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Seminars for 2007-2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Paper

Sept
21

Neil Pearson UIUC

"Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?"

Nov
2

Charles Jones Columbia

"Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?"

Nov
30

 Thomas Chemmanur  BC

"Heterogeneous Beliefs, Short Sale Contraints, and the Economic Role of the Underwriter in IPOs"                   

 March 7, 08

 Edie Hotchkiss  BC  “Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?”

April
4, 08

 Amy Edwards  SEC

 "Short Selling in Initial Public Offerings"

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

Past Seminars 2006-2007

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title of Paper

Oct 20 Will Goetzmann Yale "Lessons from Hedge Fund Registration"
Nov 10 Jon Karpoff University of Washington "The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books" 
Nov 29 Bing Liang & Mila Getmansky Sherman UMass Amherst "Market Volatility, Investor Flows, and the Structure of Hedge Fund Markets"
Dec 7 Jay Ritter University of Florida

"Corporate Executive Bribery: An Empirical Analysis"

Dec 13 Peter Tufano HBS “Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing”
Feb 16 Maureen O'Hara Cornell University "Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing"
April 13 David Brown University of Wisconsin "Idiosyncratic Volatility of Small Public Firms and Entrepreneurial Risk"

April 27

Jennifer Conrad  UNC

 "Skewness and the Bubble"


 
Past Seminars

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


 

 

 



 


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