Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
02 Mar	Professor Takao Kobayashi Graduate School of Economics The University of Tokyo	A Dynamic Theory of Pecking-Order Financing
07 Mar	Professor Zoran Ivković Michigan State University	Political Risk and Discount Rates: Evidence from the Croatian Pension System
14 Mar	Assistant Professor Wei Yang Simon School of Business University of Rochester	Long-Run Risk in Leisure
29 Mar	Professor Theo Vermaelen INSEAD	How do firms make capital structure decisions? Evidence from acquisitions, buybacks and equity issues
04 Apr	Rudiger Fahlenbrach Swiss Finance Institute Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	This time is the same: Using the events of 1998 to explain bank returns during the financial crisis
19 Apr	Associate Professor Clemens Sialm Eleanor T. Mosle Fellow McCombs School of Business	Complex Mortgages
25 Apr	Professor Mark Grinblatt J. Clayburn LaForce Endowed Chair in Management UCLA Anderson School of Management	IQ and Stock Market Trading
04 May	Associate Professor Jie Gan HKUST	Can Firms Build Capital-Market Reputation to Substitute for Poor Investor Protection? Evidence from Dividend Policies
13 May	Assistant Professor Ilona Babenko Arizona State University	Do non-executive employees have information? Evidence from employee stock purchase plans
16 May	Assistant Professor Yuri Tserlukevich Arizona State University	The Propensity to Save and Incentives to Reduce Debt
20 May	Associate Professor Micah Officer Loyola Marymount University	What can we learn from M&A deals with large shareholder gains?
23 May	Assistant Professor Roger M. Edelen University of Rochester	Investor Recognition and the Post-Issuance Performance Anomaly
06 Jun	Professor Harold Zhang School of Management University of Texas at Dallas	Subprime Mortgage Defaults and Credit Default Swaps
14 Jul	Professor Alexander Ljungqvist Ira Rennert Chair in Finance Leonard N. Stern School of Business	Does the Stock Market Distort Investment Incentives?
29 Aug	Professor Kai Li W. Maurice Young Chair in Finance Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia	Debt Specialization
08 Sep	Associate Professor Dirk Jenter NBER Faculty Research Fellow Stanford University	CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
12 Sep	Associate Professor Michael J. Schill Darden School University of Virginia	Are Acquisitions Unique? Evidence of the Pedestrian Nature of Post-Merger Returns
26 Sep	Professor David Thesmar HEC Paris	The Risk-Shifting Hypothesis: Evidence from Subprime Originations
10 Oct	Professor Hong Yan Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, SJTU and University of South Carolina	Liquidity Shocks and CDS Spreads
17 Oct	Assistant Professor Ralph Koijen University of Chicago, Booth School of Business	EQUITY YIELDS
31 Oct	Professor David J. Denis University of Pittsburgh	Insider Trading Restrictions and Top Executive Compensation
17 Nov	Professor Francois Derrien HEC Paris	The Real Effects of Financial Shocks: Evidence from Exogenous Changes in Analyst Coverage
21 Nov	Assistant Professor Wei Wang Queen's School of Business	How costly is corporate bankruptcy for top executives?
28 Nov	Assoc. Professor Diane Del Guercio University of Oregon	Do the interests of public pension fund and labor union activists align with other shareholders'? Evidence from the market for directors.
12 Dec	Professor Sun Qian School of Management, Fudan University	Overseas Listing as a Policy Tool: Evidence from China's H-shares