Economics and Finance

Finance Research Seminar - Summer term 2009

In the summer term 2009 the seminars took place at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

For more information see:
Finance Research Seminar
Vienna Graduate School of Finance


Friday, May 22, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, SR1
Jacob Sagi, Vanderbilt University
"Dynamic Corporate Capital Stocks: Cross-sectional and Inter-temporal Stock Return Patterns"
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Friday, May 15, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, SR1
Toni Whited, University of Wisconsin
"Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt"
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Friday, May 8, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, S1
Effi Benmelech, Harvard University
"Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection"
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Friday, March 27, 2009
12.30-2.00, H46, SR2
Piet Sercu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"Estimating the Intertemporal Substitution Elasticity"
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Friday, March 20, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, S1
Wolfgang Bühler, University of Mannheim
"Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement of Bond Portfolios"
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Friday, March 13, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, S1
Andrew Yin, Tilburg University
"Cost of Capital, Hurdle Rate, and Default Risk: A Robust Model of Internal Capital Markets"
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Finance Research Seminar - Winter term 2008/09

In the winter term 2008/09 the seminars took place at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

For more information see:
Finance Research Seminar
Vienna Graduate School of Finance


Friday, January 30, 2009
3.30-5.00, H46, SR 1
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
"High Water Marks in Competitive Capital Markets"
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Friday, January 23, 2009
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Gustavo Manso, MIT, Sloan School of Management
"Performance-Sensitive Debt"
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Friday, January 9, 2009
12.00-1.30 p.m., H46, SR 1
Wayne R. Landsman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
"Do Investors Understand Really Dirty Surplus?"
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Friday, December 19, 2008
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Hansjörg Albrecher, Johannes Kepler University Linz
"Tax and Dividend Payments in Collective Risk Theory"
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Friday, December 12, 2008
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins University
"Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility"
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Friday, November 28, 2008
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Christopher Hennessy, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business
"Security Design, Liquidity, and the Information Role of Prices"
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Friday, November 21, 2008
3.00-6.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Lucio Sarno, University of Warwick, Warwick Business School
"The Forward Volatility Bias: A New Puzzle in Foreign Exchange"
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Friday, November 14, 2008, 3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Fabio Maccheroni, Università Bocconi
"Risk Measures: Rationality and Diversification"
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
11.00-12.30 p.m., H46, SR 3
Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics
"Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors"
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Friday, October 24, 2008
1.00-3.30 p.m., H46, SR 2
Kristian R. Miltersen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
"Risky Corporate Debt with Finite Maturity"
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Friday, October 17, 2008
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Karl Schmedders, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
"Bond Ladders and Optimal Portfolios"
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Friday, October 10, 2008
3.30-5.00 p.m., H46, SR 1
Russ Wermers, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
"False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas"
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Friday, September 12, 2008
10.00-11.30 a.m., H46, SR 1
Christian Leuz, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
"Voluntary Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock"
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