Princeton University

Each year, the Bendheim Center invites a leading figure in the field of finance to deliver a set of lectures at Princeton on a topic of major significance to researchers and professionals. The published lectures will appear as a Princeton University Press book. The lectures are open to the public and held in the BCF classroom.

Robert C. Merton of Harvard University will give the 2011 Princeton Lectures in Finance on September 20-22, 2011.

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The 2008 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by John Campbell of Harvard University, on November 3-5,  on the topic of “Risk and Return in Stocks and Bonds.” 

• Lecture 1:  Estimating the Equity Premium (3:00 - 4:30 p.m.)  [pdf] [pdf] [slides]
• Lecture 2:  Consumption Risk in Long-term Asset Markets (3:00 - 4:30 p.m.) [pdf] [pdf] [pdf] [slides]
• Lecture 3:  Stocks, Bonds, and the Flight to Quality (9 - 10:30 a.m.) [pdf] [pdf] [slides]

The 2007 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by Darrell Duffie of Stanford University on the topic of “Capital Immobility and its Implications for Asset Pricing.”

• October 17. Lecture 1: The mobility of capital, prices, and information in asset markets: An Overview (.pdf)
• October 18. Lecture 2: Search-based theories of over-the-counter markets (.pdf)
• October 19. Lecture 3: Evidence from fixed-income markets (.pdf)

The 2006 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by Hayne Leland of the University of California at Berkeley, on the topic of "Structural Models in Corporate Finance", on September 20-22, 2006, in BCF 103:

• September 20. Lecture 1: Structural models of corporate financial choice (.pdf) 
• September 21. Lecture 2: Optimal financial decisions using structural models (.pdf)
• September 22. Lecture 3: Optimal financial scope and structured finance (.pdf)
   

The 2005 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago, on the topic of "Financial Intermediation and Financial Systems", on June 1-3, 2005.

The 2004 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by William Sharpe, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics, on the topic of "Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice", on May 10, 11 and 12, 2004. The published lectures are now available from Princeton University Press.

The 2002 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by Myron Scholes of Stanford University, the 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics, on May 20, 21 and 22, 2002. The theme of the lectures was "Liquidity."

The 2001 Princeton Lectures in Finance were given by Stephen Ross of MIT, on May 21, 22 and 23, 2001. The theme of the lectures was "Neoclassical Finance." The published lectures are now available from Princeton University Press.