January   18 (F) -- David Reeb (Kogod)
                                     " Boards and Bonds " (joint with R. Anderson, Kogod)  

       February   1 (F) -- Klaas Baks (Wharton) -- Finance Recruiting Seminar
                                       " On the Performance of Mutual Fund Managers "

       February   8 (F) -- Sandy Klasa (U. of Oregon) -- Finance Recruiting Seminar
                                       " The Evolution of Ownership Structure in Publicly Traded Firms "

       February 11 (M) -- Chitru Fernando (U. of Michigan) -- Finance Recruiting Seminar
                                        " Liquidity Shocks, Systemic Risk and Market Collapse: Theory and Application to Perps "

       February 12 (Tu) -- Olga Filipenko (NYU) -- Finance Recruiting Seminar
                                        " Financial Flexibility and Limited Recourse Project Finance "

       February 14 (Th) -- Jesse Bull (Wharton) -- Economics Recruiting Seminar , Roper Hall 100, 12 noon
                                        " Costly Evidence Production and the Limits of Verifiability "

       February 15 (F) -- Robert Hauswald (UMd) -- Finance Recruiting Seminar
                                      " Ownership and Control in Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence "
                                      (joint with Ulrich Hege, HEC School of Management -- Paris)      

       March 1    (F)   -- David Mauer, Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist U.
                                     " Real Options, Agency Conflicts and Financial Policy " (joint with Sudipto Sarkar, MacMaster U.)

       March 29 (F)  -- No seminar (Passover/Easter week and week-end)

       April   5 (F)  -- Anup Agarwal, U. of Alabama
                                 " Who is Afraid of Reg. FD? The Behavior & Performance of Sell-side Analysts Following the SEC's Fair Disclosure Rule "
                                 ( joint with Sahiba Chadha, U. of Alabama)  

       April 12 (F)  -- Ross Jennings, U. of Texas at Austin
                                " Expected Returns during Earnings Announcement Periods "
                                 ( joint with D. Chambers, U. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and R. Thompson, Kogod)  

       April 19 (F)  -- Leora Klapper, World Bank
                                " Bankruptcy Around the World: Explanation of its Relative Use "  ( joint with C. Claessens, U. of Rotterdam)        

       April 26 (F)  -- No seminar        

       May   3 (F)   -- Mark Carey, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
                                " The Determinants of Corporate Loan Liquidity " ( joint with V. Bhasin, Fed. Board)       

       May 10 (F)   --  No seminar              

       May 17 (F)   --  Oliver Kim, UMd
                                 " The Return-Earnings Relation when Analysts' Forecasts are Used as a Proxy for Investor Expectations ”

       May 29 (W)   --Vihang Errunza, McGill University
                                " Characterizing World Market Integration through Time "
                                (joint with Francesca Carrieri, McGill U. and Ked Hogan, Barclays Global Investors)       

       June 7 (F)     -- No seminar      

       June 14 (F)  --  Asli Demirguc-Kunt, World Bank and NBER
                                 " Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Size Matter "

       June 20 (Th)  -- David Goldreich, London Business School
                                 " The price of Future Liquidity: Time-varying Liquidity in the US Treasury Market "
                                 (joint with Bernd Hanke and Purnandu Nath, LBS)

Past Seminars --  Fall 2002 Schedule

         August 28 (W, 10am)  -- Michel Robe, Kogod
                                                "The States vs. the states: On the Welfare Costs of Volatility in the U.S."

        September 4 through 13  -- No seminar

        September 18 (W, 10am)   -- Jonathan D. Fisher, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
                                                       "The Consumption Effects Associated with Filing for Personal Bankruptcy"
                                                       ( joint with Larry Filer, Old Dominion U.)

        September 27 (F, 11.15am)  -- Yiorgos Allayannis, Darden School of the U. of Virginia
                                                          Capital Structure and Financial Risk: Evidence from Foreign Debt Use in East Asia
                                                          (joint with with Greg Brown, UNC Chapel Hill, and Leora Klapper, World Bank)

       October 2 (W, 10am)   -- Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
                                                "A Quantitative Theory of Unsecured Consumer Credit with Risk of Default"
                                                (with Makoto Nakajima and Victor Rios-Rull, University of Pennsylvania, and Dean Corbae, U.of Texas at Austin)

       October 9 (W, 9.30am )  -- H. Kent Baker, Kogod
                                                   "In Search of a Residual Dividend Policy"

       October 16 & 18  -- No seminar ( FMA 2002 Meetings )

       October 23 (W, 10am)  -- Gordon Bodnar, Johns Hopkins U.
                                                 "Estimating Exchange Rate Exposures: Issues in Model Structure" (joint with F. Wong, U. of Chicago)

       November 1 (F, 11.15am) -- Andrei Kirilenko, IMF    
                                                      " On the Impossibility of Efficient Investment in Innovation "

       November 8 (F, 2.30-4pm)  --  Darius Miller, U. of  Indiana (Bloomington)
                                                         "Do Multi-market Offerings Lower the Cost of Capital? Evidence from Global Bonds"
                                                         (joint with J. Puthenparackal, Ohio U.)     

       November 15 & 16  --  "5th Maryland Finance Symposium"

       November 22 (F, 11.15am-12.45pm)   --  Jonathan Dombrow, U. of Illinois (Chicago)
                                                                          "Spatial Competition and Shopping Externalities: Evidence from the Housing Market" (tables)
                                                                          (joint with G. Turnbull, Georgia State U.)

       November 27 & 29  -- No seminar (Thanksgivings)

       December 2 (M, 1.30-2.45pm)  --  Wendy Liu, U. of Indiana   IB Recruiting Seminar
                                                                "Do Dividends Subsitute for Corporate Governance? A Cross-country Dynamic View"

       December 4 (W, 10-11.30am)  -- Dilip Patro, U. of Maryland and Rutger U.
                                                              "Firm characteristics and the impact of emerging market liberalizations" (joint with J. Wald, Rutgers U.)

       December 6 (F, 11.15am-12.45pm)  --  Bill Wilhelm, McIntire School of the U. of Virginia.
                                                                       "Partnerships" (joint with A. Morrison, Oxford U.)

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