Zicklin School of Business
Economics and Finance Seminar
Fall 2010

All seminars are from 12:45 to 2:15 at VC10-215.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Notes
09/22/2010	Marcin Kacperczyk	NYU	Does Firm Organization Matter? Evidence from Centralized and Decentralized Mutual Funds
09/29/2010	Hao Zhou	Federal Reserve Board	Credit Default Swap Spreads and Variance Risk Premia
10/6/2010	Lu Han	Rotman, Univ. of Toronto	Understanding the Puzzling Risk-Return Relationship for Housing	Joint with Real Estate
10/13/2010
10/20/2010	Steve Spear	1. Carnegie Mellon University	Endogenous Market Incompleteness Without Market Frictions	FMA
10/27/2010	Jennie Bai	New York Fed	The Determinants of the CDS-Bond Basis During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
11/03/2010	John Duffy	University of Pittsburgh	A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing Experiments
11/10/2010	Doug Cumming	York University	Creditor Rights and LBOs
11/17/2010	Anil Makhija	Ohio State University	Behavioral Consistency in Corporate Finance: CEO Personal and Corporate Leverage
12/01/2010	Bart Wilson	Chapman University	The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

Contacts: Christos Giannikos (Christos.Giannikos@baruch.cuny.edu) and Jonathan Wang (Jun.Wang@baruch.cuny.edu).

Real Estate contact: David Frame (David.Frame@baruch.cuny.edu).

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