Date

Speaker

Paper

January 16

January 23

Kenneth Ahern

U. of Michigan

 Bargaining Power and Industry Dependence in Mergers

January 30

Shane Underwood

Rice University

 Has the Propensity to Pay Out Declined?

February 6

February 13

Shawn Thomas

U. of Pittsburgh

February 20

February 27

Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam

U.C.L.A.

 Why Has Trading Volume Increased?

March 6

March 13

No seminar

March 20

No seminar

March 27

April 3

April 10

Presentations by PhD students

April 17

Presentations by PhD students

April 24

May 1

Charlie Hadlock

Michigan State University

Is the KZ Index Useful? New Evidence on Measuring Financial Constraints