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+  Past Seminars | 2020 to 2024

 

Winter 2024

 
Friday, March 22 2024, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Douglas Cumming
Florida Atlantic University
"Stock Market Manipulation and Corporate Venture Capital Investments"

Friday, April 5 2024, 10h00 (gcal)
Hélène-Desmarais Building
Luke Taylor
Wharton Finance - University of Pennsylvania
"Green Tilts"

Friday, April 12 2024, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Vilnius
Ralf Meisenzahl
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
"How Climate Change Shapes Bank Lending: Evidence from Portfolio Reallocation"

Friday, April 19 2024, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Budapest
Camelia M. Kuhnen
University of North Carolina
"Learning how to borrow in a Fintech world: Evidence from Scandinavia"

Friday, May 3 2024, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Caracas
Sean Higgins
Northwestern University
"Price Comparison Tools in Consumer Credit Markets"

 

Fall 2023

 
Friday, September 15 2023, 11h00 (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Hotel Le Saint-Sulpice
Jun Pan
Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Friday, September 22 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Séoul
Judith C.Schneider
Leibniz Universität Hannover
"Anticipated and Experienced Regret in Annuity Choices: An Experimental Study"

Friday, October 20 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Port-au-Prince
Pedro Matos
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
"Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios: Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?"

Friday, November 10 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Accra
Jaewon Choi
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Hidden Duration: Interest Rates Derivatives in Fixed Income Funds"

Friday, November 10 2023
Keynote Lecture – CEAR-RSI
Hélène-Desmarais Building
Tullio Jappelli
University of Naples Federico II

Friday, November 24 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Budapest
Liyan Yang
University of Toronto
"Personalized Pricing, Network Effects, and Corporate Social Responsibility"

 

Winter 2023

 
Friday, March 31 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Wei Wang
Queen's University, Smith School of Business
"Do Hedge Funds Exploit Material Nonpublic Information?"

Wednesday, April 12 2023, 12h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Paola Brighi
University of Bologna
"The impact of board diversity and sustainability engagement on bank performance"

Friday, April 14 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Banque Scotia
Itay Goldstein
University of Pennsylvania
"On ESG Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices"

Friday, April 28 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University
"Which Investors Matter for Equity Valuations and Expected Returns?"

Wednesday, May 3 2023, 12h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Thomas Geelen
Copenhagen Business School
"Sustainable Organizations"

Friday, May 5 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Sandy Klasa
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
"Employee Flight Risk and Capital Structure Decisions"

Friday, May 12 2023, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Transat
Kai Li
University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
"Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance"

 

Fall 2022

 
Friday, September 9 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Jonathan Lewellen
Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
"How Many Factors?"

Friday, September 23 2022, 11h00 (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Hotel William Gray
Darrell Duffie
Stanford University & CDI Research Fellow
"Why Treasury Markets Get Dysfunctional, and What to Do About It"

Wednesday, September 28 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Pasquale Della Corte
Imperial College London
"Expected currency returns?"

Friday, September 30 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Salon des diplomés, Deloitte
Neil Pearson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Anomalies and Their Short Sale Costs"

Friday, October 14 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Walter Capital
Paul Decaire
Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business
"On a Spending Spree: The Real Effects of Heuristics in Managerial Budgets"

Friday, November 4 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Paul Beaumont
McGill University
"The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending"

Friday, November 11 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Hélène-Desmarais Building
Ivan Ivanov
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Saturday, November 12 2022, 16h45 (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CEAR-RSI
Room Hôtel le Saint-Sulpice
Annamaria Lusardi
George Washington University School of Business
"The P-Fin Index: What we can learn from six years of data on financial literacy and personal finance"

Friday, November 18 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Alessandro Previtero
Kelley School of Business
"Investor Protections and Stock Market Participation: An Evaluation of Financial Advisor Oversight"

Friday, December 9 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Helene-Desmarais
Mirela Sandulescu
University of Michigan
"Internation Arbitrage Premia"

 

Winter 2022

 
Friday, March 4 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Hélène-Desmarais Building
Stefano Giglio
Yale School of Management
"A Quantity-Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios"

Friday, March 11 2022
POSTPONED
Itay Goldstein
University of Pennsylvania
"On ESG Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices"

Friday, April 1 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Nina Boyarchenko
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"Measuring Corporate Bond Market Dislocations"

Friday, April 8 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Procter & Gamble
Terry Hendershott
Haas School of Business, University of California
"True Cost of Immediacy"

Friday, April 22 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Nancy et Michel-Gaucher
Christopher Jones
USC Marshall
"Return Extrapolation and Day/Night Effects"

Wednesday, April 27 2022, 12h00 (gcal)
Room Sony
Andrey Golubov
University of Toronto
"Valuation Uncertainty"

Friday, April 29 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Guy-Joron
Adrien Verdelhan
MIT Sloan School of Management
"FX Transaction and Translation Risk"

Friday, May 6 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Sony
Itzhak Ben-David
Fisher College of Business
"A Theory of Corporate Policies with EPS-Fixated Managers"

Friday, May 13 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Lauren Cohen
Havard Business School
"Hidden Alpha"

Friday, June 3 2022, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
George Aragon
ASU Arizona State University
"Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital"

 

Fall 2021

 
Friday, September 24 2021, 11h00 (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Room Keurig
Neil Pearson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Retail Derivatives and Sentiment"

Friday, October 1 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Zoom
Neng Wang
Columbia Business School
"Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance"

Friday, October 8 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globale des actifs
Ryan Riordan
Queens
"Carbon Liquidity"

Friday, October 15 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Zoom
Bo Becker
Stockholm School of Economics
"The resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises"

Friday, October 22 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Esdras-Minville
Steven J. Riddiough
Rotman University of Toronto
"Private Information and Currency Returns: A Corporate Investment Connection"

Friday, October 29 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Metro Inc.
Kent Daniel
Columbia Business School
"The Dynamics of Disagreement"

Wednesday, November 3 2021, 10h00 (gcal)
Room PWC
Michaela Pagel
Columbia Business School
"Gender Quotas and Support for Women in Board Elections"

 

Winter 2020

 
Monday, March 9 2020, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Marcin Kacperczyk
Business School Building South Kensington Campus
"Carbon Premium around the World"

Friday, May 1 2020, 10h00 (gcal)
POSTPONED - COVID19
Lauren Cohen
Harvard Business School

Friday, May 8 2020, 10h00 (gcal)
POSTPONED - COVID19
Kent Daniel
Columbia Business School, Columbia University

Friday, May 15 2020, 10h00 (gcal)
POSTPONED - COVID19
Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University

Friday, May 29 2020, 10h00 (gcal)
POSTPONED - COVID19
Neng Wang
Columbia Business School

