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Fall
2005 |
The USC Finance and Business Economics Department sponsors three seminar series each semester.
Applied Economics Workshop | Finance Seminar Series | Macroeconomics and International Finance Workshop
The joint SPPD/Marshall School Lusk Center for Real Estate also offers a Real Estate Seminar series and the
FBE Dept. Center for Investment Studies has an occasional Distinguished Speaker Series.
Finance Series seminars are usually held on Fridays from 10:30
a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in JKP-104
(Popovich Hall)
unless otherwise noted below. [Get
map]
| Rev | Date | Presenter | Title of Paper | Room | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 26 | Enrique
Sentana CEMFI, Madrid |
Estimation and Testing of Dynamic Models with Generalised Hyperbolic Innovations (with Javier Mencía, CEMFI) | JKP-104 | Zapatero 213-740-6538 |
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| Sep. 2 |
Heitor Almeida NYU, Stern |
The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress (with Thomas Philippon, NYU, CEPR, and NBER) joint seminar with FBE Applied Economics Workshop, seminar: 1:30 pm | JKP-104 sem: 1:30 |
Marino 213-740-6525 |
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| Sep. 9 |
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Northwestern, Kellogg |
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns (with Christopher Malloy, London Business School, and Tobias Moskowitz, Univ. of Chicago and NBER) | JKP-104 | J. Chen 213-740-6509 |
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| Sep. 16 | Mehmet Akbulut USC FBE Ph.D.student |
Are Mergers Driven by Overvaluation? Evidence from Managerial Insider Trading Around Merger Announcements and Market Misvaluation and Merger Activity: Evidence from Managerial Insider Trading seminar: 10:00 am - EARLY START TIME!! | JKP-104 sem: 10:00 |
Ozbas 213-740-0781 |
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| Sep. 23 |
Doron Avramov Univ. of Maryland, Smith |
Momentum and Credit Rating (with Tarun Chordia, Emory Univ., Gergana Jostova, George Washington Univ., and Alexander Philipov, American Univ.) | JKP-104 | Zapatero 213-740-6538 |
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| Sep. 30 |
Vikram K. Nanda Univ. of Arizona, visiting at Michigan |
Finance and Innovation: The Case of Publicly Traded Firms (with Julian Atanassov, Univ. of Michigan and Amit Seru, Univ. of Michigan) joint seminar with FBE Applied Economics Workshop, seminar: 1:30 pm | JKP-104 sem: 1:30 |
Matsusaka 213-740-6495 |
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| Oct. 7 | Qingzhong Ma USC FBE Ph.D.student |
Mergers and Investment Banks: How Do Banks Help Targets? | JKP-104 | Ozbas 213-740-0781 |
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| Oct. 14 | - - - | No seminar - FMA Meetings | - - - | - - - | |
| Oct. 21 | Jianfei Sun USC FBE Ph.D.student |
Information Asymmetry and Internal Monitoring: Which Blockholders Monitor Managers More Effectively? | JKP-104 | Ozbas 213-740-0781 |
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| Oct. 28 | Andres
Almazan Univ. of Texas |
Attracting Attention: Cheap Managerial Talk and Costly Market Monitoring (with Sanjay Banerji, University of Durham, and Adolfo de Motta, McGill University) joint seminar with FBE Applied Economics Workshop, seminar: 1:30pm | JKP-104 sem: 1:30 |
Ozbas 213-740-0781 |
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| Nov. 4 | Russ
Wermers Univ. of Maryland, Smith |
Investing in Mutual Funds when Returns are
Predictable (with Doron Avramov, University of Maryland, Smith School) |
JKP-104 | Officer 213-740-6519 |
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| Nov. 11 | - - - | No seminar - NBER Corporate Finance & Asset Pricing | - - - | - - - | |
| Nov. 18 | Monika
Piazzesi Univ. of Chicago, GSB |
Inflation
and the Price of Real Assets (with Martin Schneider, NYU and FRB Minneapolis) |
JKP-104 | Ayse 213-740-6518 |
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| Nov. 25 | - - - | No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break | - - - | - - - | |
| Dec. 2 |
Alexander Ljungqvist NYU, Stern |
Sharing Underwriters with Rivals: Implications for Competition in Investment Banking (with John Asker, Stern School, NYU) | JKP-104 | J. Chen 213-740-6509 |
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| Dec. 9 | - - - | No seminar. | - - - | - - - |
| Click on the paper title to download a PDF. Click on a speaker's name to go to their website, obtain a vita, etc. To meet with a particular visitor contact the FBE faculty host listed in the right hand column. For a paper hardcopy or parking, contact the FBE Dept. at (213) 740-6515 or fbe@usc.edu. Parking reservations require at least 24 hours advance notice! |
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| This page last modified: 12/7/2005 by Terry Lichvar, Program Administrator, USC FBE Dept. ©2005 University of Southern California |