Proposals and 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.

Defense: "Disclosure Regulation in the Commercial Banking Industry: Lessons from the National Banking Era"
By: Joao Granja
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 3 p.m. in Harper Center, 3B
Committee: Christian Leuz (chair), Randall Kroszner (in absentia), Raghuram Rajan (in absentia), Haresh Sapra, and Douglas Skinner

Proposal: "Uncertainty Brings Excitement and Boosts Motivation"
By: Luxi Shen
Date/Time: Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. in Harper Center, C50A
Committee: Ayelet Fishbach (chair), Chistopher Hsee, Devin Pope, and Oleg Urminsky

Defense: "Cash-Flow Maturity and Risk Premia in CDS Markets"
By: Diogo Palhares
Date/Time: Monday, May 6, 2013, at 11 a.m. in Harper Center, C02
Committee: John Cochrane (chair), Ralph Koijen (in absentia), Lubos Pastor, and Lars Hansen (Department of Economics, University of Chicago)

Defense: "Determinants of Municipal Disclosure and the Consequences of Dissemination"
By: Christine Cuny
Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2013, at 3 p.m. in Harper Center, 100-9A
Committee: Ray Ball (chair), Christian Leuz (in absentia), Jonathan Rogers, and Douglas Skinner

Defense: "Essays on Structurally Heterogeneous Redundancy"
By: Yuan Hou
Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2013, at 9 a.m. in Harper Center, 100-9H
Committee: Reid Hastie (co-chair), Damon Phillips (co-chair; Columbia Business School, Columbia University), George Wu, and Edward Smith (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan)

Proposal: "Supply and Demand Shocks in the Oil Market and Their Predictive Power"
By: Avi Rapaport
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at 11:45 a.m. in Harper Center, C07
Committee: George Constantinides (co-chair), Lars Hansen (co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Stefano Giglio, and Ralph Kiojen (in absentia)

Defense: "Capacity Constraints and Internal Capital Markets: Property-Casualty Insurers' Response to Hurricanes"
By: Teresa Lwin
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at 10 a.m. in Harper Center, C50A
Committee: Tobias Moskowitz (chair), Douglas Diamond, Anil Kashyap, and Amir Sufi

Defense: "It Wasn't Me: The Effect of Perceived Self-Diagnosticity on Adherence to Goals and Standards"
By: Maferima Touré-Tillery
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. in Harper Center, 3A
Committee: Ayelet Fishbach (chair), Wilhelm Hofmann, Ann McGill, and Oleg Urminsky

Defense: "Endogenous Risk-Taking and Risk Premia Dynamics"
By: Serhiy Kozak
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 11 a.m. in Harper Center, 3A
Committee: Pietro Veronesi (co-chair), Lars Hansen (co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), John Cochrane, and Stefano Giglio

Defense: "Intermediation Chains and Specialization by Speed: Evidence from Commodity Futures Markets"
By: Brian Weller
Date/Time: Monday, April 29, 2013, at 10 a.m. in Harper Center, 3A
Committee: John Cochrane (co-chair), Tobias Moskowitz (co-chair), Bryan Kelly, Lubos Pastor, and Lars Hansen (Department of Economics, University of Chicago)

Defense: "Information Disclosures and Predictable Returns: The Resolution of Customer Momentum"
By: Josh Madsen
Date/Time: Friday, April 26, 2013, at 3 p.m. in Harper Center, C08
Committee: Douglas Skinner (chair), Ray Ball, Philip Berger, and Tobias Moskowitz (in absentia)

Defense: "'It all happended so slow!': The impact of action speed on assessments of intentionality"
By: Zachary Burns
Date/Time: Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. in Harper Center, 3SW
Committee: Eugene Caruso (chair), Nick Epley, Reid Hastie, and Jonathan Masur (The Law School, University of Chicago)

Proposal: "Perceptions and metaperceptions of prosociality"
By: Nadav Klein
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. in Harper Center, 100-9H
Committee: Nicholas Epley (chair), Ayelet Fishbach, Reid Hastie, and Ann McGill

Proposal: "Bayesian Compositional State Space Models: Can Hedge Funds Predict the Future?"
By: Laszlo Korsos
Date/Time: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 1 p.m. in Harper Center, 100-9H
Committee: Jeffrey Russell (chair), Ralph Koijen, Nicholas Polson, and Matt Taddy

Defense: "Critical Vendors and Bankruptcy"
By: Ramanadh Chivukula
Date/Time: Friday, February 1, 2013, at 4 p.m. in Harper Center, 3A
Committee: Raghuram Rajan (co-chair), Amir Sufi (co-chair), Amit Seru, and Douglas Baird (The Law School, University of Chicago)

Proposal: "Political Influence and Financial Statements: Evidence from the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004"
By: Catherine Farmer
Date/Time: Thursday, January 31, 2013, at 9 a.m. in Harper Center, 100-9H
Committee: Merle Erickson (chair), Philip Berger, Abbie Smith, and Betsy Sinclair (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago)