Seminar Schedule

Seminar Schedule
Seminars meet on Fridays from 2:00-3:30 pm, unless otherwise indicated. 

Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizers Michael Nowotny and Adam Zawadowski.

Time and Location Speaker Affiliation Presentation
February 28, 2013
(Thursday) 

Room 410

Dimitris Papanikolaou Kellogg School of Management
March 8, 2013 

Room 302

Lasse Pedersen Copenhagen Business School
March 22, 2013 

Room 222

Jianjun Miao Boston University Economics
March 29, 2013 

Room 410

Gustavo Manso Berkeley
April 12, 2013 

Room 406

Sergei Davydenko University of Toronto (visiting MIT Sloan)
April 18, 2013
(Thursday) 

Room 410

Daniel Paravisini London School of Economics
April 26, 2013 

Room 315

Laura Veldkamp NYU Stern
May 3, 2013 

Room 416

Kent Smetters Wharton School
May 10, 2013 

Room 310

Sam Hanson Harvard Business School
Previous Semesters
Fall 2012
September 7, 2012 

Room 410

Pietro Veronesi University of Chicago, 

Booth School of Business

Political Uncertainty and Risk Premia
September 21, 2012 

Room 416

Lars Keuhn Carnegie Mellon, 

Tepper School of Business

An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search
September 28, 2012 

Room 410

David McLean Alberta School of Business, 

Visiting MIT Sloan School of Management

Equity Market Timing, Cash Savings, and Investment Smoothness
Monday, October 15, 2012 

Room 416

Paolo Fulghieri University of North Carolina, 

Kenan-Flagler Business School

October 26, 2012 

Room 410

Adriano Rampini Duke University 

Fuqua School of Business,

Visiting Harvard University

Dynamic Risk Management
November 2, 2012 

Room 615

Dirk Hackbarth University of Illinois 

College of Business

Capital Structure, Product Market Dynamics, and the Boundaries of the Firm
Thursday, November 15, 2012 

Room 416

Bernard Dumas INSEAD Financial-market Equilibrium with Friction
November 16, 2012 

Room 416

Mark Lowenstein University of Maryland,Smith School of Business
November 30, 2012 

Room 410

Joshua Coval Harvard Business School Are Unions Pro-Labor?
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 

Room 410, 3:30-5:00

Daniel Ferreira London School of Economics
Thursday, December 13, 2012 

Room 414

Jessica Wachter The Wharton School 

University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2012
Friday, February 24th, 2012 Paolo Fulghieri UNC Kenan-Flager The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Dimitri Vayanos LSE
Friday, March 23rd, 2012 Zhiguo He Chicago Booth
Friday, March 30th, 2012 Andrey Malenko MIT
Friday, April 6th Phil Dybvig WUSTL
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 Lasse Pedersen NYU Stern
Friday, April 27th, 2012 Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh NYU Stern
Friday, May 4th, 2012 Gordon Phillips USC Marshall
Fall 2011
Friday, September 9th, 2011 Viral Acharya NYU Stern Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector
Friday, September 23rd, 2011 

Room 416

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Efraim Benmelech Harvard
Friday, October 21st, 2011 Mark Westerfield USC Marshall Economic Ties: 

Evidence from Venture Capital Networks

Friday, October 28th, 2011 

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Holger Mueller NYU Stern Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers
Friday, November 11th, 2011 Douglas Gale NYU Liquidity Hoarding
Friday, November 18th, 2011 Douglas Breeden Duke/MIT Sloan Consumption As A Leading Indicator
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 Jaksa Cvitanic Caltech Nonmyopic Optimal Portfolios in Viable Markets
Friday, December 16th, 2011 Jiang Wang MIT Sloan Noise as Information for Illiquidity