+  Past Seminars | 2010 to 2019

FALL 2019

 
Wednesday, September 4 2019, 12h00 (gcal)
CDI Guest
Room Transat
Zhenzhen Fan
Nankai University
"US Equity Tail Risk and Currency Risk Premia"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 6 2019, 10h00 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Oscar Jorda
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
"The Total Risk Premium Puzzle"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 11 2019, 12h00 (gcal)
CDI Guest
Room Xerox Canada
Aurelio Vasquez
ITAM
"Common Factors in Equity Option Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 13 2019, 10h00 (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CDI
David Bates
University of Iowa
"Jumps versus Stochastic Volatility: A Long-term View"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 20 2019, 10h00 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Jaroslav Borovicka
New York University
"Risk Premia and Unemployment Fluctuations"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 11 2019, 10h00 (gcal)
Jointly with Decision Sciences
Room Manuvie
Kris Boudt
Ghent University
"Optimizing the Design of Textual Indices: Impression Management and Sentometrics"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, November 6 2019, 12h00 (gcal)
CDI Guest
Room Banque CIBC
Xiao Xiao
Erasmus School of Economics
"Default Risk and Option Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 8 2019, 10h30 (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 360 @McGill
Robin Greenwood
Harvard Business School
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 29 2019, 10h00 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Jorge Cruz Lopez
Western University
"Joint Determination of Counterparty and Liquidity Risk in Payment Systems"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 6 2019, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Edouard-Montpetit
Grigory Vilkov
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
"Sentimental Recovery"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2019

 
Friday, February 8 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Mike Hoy
University of Guelph
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, February 13 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Paul Schneider
University of Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute
"Does it pay to be an optimist?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, February 21 2019, 12h (gcal)
Room Cogeco
Marie Lambert
HEC Liege
"Looking for the Tangent Portfolio: Risk Optimization Techniques on Equity Style Buckets"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, February 22 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Nancy et Michel-Gaucher
Johannes Stroebel
New York University
"Five Facts About Beliefs and Portfolios"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 21 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Thierry Foucault
HEC Paris
"Demand for Information, Uncertainty, and the Response of U.S. Treasury Securities to News"
contact: [email protected]
Monday, March 25 2019, 12h (gcal)
Room Sony
Shaun Vahey
Warwick Business School
"Improved Methods for Combining Point Forecasts for an Asymmetrically Distributed Variable"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 29 2019, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room St-Hubert
Michelle Lowry
LeBow College of Business Drexel University
"Investors' Attention to Corporate Governance"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 5 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Anmol Bhandari
University of Minnesota
"Survey data and subjective beliefs in business cycle models"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 10 2019, 12h (gcal)
Room Nancy et Michel-Gaucher
Julien Sauvagnat
Bocconi University
"Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 12 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Francesca Carrieri
McGill University
"Can Cross-Border Funding Frictions Explain Financial Integration Reversals?"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 17 2019, 10h30 (gcal)
Joint Seminar with Applied Economics
Room Rona
Erik Loualiche
Carlson School of Management
"Efficient Bubbles?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 26 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Anatoliy Swishchuk
University of Calgary
"Modelling of Limit Order Books: Ideas, Methods, Recent and New Results"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 3 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Dong Lou
London School of Economics
"Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 10 2019, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Bernard Herskovi?
UCLA Anderson School of Management
"Hedging Risk Factors"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, May 15 2019, 12h (gcal)
Room Sony
Sven Klingler
Norwegian Business School
"How Safe are Safe Havens?"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2018

 
Wednesday, August 29 2018, 12h15 (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Christophe Courbage
Haute École de Gestion de Genève
"Estate Fiscal Policies, Long-Term Care Insurance and Informal Care"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 7 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Turan Bali
McDonough School of Business - Georgetown University
"Economic Uncertainty Premium in the Corporate Bond Market"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 19 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room EY
Olivier Scaillet
GFRI, Université de Genève
"Time-Varying Risk Premia in Large International Equity Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 21 2018
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Mikhail Chernov
UCLA Anderson School of Management
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, September 25 2018, 12h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Cisil Sarisoy
Federal Reserve Board
"Variance Dynamics in Term Structure Models"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 26 2018, 12h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Hugues Langlois
HEC Paris
"Measuring Skewness Premia"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 28 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Elicia Cowins
Washington and Lee University
"Executive Compensation and Hedge Accounting: An Investigation of the Reporting and Risk Incentives Associated with the Corporate Use of Derivatives"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 5 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Pasquale Della Corte
Imperial College
"Currency Mispricing and Dealer Balance Sheets"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 19 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Nir Vulkan
Oxford University
"Be careful what you ask for: Fundraising strategies in equity crowdfunding"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 2 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Viktor Todorov
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
"Idiosyncratic Jump Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 16 2018, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Jonathan Berk
Stanford Graduate School of Business
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2018

 
Friday, February 16 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
New York University
"Financial Fragility with SAM?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, February 23 2018, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Stefan Nagel
University of Michigan
"Shrinking the Cross Section"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 23 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Hui Chen
MIT
"The Dark Side of Circuit Breakers"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 6 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Sydney C. Ludvigson
New York University
"Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 13 2018, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Lars Lochstoer
UCLA
"What Drives Anomaly Returns?"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 18 2018, 12h (gcal)
Room Transat
Pascal Létourneau
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
"Modifying Real Options' Probability of Exercise"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, April 24 2018, 12h (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Zhuo Zhong
Melbourne University
"Innovation and Informed Trading: Evidence from Industry ETFs"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 4 2018, 12h (gcal)
Room Transat
Jie Cao
Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Volatility Uncertainty and the Cross-Section of Option Returns"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2017

 
Friday, September 8 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Vincent Grégoire
University of Melbourne
"Inverted Fee Venues and Market Quality"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 15 2017, 14h (gcal)
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Hotel Le Saint-Sulpice
Pietro Veronesi
University of Chicago
"Option-Based Credit Spreads"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 29 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Cédric Okou et Bruno Feunou
UQAM et Banque du Canada
"Downside Variance Risk Premium
& Good Volatility, Bad Volatility and Option Pricing
"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 11 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Harjoat Bhamra
Imperial College
"Small Growth and Distress Returns: Two Sides of the Same Coin?"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 18 2017, 12h (gcal)
Room Salon Deloitte
Rui Albuquerque
Boston College
"What Makes for High CEO Pay?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 3 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University
"From Mining to Markets: The Evolution of Bitcoin Transaction Fees"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 10 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Nicola Fusari
John Hopkins University
"The Pricing of Tail Risk and the Equity Premium: Evidence from international Option Markets"
& "Unified Inference for Nonlinear Factor Models from Panels with Fixed and Large Time Span"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 24 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Vyacheslav Fos
Boston College
"Informed Trading in the Stock Market and Option Price Discovery"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 1 2017, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Matthew Spiegel
Yale University
"Better Bond Indices and Liquidity Gaming the Rest"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2017

 
Friday, March 24 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Denis Schweizer
Concordia
"Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 31 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Zvi Wiener
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Loan Commitments"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 7 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Ines Chaieb
University of Geneva and SFI
"How Does Sovereign Bond Market Integration Relate to Fundamentals and CDS Spreads?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 21 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Benjamin Keys
University of Pennsylvania
"Eyes Wide Shut? Mortgage Insurance During the Housing Boom"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 28 2017, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Marie-Husny
Amir Yaron
University of Pennsylvania
"Identifying Long Run Risks: A Bayesian Mixed Frequency Approach"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 5 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Joshua M. Pollet
University of Illinois
"Is There a Risk Premium in the Stock Lending Market? Evidence from Equity Options"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 12 2017, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Marti Subrahmanyam
New York University
"Credit Default Swaps Around the World: Investment and Financing Effects"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2016

