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Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Zvi Wiener, The Hebrew University /Abstract:
Utilizing a staggered implementation of a regulatory change to risk salience as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that an apparently minor visual change—adding...
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Date: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 /
Time: 11:00 - 12:30 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Evgeny Lyandres /
Abstract:
We develop a theory of financing of entrepreneurial ventures via an initial coin offering
(ICO). Pre-selling a venture’s output by issuing tokens allows the entrepreneur to...
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Date: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Hervé Stolowy , HEC Paris
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Date: Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Roni Michaely, Cornell Tech-Cornell University, The Hebrew University
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Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Bernard Black, Northwestern University /
Abstract:
Credible causal inference in accounting and finance research often comes from “natural” experiments. These experiments can be exploited using...
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Date: Wednesday, May 30th, 2018 /
Time: 11:00 - 12:30 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Adriano Rampini, Duke University /
Abstract:
This paper studies how the durability of assets affects financing. We show that
more durable assets require larger down payments making them harder to...
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Date: Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Stephen P. Zeldes, Columbia University /
Abstract:
Under some simplifying assumptions, both individuals and the government are indifferent between traditional tax-deferred retirement accounts and...
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Date: Wednesday, May9th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Tamar Kricheli Katz, Tel Aviv University /
Abstract:
Does addressing both women and men in the masculine - a prominent grammatical practice in gendered languages - affect people’s performances in...
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Date: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Idan Hodor, The Hebrew University /
Abstract:
We introduce the implicit probability of growth: a forward looking quantity that measures the
relative risk priced in by investors upon making an...
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Date: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. Simon Gervais, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University /
Abstract:
We propose a model in which employees differ in both skills and ethics. Employees receive a private, no verifiable
signal about...
