Spring Semester 2009 – 2010

University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management

Weekly Seminar Series

Organizers: Gikas A. Hardouvelis, George Skiadopoulos

Information:  Georgios Karalas, finance-seminars@unipi.gr

Th, Feb. 25, 16:15 -18:00 Christine Parlour, U.C. Berkeley, US  Laying off Credit Risk: Loan Sales versus Credit Default Swaps
Th, Mar. 04, 16:15 -18:00 Peter Schotman, Maastricht University, Netherlands  Efficient Estimation of Firm-Specific Betas and its Benefits for Asset Pricing Tests and Portfolio Choice
Th, Mar. 11, 16:15 -18:00 Dimitris Thomakos, University of Peloponnese, Greece Multivariate NoVaS & Inference on Conditional Correlations
Th, Mar. 18, 16:15 -18:00 Suleyman Basak, London Business School, UK  Strategic Asset Allocation in Money Management
EASTER HOLIDAYS
Th, Apr. 15, 16:15 -18:00 Wofgang Härdle, Humboldt University, Germany Weather Derivatives and Pricing Temperature in Asia
Th, Apr. 22, 16:15 -18:00 Andreas Andrikopoulos, University of Aegean, Greece The Capital Structure Choice and the Consumption Tax
Th, Apr. 29, 16:15 -18:00 Margarita Tsoutsoura, Columbia University, US The Effect of Succession Taxes on Family Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Th, May. 06, 16:15 -18:00 Denis Gromb, INSEAD, France Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion
Th, May. 13, 16:15 -18:00 Amit Goyal, Emory University, US Investing in a Global World
Th, May. 20, 16:15 -18:00 Michalis Haliassos,  Goethe University, Germany Financial Advice and Account Performance
Th, May. 27, 16:15 -18:00 Marta Szymanowska, Erasmus University, Netherlands The Cross-Section of Commodity Futures Returns
Th, Jun. 03, 16:15 -18:00 Stewart Hodges,  City University, UK Fixed odds bookmaking with stochastic betting demands
Th, Jun. 10, 16:15 -18:00 Riccardo Calcagno, VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Hostile vs. Friendly Bidders in Takeover Contests

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