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Past seminars

 

The Oxford Financial Research Centre boasts a world-class seminar programme. For those interested, we set out below details of all the Inter-Departmental Seminars held between September 1997 and June 2005. 

 

 

Trinity Term 2005

 

Speaker

Title

Daniel Kahneman, Princeton

The Psychology of Behavioral Finance

 

Jaksa Cvitanic, University of Southern California

Estimation of volatility values from discretely observed diffusion data

 

Kees Oosterlee, Delft University

 

Evaluation of European and American options under de Variance Gamma process with grid stretching and accurate discretization

 

Steven Shreve, Carnegie Mellon

 

Modelling Credit Spread, Implied Volatility, and Optimal Capital Structure with Endogenous Default and Jump Risk

 

Steve Kou, Columbia University

A Two-Person Game for Pricing Convertible Bonds

Emanuela Sciubba

University of Cambridge

 

Disagreeing Forever: Survival and Belief Heterogeneity in Incomplete Markets

Gikas Hardouvelis

Eurobank/University of Piraeus

 

The Yield as a Symmetric Predictor of Output and Inflation

Gabrielle Demange

Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques

 

Sharing Aggregate Risks Under Moral Hazard

Ulrich Hege

HEC School of Management

 

What is the magic in equity deals? Theory and evidence on the means of payment in asset sales

Bernard Cornet

University of Paris

Arbitrage and price revelation with asymmetric information and incomplete markets

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Hilary Term 2005

 

Jean-Charles Rochet

Institute D’Economie Industrielle, Toulouse

 

Dynamic Security Design

Céline Rochon

Universite de Cergy-Pontoise

 

Devaluation without common knowledge

Dimitri Vayanos

London School of Economics

 

A Search-Based Theory On-the-Run Phenomemon

Nobu Kiyotaki

London School of Economics

 

Adjusting to Capital Liberalization

Michael Haliassos

Göethe University

Equity Culture and the Distribution of Wealth

 

Antoine Faure-Grimaud

London School of Economics

 

The Ownership of Ratings

 

Michael Weisbach

University of Illinois

Why are buyouts leveraged? The financial structure of private equity funds

 

 

 

Michaelmas Term 2004

 

Professor C D Aliprantis

Purdue University

 

Some Applications of Riesz Spaces to Economics, Finance and Econometrics

 

Professor Hamid Sabourian

Cambridge University

 

Herd Behaviour in financial models with sequential trades

Professor Francesca Cornelli

London Business School

 

Investor sentiment and Pre-Issue Markets

Professor Michel Habib

Université Montpellier II

 

The role of Knowhow Acquisition in the Formation and Duration of Joint Ventures

 

Professor Harald Hau

INSEAD

 

Macroeconomic Order Flows: explaining equity and exchange rate returns

 

Rafael Repullo

CEMFI

Policies for Banking Crises: A Theoretical Framework

 

Alvaro Cartea

Birkbeck College, University of London

Pricing in Electricity markets: a Mean Reverting Jump Diffusion Model with Seasonality

 

Marco Pagano

University of Napoli, Italy

 

Optimal Auditing Standards

 

 

 

Trinity Term 2004

 

Hyun-Song Shin

London School of Economics

 

Endogenous Disclosures and the Post Earnings Announcement Drift

 

Antoon Kolen

University of Maastricht

 

Robust Portfolio Selection

Hamid Sabourian

University of Cambridge

 

Herding in efficient markets with monotonic signals

 

Aneel Keswani

Cass Business School

 

Determinants of mutual fund performance persistence:  a cross sector analysis

 

Professor Ailsa Röell

Princeton University

 

Executive pay, earnings manipulation and shareholder litigation

 

Robert G Tompkins

 

Estimating Default Probabilities Using the Unconditional Disturbances Approach 

 

 

 

 

Michaelmas Term 2003

 

Raman Uppal            

London Business School

Ambiguity aversion and the puzzle of own-company stock in pension plans

 

Mike Burkhart 

Stockholm School of Economics

In-kind Finance: A theory of trade credit

 

Luca Deidda

CeFiMS, SOAS, 

University of London

On the existence of equilibria in competitive markets with adverse selection and price-setting sellers

 

Thomas Mariotti

London School of Economics

Strategic liquidity supply and security design

 

Todd Kaplan

University of Exeter

 

Why banks should keep secrets

Theo Vermaelen

INSEAD

 

The many facets of privately negotiated stock repurchases

Arnoud Boot

Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

Go public or stay private: A theory of entrepreneurial choice

 

 

 

Trinity Term 2003

 

Gael Giraud

 

The Limit-price Exchange Process

Harald Hau

INSEAD

 

The Role of Transaction Costs for Financial Volatility.  Evidence from the Paris Bourse

 

Matti Suominen 

INSEAD

 

Capital Structure and Industry Equilibrium

Wayne Ferson

Boston College

 

Evaluating Fixed Income Fund Performance with Stochastic Discount Factors 

 

Chester Spatt Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh

 

Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Heterogeneous Information

 

 

 

Hilary Term 2003

 

Amil Dasgupta

London School of Economics

 

Coordination, Learning, and Delay

Carmen Ansotegui

ESADE Business School 

 

Integration of European Stocks Markets after Euro

Mark Salmon

Cass Business School 

 

Do Hedge Funds provide downside protection?

Elu von Thadden 

University of Lausanne 

A Contracting Approach to Debt Structure and Corporate Bankruptcy

 

Enrico Perotti 

University of Amsterdam

 

Entrepreneurs and New Ideas

David Webb 

London School of Economics

Principal Agent Problems with Prospect Theory Preferences: An Application to Executive Stock Option

 

Enrique Sentana 

CEMFI, Madrid 

How does the Future Change our Past Views of the Present?

 

 

 

 

Michaelmas Term 2002

 

David Hobson University of Bath

 

Robust hedging of derivatives

Christian Laux London School of Economics 

Incentives in Internal Capital Markets.  Capital Constraints, Competition and Investment Opportunities

 

Henry Wynn University of Warwick 

 

Algebraic statistics: the use of computer algebra in statistical modelling

Mark Salmon  Cass Business School 

 

Do Hedge Funds provide Downside Protection

Stephen Taylor Lancaster  University

 

From risk-neutral to real-world densities

Frank Gerhard 

University of Oxford

 

A factor model of realized covariation

Lucio Sarno Warwick Business School

 

Exchange Rates & Fundamentals: Evidence on the Economic Value of Predictability