 
Friday, September 2 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Diane Del Guercio
University of Oregon
"Playing favorites: Conflicts of interest in mutual fund management"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 16 2016
Keynote Lecture – CDI
Kris Jacobs
University of Houston
"Date limite d'inscription : 5 août 2016"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 30 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room TD Assurance Meloche Monnex
Evan Dudley
The Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business
"Priority Spreading and Liquidity Concerns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 7 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Matthieu Bouvard
McGill University
"Risk Management Failures"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 14 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Katya Malinova
University of Toronto
"Regulation Dark Trading: Order Flow Segmentation and Market Quality"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 25 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Deloitte
Simon Gervais
Duke University
"Transparency and Talent Allocation in Money Management"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 4 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Rui Albuquerque
Boston College
"Relative Performance Banker Compensation and Systemic Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 11 2016, 15h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University
"Using Principal Component Analysis to Estimate a High Dimensional Factor Model with High-Frequency Data"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 18 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room TD Assurance Meloche Monnex
Michael Weber
University of Chicago
"Dissecting Characteristics Nonparametrically"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 25 2016, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Ian Martin
London School of Economics
"What is the Expected Return on a Stock?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 2 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room TD Assurance Meloche Monnex
Ryan Riordan
Queen's University
"High Frequency Trading and Extreme Price Movements"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2016

 
Friday, March 11 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Banque CIBC
Lyian Yang
University of Toronto
"Commodity Financialization: Risk Sharing and Price Discovery in Commodity Futures Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 18 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Georgios Skoulakis
University of British Columbia
"Ex-Post Risk Premia Tests Using Individual Stocks: The IV-GMM Solution to the EIV Problem"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 24 2016, 11h (gcal)
Room Standard Life
Traian Pirvu
McMaster University
"Multi-Stock Portfolio Optimization under Prospect Theory"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 1 2016, 10h (gcal) Diane Del Guercio - SÉMINAIRE ANNULÉ
University of Oregon
"Playing Favorites: Conflicts of Interest in Mutual Fund Management"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 8 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University
"A Hausman Test for the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise in High Frequency Data"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 15 2016, 10h (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
Ilze Kalnina
Université de Montréal
"Cross-Sectional Dependence in Idiosyncratic Volatility"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 22 2016, 14h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Marie-Husny
Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics
"Liquidity Risk and the Dymanics of Arbitrage Capital"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 29 2016, 14h (gcal)
Room Xerox
Christopher Hennessy
London Business School
"Corporate Finance Responses to Exogenous Tax Changes: What Is the Null and Where Did It Come From?"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, May 10 2016, 14h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Antje Berndt
North Carolina State University
"The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism on the Target Firm's CDS and Bond Yield Spreads"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2015

 
Friday, August 28 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Dimitris Margaritis
University of Auckland
"Liquidity Patterns in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 11 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Cesare Fracassi
University of Texas at Austin
"Technological Specialization and the Decline of Diversified Firms"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 2 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Léa H. Stern
Syracuse University
"A Learning-Based Approach to Evaluating Boards of Directors"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 9 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Mohammad Erfan Danesh Jafari
University of Toronto
"The Power of Economic Network: Investor Recognition through Supply-Chain Relationship"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 23 2015, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Wei Xiong
Princeton University
"Learning about the Neighborhood: Supply Elasticity and Housing Cycles"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 30 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Ruslan Goyenko
McGill University
"Options Illiquidity: Determinants and Implications for Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 6 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Joao Cocco
London Business School
"Background Expenditure Risk: Implications for Household Finances and Psychological Well-Being"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 4 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Colin Ward
University of Minnesota
"Is the IT Revolution Over? An Asset Pricing View"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2015

 
Friday, March 27 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Deloitte
Stephan Siegel
University of Washington
"The Cultural Origin of Preferences: CEO Cultural Heritage and Corporate Investment"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 1 2015, 11h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Huseyin Gulen
Purdue University Krannert School of Management
"Absolute Strength: Eploring Momentum in Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 9 2015, 9h45 (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Banque de développement
Darrell Duffie
Stanford
"Benchmarks in Search Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 17 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Randall Morck
U. of Alberta
"The great pyramids of America: A revised history of US Business Groups Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 24 2015, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Cesare Fracassi
UT Austin
"Do Credit Analysts Matter? The Effect of Analysts on Ratings, Prices, and Corporate Decisions"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2014

 
Friday, September 5 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Nicolae Garleanu
UC Berkeley
"Financial Entanglement: A Theory of Incomplete Integration, Leverage, Crashes, and Contagion"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 19 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Toni Anhert
Bank of Canada
"Covered Bonds"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 24 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Sophie Moinas
Toulouse 1 Capitole
"Liquidity Supply across Multiple Trading Venues"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 10 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Marie Lambert
University of Liege
"Size Matters, Book-To-Market Does Not! The Fama-French Empirical CAPM Revisited"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 31 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Michael Hasler
University of Toronto
"Term Structure of Disagreement and Predictability over the Business Cycle"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 7 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room KPMG
Sanjiv Das
Santa Clara University
"Venture Capital Communities"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 21 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Harjoat Bhamra
Imperial College Business School
"Does Household Finance Matter? Small Financial Errors with Large Social Costs"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 28 2014, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Murillo Campello
Cornell
"Enlarging the Contracting Space: Collateral Menus, Access to Credit, and Economic Activity"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2014

 
Friday, January 10 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Eric Hughson
Claremont McKenna College
"Can Clearing Mitigate Counterparty Risk? The Introduction of Clearing on the NYSE: Contagion and the Counterparty Risk Premium"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, January 17 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Sébastien Betermier
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill
"Who Are the Value and Growth Investors?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, February 21 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Ron Alquist
Bank of Canada
"Fire-Sale FDI or Business as Usual?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 14 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
Tim Adam
Humboldt University Berlin
"Hold-Up and the Use of Performance-Sensitive Debt"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 21 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Vikas Mehrotra
University of Alberta
"Exit and Transitions in Family Control and Ownership in Post-War Japan"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 28 2014, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Thomas Hellman
University of British Columbia
"Angels and Venture Capitalists: Complements or Substitutes?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 4 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Jens Hilscher
Brandeis University
"Credit Ratings and Credit Risk: Is One Measure Enough?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 11 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Geert Bekaert
Columbia Business School
"Asset Return Dynamics and Bad Environment - Good Environment Fundamentals"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 25 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Susan Christoffersen
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
"On the Demand for High-Beta Stocks: Evidence from Mutual Funds"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 2 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Don Chambers
Lafayette College
"The Limitations of Diversification Return"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 9 2014, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Michael King
University of Western Ontario
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2013

