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Fall 2008 |
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-202
(Popovich Hall) unless otherwise noted below. We no longer provide hardcopies of the papers. If you want a
printout, please download and print the PDF file available by clicking on the paper title. Thank you. [Get map]
| Rev | Date | Presenter | Title of Paper | Room | Faculty Host |
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| Aug. 29 | Paola Sapienza Kellogg, Northwestern |
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange? (with Luigi Guiso, European University Institute, and Luigi Zingales, Chicago) | JKP-202 | P. Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Sept. 5 | - - - | No seminar. | - - - | - - - | |
| Sept. 12 | Ehud Peleg UCLA (visiting USC) |
Expected Returns and the Cross-Sectional Skewness of Book-to-Market Ratios | JKP-202 | E. Peleg 213-740-9535 |
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| Sept. 19 |
Michael Lemmon Univ. of Utah |
Employee Stock Options, Financing Constraints, and Real Investment (with Ilona Babenko and Yuri Tserlukevich, both Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology) | JKP-202 | P. Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Sept. 26 |
John McConnell Purdue Univ. |
Sheltering Corporate Assets from Political Extraction (with Lorenzo Caprio, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and Mara Faccio, Purdue University) | JKP-202 | P. Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Oct. 3 |
Darren Kisgen Boston College |
Gender and Corporate Finance (with Jiekun Huang, Boston College) | JKP-202 |
A. Sangvinatsos 213-740-6532 |
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| Oct. 10 | David Yermack Stern, NYU |
Deductio ad absurdum: CEOs donating their own stock to their own family foundations | JKP-202 | P. Matos 213-740-6533 |
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| Oct. 17 |
Amir Yaron Wharton, U. Penn |
What's Vol Got to Do With It (with Itamar Drechsler, Wharton) | JKP-202 | S. Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 24 |
Breno Schmidt Marshall, USC FBE |
Costs and Benefits of “Friendly” Boards during Mergers and Acquisitions | JKP-202 | B. Schmidt | |
| Oct. 30 THURS. |
Lubos Pástor Univ. of Chicago |
Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? seminar: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | ACC- 205 | S. Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Oct. 31 |
Jesus Sierra Marshall, USC FBE |
JKP-202 | J. Sierra | ||
| Nov. 7 |
Greg Duffee Johns Hopkins Univ. |
Information in (and not in) the term structure | JKP-202 | S. Tuzel 213-740-9486 |
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| Nov. 14 |
Raman Uppal London Business School |
A Generalized Approach to Portfolio Optimization: Improving Performance by Constraining Portfolio Norms (with Victor DeMiguel, LBS, Lorenzo Garlappi, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and Francisco J. Nogales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) | JKP-202 |
Sangvinatsos 213-740-6532 |
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| Nov. 21 |
Ralph Koijen Univ. of Chicago |
Predictive Regressions: A Present-Value Approach (with Jules van Binsbergen, Stanford GSB) | JKP-202 |
Sangvinatsos 213-740-6532 |
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| Nov. 28 | - - - | No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday | - - - | - - - | |
| Dec. 5 |
Ronnie Sadka Boston College |
Intraday Patterns in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns (with Steven L. Heston, Univ. of Maryland, and Robert A. Korajczyk, Kellogg) | JKP-202 |
Sangvinatsos 213-740-6532 |
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| Dec. 12 |
Costas Xiouros Marshall, USC FBE |
Differences of Opinion and the Price Volume Relation | JKP-202 | C. Xiouros |
| 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 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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