Finance Seminar Series - Summer term 2007
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 Getrud Kassel Stiftung and Interessengemeinschaft Frankfurter Kreditinstitute.
Former Seminars:
Date: | Speaker: | Affiliation: | Topic: | ||
1. | 17.Apr | Mike Burkart | Stockholm School of Economics | Security-Voting Structure and Bidder Screening | Abstract | PDF |
2. | 24.Apr | Jose Luis Peydro-Alcalde | ECB | Interbank Contagion: Evidence from Real Transactions | Abstract | PDF |
3. | 08.May | Reint Gropp | ECB / University of Frankfurt | Trade credit defaults and liquidity provision by firms | Abstract | PDF |
4. | 15.May | Maria Fabiana Penas | Tilburg University | The effect of venture capital on start-ups' innovation strategies | Abstract |
5. | 22.May | Roman Inderst | University of Frankfurt | (Mis-)selling through Agents | Abstract |
6. | 29.May | Marta Szymanowska | RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam | Consumption Risk and Expected Futures Returns | Abstract | PDF |
7. | 05.Jun | Franklin Allen | Wharton - University of Pennsylvania | Financing Firms in India | Abstract | PDF |
8. | 12.Jun | Fabio Braggion | Tilburg University | Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange, 1900-1905 | Abstract | PDF |
9. | 18.Jun | David Yermack (exception: session on Monday!) | New York University - Stern School of Business | Where are the Shareholders' Mansions? CEOs' Home Purchases, Stock Sales, and Subsequent Company Performance | Abstract | PDF |
10. | 19.Jun | Ernst Maug | Mannheim University | Executive Stock Options When Managers Are Loss-Averse | Abstract | PDF |
11. | 26.Jun | Steven Ongena | Tilburg University | “Time for a Change”: Loan Conditions and Bank Behavior When Firms Switch | Abstract | PDF |
12. | 03.Jul | Guillaume Plantin | London Business School | Carry Trades and Speculative Dynamics | Abstract | PDF |
13. | 10.Jul | Marco Becht | ECARES, Universite Libré de Bruxelles and ECGI | Returns to Shareholder Activism Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund | Abstract |
14. | 17.Jul | Jürgen Eichberger | University of Heidelberg | Granny versus Game Theorist: Ambiguity in Experimental Games | Abstract | PDF |