 
Friday, September 6 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Olivier Scaillet
Swiss Finance Institute, Université de Genève
"Predictability Hidden by Anomalous Observations"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 13 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room CPA du Québec
Ling Cen
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
"Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 18 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Zhaogang Song
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
"Do Hedge Funds Exploit Rare Disaster Concerns?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 26 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Gonul Colak
Florida State University
"Political Uncertainty and IPO Activity: Evidence from U.S. Gubernatorial Elections"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 11 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Wanda Mimra
ETH Zurich
"Price Competition and Reputation in Credence Goods Markets: Experimental Evidence"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 25 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Daniel Gottlieb
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
"Simultaneous Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 1 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Nancy et Michel-Gaucher
Pascal St-Amour
Swiss Finance Institute, HEC Lausanne
"Life Cycle Responses to Health Insurance Status"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 15 2013, 10h (gcal)
Joint Seminar with McGill
Room Bronfman 002 @McGill
Terry Odean
University of California, Berkeley
"Bubbling with Excitement: An Experiment"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 21 2013, 12h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Philip Valta
HEC Paris
"Debt Renegotiation and Investment Decisions Across Countries"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 6 2013, 10h (gcal)
POSTPONED (2014/05/02)
Michael King
University of Western Ontario
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 13 2013, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Jeffrey Wurgler
New York University
"Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2013

 
Thursday, January 31 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
Rajesh K. Aggarwal
Carlson School of Management, U. of Minnesota
"Unrelated Acquisitions"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 7 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Stefan Mittnik
Chair of Financial Econometrics, LMU Munich
"Realistic versus Regulatory Captial Requirements in Solvency II: A Recalibration for Equity Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 12h (gcal)
Room Sony
Daniel Andrei
UCLA Anderson School of Management
"Information Percolation Driving Volatility"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 21 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Huntley Schaller
Carleton University
"Fibonacci, Pacioli, and the Slow Diffusion of Knowledge"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 18 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Erwan Morellec
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Capital Supply Uncertainty, Cash Holdings, and Investment"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 25 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Egor Matveyev
University of Alberta
"How Do Firms and Directors Choose Each Other? Evidence from a Two-sided Matching Model of the Director Labor Market"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 2 2013, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Sony
Viral Acharya
New York University
"How Do Global Banks Scramble for Liquidity? Evidence from the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Freeze of 2007"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2012

 
Thursday, September 6 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Mario Ghossoub
Université de Montréal
"Belief Heterogeneity in the Arrow-Borch-Raviv Insurance Model"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 13 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Quebecor
Vicente Cunat
London School of Economics
"Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 20 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Sandro Andrade
University of Miami
"The Euro and European Equity Market (Dis)Integration"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 4 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Itay Goldstein
Wharton
"Information Diversity and Market Efficiency Spirals"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 11 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Quebecor
Adlai Fisher
University of British Columbia
"Levered Noise and the Limits of Arbitrage Pricing: Implications for Dividend Strips and the Term Structure of Equity Risk Premia"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 12h (gcal)
Room Banque Scotia
Manuel Mayer
Vienna Graduate School of Finance
"Sovereign Credit Risk and Banking Crises"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 1 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room CIBC
Paul Oyer
Stanford University
"Exploration for Human Capital: Theory and Evidence from the MBA Labor Market"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 8 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room CIBC
Hernan Ortiz-Molina
University of British Columbia
"Labor Mobility and Corporate Cash Reserves"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 8 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room CIBC
George Tauchen
Duke University
"Volatility Occupation Times"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 6 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
Ulrike Malmendier
University of California, Berkeley
"Learning from Inflation Experiences"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 13 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
David McLean
University of Alberta
"Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2012

 
Thursday, January 12 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globale d'actifs inc.
Laura Coroneo
University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences
"Spanned and Unspanned Macro Risk in the Yield Curve"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 14 2012, 12h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Ilze Kalnina
Department of Economics, U. de Montréal
"Nonparametric Tests of Time Variation in Betas"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 22 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Gérard-Parizeau
Éric Ghysels
UNC Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School
"Mixed Frequency Vector Autoregressive Models"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 29 2012
POSTPONED
Sandro C. Andrade
School of Business Administration - University of Miami
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 5 2012
POSTPONED
Itay Goldstein
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 12 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Banque Scotia
Laurent Fresard
Robert H. Smith School of Business - U. of Maryland
"Competitive Pressure and Corporate Policies"
contact: [email protected]
Monday, April 16 2012, 12h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Kai Li
Sauder School of Business - UBC
"Are CEOs in U.S. Public Firms Overpaid? New Evidence from Private Firms"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 19 2012, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Sony
Revansiddha B. Khanapure
Lerner College of Business and Economics - U. of Delaware
"Life-Cycle Portfolio Allocation for Disappointment Averse Agents"
contact: [email protected]
Monday, April 30 2012, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Nabil Tahani
York University
"Pricing Interest Rate Derivatives under Multi-Factor GARCH"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, June 5 2012, 14h (gcal)
Room Cogeco
Pascal Gantenbein
Faculty of Business and Economics, U. of Basel
"Director Characteristics, Culture, and Firm Performance"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2011

 
Thursday, September 1 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Lars-Alexander Kuehn
Carnegie Mellon University
"Investment-Based Corporate Bond Pricing"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 22 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
Jayant R. Kale
Georgia State University - Robinson College of Business
"The Effect of CEO Risk-Taking Incentives on Relationship-Specific Investments by Customers and Suppliers"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 29 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
Hui Chen
MIT - Sloan School of Management
"Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 13 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Ehud I. Ronn
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
"The Valuation and Information Content of Options on Crude-Oil Futures Contracts"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 27 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Sony
Andrew J. Patton
Duke University - Department of Economics
"Modelling Dependence in High Dimensions with Factor Copulas"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 3 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Standard Life
Rui Albuquerque
Boston University - School of Management
"Search Frictions and Controlling Shareholder Illiquidity"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 18 2011, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Esdras-Minville
Olivier Scaillet
Geneva Finance Research Institute (Université de Genève)
"Time-Varying Risk Premium in Large Cross-Sectional Equity Datasets"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 1 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Fernando Zapatero
U. of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
"Labor Income, Relative Wealth Concerns, and the Cross-section of Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2011

 
Thursday, January 27 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Jonathan Reeves
University of New South Wales
"Betas, Hedge Funds and the Myth of Market Neutrality"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, February 17 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Sony
Adrien Verdelhan
MIT
"Sovereign Risk Premia"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, February 24 2011, 15h (gcal)
Room Béton-Grilli
Jean-Sébastien Fontaine
Banque du Canada
"Fed Funds Futures and the Federal Reserve"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 16 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Standard Life
Anna Obizhaeva
University of Maryland
"Market Microstructure Invariants"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 6 2011, 12h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Marie Lambert
Maastricht University
"Comoment Risk and Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 14 2011, 15h15 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Patrice Poncet
ESSEC
"The Myth of Long Horizon Predictability: an Investment Perspective"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 28 2011, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
Ingolf Dittmann
Erasmus School of Economics
"Indexing Executive Compensation Contracts"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 5 2011, 15h30 (gcal)
Room KPMG
Louis Gagnon
Queen's University
"Short Changed? the Market's Reaction to the Short Sale Ban of 2008"
contact: [email protected]
 

