Department of Economics
New York University
DOUGLAS GALE

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP
Spring semester 2009


General information
Contact: Douglas Gale                       douglas.gale@nyu.edu
Meetings:                                           Monday 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room:                                                517, 19 W 4th Street

 
February 16 Matt Pritsker

"A Fully-Rational Liquidity-Based Theory of IPO Underpricing and Underperformance"

"Large Investors: Implications for Equilibrium Asset Returns, Shock Absorption, and Liquidity."

February 23 Douglas Gale

Acharya, Gale and Yorulmazer "Rollover Risk and Market Freezes"

March 2 Dino Palazzo

Rampini and Viswanathan "Collateral and Capital Structure"

March 9 Tomasz Piskorski

Piskorski and Westerfield "Debt Covenants and Distressed Equity Issuance: Optimal Financing in the Presence of Monitoring"

March 30

The workshop scheduled for today has been cancelled because of the Open House for new students.

April 6 Victor Archavski

Roberts and Sufi "Renegotiation of Financial Contracts: Evidence from Private Credit Agreements"

April 13 Viral Acharya

Acharya, Myers and Rajan "The Internal Governance of Firms"

April 20 Peter Gross

Leitner "Financial Networks: Contagion, Commitment, and Private Sector Bailouts"

April 27 Guido Ruta

Parlour and Plantin "Loan Sales and Relationship Banking"

May 4 Matt Pritsker

Matt Pritsker "Uncertainty and Interbank Lending"