Department of Economics
New York University
DOUGLAS GALE

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP
Fall semester 2007


General information
Contact:                                             Douglas Gale
Email:                                                douglas.gale@nyu.edu
Meetings:                                          Monday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room:                                                KMEC, 10-165

Schedule

September 17 No meeting

September 24 Alberto Bisin and Douglas Gale

Gomes and Schmid, "Levered returns"

Li "Corporate governance, the cross section of returns and financing choices"

George and Hwang "Leverage, financial distress and the cross section of stock returns"

October 1 No meeting

October  8 Alberto Bisin and Douglas Gale

Gomes-Schmid, Li, and George-Hwang (continued)

October 15 Dino Palazzo

October 22 Jonathan Halket

October 29 Vivian Yue

November 5 Gian Luca Clementi

November 12 Breno Neri

Bruno Neri "Comparing Value-at-Risk Methodologies"

November 19 No meeting this week because of Thanksgiving.

November 26 Victor Archavski and Guido Ruta

Hennessey, Livdan and Miranda, "Repeated Signaling and Firm Dynamics"

Lustig, Syverson and van Nieuwerburgh, "IT, Corporate Payouts, and Growing Inequaolity in Managerial Compensation"
December 3 Marco Cipriani

Marco Cipriani, and Antonio Guarino "Estimating a Structural Model of Herd
Behavior in Financial Markets"

December 10 Alberto Bisin and Guido Ruta