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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...
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Date: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Charlotte Ostergaard, BI Norwegian Business School /
Abstract:
We study how owners trade off the costs and benefits of establishing a board in a historical setting, where boards are optional and...
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Voluntary Employment Disclosures and Real Earnings Management
Date: Wednesday, February 21st , 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 4218 /
Speaker: Daphne Hart (accounting ), London School of Economics and Political Science /
Abstract:
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission mandates annual disclosures of the number of employees. I...
מידע נוסף
05/02/2018
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What is FinTech and how it affects the evolving economy and financial system
Date: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 /
Time: 12:30 - 14:00 /
Place: Room 3208 /
Speaker: Prof. David Gershon, The Hebrew University /
Abstract:
We review what is FinTech and how it affects the evolving economy and financial system. By means of examples we review some of the major shifts...
מידע נוסף
22/01/2018
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Text Selection
Date: Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis / Abstract:
Text data is inherently high-dimensional, which makes machine learning regularization techniques natural tools for its analysis. Text is often...
מידע נוסף
22/01/2018