FALL 2010

 
Thursday, September 23 2010, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Banque Scotia
Ivana Komunjer
University of California, San Diego
"Non Parametric Identification and Estimation of Transformation Models"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 7 2010, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Anastasia Kartasheva
Wharton University
"Rating Standards for Catastrophic Risks and the Insurer's Capital Structure"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 14 2010, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Sudipto Bhattacharya
London School of Economics
"Agregate Risk Perception, Adverse Selection, and Securitized Lending: Mitigating Allocational Consequences of Exuberance"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 21 2010, 15h (gcal)
Room Sony
Harris Schlesinger
University of Alabama
"Higher-Order Risk Attitudes"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 28 2010, 15h (gcal)
Room Transat
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
"Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 4 2010, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox
James Tyler Leverty
University of Iowa
"Do Acquisitions Create More Value When Good Management Replaces Bad Management"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 12 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Bruno Biais
Toulouse School of Economics
"Trading and Liquidity under Limited Cognition"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 25 2010, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Arthur Charpentier
Université de Rennes 1
"Natural Catastrophe Insurance: When Should the Government Intervene?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 2 2010, 15h (gcal)
Room Quebecor
Jan Ericsson
McGill University
"The Cost and Timing of Financial Distress"
contact: [email protected]
 

WINTER 2010

 
Friday, January 22 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globales d'actifs inc.
Art Durnev
McGill University
"The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, January 27 2010, 12h (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Tolga Cenesizoglu
Séminaire interne
"The Effect of Monetary Policy on Credit Spreads"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, January 29 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globale d'actifs inc.
Andrei Semenov
York University
"Asset Pricing in the Presence of Background Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, February 12 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globale d'actifs inc.
Mitchell Petersen
Northwestern University
"Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, February 19 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Tal Gestion globale d'actifs inc.
Garland Durham
University of Colorado at Boulder
"Beyond Stochastic Volatility and Jumps in Returns and Volatility"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 9 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room TAL Gestion globale d'actifs inc.
Gergana Jostova
The George Washington University
"Momentum in Corporate Bond Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 16 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Lukas Roth
University of Alberta
"Uninvited U.S. Investors? Economic Consequences of Involuntary Cross-listings"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 23 2010, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Turan G. Bali
Zicklin Sc. of Business - Baruch College
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 30 2010, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Sudipto Bhattacharya
The London School of Economics and Political Science
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 7 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Eric Renault
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Dynamic Mixed Hitting-Time Model for Multiple Transaction Prices and Times"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 21 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Alon Raviv
Brandeis University
"The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis and Executive Compensation: an Analysis and a Proposal for a Novel Structure"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 28 2010, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Jean-Marc Bourgeon
INRA et École Polytechnique, France
"On Debt Service and Renegotiation when Debt-holders Are More Strategic"
contact: [email protected]

+  Past seminars | 2000 to 2009

 

Fall 2009

 
Friday, September 11 2009, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Bruno Biais
Toulouse School of Economics
"The Lifecycle of the Financial Sector and Other Speculative Industries"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 16 2009, 12h (gcal)
Room Nancy & Michel-Gaucher
Serge Patrick Amvella Motaze
Séminaire interne
"Managerial Incentives and the Risk-taking Behavior of Hedge Fund Managers"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 18 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Sandra Betton
Concordia University
"Markup Pricing Revisited"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 2 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Sydney Ludvigson
New York University
"The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 9 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Zhi Da
University of Notre-Dame
"In Search of Attention"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 14 2009, 12h (gcal)
Room Nancy & Michel-Gaucher
Rachidi Kotchoni
Université de Montréal
"Assessing the Nature of Pricing Inefficiencies Via Realized Measures"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 23 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Gunnar Grass
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Using Structural Models for Default Prediction"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 28 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Christophe Hurlin
University of Orléans - LEO
"Backtesting Value-at-Risk: A GMM Duration-Based Test"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 30 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Sergei Davydenko
University of Toronto
"A Market-Based Study of the Costs of Default"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 6 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Nikola Gradojevic
Lakehead University
"The Dynamic Interaction of Trading Flows, Macroeconomic Announcements and the CAD/USD Exchange Rate: Evidence from Disaggregated Data"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 13 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Sebastian Jaimungal
University of Toronto
"Incorporating Risk Aversion and Model Misspecification into Structural Models of Default"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2009

 
Friday, March 27 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Bruce Mizrach
Rutgers University
"Jump and Cojump Risk in Subprime Home Equity Derivatives"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 3 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Martijn Cremers
Yale School of Management
"Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 17 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Nicolae Garleanu
University of California, Berkeley
"The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 23 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Guofu Zhou
Washington University
"Markowitz Meets Talmud: A Combination of Sophisticated and Naive Diversification Strategies"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 15 2009, 10h (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Thomas-Olivier Leautier
Université Toulouse 1
"Risk Management and Imperfect Competition"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2008

 
Friday, August 22 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Tony Berrada
Université de Genève
"Incomplete Information, Idiosyncratic Volatility and Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 12 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Richard Phillips
Georgia State University
"Competition Among Rating Agencies and Information Disclosure"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 19 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Lorenzo Garlappi
University of Texas at Austin
"Financial Distress and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 26 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Craig Doidge
University of Toronto
"Why Do Foreign Firms Leave U.S. Equity Markets? An Analysis of Deregistrations Under SEC Exchange Act Rule 12h-6"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 3 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Richard Evans
University of Virginia
"What do Soft-dollars Buy? Performance, Expense Shifting, Agency Costs"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 17 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Stylianos Perrakis
Concordia University
"Can the Black-Scholes-Merton Model Survive Under Transaction Costs? An Affirmative Answer"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 24 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Franc Klaasen
University of Amsterdam
"A New Approach to Measuring Exchange Market Pressure"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 31 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Transcontinental
Marcos Fabricio Perez
Wilfrid Laurier University
"Exploring the Common Factors in the Term Structure of Credit Spreads"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 7 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
William L. Megginson
University of Oklahoma
"The Financial Impact of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in Listed Companies"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 12h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Kristian R. Miltersen
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
"Additional Mortgages: A Dynamic Model on Default Probabilities"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 14 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Robert Korajczyk
Northwestern University
"Indraday Patterns in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 28 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Andrea Gamba
George Washington University
"Valuing Corporate Financing Strategies"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2008

 
Monday, March 31 2008, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Chad Syverson
University of Chicago
"Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 4 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
Huntley Schaller
Carleton University
"The Macroeconomic Effect of Sentiment"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 16 2008, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Yongsung Chang
University of Rochester
"Can A Representative Agent Model Represent A Heterogeneous Agent Economy?"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 16 2008, 12h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Olivier Gergaud
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
"Strategic Forecasting in Rank-Order Tournaments: Evidence from Horse-Racing Tipsters"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 25 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
Morten Orregard Nielsen
Cornell University
"Continuous-Time Models, Realized Volatilities, and Testable Distributional Implications for Daily Stock"
contact: [email protected]
Monday, April 28 2008, 13h30 (gcal)
CANCELED
Olivier Deschênes
University of California at Santa Barbara
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 2 2008, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Vivek Kapoor
CITI
"Synthetic CDO Risk-Return Dynamics / Optimal Static Hedging of Defaults in CDOs / Optimal Dynamic Hedging of Cliquets"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2007

