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Fall
2006 |
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
(Popovich Hall)
(specific rooms listed below) unless otherwise noted. [Get
map]
| Rev | Date | Presenter | Title of Paper | Room | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 11 |
Sudipto Dasgupta Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology |
Target Behavior and Financing: How Conclusive is the Evidence? (with Xin Chang, University of Melbourne) joint with FBE Applied Econ Workshop seminar: 10:30 am | JKP-202 10:30 am |
Matsusaka 213-740-6495 |
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| Aug. 18 | - - - | No seminar. | - - - | - - - | |
| Aug. 25 |
Pinar Karaca-Mandic Cal Tech (Visiting) and Rand Corp. |
Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis (with Ehud Kamar, USC School of Law, and Eric Talley, USC Law, UC Berkeley, & Rand) | JKP-104 | Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Sep. 1 |
George Constantinides Univ. of Chicago |
Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options (with Jens Carsten Jackwerth, Univ. of Konstanz, and Stylianos Perrakis, Concordia Univ.) | JKP-202 | Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Sep. 8 |
Laura Starks Univ. of Texas at Austin |
Tradeoffs in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Board Structures and Charter Provisions (with Stuart Gillan, Univ. of Arizona, and Jay Hartzell, Univ. of Texas) | ACC-310 | Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Sep. 15 | Geoffrey
Tate UCLA |
Financial Expertise of Directors (with A. Burak Güner, Barclays Global Investors, and Ulrike Malmendier, Stanford) | JKP-202 | Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Sep. 22 |
Dana Kiku Wharton (formerly Duke) |
Is the Value Premium a Puzzle? | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Sep. 29 | Luis
Garicano Univ. of Chicago |
Organizing For Synergies (with Wouter Dessein, Chicago and Robert Gertner, Chicago) joint with FBE Applied Econ Workshop, seminar: 1:30 pm | JKP-104 1:30 pm |
Marino 213-740-6525 |
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| Oct. 6 |
Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern, visiting USC FBE |
Do Hot Hands Persist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Investigation (with Alexey Malakhov, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dmitry Novikov, Goldman, Sachs & Co.) | JKP-202 | Ravi 213-740-5615 |
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| Oct. 13 |
David Robinson Duke University |
Product Markets, Internal Capital Markets, and the Boundaries of the Firm (with Richmond Mathews, Duke) | JKP-112 | Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Oct. 17 TUES. |
Peter Carr NYU & Bloomberg, LP |
Robust Replication of Default Contingent Claims (with
Bjorn Flesaker, Bloomberg LP)
presentation slides joint with USC Math Dept. seminar: 12:00 noon |
DRB-337 12:00pm |
Sangvinatsos 213-740-6532 |
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| Oct. 20 |
Jun Pan MIT |
Default and Recovery Implicit in the Term Sturcture of Sovereign CDS Spreads (with Kenneth Singleton, Stanford) | JKP-112 | J.
Chen 213-740-6509 |
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| Oct. 27 |
Ernst Schaumburg Kellogg, Northwestern |
Target prices, relative valuations and the compensation for liquidity provision (with Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame) (REVISED version posted 10/26/06 at 1:30 pm.) | JKP-202 | Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Nov. 3 |
Chester Spatt SEC & Carnegie Mellon |
The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting (with Cindy Alexander, SEC; Mark Chen, SEC & Univ. of Maryland; and Duane Seppi, SEC & Carnegie Mellon) For a copy of this paper, please contact Dr. Spatt at spattc@sec.gov. | JKP-204 | Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Nov. 10 |
Darrell Duffie Stanford |
Systemic Dynamics in the Federal Funds Market Abstract (with Adam Ashcraft, FRB NY) There is no paper this week, only the presentation slides and an extended abstract. | JKP-202 | J.
Chen 213-740-6509 |
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| Nov. 16 THURS. |
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4:00 pm |
J.
Chen 213-740-6509 |
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| Nov. 24 | - - - | No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday | - - - | - - - | |
| Dec. 1 |
Deborah Lucas Northwestern |
Valuing and Hedging Defined Benefit Pension Obligations – The Role of Stocks Revisited (with Steve Zeldes, Columbia University) joint with FBE Applied Econ Workshop seminar: 10:30 am | JKP-202 | Ayse 213-740-6518 |
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| Dec. 8 | Janice
Eberly Northwestern |
Investment, Cash Flow, and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark (with Sergio Rebelo and Nicolas Vincent, Northwestern) joint with FBE Finance Seminar, seminar: 10:30 am | JKP-202 |
Quadrini 213-740-6521 |
| 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 free 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: 12/11/06 by Terry Lichvar, Program Administrator, USC FBE Dept. ©2006 University of Southern California |