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Seminars for 2009-2010

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title of paper

September 18, 2009

Darren Kisgen

Boston College

"Do Regulations Based On Credit Ratings Affect A Firm's Cost of Capital?"

October 1, 2009

Paul Irvine

University of Georgia

"Performance of institutional trading desks: An analysis of persistence in trading costs"

November 13, 2009


Larry Fauver

University of Tennessee

Do IPO Earnings and Revenue Surprise Investors?

**The location and times of the seminars may vary. Please contact Professor Gang Hu for further information.

 
Past Seminars

2008-2009: Academic Year

Ingrid Werner, Ohio State University"When Constraints Bind"
Marc Lipson, Darden University of Virginia"What Explains the Asset Growth Effect in Stock Returns?"
Jacob Oded, Boston University "Not All Buybacks are Created Equal: The Case of Accelerated Stock Repurchases"
Kartik Raman, Bentley College"How does stock liquidity influence monitoring? Evidence from firms’ tradeoffs between market-based and debt-based monitoring"

2007-2008: Academic Year

Neil Pearson, UIUC, "Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?" 
Charles Jones, Columbia, "Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?" 
Thomas Chemmanur,  BC, "Heterogeneous Beliefs, Short Sale Contraints, and the Economic Role of the Underwriter in IPOs" 
Edie Hotchkiss, BC, “Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?” 
Amy Edwards, SEC, "Short Selling in Initial Public Offerings"

2006-2007: Academic Year

Will Goetzmann,Yale, "Lessons from Hedge Fund Registration" 
Jon Karpoff University of Washington,"The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books" 
Bing Liang & Mila Getmansky Sherman, UMass Amherst, "Market Volatility, Investor Flows, and the Structure of Hedge Fund Markets" 
Jay Ritter, University of Florida, "Corporate Executive Bribery: An Empirical Analysis" 
Peter Tufano, HBS, “Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing” 
Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University,"Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing" 
David Brown, University of Wisconsin,"Idiosyncratic Volatility of Small Public Firms and Entrepreneurial Risk" 
Jennifer Conrad, UNC, "Skewness and the Bubble"

2005-2006: Academic Year

Chester Spatt, SEC, "Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information"
Michael Roberts, The Wharton School, "Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
QJ Qian, Boston College, "Are Fairness Opinions Fair? The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions?"
Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University, "Did New Regulations Target the Relevant Corporate Governance Attributes?"
Robert Hansen, Tulane University, "Investment Bank Governance"
Anna Scherbina, Harvard University, "Inheriting Losers"
Chris Leach, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Gas Pump Arbitrage"

2004-2005: Academic Year

Ken Kavajecz, University of Wisconsin, "Price Discovery in the Treasury Futures Market" 
Stu Gillan, Arizona State University, "Explicit vs Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Contracts" 
Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University, "What is a Dollar Worth? The Market Value of Cash Holdings"
Mike Barclay, University of Rochester, "Automation versus Intermediation: Evidence from Treasuries Going off the Run"
Dan Bernhardt, Illinois/Rochester, "The Simple Analytics of Informed Finance"
Mary Ellen Carter, Wharton, "The Role of Incentives and Accounting in the Design of Executive Compensation Packages"
Leonce Bargeron, University of North Carolina, "A Theory of Shareholder Tender Agreements"
George Aragon, Boston College, "Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry"
Gang Hu, Boston College, "The Profitability and Informativeness of Institutional Trading in IPOs"
Kristina Minnick, University of Maryland, "Write-offs and Corporate Governance"
Leonardo Madureira, Wharton, Conflicts of Interest, Regulations, and Stock Recommendations" 

2003-2004: Academic Year

Robert Van Ness, Mississippi, "Locked and Crossed Markets on the NASDAQ and the NYSE.
Raghu Rau, Purdue University,  "Analyst Behavior at Independent Research Firms, Brokerage Houses, and Investment Banks: Conflicts of Interest or Better Information"
Utpal Bhattacharya, "When No Law is Better than a Good Law"
Karen Wruck, Ohio State, "Leverage, Asset Liquidity and Management Credibility: New Evidence on the Determinants on Corporate Borrowing"
Harold Mulherin, Claremont, "How Firms are Sold"
Russ Wermers, Maryland,  "Is Money Really "Smart"? New Evidence on the Relation Between Mutual Fund Flows, Manager Behavior, and Performance Persistence"
Li-Anne Woo and Dave Michayluk, Bond University, "News Releases When Markets are Closed"
Paul Bennett and Li Wei, NYSE, "Market Fragmentation & Market Quality"
Jay Wang
, University of Michigan, "Dividend Commitment and Discount Management: The Distribution Policy of Closed-End Funds"
Mila Getmansky, MIT, "The Life Cycle of Hedge Funds: Fund Flows, Size and Performance"
Debarshi Nandy, Boston College, "How is Value Created in Spin-offs? A look Inside the Black Box"
Swami Kalpathy, Arizona State University, "Six-and-one Option Exchanges and Alignment of Equity Incentives"

Finance Seminars & Talks in Boston

Boston College

Boston University

The Boston Security Analysts Society

Harvard Business School-Finance