 
Thursday, September 6 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Amitabh Chandra
Harvard University
"Some Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 14 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Transcontinental
Mikhail Chernov
London Business School
"Understanding Index Option Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 20 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Andrea Mattozzi
Caltech
"Personal Influence: Social Context and Political Competition"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 26 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Luc Bauwens
CORE, UCL
"Theory and Inference for a Markov-Switching GARCH Model"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 5 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Jean Helwege
Pennsylvania State University
"Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 10 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Martin Burda
University of Toronto
"Classical and Bayesian Analysis of a Probit Panel Data Model with Unobserved Individual Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 12 2007, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Tom McCurdy
University of Toronto
"Components of Market Risk and Return"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 17 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Amartya Lahiri
University of British Columbia
"On the Non-Monotonic Relation Between Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 19 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Jan Mahrt-Smith
University of Toronto
"Organizational Structure, R&D Intensity, and Firm Value"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 23 2007, 12h30 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Paul Beaudry
University of British Columbia
"Spill-Overs from Good Jobs"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 24 2007, 12h (gcal)
Room Sony
Simon Gilchrist
Boston University
"Investment and the Cost of Capital: New Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 26 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Ilan Guedj
University of Texas
"Director Networks and Firm Governance"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, October 31 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Stuart McDonald
California Institute of Technology
"The Market for Internet Services as a Tiebout Economy: An Application of the Shapley Value to Pricing of Internet Services"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, November 7 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Simon Woodcock
Simon Fraser University
"Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Immigrant and Visible Minority Wages in Canada"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 8 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Banque Scotia
Claudio Lucarelli
Cornell University
"An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 15 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Victor Aguirregabiria
University of Toronto
"A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 16 2007, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Scott Joslin
MIT
"Pricing and Hedging Volatility Risk in Fixed Income Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, November 21 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Francis Bloch
Brown University/GREQAM
"Correlated Equilibria, Incomplete Information and Coalitional Deviations"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, November 28 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Sanjay K. Chugh
University of Maryland and Federal Reserve Board
"Bargaining, Fairness, and Price Rigidity in a DSGE Environment"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 13 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ernst & Young
Allan Timmermann
University of California - San Diego
"Portfolio Sorts and Tests of Cross-Sectional Patterns in Expected Returns"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2007

 
Thursday, February 8 2007, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Jobboom (3rd Floor)
Menzie David Chinn
University of Wisconsin at Madison
"The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 8 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Huseyin Yildirim
Duke University
"Blind Review"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 15 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Nicola Persico
New York University
"Racial Profiling: A Theoretical, Empirical, and Legal Analysis"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 22 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Nir Jaimovich
Stanford University
"The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 29 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Benoît Crutzen
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
"Differentiation in the Workplace?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 5 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Richard Paap
Erasmus School of Economics
"Do Leading Indicators Lead Peaks More Than Troughs?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 12 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Dharmarajan Hariharan
University of Pittsburgh
"Efficient Likelihood Analysis and Filtering for State-Space Representations"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 19 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Chris Riddell
Queen's University
"The Pitfalls of "Work-first" Welfare Reform Policies: Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-sufficiency Project"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 20 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Sony
Edith Hotchkiss
Boston College
"Deal Behavior and the Trading of Newly Issued Corporate Bonds"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 26 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Saine Marketing
William L. Thomson
University of Rochester
"Children Crying at Birthday Parties. Why?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 27 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Transat
Peter Reinhard Hansen
Stanford University
"Subsampled Realised Kernels"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, May 2 2007, 12h (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Caio Ibsen Rodrigues de Almeida
Getulio Vargas Foundation
"The Role of No-Arbitrage on Forecasting: Lessons from a Parametric Term Structure Model"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 3 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Luca Benzoni
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago / University of Minnesota
"Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification Test for Affine Term Structure Models"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, May 8 2007, 10h (gcal)
Room Ernst & Young
Bradley Paye
Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University
"Portfolios of Estimated Portfolios: Combination Approaches to Estimating Optimal Portfolio Weights"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 10 2007, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ernst & Young
Stéfan Ambec
INRA Grenoble
"Welfare Criteria to Rank Lifesaving Drug Prices"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, May 15 2007, 14h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Hashmat Khan
Carleton University
"Investment Adjustment Costs: An Empirical Assessment"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, June 13 2007, 15h (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
José Manuel Marqués Sevillano
Banco de Espana
"Uncertainty and the Price of Risk in a Nominal Convergence"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2006

 
Friday, August 25 2006, 14h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Dominique Guégan
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
"Prévisions non linéaires et chaos : Applications en économie et finance"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 7 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Trudeau
Rui Castro
Université de Montréal
"Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 14 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Étienne Wasmer
UQAM
"The Economics of Prozac (Do employees really gain from strong employment protection?)"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 15 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Jianjun Miao
Boston University
"Investment, Consumption and Hedging under Incomplete Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, September 19 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Martina Wilhelm
ETH Zurich
"Pricing financial derivatives in electricity markets"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, September 20 2006, 12h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Taoufik Bouezmarni
Séminaire interne
"Non Parametric Density Estimation for Positive Time Series"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 21 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Nikolay Gospodinov
Concordia University
"Asymptotic and Bootstrap Tests for Linearity in a TAR-GARCH(1,1) Model with Near Unit Roots"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, September 29 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Amrita Nain
McGill University
"Corporate Risk Management in an Industry Setting: An Empirical Investigation"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 5 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Martin Uribe
Duke University
"Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 6 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Jason Wei
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
"Is Systematic Risk Priced in Options?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 19 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Lutz Weinke
Duke University
"Firm-specific Capital and Welfare"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 26 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Matteo Iacoviello
Boston College
"The Role of Housing Collateral in an Estimated Two-Sector Model of the US Economy"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 27 2006, 10h (gcal)
CANCELED
Anthony Sanders
Ohio State University
"Subordinations Levels in Structured Financing"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 3 2006, 14h (gcal)
Room Marie-Husny
René Garcia
Université de Montréal
"Assessing and Valuing the Non-Linear Structure of Hedge Fund Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 3 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Robert McDonald
Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
"Portfolio Choice and Corporate Financial Policy When There Are Tax-Intermediating Dealers"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 9 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Tom Wiseman
University of Texas at Austin
"Reputation and Exogenous Private Learning"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 10 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Fan Yu
University of California, Irvine
"How Important is Option-Implied Volatility for Pricing Credit Default Swaps?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 16 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Jeffrey S. Racine
McMaster University
"Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional CDF and Quantile Functions with Mixed Categorical and Continuous Data"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 17 2006, 14h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
John Abowd
Cornell University
"New Measures of Human Capital and Work Force Productivity"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 17 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Rossen Valkanov
Rady School of Management - University of California
"Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 24 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room CIBC
John R. Conlon
University of Mississippi
"Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles? Some Microeconomic Issues"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 30 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Alain Guay
UQAM
"Identification of Technology Shocks in Structural VARs"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 1 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA
François Derrien
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
"Currying Favor to Win IPO Mandates"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 7 2006, 14h (gcal)
Room Trudeau Corporation
Jean-Pierre Dubé
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
"Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 8 2006, 10h (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Joseph Chen
University of Southern California
"Outsourcing Mutual Fund Management: Firm Boundaries, Incentives and Performance"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, December 19 2006, 15h (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Martin Boileau
University of Colorado
"Dynamics of the Current Account and Interest Differentials"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2006

