Empirical Finance (PHDBA239C)

Spring 2009

 

 

Syllabus (Preliminary)

 

Tips for giving presentations and writing papers

 

Some papers that might be hard to find

 

Presentation Guidelines

 

 

Problem Sets:

 

Problem Set 1 (due Feb. 3) [Solutions]

 

Problem Set 2 (due Feb. 10) [PS2data.txt] [Solutions]

 

Problem Set 3 (due Feb. 24) [PS3data_cy.txt] [PS3data_pd.txt]

 

Problem Set 4 (due March 3) [PS4data.txt] [gamma_orth.txt]

 

Problem Set 5 (due March 24) [Solutions]

 

Problem Set 6 (due April 7) [Solutions]

 

Problem Set 7 (due April 14) [Solutions]

 

Problem Set 8 (due April 28) [Solutions][Data]

 

 

 

Presentations:

 

Deadline to sign up for registered students: Fr, January 30

 

Predictability 2/24

Presenter

1

Goyal-Welch

Pratish Patel

2

Campbell-Thompson

Sung Bin Sohn

3

Cochrane

Boris Albul

4

Boudoukh et al

Adam Yonce

 

 

 

Long run risk, habits 4/7

 

1

Bansal-Yaron

Su Jeong Lee

2

Hansen-Heaton-Li

Matteo Maggiori

3

Campbell-Cochrane

 

4

Menzly-Santos-Veronesi

Xing Huang

 

 

 

Term structure 4/21

 

1

Cochrane-Piazzesi

Paulo Issler

2

Campbell-Sunderam-Viceira

Nathan George

3

Ang-Piazzesi

Reid Stevens

4

Piazzesi-Schneider

Gil Shallom