Finance Seminars
Fall 2009:
Chris Clifford (University of Kentucky) September 4
Out of the Dark: Hedge Fund Reporting Biases and Commercial Databases
Kristine Hankins (University of Kentucky) September 18
Uncertainty, Merger Waves, and Vertical Integrations
Charlie Hadlock (Michigan State) September 25
Financial Strength and Product Market Competition: Evidence from Asbestos Litigation
Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) October 9
Follow the Leader: Strategic Interaction in Corporate Capital Structure
Tom Bates (University of Arizona) October 30
Jim Wilcox (University of California, Berkeley) November 20
Spring 2009:
Ozzie Ince (Virginia Tech) March 27
The Impact of Venture Capitalist and Underwriter: Interactions on Initial Public Offerings
Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) rescheduled
Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) April 17
Incentive Effects of Extreme CEO Pay Cuts
Fall 2008:
Kerry Back (Texas A&M) rescheduled
Chris Stivers (University of Georgia) September 19
Realized Return Dispersion and the Dynamics of Winner-Minus-Loser and Book-to-Market Stock Return Spreads
Ayla Kayhan (Louisiana State University & SEC) October 17
Credit Rating Targets and Corporate Decisions
Mark Carey (Federal Reserve Board) October 30, Thursday
The Bank as Grim Reaper: Debt Composition and Recoveries on Defaulted Debt
Dave Mauer (University of Texas, Dallas) December 5
Stockholder and Bondholder Wealth Effects of CEO Incentive Grants
Spring 2008:
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) February 8
Independent Institutional Investors and Equity Returns
Alice Bonaime (University of Florida) March 4
Reputation and Repurchase Announcements
Dan Bradley (Clemson University) April 4
Do Insiders Practice What They Preach?
Daniel Bergstresser (Harvard Business School) rescheduled
Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota) April 25
Corporate Fraud and Business Conditions: Evidence from IPOs
Fall 2007:
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) August 31
Analysts Incentives to Produce Industry-Level versus Firm-Specific Information: Theory and Evidence
Sreedhar Bharath (University of Michigan) September 7
Why Do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets?
Chris Yung (University of Colorado) September 21
IPO Information Aggregation and Underwriter Quality
George Jiang (University of Arizona) September 28
The Cross-Section of Stock Price Jumps and Return Predictability
Archishman Chakraborty (Baruch University) October 5
Security Design in Initial Public Offerings
Kristine Hankins (University of Kentucky) October 12
Estimating Dynamic Panel Models: Simulation Results in the Context of Corporate Finance
Greg Udell (Indiana University) October 26
Why Do Firms Switch Banks?
Michael Faulkender (Northwestern University) November 9
A Panel Data Analysis of Interest Rate Risk Management
Takeo Hoshi (UC San Diego) December 10
Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan
Spring 2007:
Dave Denis (Purdue University) March 23
Do Firms Manage Earnings to Meet Dividend Thresholds?
Tong Yao (University of Arizona) April 6
The Investment Value of Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure
Li Jin (Harvard Business School) April 13
Managerial Career Concern and Mutual Fund Short-Termism
Micah Officer (University of Southern California) April 20
Overinvestment, Corporate Governance, and Dividend Initiation
Fall 2006:
Amir Sufi (University of Chicago) September 22
Creditor Control Rights and Firm Investment Policy
Vikram Nanda (Arizona State University) (rescheduled)
Finance and Innovation: The Case of Publicly Traded Firms
Don Mullineaux (University of Kentucky) October 20
A Comparison of Syndicated Loan Pricing at Investment and Commercial Banks
Ron Masulis (Vanderbilt University) November 2
Seasoned Equity Offerings: Quality of Accounting Information and Expected Flotation Costs
Pankaj Maskara (University of Kentucky) November 17
Are Bank Loans Special? Evidence from Bank Loan Announcements
Mark Liu and Qun Wu (University of Kentucky) December 8
The Effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions on the Performance of Corporate Spin-Offs