 
Thursday, March 16 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Standard Life 1
Nicolas Marceau
UQAM
"Concurrence fiscale et émergence de paradis fiscaux"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 17 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Alexander David
Haskayne School of Business
"Inflation Uncertainty, Asset Valuations, and Five Credit Risk Puzzles"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 23 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Standard Life 1
Diego Garcia
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
"Noise and aggregation of information in large markets"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 29 2006, 15h (gcal)
Room Sony
Norman Schofield
Washington University
"The Mean Voter Theorem: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Equilibrium"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 7 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Pierluigi Balduzzi
Boston College
"Rebalancing Activity in 401 (k) Plans"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 19 2006, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Willem Van Zandweghe
Carnegie Mellon University
"On-the-job search, sticky prices, and persistence"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 20 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Yianis Sarafidis
Yale University
"Games with Time Inconsistent Players"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 21 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Jeffrey Pontiff
Boston College
"Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, April 26 2006, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Leemore Dafny
Kellogg School - Northwestern University
"Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 28 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Christophe Perignon
Simon Fraser University
"Commonality in Liquidity: A Global Perspective"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 4 2006, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Elyès Jouini
Paris-Dauphine
"Heterogeneous beliefs and asset pricing: an analysis in terms of pessimism, doubt and risk-aversion"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 5 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Ales Cerny
Cass Business School - UK
"Performance of Dynamic Hedging Strategies: The Tale of Two Trading Desks"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 11 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Eymen Errais
Stanford University
"Pricing multi-name credit derivatives: Beyond the Gaussian copula"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 12 2006, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Chung-Li Tseng
University of Missouri-Rolla
"A Framework Using Two-Factor Price Lattices for Generation Asset Valuation"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2005

 
Thursday, September 22 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Michael Smart
University of Toronto
"Regional grants as pork barrel politics"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 4 2005, 14h30 (gcal)
Room Demers Beaulne
Juanyi Xu
Simon Fraser University
"Global Monetary Policy under a Dollar Standard"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 7 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Sergei Sarkissian
McGill University
"Are there permanent valuation gains to overseas listing? Evidence from market sequencing and selection"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 13 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Salle Transat
Jean Boivin
Columbia University Business School
"DSGE Models in a Data-Rich Environment"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 14 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
David Lando
Princeton University
"Decomposing Swap Spreads"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 20 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Biung-Ghi Ju
University of Kansas
"Efficiency and Consistency for Locating Multiple Public Facilities"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 28 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
J. David Cummins
Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania
"Convergence and Contagion in the U.S. Banking and Insurance Industries: Evidence From Operational Risk Events"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 3 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
William A. Pizer
Resources for the futures
"Indexed Regulation"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 4 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Ryan Davies
Babson College
"Portfolio Cross-autocorrelation Puzzles"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 11 2005, 14h (gcal)
Room Salle Transat
Sumon Majumdar
Queen's University
"On Institution Building"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 11 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Clemens Sialm
Stephen M. Ross School/University of Michigan
"Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 17 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Salle Transat
Diego Restuccia
University of Toronto
"On the Aggregate and Distributional Implications of TFP Differences across Countries"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 18 2005, 14h (gcal)
Room Transat
Margarida Duarte
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
"Nontradable Goods, Market Segmentation, and Exchange Rates"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 18 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Nancy & Michel-Gaucher
Vefa Tarhan
Loyola University Chicago
"Cash Flow Sensitivities With Constraints"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 24 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Taoufik Bouezmarni
Catholic University of Louvain
"Asymmetric Kernel Density Estimators"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 25 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Christiane Lemieux
University of Calgary
"Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo: A Tool for Improving the Efficiency of Simulation in Finance"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 1 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
André Kurmann
UQAM
"Credit Market Frictions and Capital Reallocation over the Business Cycle"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 2 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Nancy & Michel Gaucher
Ilya Strebulaev
Stanford University
"Firm Size and Capital Structure"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 9 2005, 14h30 (gcal)
CANCELED
Nicolas Marceau
UQAM
"Efficacité de la concurrence fiscale et des paradis fiscaux"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, December 9 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Ernst Schaumburg
Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
"The Value of Equity Analysts' Target Prices"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2005

 
Friday, February 25 2005, 14h (gcal)
Room Xérox
Gautam Gowrisankaran
Washington University of St-Louis
"Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 3 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox
Richard Akresh
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 4 2005, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Dutaillier
Burton Hollifield
Tepper School of Business - Carnegie Mellon
"Financial Intermediation and the Costs of Trading in an Opaque Market"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 10 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Ulrich Doraszelski
Harvard University
"Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 11 2005, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox
Michaela Draganska
Stanford University
"Modeling Joint Pricing and Product Assortment Choices"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 11 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox
Jin-Chuan Duan
University of Toronto
"Estimating the Structural Credit Risk Model When Equity Prices Are Contaminated by Trading Noises"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 16 2005, 16h30 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Phelim Boyle
University of Waterloo
"Incomplete Markets: Specification Errors and Robustness"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, March 18 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Jessica A. Wachter
The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania
"A Consumption-based Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 24 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
David Sahn
Cornell University
"Estimating the Consequences of Changes in Fertility on Child Health and Education in Romania: An Analysis Using Twins Data"
contact: [email protected]
Wednesday, March 30 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Standard Life 1
Lucas Davis
University of Michigan
"The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 31 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
John Maheu
University of Toronto
"How useful are historical data for forecasting the long-run equity premium?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 1 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Mark R. Huson
University of Alberta
"Do IPO Investors Get the Blues? Seasonal Affective Disorder and Initial Public Offerings"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 7 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Douglas J. Hodgson
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Models of Foreign Exchange Intervention: Estimation and Testing"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 15 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Paolo Siconolfi
Columbia University
"Economies with Asymmetric Information and Individual Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 21 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
CANCELED
Frank Strobel
University of Birmingham
"Switching mortgages: a real options perspective"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 22 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Timothy T. Simin
The Pennsylvania State University
"Do Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 28 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Christian M. Hafner
Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Semi-Parametric Modelling of Correlation Dynamics"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 29 2005, 14h (gcal)
Room Serge-Saucier
Mihkel M. Tombak
Joseph L. Rotman School of Business
"Firms are not all created equal: Location and Price competition with cost asymmetries"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, April 29 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Vikas Agarwal
Georgia State University
"Why is Santa Claus so kind to hedge funds? The December bonanza puzzle!"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 5 2005, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Lee Alston
University of Colorado
"On the Brazilian Road to Governance: Recovering from Economic and Political Shocks"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, May 6 2005, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Daniel Bergstresser
Harvard University
"Earnings Manipulation, Pension Assumptions, and Managerial Investment Decisions"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2004

