Spring 2010     - CONCLUDED FBE Finance Seminar Series

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 room
specified 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 parking map]

Rev	Date	Presenter	Title of Paper	Room	Faculty Host
	Jan-Feb		Faculty Recruiting Seminars	- - -	- - -
	Feb. 26	- - -	No seminar.	- - -	- - -
	Mar. 5	Andrea Eisfeldt   Kellogg, Northwestern	CEO Turnover in a Competitive Assignment Framework   (with Camelia M. Kuhnen, Kellogg, Northwestern) Joint with FBE Macroecon & Int'l Fin Workshop.  Sem: 10:30am	JKP-202 10:30am	S. Tuzel 213-740-9486
	Mar. 11 THURS.	Markus Brunnermeier   Princeton Econ	A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector (with Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton Econ)  Seminar: 11:00 am	JKP-212 11:00am	M. Westerfield 213-740-8764
	Mar. 12	William Goetzmann   Yale	New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble (with Rik G. P. Frehen, Tilburg University, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University)   presentation slides (.ppt)	HOH-304	P. Matos 213-740-6533
	Mar. 19	- - -	No seminar - Spring Break	- - -	- - -
	Mar. 26	Victoria Ivashina   Harvard	Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans (with Zheng Sun, UC Irvine)	JKP-202	P. Matos 213-740-6533
	Apr. 2	Robert Marquez   Boston Univ.	The Economics of Club Bidding in Private Equity (with Rajdeep Singh, University of Minnesota)	JKP-202	P. Matos 213-740-6533
	Apr. 9	Vikrant Vig   London Business School	Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from Subprime Crisis    (Abstract)   Per the presenter's request, this paper will not be posted. Please send a request to Terry Lichvar if you desire a PDF via email.  Hardcopies will also be available in BRI-308 and at the seminar.	JKP-202	A. Stathopoulos 213-740-7628
	April 14 WED.	Bernard Yeung   National University of Singapore	Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance (with Randall Morck, University of Alberta, and M. Deniz Yavuz, Washington Univ. in St. Louis)   presentation slides (.ppt)   Joint with MOR Dept.,    Sem: 11:30 am	BRI-202 11:30am - 1:00pm	D. Joines 213-740-6510
	Apr. 15 THURS.	Joost Driessen   Tilburg University   (Netherlands)	A New Method to Estimate Risk and Return of Non-Traded Assets from Cash Cows: The Case of Private Equity Funds (with Tse-Chun Lin, University of Hong Kong, and Ludovic Phalippou, University of Amsterdam)  Seminar: 11:00 am	JKP-212 11:00am - 12:30pm	P. Matos 213-740-6533
	Apr. 23	Francisco Pérez-González   Stanford	Do CEOs Matter? (with Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD, and Daniel Wolfenzon Columbia University)	JKP-202	P. Matos 213-740-6533
	Apr. 30	Program: Website  or  PDF	USC-UCLA Finance Day at UCLA Parking: Lot 5, Level 3. Tell the attendant you are there for "Finance Day" reservation# 307899.   Papers are available from the website. For more information, contact Hanno Lustig at UCLA or Pedro Matos at USC (phone and email links ).	at UCLA Entrepreneurs Hall, room C-301	P. Matos 213-740-6533 H. Lustig 310-206-6077
	May 3 MON.	Larry Harris   USC FBE Dept.	Equity Trading in the 21st Century   (with James J. Angel, Georgetown University, and Chester S. Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University)	JKP-202 10:30am	L. Harris 213-740-6496
	May 6 THURS.	Yasushi Hamao   USC FBE Dept.	Foreign Investor Activism in Japan: The First 10 Years   (with Kenji Kutsuna, Kobe University, and Pedro Matos, USC FBE)	JKP-202 10:30am	Y. Hamao 213-740-0822