Finance Brown Bag Seminar

The Finance Brown Bag Seminar serves as a presentation platform for PhD students, faculty members, and visitors. It usually takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 13:00 in S3 (H46). For further information contact Christian Wagner.

 
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Summer Term 2012

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February 15th, 12:00-13:00, S3 (H46)
Aleksandar Zdravkovic: Risk Management Approach to Public Debt Sustainability In Emerging European Countries 

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March 22rd (!!! Thursday !!!), 11:00-12:00, S3 (H46)
Dieter Hess (Cologne): Common Factors in Analysts' Earnings Revisions: The Role of Changing Economic Conditions

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April 4th, 12:00-13:00, S3 (H46)

Ruediger Fahlenbrach (EPFL): Institutional Investors and Mutual Fund Governance: Evidence from Retail – Institutional Fund Twins

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April 18th, 12:00-13:00, S3 (H46)

George Skiadopoulos (Piraeus): Asset pricing for commodity futures: A puzzle

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May 9th, 12:00-13:00, S3 (H46)

Andrea Gamba (Warwick Business School): Firm Policies and the Cross-Section of CDS Spreads

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May 23rd, 12:00-13:00, S2 (H46)
Alexandre Jeanneret (HEC Montreal): Sovereign Default Risk and the US Equity Market

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May 30th, 12:00-13:00, S2 (H46)
Julian Kolm (VGSF): tba

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June 6th, 12:00-13:00, S3 (H46)
Hamed Ghoddusi (MIT): tba

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June 13th, 12:00-13:00, S2 (H46)
Philipp Immenkötter (Cologne): tba

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Valentyn Panchenko (UNSW): Continuous double auction with full and limited information: experiments and individual learning model

Winter Term 2011/2012

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September 14th, 12:00-13:00, S4
Pietro Perotti (Uni Graz): Earnings Quality Measures and Excess Returns

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November 30th, 12:30-13:30, S3

Bjorn Eraker (Wisconsin): Dynamic Present Values and the Intertemporal CAPM

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December 6th (!!! Tue !!!), 12:30-13:30, S3
Jan Bena (UBC): The Lifecycle of the Economy-Wide Distribution of Leverage.

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January 11th, 12:00-13:00, S3

Manfred Frühwirth (WU) and Leopold Sögner (IHS): Does the Sun Shine on the Corporate Bond Market?

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January 25th, 12:00-13:00, S3

Anna Gunnthorsdottir (WU): The predictive boundaries of the Nash equilibrium, and efficiency gains from merit-based social organization

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Previous Semesters:

Summer Term 2011

  • Miret Padovani (Geneva) : The determinants of banks' lobbying activities.

  • Robert Kremslehner (WU): Job Market for Directors: The Role of Limited Liability Provisions and Directors' and Officers' Insurance in Optimal Contracting.

  • Yong Chen (Virginia Tech): Hedge Funds: The Good, the (Not-so) Bad, and the Ugly.

  • Luis Goncalves-Pinto (NUS): The Value of Cross-Trading to Mutual Fund Families in Illiquid Markets: A Portfolio Choice Approach.

  • Aksel Mjøs (NHH): Small firm finance during the financial crisis.

  • Christian Wagner (WU): The Cross-Section of Credit Risk Premia and Equity Returns.

  • Stephen Figlewski (NYU): Research on the Risk Neutral Probability Density for the US Market Portfolio.

  • Hamed Ghoddusi (VGSF): Business Cycles, Long-Run Risk and Commodity Price Dynamics.

  • Tiago Pinheiro (NHH Bergen): Earnings Manipulation, Managerial Compensation and Reputation Concerns.

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Winter Term 2010/2011

(selection)

  • Hamed Ghoddusi (VGSF): How the Shocks to Input and Output Change the Spreads and Asset Value; The Case of the Refinery Industry
  • Vilimir Yordanov (VGSF):  Dynamic CDO modelling
  • Thomas Breuer (FHV): Stress Tests: From Arts to Science
  • Antonio Diaz: The Problem of Estimating the Volatility of Zero Coupon Bond Interest Rate
  • Greg Vilkov (Goethe University Frankfurt): Risk-Neutral Skewness: Return Predictability and Its Sources
  • Tobias Berg (HU Berlin): The Term Structure of Risk Premia during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from a New Calibration Approach based on CDS Spreads. 
  • Paul Schneider (Warwick): Understanding Risk Premia in Index Option Prices.

Summer Term 2010

(selection)

  • Jun 14 Natalia Ivanova (VGSF)
  • May 19 Zsuzsanna Fluc (Michigan State University)
  • Apr 20 Rodolfo Martell (Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

Winter Term 2009/2010

(selection)

  • Dec 16 André Gygax (University of Melbourne)
  • Dec 02 Lidija Lovreta (ESADE Business School)
  • Oct 28 André Gygax (University of Melbourne)
  • Feb 03 Juliusz Radwanski (VGSF)

Summer Term 2009

  • Jun 10 Robert Faff (Monash University)
  • Jun 03 Emir Hrnjic (National University of Singapore)
  • May 27 Marti Subrahmanyam (New York University)
  • May 20 László Györfi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  • May 07 Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary) - former CCEFM student
  • Apr 29 Paul Schneider and Christian Wagner (WU-Wien)
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