Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads
and Capital Structure

Presentation by Hui Chen
Discussion by Pierre Collin-Dufresne

Modeling the Effect of Macroeconomic Factors on Corporate Default and Credit Rating Transitions
Presentation by Stephen Figlewski, Halina Frydman and Weijian Liang
Discussion by David Lando

Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns
Presentation by Viral Acharya, Yakov Amihud, and Sreedhar Bharath
Discussion by Edith Hotchkiss

Hedging Credit: Equity Liquidity Matters
Presentation by Sanjiv Das and Paul Hanouna

Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence from
Subprime Loans
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Presentation by Vikrant Vig, Benjamin Keys, Tanmoy Mukherjee, and
Amit Seru

The Subprime Crisis
Presentation by Mitchell A. Petersen

The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis
Presentation by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Credit Risk Transfer: Implications for Financial Efficiency
and Stability

Presentation by Darrell Duffie

Default Correlation in the Structured Derivatives Markets
Presentation by Alan D. White

Liquidity, Securitization, and Policy
Presentation by Til Schuermann

The Future of Securitization
Presentation by Mark Adelson

Finance as Social Science: The Subprime Example
Presentation by Douglas J.Lucas

How Sovereign is Sovereign Credit Risk?
Presentation by Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan, Lasse H. Pedersen, and Kenneth J. Singleton
Discussion by Jean Helwege

Liquidity Risk and Correlation Risk: A Clinical Study of the General Motors and Ford Downgrade of May 2005
Presentation by Viral Acharya, Stephen Schaefer, and Yili Zhang
Discussion by John C. Hull

Loss Given Default: The Link between Default and Recovery Rates, Recovery Ratings and Recent Empirical Evidence
Presentation by Edward I. Altman

Will Recovery Rates Be Unusually Low in this Default Cycle?
Presentation by Kenneth Emery

Recovery Risk
Presentation by Amit Arora

The Causes and Consequences of the Current Financial Turbulence
Presentation by Raghuram G. Rajan