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All seminars take place in Otterson Hall unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming 2009 Seminars
Speaker Affiliation Area Topic Date/Time Location
Yesim Orhun University of Chicago Marketing Social Preferences and the Expecations of Altruism Nov 16 - 10:30am 3E107
Nicolae Garleanu UC Berkeley Finance Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price Nov 18 - 2:45pm 3E108
Wendy Liu UCLA Marketing Decision Interruption Nov 19 - 10:30am 3E107
David Laibson Harvard University Econ/Strategy TBD Dec 2 - 3:30pm 1S113
Lubo Litov Washington University in St. Louis Finance TBD Dec 3 - 2:45pm 3E107
Stefan Nagel Stanford University Finance TBD Dec 9 - 2:45pm
John List University of Chicago Econ/Strategy TBD Dec 9 - 3:30pm 1S113
Past 2009 Seminars
Speaker Affiliation Area Topic Date/Time Location
Nathanael Fast Stanford Management Power Corrupts, But Not Absolutely: Power, Incompetence, and Hubris Jan 6 - 10am 4E106
Katherine Milkman Harvard Management Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals Jan 7 - 1:30pm 4E106
Boris Ata Northwestern ITO Optimizing Liver Allocation System Incorporating Disease Evolution Jan 9 - 12:30pm 4E106
Sanjiv Erat Rady ITO Appropriating Value from an Innovation: The Role of Competition and (type of) Value Creation Jan 12 - 12:30pm 4S138
Daniel Gottlieb MIT Econ/Strategy Imperfect Memory and Choice Under Risk Jan 13 - 10am 1E106
Konstantin Milbradt Princeton Finance Trading and Valuing Toxic Assets Jan 16 - 2:30pm 4E106
Chen-Bo Zhong Toronto Managment Metaphors of the Mind: How Sins Feel Dirty and Loneliness Feels Cold Jan 21 - 12:00pm 4E106
Stephen Leider Harvard Econ/Strategy Norms and Contracting Jan 22 - 10:00am 1E106
Vish Krishnan Rady ITO Investments in R&D, Information Technology, and Firm Performance Jan 26 - 12:30pm 3S138
Tor-Erik Bakke University of Wisconsin Finance How does Finance Affect Growth? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Venezuela Jan 26 - 3:00pm 1S113
Tunay Tunca Stanford ITO TBD Feb 2 - 12:30pm 3S138
Ing-Haw Cheng Princeton Finance Corporate Governance Spillovers Feb 2 - 2:30pm 4E106
Christopher S. Tang UCLA ITO Managing Time-Based Contracts with Delayed Payments Feb 9- 12:30pm 3S138
Florian Ederer MIT Economic Strategy Launching a Thousand Ships: Incentives for Parallel Innovation Feb 9 - 2:00pm 4E106
Jan Bena London School of Economics Finance The Effect of Credit Rationing on the Shape of the Competition-Innovation Relationship Feb 10 - 2:30pm 3E107
Anisha Ghosh London School of Economics Finance Asset Pricing with Regime Shifts in Consumption and Dividend Growth Feb 11 - 2:30pm 3E107
David Sraer Berkeley Finance The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks affect Corporate Investment Feb 12 - 2:30pm 4E106
Zahi Ben-David Ohio State Econ/Strategy Can Mandated Financial Counseling Improve Mortgage Decision-Making? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Feb 19 - 12:00pm 4S138
Nageeb Ali UCSD ITO Learning Self-Control Feb 23 - 12:30pm 3S138
Nava Ashraf Harvard Econ/Strategy No Margin, No Mission? Designing Incentives for Public Goods Promotion Feb 25 - 12:00pm 4S138
Manuel Sosa INSEAD ITO Can We Predict the Generation of Bugs? Software Architecture and Quality in Open-Source Development Mar 4 - 12:30pm 3S138
Emir Kamenica Chicago Booth Econ/Strategy Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of branded drugs? Mar 6 - 12:00pm 3S111
Amitav Chakravarti NYU Marketing Categories and Consequences: Categorization-Related Effects in Consumer Information Processing (1, 2) Mar 9 - 12pm 4S138
Kenneth C. Wilbur USC Marketing Marketing on the High Seas: A Structural Model of Cruise Supply and Demand Mar 11 - 12pm 4S138
Julian Jamison USC Econ/Strategy Economic Preferences and Health Behaviors Mar 12 - 12pm 4S138
Noah Myung Caltech Econ/Strategy Improving Coordination and Cooperation Through Competition Mar 13 - 12:00pm 3S138
Candace Yano Berkeley ITO Optimizing Print Preservation of Research Journals Mar 16 - 12:30pm 3S138
Botond Koszegi Berkeley Econ/Strategy News Utility and Decision Making Mar 17 - 3pm 1E106
Pamela Smith Radboud Management You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing Mar 19 - 10am 4E106
Hemant Bhargava UC Davis ITO How to Price Discriminate efficiently? Two-part vs. Three-part tariffs Mar 23 - 12:30pm 3S138
Paul Zak Claremont ITO The Moral Molecule Mar 26 - 12pm 3S138
