
Boston
College Carroll School of Management
Finance
Department Seminars
Fall 2008
|
Date |
Presenter |
Topic |
|
September
12 |
Pedro
Matos (USC) |
When Banks
are Insiders: Evidence from the Global Syndicated Loan Market |
|
September
19 |
Sreedhar Bharath (Michigan) |
Lending Relationships and Loan Contract Terms
|
|
September
26 |
Michael
Brandt (Duke) |
What Does Equity Sector Orderflow Tell Us About the Economy?
|
|
October 3 |
Timothy Johnson (Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) |
Inequality Risk Premia
|
|
October 10 |
None |
|
|
October 17 |
Bo Becker (Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) |
Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry
Seminar meets from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in 453 Fulton Hall |
|
October 24 |
Murillo
Campello (Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign) |
Corporate Financing and Investment: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier
|
|
October 31 |
George Aragon (Arizona State) |
A Unique View of Hedge Fund Derivative Usage: Safeguard or Speculation?
|
|
November 7 |
Murray Frank (Minnesota) |
Profits and Capital Structure
Seminar meets from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in 453 Fulton Hall |
|
November 14 |
Ulrike
Malmendier (UC
Berkeley) |
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
|
|
November 21 |
None |
CSOM Faculty Meeting |
|
November 28 |
Thanksgiving Break |
|
|
Wednesday December 3 |
Robert Marquez (Arizona State) |
Risk and the Corporate Structure of Banks
Seminar meets WED from noon to 1:30 pm in 210 Fulton Hall |
|
December 5 |
Jennifer Conrad (UNC) |
Ex Ante Skewness and Expected Stock Returns
|
Spring 2009
|
Date |
Presenter |
Topic |
|
January 7 |
First Recruiting Seminar | |
|
February 16 |
Last Recruiting Seminar | |
|
February 20 |
None |
|
|
February 27 |
None |
|
|
March 6 |
Spring Break |
|
|
March 13 |
None |
|
|
March 18 |
Sheridan Titman (UT Austin) |
Credit Rating Targets
|
|
March 20 |
None |
NBER Meetings |
|
March 27 |
None |
|
|
April 3 |
Rudi Fahlenbrach (Ohio State) |
Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument
|
|
April 10 |
None |
|
|
April 17 |
Atif Mian (Chicago GSB) |
House Prices, Homeowner Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
|
|
April 24 |
None |
|
|
May 1 |
Christopher Polk (LSE, visiting Harvard) |
Best Ideas
|
Unless
noted otherwise, finance seminars meet on Fridays from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in
115 Fulton Hall on the Chestnut Hill Campus. (Click here for directions to Boston College.)
Page last updated by Jonathan
Reuter on May 6, 2009.