New York University

STERN School of Business

Monday Finance Seminar - FALL 2004

THE MONDAY FINANCE WORKSHOP IS SUPPORTED BY A GIFT FROM MORGAN STANLEY.

Monday Quantitative Finance & Econometrics Seminar Series will take place from 12:00 - 1:00p.m, unless otherwise noted*, at the Henry Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street, New York, in room 4-80. Postings of topics and papers will be made available, upon receipt, in the calendar section of the Department of Finance website http://www.stern.nyu.edu/fin . Please note, lunch will be available to attendees only.

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TOPIC
09/20/2004	David Yermack	NYU STERN	“Golden Handshakes: Rewards for CEOs Who Leave”
09/27/2004	OPEN	OPEN	OPEN
10/04/2004	Heitor Almeida	NYU STERN	“How to Discount the Costs of Financial Distress”
	Thomas Philippon
10/11/2004	Linda Allen	NYU STERN	"Cyclicality in Catastrophic and Operational Risk Measurements ”
10/18/2004	OPEN	OPEN	OPEN
10/25/2004* (12-1:20pm)	Sinan Tan	PhD, NYU STERN	“Labor Income Dynamics at Business-Cycle Frequencies: Implications for Portfolio Choice”
11/01/2004* (12-1:20pm)	Olesya Grishchenko	PhD, NYU STERN	“Long-Term Internal Habit Formation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis”
11/08/2004* (12-1:20pm)	Jason C. Wei	PhD, NYU STERN	“Creditor Protection and Corporate Governance”
11/15/2004	Zheng Sun	PhD, NYU STERN	TBA
	Sadi Ozelge
	Yang Lu
11/22/2004	Jinyong Kim	PhD, Economics Dept., CAS	“Time-Series Restrictions for the Cross-Section of Expected Returns: Evaluating Multifactor CCAPMs”
11/29/2004	Isabel Tkatch	Visiting Phd, NYU STERN	“Demand for Immediacy: Time Is Money”
12/06/2004	Holger Mueller	NYU STERN	“A Lender-Based Theory of Collateral”
12/13/2004	Jacob Boudoukh	NYU STERN	“The Information in Long-Maturity Forward Rates: Implications for Exchange Rates and the Forward Premium Anomaly”
	Matthew Richardson
	Robert Whitelaw