All Center Fellows are welcome to attend the conferences. Contact Mary Ann Nelson for information about dates, times and locations. Underlining  indicates that the paper is available in pdf format (unless otherwise indicated) --click on it to view. The Yale Economics Department Macro-EconomicsWorkshop has Finance-related papers of interest as well.

Yale School of Management
Finance and Accounting Seminar
2001-2002
11:30am to 1:00pm
Room A53

Fall 2001
Friday, September 6th Cancelled
Rescheduled for Friday, October 5th
Friday, September 13st Tano Santos, Chicago
Referrals
Friday, September 20th Andrew Metrick, Wharton
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Friday, September 27th Owen Lamont, Chicago
Short Sale constraints and stock returns
Friday, October 4th Paolo Fulghieri, INSEAD
Friday, October 11th Randall Mørck, U. Alberta
Value Enhancing Capital Budgeting and Firm-Specific Stock Returns Variation
Friday, October 18th Abraham Ravid, Rutgers
The Effect of Leverage on Bidding Behavior: Theory and Evidence from the FCC Auctions
Friday, October 25th Stefan Reichelstein, Stanford**
Stock Price, Earnings and Book Value in Managerial Performance Measures
Friday, November 1st Francis Longstaff, UCLA (cancelled)
Friday, November 8th
Friday, November 15th
Friday, November 22th* Doug-Hyun Ahn, UNC-Chapel Hill
Portfolio Performance Measurement: A Martingale Approach
Friday, December 6th Simon Gervais, Wharton
Delegated Monitoring of Fund Managers: an Economic Rationale
Friday, December 13th Steve Kaplan, Chicago
Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses
Wioter Recess, December 21st-January 14th
Spring 2002
Friday, January 11th Recruiting: Amit Goyal, UCLA
Idiosyncratic Risk Matters!
Tuesday, January 15th Recruiting: Nicolae Garleanu, Stanford
Securities Lending, Shorting, and Pricing
Friday, January 18th Recruiting: Jeremy Ko, MIT
Counterparty Disclosures and Concentrations of Risk
Friday, January 25th Jonathan C. Glover, Carnegie Mellon**
Excessive intervention, the collusion problem, and information system design
Friday, February 1st James Dow, London Business School
Active Agents, Passive Principals:  Does High-Powered CEO Compensation Really Improve Incentives?
Tuesday, February 5th Recruiting: Martijn Cremers, NYU
Multifactor Efficiency, State Variables and Bayesian Inference
Thursday, February 8th Recruiting: Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard
CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment
Friday, February 8th Andrew Ang, Columbia
Stock Return Predictability: Is it There?
Friday, February 15th Darrel Duffie, Stanford
Valuation in Dynamic Bargaining Markets
Tuesday, February 19th Recruiting: Lian Peng, Duke
Learning with Capacity Constraints
Friday, February 22nd Jeff Busse, Emory
Bayesian Alphas and Mutual Fund Persistence
Friday, March 1st Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia
Probabilistic Aspects of Portfolio Analysis
Spring Recess, March 8th - 24th
Friday, April 5th Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and IPOs Conference
Friday, April 12th No seminar
Friday, April 26th Vojislav Maksimovic, Maryland
Structuring the Initial Offering: Who to Sell to and How to Do it
Tuesday, April 30th Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina**
Does Analyst Following Increase Upon the Restriction of Insider Trading?
Friday, May 10th Michael Fishman, Northwestern
Optimal Long-Term Financial Contracting with Privately Observed Cash Flows
Friday, May 17th Andres Almazan, Texas-Austin
Intra-Industry Capital Structure Dispersion: How Do Capital Structures Differ Among Competitors?
Friday, May 24th Ravi Jaganathan, Northwestern

* Room B60
** Accounting Seminars

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