Our Research Seminars

We run a weekly research seminar series at the joint premises of the Duisenberg school of finance and the Tinbergen Institute. Academics from all over the world are invited to present their current research in all fields of Finance. The seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12.45 to 2 pm in our main seminar room in the Symphony Building, Gustav Mahlerplein 117, 1st floor. Snacks are available from 12.15 pm.

There is the opportunity of informal discussions with the speaker after the talk from 2 to 2.30 pm. The seminar is open to the public, anyone is welcome to attend.

Research Seminars, Fall 2011:

• September 14, 2011: James Choi (Yale)
Title: "Small Cues Change Savings Choices"
Link to the paper...

• September 28, 2011: Andre Lucas (VU University)
Title: "Short-Term Versus Long-Term Views in Investors’s Asset Allocation Decisions"
Link to the paper...

• September 29, 2011: Bengt Holmstrom (MIT)
Title: "Transparency and Liquidity: A Difficult Tradeoff"

• October 12, 2011: Enrico Perotti (UvA/DSF)
Title: "Convertible Bonds and Bank Risk-Taking" with Natalya Martinova

• November 9, 2011: Oliver Spalt (Tilburg)
Title: "Managerial Skewness Preferences and the Allocation of Resources in Internal Capital Markets"

• November 23, 2011: Florencio Lopez de Silanes (EDHEC)
Title: "Human Capital and Regional Development" with Nicola Gennaioli and Andre Shleifer

• December 8, 2011: Harrison Hong (Princeton)
Title: "Trading for Status"
Link to the paper...
Note: This seminar takes place on a Thursday!

• December 21, 2011: Augustin Landier (Toulouse)
Seminar cancelled!

Research Seminars, Spring 2012:

• February 29, 2012: Alon Brav (Duke)
Title: "The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition"
Link to paper.

• March 14, 2012: Eugene White (Rutgers)
Title: "To establish a more effective supervision of banking: How the birth of FED altered bank supervision"
Link to paper

• March 28, 2012: Jose Peydro (Pompeu Fabra) CANCELLED
Title: "Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments"
 

• April 18, 2012: Kumar Venkataraman (SMU)
Title: "Predatory or Sunshine Trading? Evidence from Crude Oil ETF Rolls"
Link to paper

• May 2, 2012: Mikhail Chernov (LSE)
Title: "tba"

• May 9, 2012: Philipp Schnabl (NYU)
Title: "How Safe are Money Market Funds?"
Link to paper

• May 16, 2012: Ekkehart Boehmer (EDHEC)
Title: "International Evidence On Algorithmic Trading"
Link to paper

• May 23, 2012: Brian Melzer (Northwestern)
Title: "Spillovers from Costly Credit"
Link to paper

• May 30, 2012: Renee Adams (U Queensland)
Title: "tba"

• June 6, 2012: Chris Malloy (Harvard Business School)
Title: "tba"

• June 20, 2012: Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge)
Title: "tba"

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