Andy Schotter NYU Econ/Strategy On the dynamics and severity of bank runs: An experimental study Apr 6 - 12:00pm 4S138
Chaim Fershtman Tel Aviv University Econ/Strategy Taboos: Considering the Unthinkable Apr 9 - 12:00pm 4S138
Tolga Cenesizoglu HEC Montreal Finance Risk and Return Reaction of the Stock Market to News April 16 - 3pm 3E107
Terry Taylor Berkeley ITO Does a Manufacturer Benefit by Selling to a Better-forecasting Retailer? Apr 20 - 12:30pm 3S138
Francesca Gino UNC Econ/Strategy Dishonesty of Honest People Apr 22 - 12pm 4S138
Christopher Polk LSE/Harvard Finance Best Ideas Apr 23 - 3pm 3E107
Omar Al-Ubaydli George Mason Econ/Strategy The nature of excess: Investigating price dynamics in Chamberlin markets Apr 24 - 12pm 4S138
Giovanni Ponti Universidad de Alicante Econ/Strategy Social vs. Risk Preferences Apr 30 - 12pm 4S138
Raghuram Rajan Chicago Finance The Internal Governance of Firms May 4 - 3pm 3E107
Ayelet Fishbach Chicago Marketing The Dynamics of Self-Regulation May 6 - 12pm 42138
Nicola Lacetera Case Western Reserve Econ/Strategy Increasing donations or stealing altruism? May 7 - 12pm 4S138
Dmitry Livdan Berkeley Finance Informed Trading and Portfolio Returns May 7 - 3pm 3E107
Gerard Cachon Wharton ITO Drivers of finished goods inventory in the U.S. automobile industry May 14 - 12:30pm 3S138
Mariagiovanna Baccara NYU Econ/Strategy Similarity and Polarization in Groups May 19 - 12pm 4S138
Suresh Muthulingam UCLA ITO Managerial Biases and Energy Savings: An Empirical Analysis of the Adoption of Process Improvement Recommendations Jun 1 - 12pm MPR2
Anil Kashyap Chicago Finance Which Banks Recover from a Banking Crisis? Jun 5 - 3:30pm 3E107
Florian Heider European Central Bank Finance Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk Jun 17 - 11am 4S128
Aner Sela Stanford University Marketing Crossing the Efficiency Frontier: The Role of Unintended Outcomes in Consumers' Responses to Marketing Offers Sep 24 - 10:30am 3E107
Marc Martos-Vila UCLA Finance PIPEs: a Theory of Private v. Public Placements in Public Firms Sep 30 - 2:45pm 3E108
Elanor Williams University of Florida Marketing The Dynamic Consumer: The Use of Ideals and Intentions in Judgements of Oneself and Others Oct 1 - 2:00pm 3E107
Dan Bartels The University of Chicago Marketing The Role of Connectedness to the Future Self in Intertemporal Choice Oct 5 - 10:30am 3E107
Michel Marechal Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Econ/Strategy Gift-Exchange in the Workplace: Two Field Experiments Oct 6 - 12:00pm 4S138
Michael Ewens UCSD Finance A New Model of the Risk and Return of Venture Capital Oct 7 - 2:45pm 3E108
Kyu Kim University of Pennsylvania Marketing Understanding Anticipatory Time Perception in Consumers' Impatient Decisions Oct 8 - 2:00pm 3E107
Sungho Park Cornell University Marketing Preference Evolution in the South Korean Cigarette Market Oct 12 - 10:30am 3E107
Sandra Slaughter Georgia Institute of Technology ITO The Practical Intelligence of Project Managers and Project Success in Software Development Offshore Outsourcing Oct 14 - 10:30am 3S138
David Hirshleifer UC Irvine Finance Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias and Active Investing Oct 14 - 2:45pm 3E107
Yoram Halevy University of British Columbia Econ/Strategy Other-Regarding Preferences: Outcomes, Intentions or Interdependence? Oct 16 - 12:00pm 4S138
Vincent Nijs Kellog School of Management Marketing Wal-Mart`s Impact on Supplier Profits Oct 19 - 10:30am 3E107
Matthew Selove MIT Marketing Firms Become Different? A Dynamic Model Oct 22 - 10:30am 3E107
Claudia Townsend UCLA Marketing The Impact of Product Design on Choice: A Dual-Process Explanation Oct 29 - 10:30am 3E107
Hong Liu Washington University in St. Louis Finance Portfolio Insurance, Underdiversification, and Idiosyncratic Risks Nov 2 - 2:45pm 3E109
Guillaume Frechette New York University Econ/Strategy The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence Nov 4 - 3:30pm 1S113
Jeremy Fox University of Chicago Marketing Estimating Matching Games with Transfers Nov 5 - 10:30am 3E107
Joachim Vosgerau Carnegie Mellon University Marketing Thought for Food: Imaginary consumption engenders sensory-specific satiety Nov 6 - 10:15pm 1E107
Yacine Aït-Sahalia Princeton University Finance Analyzing the Spectrum of Asset Returns: Jump and Volatility Components in High Frequency Data Nov 6 - 3:30pm 3E107
Antonio Rangel Caltech Econ/Strategy The Neurobiology of Self-control Nov 10 - 12:00pm 4S138