Fink Center Student Seminar Series


Fink Center Research Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from

11:30am-12:30pm in D.301

 

Spring 2013
DateSpeaker

Topic

4/2/2013 Suzanne Shu

Preferences and framing effects for consumers' retirement income decisions

4/9/2013 No Seminar

 

4/16/2013 Ivo Welch 

Some Quantitative Limits For Disaster Riskand Equity Premium Estimates

4/23/2013 Mark Garmaise

Entrepreneurial Success in the United States

4/30/2013 Romain Warcziag

Economic Development over the long run

5/07/2013 Brian Boyer

Options as Lotteries

5/14/2013 No Seminar

5/21/2013 Mark Grinblatt

Long-Term Investing with Unknown Expected Returns

5/28/2013 TBA

6/04/2013 Sholomo Benartzi 

Behavioral Economics and the Retirement Savings Crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




Winter 2013
DateSpeaker

Topic

1/22/13 Bhagwan Chowdhry

Designing Markets for Impact Investing in Businesses 

1/29/13 Antonio Bernardo

Optimal Debt Financing and the Pricing of Illiquid Assets

2/5/13 Stuart Gabriel

Can Metropolitan Housing Risk be Diversified? A Cautionary Tale from the Recent Boom and Bust  

2/12/13 Leo Bursztyn

Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment

2/19/13 Eduardo Schwartz

The Real Options Approach to Valuation: Challenges and Opportunities

2/26/13 Daniel Andrei

Information Percolation in Centralized Markets

3/5/13 Andrea Eisfeldt

Corporate Distance to Insolvency and the Macroeconomy

3/12/13 Hanno Lustig

The Costs of Quantitative Easing:
A European Monetary History Lesson for Today's Central Bankers