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Fall 2007 - completed |
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 the rooms
listed below. [Get map]
| Rev | Date | Presenter | Title of Paper | Room | Faculty Host |
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| Sept. 7 | Oguzhan Ozbas USC FBE Dept. |
When Are Outside Directors Effective? (with Ran Duchin, USC FBE and John Matsusaka, USC FBE) | JKP-202 | Ozbas 213-740-9486 |
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| Sept. 14 |
Ayako Yasuda Wharton, U.Penn. |
The Economics of Private Equity Funds - REVISED version posted 9/7/07 (with Andrew Metrick, Wharton, Univ. of Pennsylvania) | JKP-202 | Hamao 213-740-0822 |
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| Sept. 21 | Steve
LeRoy UC Santa Barbara |
Dividend Policy and Income Taxation | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Sept. 28 | David Hirshleifer UC Irvine |
Stock Market Misvaluation and Corporate Investment - (with Ming Dong, York Univ. Canada, and Siew Hong Teoh, UC Irvine) | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 4 THURS. |
Martin Lettau Stern, NYU |
The Term Structures of Equity and Interest Rates (with Jessica Wachter, Wharton) seminar: 3:30 pm |
JKP-102 3:30 pm |
Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 5 | Clemens Sialm Michigan/UT Austin |
Investment Taxes and Equity Returns | JKP-202 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 12 |
Michael Weisbach U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts - There are two papers for this seminar. Michael will talk primarily about the empirical paper but will discuss the theoretical paper a bit as well. |
JKP-202 | Sensoy 213-740-6497 |
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| Oct. 18 THURS. |
Michael
Brandt Fuqua, Duke |
Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets (with Alessandro Beber, HEC, University of Lausanne, and Swiss Finance Institute) seminar: 3:30 pm | JKP-102 3:30 pm |
Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 26 | Michael
Roberts Wharton, U. Penn |
Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements (with Amir Sufi, University of Chicago GSB) | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Nov. 2 | Enrichetta
Ravina New York Univ. |
What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading (with Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University, NBER, and CEPR) | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Nov. 9 |
Yael Hochberg Northwestern |
Networking as a Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of Venture Capital (with Alexander Ljungqvist, NYU, CEPR, and ECGI; and YANG LU, NYU) | JKP-202 | Sensoy 213-740-6497 |
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| Nov. 16 | Michael Jensen Harvard (Emeritus) |
Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality
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JKP-300 11:30am 12:30pm |
C. Tutas-Cohen 213-740-7843 |
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| Nov. 23 | - - - | No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday | - - - | - - - | |
| Nov. 30 |
Matthew Spiegel Yale |
Dynamic Competition, Innovation and Strategic Financing (with Heather Tookes, Yale) | JKP-104 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Dec. 7 |
Stefan Nagel Stanford |
Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking? (with Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley) | JKP-202 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
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| Dec. 14 |
Bernard Black Univ. of Texas, Austin |
The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: A Multiple Identification Strategies Approach Using Korean Data (with Woochan Kim, KDI School of Public Policy and Management) | HOH-304 | Matos 213-740-9486 |
| 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: 12/17/07 by Terry Lichvar, Program Administrator, USC FBE Dept. ©2007 University of Southern California |