 
Thursday, September 9 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Rajshri Jayaraman
University of Munich
"Modelling Domestic Violence"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 23 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Charles Corbett
Anderson School of Business, UCLA
"The Financial Impact of ISO 9000 Certification in the US: An Empirical Analysis"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 30 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Meta Brown
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 7 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Christopher Ferrall
Queen's University
"Joint Production at the Workplace: Evidence from Norwegian Establishment Data"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 8 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Christian Gouriéroux
University of Toronto
"Derivative Pricing with Multivariate Stochastic Volatility: Application to Credit Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 14 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Bruce Shearer
Université Laval
"The Response to Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 15 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Kris Jacobs
McGill University
"Option Valuation with Volatility Components"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 22 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
CANCELED
Burton Hollifield
Carnegie Mellon
"Financial Intermediation and the Costs of Trading in an Opaque Market"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 29 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Raman Uppal
London Business School
"How Inefficient are Simple Asset-allocation Strategies?"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, October 29 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room St-Hubert
Stéphane Chrétien
Université Laval
"Portfolio Performance Measurement: A No Arbitrage Bounds Approach"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 5 2004, 14h (gcal)
Room Standard Life
Vijayendra Rao
The World Bank
"Tokenism or Agency? The Impact of Women's Reservations on Panchayats in South India"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 12 2004, 14h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Mark Duggan
University of Maryland
"The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 12 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Murray Carlson
The University of British Columbia
"Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for SEO Event Studies and Long-Run Performance"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 19 2004, 14h (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Michael Greenstone
MIT
"Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 19 2004, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Xavier Gabaix
MIT
"Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence from the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 25 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Ordre des CGA du Québec
Susumu Imai
Concordia Universitiy
"Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience and Heterogeneity"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 2 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Arianna Degan
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Do Citizens Vote Sincerely (If They Vote at All)? Theory and Evidence from U.S. National Elections"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 9 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Paul Makdissi
Université de Sherbrooke
"Socially-Improving Tax Reforms"
contact: [email protected]
 

Winter 2004

 
Friday, January 16 2004, 9h (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Michel Crouhy
Banque CIBC
"Développements récents dans la gestion du risque de crédit"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, March 2 2004, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Stanley E. Zin
Carnegie Mellon University - GSIA
"Generalized Disappointment Aversion and Asset Prices"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 4 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Izabela Jelovac
Maastricht University
"Internationally-based price regulation and price negotiation patterns"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, March 9 2004, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Mark Loewenstein
Boston University
"The Limits of Investor Behavior"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 11 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Franklin Allen
Wharton School - U. of Pennsylvania
"Law, Finance and Economic Growth in China"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 18 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Audra Bowlus
Western Ontario
"Domestic Violence, Employment and Divorce"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, March 23 2004, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Robert Jarrow
Cornell Universitiy
"Capital Structure and the Present Value of a Firm's Investment Opportunities: A Reduced Form Credit Risk Perspective"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, March 25 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
David Kelly
University of Miami
"Economic Growth and the Environment: Theory and Facts"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, April 13 2004, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
François Derrien
University of Toronto
"Quid Pro Quo in IPOs: Why Book-building is Dominating Auctions"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, April 20 2004, 13h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Domenico Cuoco
Wharton University of Pennsylvania
"An Analysis of VaR-based Capital Requirements"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 22 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Caroline M. Hoxby
Harvard University
"Our Favorite Method of Redistribution: School Spending Equality, Income Equality, and Growth"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, April 29 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Hélène-Desmarais
Duncan Thomas
UCLA
"Causal effect of health on labor market outcomes: Evidence from a random assignment iron supplementation intervention"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, May 13 2004, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Société canadienne des postes
Daniel A. Ackerberg
UCLA and NBER
"Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects"
contact: [email protected]
 

Fall 2003

 
Thursday, September 11 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Daniel Parent
Université McGill
"Education and Smoking: Were Vietnam War Draft Avoiders Also More Likely to Avoid Smoking?"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, September 16 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Peter Christoffersen
McGill University
"Option Valuation with Conditional Skewness"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 18 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Quebecor
Pietro Veronesi
University of Chicago
"Stock Prices and IPO Waves"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 18 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Standard Life 1
Martin Boileau
University of Colorado at Boulder
"Inventories, Sticky Prices, and the Propagation of Nominal Shocks"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, September 23 2003, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Daniel A. Rogers
Portland State University
"Does Fuel Hedging Make Economic Sense? The Case of the US Airline Industry"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, September 25 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Diego Restuccia
University of Toronto
"Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 2 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Paul Beaudry
University of British columbia
"Globalization, Gains from Specialization and the World Distribution of Output"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 9 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Jennifer Hunt
Université de Montréal
"Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 14 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Xerox Canada
Paul Glasserman
Columbia University
"Monte Carlo Methods for Portfolio Credit Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 16 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Louis-Laberge
Jean-Marie Dufour
Université de Montréal
"Testing Black's CAPM with Possibly Non-Gaussian Error Distributions: An Exact Simulation-Based Approach"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 21 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Terrence John Hendershott
Berkeley University of California
"Island Goes Dark: Transparency, Fragmentation, Liquidity Externalities, and Multimarket Regulation"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 23 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Robert Town
University of Minnesota
"Causality and the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Surgery"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 28 2003, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Xérox Canada
Thierry Foucault
HEC France
"Does Anonymity Matter in Electronic Limit Order Markets?"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 30 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Sony
Shannon Seitz
Queen's University
"Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, October 30 2003, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Jin Chuan Duan
Rotman School of Management - U. of Toronto
"Executive Stock Options and Incentive Effects due to systematic Risk"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, November 4 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Javier de Frutos
University of Valladolid
"Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for financial derivatives pricing models"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 6 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Van Houtte
Ig Horstmann
Rotman School of Management - U. of Toronto
"Agency Contracts with Long-Term Customer Relationships"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, November 11 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Luc Wathieu
Harvard Business School
"Privacy, Exposure and Price Discrimination"
contact: [email protected]
Friday, November 14 2003, 10h30 (gcal)
Room Samson Bélair Deloitte Touche
Christian Gouriéroux
Centre Recherche en Économie et Statistique
"Spred Term Structure and Default Correlation"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 20 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Jean Boivin
Columbia University
"Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, November 25 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Jan Ericsson
McGill University
"Accounting Transparency and the Implied Volatility Smile"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, November 27 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Bruno Versaevel
E.M.LYON
"Conflict and Cooperation on R&D Markets"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 4 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Anna Pavlova
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT
"Offsetting the Incentives: Risk Shifting and Benefits of Benchmarking in Money Management"
contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, December 9 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Tano Santos
University of Chicago
"The Time Series of the Cross Section of Asset Prices"
contact: [email protected]
Thursday, December 11 2003, 15h30 (gcal)
Room Transat
Damien de Walque
The World Bank
"How Does the Impact of an HIV/AIDS Information Campaign Vary with Educational Attainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda"
contact: [email protected]

 
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