Finance Seminar Series - Summer term 2015
The seminar takes place every Tuesday from 4:15 p.m. to - 5:30 p.m. in room "Deutsche Bank" in the House of Finance. Paper download (PDF) will be enabled when available.
Organizer: Holger Kraft, Thomas Mosk
Assistant: Sebastian Wagner
We gratefully acknowledge financial support by Alfons und Gertrud Kassel Stiftung and the Research Center "Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe" (SAFE).
Former Seminars:
| Date: | Speaker: | Affiliation: | Topic: | |
| 1. | 14. Apr. | Jonathan Brogaard | University of Washington | High Frequency Trading and Market Integration |
| 2. | 28. Apr. | Michael Weber | Chicago Booth School of Business | Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households' Investments |
| 3. | 5. May | Alessandro Previtero | Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario | Retail Financial Advice: Does One Size Fit All? |
| 4. | 12. May | Martin Oehmke | Columbia Business School | |
| 5. | 2. Jun |
| CANCELLED | |
| 6. | 9. Jun | Stephan Siegel | Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington | The Cultural Origin of Preferences: CEO Cultural Heritage and Corporate Investment |
| 7. | 16. Jun | Hendrik Hakenes | University of Bonn | Separating Trading and Banking: Consequences for Financial Stability |
| 8. | 23. Jun | Antje Berndt | Poole College of Management, NC State University | A Credit Spread Puzzle for Reduced-Form Models |
| 9. | 30. Jun | Johannes Stroebel | NYU Stern | Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions? The Marginal Profitability of Consumer Lending During the Great Recession |
| 10 | 7. Jul | Ivo Welch | UCLA Anderson School of Management | The (Time-Varying) Importance of Disaster Risk |
| 11. | 14. Jul | Olivier Ledoit | University of Zurich | Nonlinear Shrinkage of the Covariance Matrix for Portfolio Selection: Markowitz Meets Goldilocks |