Seminar

Professor Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University ' The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897'

Professor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research ' Financial innovation and the crisis'

Dr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh) ' Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914'

Prof Lord Eatwell (CFAP & Cambridge Judge Business School) discussing his latest research.

Eva Steiner (Department of Land Economy) presenting, Victoria Ormond discussing. Title: On the capital structure of real estate companies View the paper here . The format is 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes general questions and debate. We hope to continue the discussion informally after the...

Gabor Pinter (Department of Land Economy) presenting. Title: Capital Structure and Investment Dynamics Abstract: This paper studies how investment dynamics is affected by firms' decision to lease as opposed to buy productive capital. To understand the role of leasing, a dynamic model of investment with financial frictions...

Peter Scott (Department of Land Economy) presenting, Mei Wang discussing. Title: Preference Construction and Housing Choice: The Role of the Estate Agent. The format is 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes general questions and debate. We hope to continue the discussion informally after the seminar

Kirill Zavodov (Department of Land Economy) presenting, Phuong Doan discussing. Title: Functional dependence, Credit and Investment Abstract: We consider the structure of functional dependence in an investment valuation problem under uncertainty that arises due to complementarity and spillover effects. The functional...

Dr Luke Samy (Winton Institute, Oxford) Title: The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c.1880-1939

Dr Stefano Battilossi (Dept of Economic History and Institutions, Madrid) Title: Securities markets and political violence: investor behaviour at the onset of the Spanish civil war, 1930-36