Princeton University

The seminar meets on Wednesdays, 2:50-4:00 p.m., in the Bendheim Center for Finance, Room 103. If you have questions, or would like to be added to the email list for the seminar, please contact Karen Neukirchen.

September 30
Sanjeev Arora (with Boaz Barak, Markus Brunnermeier, and Rong Ge)
Computer Science, Princeton University
"Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products" [pdf]

October 6 (joint with IO)
Liran Einav (with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin)
Stanford University
"Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets" [pdf]

October 7
Adam Zawadowski
Princeton University
"Entangled Financial Systems" [pdf]

October 14   Cancelled
Bruce Carlin (with Gustavo Manso) Anderson, UCLA
"Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication" [pdf]

October 21
Lars Lochstoer (with Viral Acharya and Tarun Ramadoral)
Columbia University
"Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets" [pdf]

October 28
Bilge Yilmaz (with Archishman Chakraborty)
Univerisity of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
"Communication, Consensus and Control"

November 11
Departmental Seminar

November 16 (joint with Macro)
Mikhail Chernov (with David Bakus and Ian Martin)
London Bus. School, Visiting NYU, Stern
"Disasters Implied by Equity Index Options" [pdf]

November 18
Lars Hansen (with Jaroslav Borovicka, Mark Hendricks and Jose Scheinkman)
University of Chicago
"Risk Price Dynamics" [pdf]

December 2
Lasse Pedersen
NYU, Stern

December 9
Amir Sufi
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

December 16
Patrick Bolton
Columbia University

Special day/time/location for the Finance Luncheon Workshop: Tuesdays 12:20-1:30 pm in the BCF Conference Room. 
Special time/location for the Department-wide seminar in Economics: Wednesday November 11, 4:30-6:00 pm, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.