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Center for Financial Research

2004 Seminar Series

DateSeminar
February 26, 2004Capital Markets Constrain Industry Scale
Eslyn Jean Baptiste, Columbia University
March 3, 2004A New Monopoly-Creating Phase of Bank Consolidation? The Effect of the Merger of Fleet and BankBoston on Middle Market Borrowers in New England
Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
March 8, 2004Can Changing Information Costs and Investor Preferences Explain Analysts "Herd" Behavior?
Erik Benrud, American University
April 1, 2004A Simple Model for Pricing Securities with Equity, Interest-Rate, and Default Risk
Sanjiv Das, Santa Clara University
April 8, 2004The Impact of Supervisory Disclosure on the Supervisory Process: Will Bank Supervisors Be Less Likely to Downgrade Banks?
Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
April 15, 2004Public Bank Prices and Private Bank Risk
Michael Falkenheim, Office of Management and Budget
April 22, 2004Correlated Default Risk
Jnikunj Kapadia, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
April 29, 2004An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance
J. David Cummins, University of Pennsylvania
May 11, 2004Relationship Lending, Accounting Disclosure, and Credit Availability During Crisis
Wenying Jiangli, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
May 13, 2004Accounting for Loan Losses
Larry Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
May 18, 2004The Political Economy of Bank Entry Restrictions: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. in the 1920s
Carlos Ramirez, George Mason University
May 20, 2004How Law & Institutions Shape Financial Contracts
Phil Strahan, Boston College
June 10, 2004Emerging Competition and Risk-Taking Incentives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Lawrence J. White, New York University
September 2, 2004How Depositors Discipline Banks: A Micro-Level Case Study of Hamilton Bank
Andrew M. Davenport, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kathleen M. McDill, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
September 2, 2004Troubled Banks: Why Don't They Fail?
Virginia Olin, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Robert Oshinsky, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
September 8, 2004The Sensitivity of Bank Net Interest Margins to Credit, Interest Rate, and Term Structure Shocks
Jerry Hanweck, George Mason
Lisa Ryu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
September 15, 2004Geographic Diversification in Banking and Its Implications for Bank Portfolio Choice and Performance
Donald P. Morgan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Katherine Samolyk, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
October 21, 2004So What Do I Get? The Bank's View of Lending Relationships
Sreedhar Bharath, University of Michigan
Sandeep Dahiya, Georgetown University
Anthony Saunders, New York University
Anand Srinivasan, University of Georgia
October 28, 2004Why Financial Intermediaries Buy Put Options From Companies
Stanley Gyoshen, Drexel University
Vladimir Atanasov, Babson College
Samuel Szewczyk, Drexel University
George P. Tsetsekos, Drexel University
November 5, 2004An Examination of How the Proposed Bifurcated Implementation of Basel II in the U.S. May Affect Competition Among Banking Organizations for Residential Mortgages
Paul Calem, Freddie Mac
November 30, 2004Payday Advance Credit in America: An Analysis of Customer Demand
Gregory Elliehausen, Georgetown University
Edward C. Lawrence, Georgetown University
November 30, 2004Optimal and Fiscal Monetary Policy with Nominal and Indexed Debt
Thomas F. Cosimano, University of Notre Dame
Michael Gapen, International Monetary Fund
December 2, 2004Bank Runs in Emerging-Market Economies: Evidence from Turkey's Special Finance Houses
Martha Starr, American University
Rasim Yilmaz, Dumlupinar University, Kutahya, Turkey
December 9, 2004Rate Caps "Smile" Too! But Can the LIBOR Market Models Capture It?
Robert Jarrow, Cornell University
Haitao Li, Cornell University
Feng Zhao, Cornell University
December 10, 2004The Effect of Credit Ratings on Credit Default Swap Spreads and Credit Spreads
Kenneth N. Daniels, Virginia Commonwealth University
Malene Shin Jensen, Virginia Commonwealth University
December 13, 2004A Real Options Approach to Bankruptcy Costs: Evidence From Failed Commercial Banks during the 1990's
Joseph R. Mason, Drexel University
December 15, 2004Bank Borrowing and Corporate Risk Management
Aziz Lookman, Carnegie Mellon University
December 20, 2004Bank Risk and Revenue Diversification: An Assessment of Using Equity Returns
Kevin Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Last Updated: August 4, 2024