst Maug	University of Mannheim	Stealth Trading by Corporate Insiders
08 Dec	Associate Professor Harald Hau	INSEAD	Banks and the crisis
03 Dec	Associate Professor Hartzell, Jay C	McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin	Is There a Disposition Effect in Corporate Investment Decisions? Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts
24 Nov	Professor David Feldman	UNSW Australian School of Business	The CAPM Relation For Inefficient Portfolios
17 Nov	Chicago Mercantile Exchange / John F. Sandner Professor of Finance Ravi Jagannathan	Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University	Impatient Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds
16 Nov	Associate Professor Timothy C Johnson	University of Illinois	Commodity Dependence and Aggregate Risk
13 Nov	Professor Martin Hilb	University of St. Gallen	New Corporate Governance: from good guidelines to great practice
09 Nov	Associate Professor Michael G. Hertzel	Arizona State University	Contracting Frictions and Cross-Border Capital Flows: Evidence from Venture Capital
02 Nov	Cordell Professor Of Finance Jay Ritter	University of Florida	Local Underwriter Oligopolies and IPO Underpricing
27 Oct	Professor of Finance Christopher M. James	Warrington College of Business	Credit Market Conditions and the Determinants and Value of Banking Relationships
13 Oct	Marion B. Ingersoll Chair in Finance Jarrad Harford	Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington	Bonus-driven Repurchases
09 Oct	Peter Lusztig Professor in Finance Tan Wang	University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business	Keynes Meets Markowitz: The Trade-off Between Familiarity and Diversification
05 Oct	Assistant Professor Sreedhar Bharath	Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan	Are Women Executives Disadvantaged?
28 Sept	Associate Professor Huseyin Gulen	Purdue University	Performance for Pay? CEO Compensation and its Relationship to Future Performance
07 Sept	Assistant Professor Pedro Matos	USC Marshall School of Business	The Pay Divide: (Why) Are U.S. Top Executives Paid More?
03 Sept	Assistant Professor Lee Kuan-Hui	Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick	The World Price of Liquidity Risk
28 Aug	Professor Yupana Wiwattanakantang	Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University	Adoptive Expectations: Rising Son Tournaments in Japanese Family Firms
17 Aug	Patty Hill Smith Eminent Scholar Chair in Finance Lee Bong Soo	College of Business, Florida State University	Structural VAR and Finance
07 Aug	Assistant Professor Zhi Da	Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame	In Search of Attention
03 Aug	Assistant Professor Hou Kewei	Fisher College of Business Ohio State University	The Implied Cost of Capital: A New Approach
20 July	Assistant Professor Song Fenghua	The Pennsylvania State University	Strategic Flexibility and the Optimality of Pay for Sector Performance
17 July	Professor Sheridan Titman	University of Texas at Austin and NBER	Credit Rating Targets
16 July	Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen	Harvard Business School	Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
15 July	A.J. Pasant Professor of Finance Scott Weisbenner	Michigan State University	Local Dividend Clienteles
26 June	Ira Rennert Professor of Finance Alexander Ljungqvist	Stern School of Business New York University	Monitoring managers: Does it matter?
10 June	Assistant Professor Po-Hsuan (Paul) Hsu	University of Connecticut Business School	Innovate to Survive: The Effect of Technology Competition on Corporate Bankruptcy
18 May	Associate Processor Lorenzo Garlappi	McCombs School of Business University of Texas at Austin	Financial Distress and the Cross Section of Equity Returns
07 May	Charles R. Webb Professor of Finance G. Andrew Karolyi	Fisher College of Business Ohio State University	Commonality in Returns, Liquidity, and Turnover Around the World
30 Apr	Professor of Finance and Wasatch Advisors Professor Michael Lemmon	University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business	Survival of the fittest? Financial and economic distress and restructuring outcomes in Chapter 11
27 Apr	Professor of Finance Vidhan Goyal	HKUST Business School	The Differential Effects of Classified Boards on Firm Value
20 Apr	Assistant Professor of Finance Alex Edmans	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Leverage, Ownership Concentration, and the Tension Between Liquidation and Investment
13 Apr	Professor of Finance Neal Stoughton	University of New South Wales	Intermediated Investment Management
03 Apr	Associate Professor of Finance Michelle Lowry	Smeal College of Business Penn State University	When do banks listen to their analysts? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions
31 Mar	Associate Professor of Finance Dirk Hackbarth	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Corporate Financing and Investment: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier
20 Mar	Blaine Huntsman Chaired Presidential Professor Hendrik Bessembinder	David Eccles School of Business University of Utah	Liquidity Biases in Asset Pricing Tests
06 Mar	Professor, Faculty of Business & Commerce Kenji Wada	Keio University	Uninsurable Risk, Bond Pricing and Real Interest Rates: An Investigation of UK Indexed Bonds
26 Feb	Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance Philip H. Dybvig	Washington University	Topics in Corporate Governance
25 Feb	Professor of Finance Josef Zechner	Vienna University of Accounting and Business Administration	Liquidity and Feasible Debt Relief
23 Feb	Associate Professor Craig Doidge	Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto	Why do foreign firms leave U.S. equity markets? An analysis of deregistrations under SEC Exchange Act Rule 12h-6
16 Feb	Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance Philip H. Dybvig	Washington University	High Hopes and Disappointments