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Proposals/Defenses
The following is a list of dissertation proposal and defense presentations. Dissertation presentations are open to faculty and students. View an archive of proposals and defenses from previous years.
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"Resource Space Dynamics in the Evolution of Industries: Formation, Expansion and Contraction of the Resource Space and its Effects on the Survival of Organizations: |
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By:
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Aleksios Gotsopoulos |
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Date/Time:
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Friday, August 08, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC 100-9A |
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Committee:
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Damon Phillips (Co-Chair), Stanislav Dobrev (Co-Chair; INSEAD Organizational Behavior Area), Matthew Bothner (in absentia) and Steven Kahl |
| Defense: |
"An Examination of Status Dynamics in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry" |
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By:
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Young-Kyu Kim |
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. in room HC 3B |
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Committee:
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Matthew Bothner (Chair), Ron Burt, Damon Phillips, Sean Safford and Stanislav Dobreve (in absentia; INSEAD Organizational Behavior Area) |
| Defense: |
"Group Dynamics and Contact: A Natural Experiment" |
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By:
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Arjun Chakravarti |
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Tanya Menon (Chair), Reid Hastie, Damon Phillips and Amit Gandhi (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin) |
| Defense: |
"Essays in Corporate Governance" |
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By:
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Ashwini Agrawal |
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Date/Time:
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Monday, June 09, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC 3A |
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Committee:
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Marianne Bertrand (Co-Chair), Morten Sorensen (Co-Chair), Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh |
| Defense: |
"Essays on Consumer Finance" |
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By:
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Brian Melzer |
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Marianne Bertrand (Co-Chair), Toby Moskowitz (Co-Chair), Erik Hurst, Amir Sufi and Luigi Zingales |
| Defense: |
"Male Incarceration and Teen Fertility" |
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By:
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Amee Kamdar |
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC C10 |
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Committee:
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Steven Levitt (Chair), Gary Becker, Marianne Bertrand and Jonathan Guryan |
| Defense: |
"Essays on Economic Fundamentals in Asset Pricing" |
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By:
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Jie (Jennie) Bai |
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Date/Time:
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Monday, May 19, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in room HC C03 |
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Committee:
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George Constantinides (Co-Chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-Chair), Alan Bester, Lars Hansen and Monika Piazzesi (in absentia) |
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"Asset-Intensity and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns" |
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By:
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Raife Giovinazzo |
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in room HC 100-9A |
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Committee:
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Toby Moskowitz (Co-Chair), Richard Thaler (Co-Chair), Eugene Fama, Andrea Frazzini and Abbie Smith |
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"Essays on Household Behavior" |
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By:
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Marlena Lee |
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in room HC 100-9A |
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Committee:
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Erik Hurst (Chair), Eugene Fama, John Heaton and Toby Moskowitz (in absentia) |
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"How (Un)Accomplished Goal Actions Affect Goal Striving and Goal Setting" |
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By:
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Minjung Koo |
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Ayelet Fishbach (Chair), Aparna Labroo, Ann McGill and Nira Liberman (Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University) |
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"Empirical Entry Games with Complementarities: An Application to the Shopping Center Industry" |
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By:
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Maria Ana Vitorino |
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dube (Co-Chair), Matthew Gentzkow, Peter Rossi and Kenneth Judd (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University) |
| Defense: |
"Betas, Characterisitcs, and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns" |
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By:
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Mark Klebanov |
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in room HC C05 |
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Committee:
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John Cochrane (Chair), Eugene Fama, John Heaton, Steve Kaplan and Lubos Pastor |
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"Expropriatin Risk and Technology" |
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By:
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Marcus Opp |
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. in room HC C24 |
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Committee:
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Doug Diamond (Chair), Milt Harris, Raghuram Rajan and Morten Sorensen |
| Defense: |
"Essays in Corporate Finance and Real Estate" |
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By:
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Itzhak Ben-David |
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Toby Moskowitz (Chair), Erik Hurst, Steven Levitt and Richard Thaler |
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"Group Dynamics and Interpersonal Contact: A Natural Experiment" |
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By:
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Arjun Chakravarti |
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in room HC C25 |
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Committee:
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Tanya Menon (Chair), Reid Hastie (in absentia), Damon Phillips and Amit Gandhi (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin) |
| Proposal: |
"Structural Estimation of a Moral Hazard Model: An Application to Industrial Selling" |
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By:
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Renna Jiang |
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in room HC 3B |
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Committee:
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Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Peter Rossi (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dube (in absentia) and Milt Harris |
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"Status, Quality, and Earnings Announcements: An Analysis of the Effect of News of which Confirms or Contradicts the Status-Quality Correlation on the Stock of a Company" |
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By:
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Daniela Lup |
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Date/Time:
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Monday, March 03, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. in room HC C04 |
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Committee:
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Damon Phillips (Chair), Steven Kahl, George Wu and Valery Yakubovich (Wharton) |
| Defense: |
"Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status" |
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By:
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Nick Roussanov |
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Date/Time:
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Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in room HC C24 |
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Committee:
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John Cochrane (Co-Chair), John Heaton (Co-Chair), Toby Moskowitz (in absentia) and Pietro Veronesi |
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