Zicklin School of Business
Economics and Finance Seminar
Spring 2011

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

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Note
03/02/2011	Claudia Moise	Case Western (visiting NYU)	Volatility Pricing in the Stock and Treasury Markets
03/09/2011	Robert Whitelaw	NYU	An explanation of the forward premium puzzle: The long and the short of it
03/16/2011	Ernst Schaumburg	New York Fed		Rescheduled to fall
03/23/2011	Jan Groen	New York Fed	Fundamentals Based Exchange Rate Prediction Revisited
03/30/2011	Stavros Peristiani	New York Fed	Are Credit Default Swaps Associated With Higher Corporate Defaults?
04/06/2011	Itamar Drechsler	NYU	A Pyrrhic Victory? Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk
04/13/2011	Hui Guo	University of Cincinati	Options-Implied Variance and Future Stock Returns
04/27/2011	Darius Palia	Rutgers	Banks’ Non-Interest Income and Systemic Risk
05/04/2011	Nikunj Kapadia	University of Massachusetts	The Tail in the Volatility Index
05/11/2011	Byoung-Hyoun Hwang	Purdue University	“Self-Fulfilling” Stock Recommendations

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

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

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