Bendheim Center for Finance

Student Research Workshop
Fall 2008

When and where:

Meetings are Tuesdays (for dates see below) from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in the BCF Library. Lunch is served at 12:20 pm. The workshop is roughly once every two weeks, with allowances for conflicts with the Behavioral Economics Seminar as well as academic breaks.

If you would like a slot to present please e-mail Hyun Shin or Ing-Haw Cheng.

The rules

This is a workshop for students writing dissertations in Finance. Economics students with carrel space in the BCF are required to attend and are expected to present regularly. The workshop is a vehicle for presentation of work in progress. One session may consist of multiple presentations.

Program (slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis):

Sept. 23	Adam Zawadowski: “Entangled Financial Systems”
Sept. 30	DeForest McDuff: “Identifying City Substitutes: Observable Similarity and Home Price Correlation” Sam Hansen (Harvard University): TBA
Oct. 14	Francesco Bianchi (Job Market Presentation): “Rare Events and the Cross Section of Asset Returns” (Full Hour)
Nov. 11 (NEW DATE)	Felipe Schwartzman: TBA Dacheng Xiu: “QMLE of volatility/covariance using high frequency data”
Nov. 18	Marianne Andries: “Social Responsibility: The Impact on Asset Prices” Jialin Yu (Columbia): “The Chinese Warrants Bubble”
Dec. 2	Huntley Schaller (Carleton University, Visiting Prof.): “The Macroeconomic Effect of Sentiment” (Full Hour)

Department of Economics

Maintained by Ing-Haw Cheng
Last update: Aug 26 2008