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2001-2006 Seminar Schedule


2007 Speakers

Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
01/31/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall Room 327 Nishad Kapadia Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill The Next Microsoft? Skewness, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and Expected Returns
02/02/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Anzhela Knyazeva Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Delivering on the Dividend Promise: Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, and Dynamic Dividend Behavior
02/05/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall Room 327 Tao Shu McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin Trader Composition, Price Efficiency, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
02/12/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall Room 327 Arthur Korteweg School of Business, University of Chicago The Costs of Financial Distress across Industries
03/02/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall Room 327 Darius Palia Rutgers Business School, Rutgers: State University of New Jersey Does Better Corporate Governance "Cause" Better Firm Performance?
03/23/07 1:00pm-2:30pm Brooks Hall Room 327 David Yermack Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Where are the shareholders' mansions? CEOs' home purchases, stock sales, and subsequent company performance
04/13/07 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall Room 520 Neil Pearson College of Business, University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?
04/27/07 1:00pm-2:30pm Brooks Hall Room 520 Tina Yang College of Business and Behavior Science, Clemson University Mutual funds as monitors: Evidence from mutual fund voting

2006 Speakers

TA Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
Jonathan Albert 12/8/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Douglas Blackburn Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Option Implied Risk Aversion and Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution
Ryan McKeon 12/01/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Brandon Julio College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Overcoming Overhang: Agency Costs, Investment, and the Option to Repurchase Debt
Jide Wintoki 11/29/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Josh Pierce Ross School of Business, University of Michigan What Happens in Acquisitions? Evidence from Brand Ownership Changes and Advertising
Mihail Miletkov 11/20/06 2:30pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall 520 Ashley Wang The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California at Irvine Asset Pricing and Mispricing
Jide Wintoki 11/17/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Lu Zhang Ross School of Business, University of Michigan The New Issues Puzzle: Testing the Investment-based Explanation
Helen Fu & Jason Howell 11/3/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Isil Erel Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University The Effect of Bank Mergers on Loan Prices: Evidence from the U.S.
Mihail Miletkov 10/20/2006 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Micah Officer Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Dividend Policy, Dividend Initiations, and Governance
Ryan McKeon 9/29/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall room 520 Federico Nardari W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Does the Choice of Model or Benchmark Affect Inference in Measuring Mutual Fund Performance?
Helen Fu & Jason Howell 9/22/06 2:00pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Narasimhan Jegadeesh Gouizueta Business School, Emory University Imitation or Information-Driven Herding? An Analysis of Analysts' Recommendations and Market Reactions
Jonathan Albert & Naresh Bansal 9/15/06 11:00am-12:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Darren Kisgen Carroll School of Management, Boston College Do Firms Target Credit Ratings or Leverage Levels
Jonathan Albert & Naresh Bansal 9/1/06 2:00pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Harley “Chip” Ryan J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University Corporate Governance, Debt, and Activist Institutions
Jason Howell 4/28/06 2:00am - 3:30pm Brooks Hall, Room 520 Wayne Ferson Boston College Measuring the Timing Ability of Fixed Income Mutual Funds
Ryan McKeon 4/7/06 2:00pm - 3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Chris Kirby Clemson University Long Memory in Volatility and Trading Volume
Mihail Miletkov 3/3/06 3:00pm - 4:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Darius Miller Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-listing Decision
Jide Wintoki 2/24/06 10:30am - 12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Clara Vega Federal Reserve Board Asymmetric Information in the Stock Market: Economic News and Co-movement
Jason Howell 2/17/06 11:00am - 12:30pm Brooks Hall 327 Dr. Tarun Chordia Goizueta Business School, Emory University Liquidity and Market Efficiency
1/27/06 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall 520 Jonathan W. Lewellen Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth "A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests"
2006 Speakers

