Date: Wednesday, April 3rd , 2019 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Renee Adams, University of Oxford / Abstract: We apply computational linguistic models to Australian publicly listed firms’ reports to a gender-equality statutory agency to construct the first...
Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Gilles Hilary, Georgetown University / Abstract: Recent data breach have generated concerns that insiders might use cyber risk related nonpublic information in their trading. Using the staggered...
Date: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Elyas Elyasiani, Temple University / Abstract: The complex and opaque nature of insurer liabilities, coupled with equity-based compensation packages for insurer executives, potentially...
Date: Wednesday, January 23rd , 2019 / Time: 11:00 - 12:00 / Place: Room 4128 / Speaker: Benny Oz / Abstract: We look at the social cost due to an individual deviation from a commonly used strategy and show its usefulness in deriving the symmetric socially optimal strategy in symmetric...
Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Professor Roni Michaely, University of Geneva and SFI, the Hebrew University / Abstract: We study the effect of cultural diversity on an industry’s labor force using information about...
Date: Wednesday, 02.01.19 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Elyashiv Wiedman, Jerusalem Business School / Abstract: We analyze the effect of media coverage on corporate voluntary disclosure. Specifically, we examine a model where a journalist who covers a firm chooses...
Date: Wednesday, January 2nd , 2019 / Time: 10:30 - 12:00 / Place: Room 4128 / Speaker: Prof. Ron Bekkerman, Haifa University
Date: Wednesday, December 26 th, 2018 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Abigail Hurwitz, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania / Abstract: The need to ensure that people have adequate savings for retirement has prompted debate among regulators and...
Date: Wednesday, December 19th, 2018 / Time: 14:00 - 15:30 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Ronen Gradwohl , Northwestern University / Abstract: We compare the amount of information that can be credibly transmitted by strategic cheap talk when information is centralized to one...
Date: Wednesday, December 12thth, 2018 / Time: 12:30 - 14:00 / Place: Room 3208 / Speaker: Prof. Efraim Bennmelech, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University / Abstract: We introduce and quantify a new channel through which the housing market affects household spending: the...
