Finance Seminar Series - Winter term 2007/2008
The seminar takes place every Tuesday from 5:15 p.m. to - 6:30 p.m. in room "Deutsche Bank" in the House of Finance. Paper download (PDF) will be enabled when available.
Organizer: Holger Kraft
Assistant: Sebastian Wagner
We gratefully acknowledge financial support by Alfons und Gertrud Kassel Stiftung and Interessengemeinschaft Frankfurter Kreditinstitute.
Former Seminars:
| Date: | Speaker: | Affiliation: | Topic: | ||
| 1. | 16.Oct | ||||
| 2. | 23.Oct | Ulf Axelson | Swedish Institute of Financial Research (SIFR) | ||
| 3. | 30.Oct | Thorsten Beck (speaker), Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov | The Development Research Group of the World Bank | Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution | Abstract |
| 4. | 06.Nov | Urs Peyer (speaker), Lucian Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers | INSEAD | CEO Centrality | Abstract |
| 5. | 13.Nov | Jörg Rocholl (speaker), Eitan Goldman, Jongil So | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Political Connections and the Allocation of Procurement Contracts | Abstract |
| 6. | 20.Nov | Jose Luis Peydro-Alcalde | ECB | Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What Do Twenty-Three Million Bank Loans Say About the Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk? | Abstract |
| 7. | 27.Nov | Mariassunta Giannetti(speaker), Xiaoyun Yu | Stockholm School of Economics | Relationships and Information Acquisition in Capital Allocation | Abstract |
| 8. | 04.Dec | Alexander Kempf(speaker), Stefan Ruenzia, Tanja Thiele | Universität zu Köln | Employment Risk, Compensation Incentives and Managerial Risk Taking: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry | Abstract |
| 9. | 11.Dec | Itay Goldstein(speaker), Philip Bond, Edward S. Prescott | The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | Market-Based Corrective Actions: The Case of Bank Supervision | Abstract | PDF |
| 10. | 18.Dec | Reint Gropp(speaker), Frederic Boissay, Murray Frank | Department of Finance, University of Frankfurt | The effect of stock price fluctuations on corporate cash flows | Abstract | PDF |
| 11. | 08.Jan | Hendrik Hakenes(speaker), Isabel Schnabel | University of Hannover and MPI Bonn | Credit Risk Transfer in Banking Markets with Hard and Soft Information | Abstract | PDF |
| 12. | 15.Jan | Jeffrey Zwiebel (speaker), Camelia M. Kuhnen | The Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment | Abstract | PDF |
| 13. | 22.Jan | Ulrich Hege(speaker), Christopher Hennessy | HEC School of Management (Paris) | Acquisition Values and Optimal Financial (In)Flexibility | Abstract | PDF |
| 14. | 29.Jan | Mikhail Chernov | London Business School | The Term Structure of Inflation Forecasts | Abstract | PDF |