Rice Finance Seminar Series
Fall 2007 / Spring 2008
Thursday Sep 13	10:30am Rm. 316	Ron Masulis Vanderbilt	How do financial institutions affect the IPO underwriting process when they are venture investors?
Thursday Sep 20	10:00 am Rm. 317	Adlai Fisher UBC	Conditional Risk, Overconditioning, and the Performance of Momentum Strategies
Tuesday Sep 25	10:00 am Rm. 317	Jefferson Duarte Washington	Why is PIN Priced?
Friday Oct 26	10:00 am Rm. 316	Tom George UH	Securities Trading when Liquidity Providers are Informed
Tuesday Nov 6	2:00 pm Dean’s Conference Room (210)	Peter Bossaerts Cal Tech
Friday Nov 9	10:00 am Room 316	Amir Sufi Chicago	The Composition and Priority of Corporate Debt: Evidence from Fallen Angels
Friday Nov 30	10:00 am Room 316	Alex Butler UT-Dallas	Does Access to Finance Improve Productivity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Friday Dec 7	10:00 am Room 316	Milton Harris Chicago	Control of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders vs. Management
Friday Mar 14	10:00 am Room 317	John Graham Duke	The Cost of Debt
Friday April 4	Cancelled	Erik Lie Iowa	Cancelled
Thursday April 10	10:00 am Room 317	Paul Tetlock Yale	All the News That‘s Fit to Reprint: Do Investors React to Stale Information?
Friday April 18	10:00 am Room 317	Amit Goyal Emory	Cross-Section of Option Returns and Volatility