TA Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
Jonathan Albert 12/8/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Douglas Blackburn Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Option Implied Risk Aversion and Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution
Ryan McKeon 12/01/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Brandon Julio College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Overcoming Overhang: Agency Costs, Investment, and the Option to Repurchase Debt
Jide Wintoki 11/29/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Josh Pierce Ross School of Business, University of Michigan What Happens in Acquisitions? Evidence from Brand Ownership Changes and Advertising
Mihail Miletkov 11/20/06 2:30pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall 520 Ashley Wang The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California at Irvine Asset Pricing and Mispricing
Jide Wintoki 11/17/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Lu Zhang Ross School of Business, University of Michigan The New Issues Puzzle: Testing the Investment-based Explanation
Helen Fu & Jason Howell 11/3/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Isil Erel Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University The Effect of Bank Mergers on Loan Prices: Evidence from the U.S.
Mihail Miletkov 10/20/2006 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Micah Officer Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Dividend Policy, Dividend Initiations, and Governance
Ryan McKeon 9/29/06 10:30am-12:00pm Brooks Hall room 520 Federico Nardari W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Does the Choice of Model or Benchmark Affect Inference in Measuring Mutual Fund Performance?
Helen Fu & Jason Howell 9/22/06 2:00pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Narasimhan Jegadeesh Gouizueta Business School, Emory University Imitation or Information-Driven Herding? An Analysis of Analysts' Recommendations and Market Reactions
Jonathan Albert & Naresh Bansal 9/15/06 11:00am-12:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Darren Kisgen Carroll School of Management, Boston College Do Firms Target Credit Ratings or Leverage Levels
Jonathan Albert & Naresh Bansal 9/1/06 2:00pm-3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Harley “Chip” Ryan J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University Corporate Governance, Debt, and Activist Institutions
Jason Howell 4/28/06 2:00am - 3:30pm Brooks Hall, Room 520 Wayne Ferson Boston College Measuring the Timing Ability of Fixed Income Mutual Funds
Ryan McKeon 4/7/06 2:00pm - 3:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Chris Kirby Clemson University Long Memory in Volatility and Trading Volume
Mihail Miletkov 3/3/06 3:00pm - 4:30pm Brooks Hall room 520 Darius Miller Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-listing Decision
Jide Wintoki 2/24/06 10:30am - 12:00pm Brooks Hall 520 Clara Vega Federal Reserve Board Asymmetric Information in the Stock Market: Economic News and Co-movement
Jason Howell 2/17/06 11:00am - 12:30pm Brooks Hall 327 Dr. Tarun Chordia Goizueta Business School, Emory University Liquidity and Market Efficiency
1/27/06 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall 520 Jonathan W. Lewellen Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth "A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests"


2005 Speakers

Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
1/21/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Dr. Harold Mulherin Claremont McKenna College Do Termination Provisions Truncate the Takeover Bidding Process?
1/24/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Amrita Nain University of Michigan, Michigan Business School The Strategic Motives for Corporate Risk Management
1/28/05 9:30am - 11:00am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Tyler Henry University of Washington Constrained Short Selling and the Probability of Informed Trade
2/2/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Ginger Wu University of Pennsylvania Divergence of Opinion and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
2/7/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Gennaro Bernile University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business The Information Content of Insiders'Forecasts: Analysis of the Gains from Mergers in the 90s
2/9/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 George Aragon Boston College, Carroll School of Management Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry.
3/25/05 10:30am - 12:00am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Ajay Khorana College of Management, Georgia Tech Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry.
4/28/05 10:00am - 12:00pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Geoff Smith Terry College of Business How Important are Systematic Risk and Firm Size to Executive Compensation? It's all Relative and Sarbanes-Oxley and the Foreign Issuer: A Test of the Bonding Hypothesis
8/19/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Robert Marquez Smith School of Business, University of Maryland Governance Mechanisms and Corporate Disclosure
8/26/05 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Stuart Gillan Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Explicit vs. Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Agreements
11/4/05 11:00am - 12:30pm Brooks Hall 520 Karl Diether Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University Can Short-sellers Predict Returns? Daily Evidence
11/11/05 11:15am - 12:15pm Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Yenfeng Qi Nankai University How Do China's Enterprises Invest and Finance? A descriptive analysis based on a questionnaire survey



2004 Speakers

Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
1/21/2004 1:00pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Matthew J. Higgins Emory University "The Outsourcing of R&D Through Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
2/2/2004 1:00pm - 2:30pm Sanford Hall
Room 314		 Ilan Guttman Hebrew University - Isreal "The Timing of Analysts Earnings Forecasts and Investors Beliefs"
2/6/2004 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Josh Pollet Harvard University "Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market"
2/11/2004 1:00pm - 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Deon Stickland University of North Carolina "The Determinants of Idiosyncratic Volatility"
3/19/2004 1:00pm - 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 520		 John B. Guerard, Jr.   "Socially Responsible Investment Screening: Strong Empirical Evidence of No Significant Cost for Actively Managed Value-Focused Portfolios"
3/26/2004 1:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Naveen Daniel Georgia State University "Boards: Does one size fit all?"
4/16/2004 1:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Jay Shanken Emory University "Dividend Yield, Risk, and Mispricing: A Bayesian Analysis"
4/23/2004 1:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Kim Rodgers SEC "Inter-firm Linkages and the Wealth Effects of Financial Distress along the Supply Chain: Rivals, Customers, and Suppliers."
10/22/04 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Charles Hadlock McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia Corporate Equity Ownership and the Governance of Product Market Relationship
9/10/04 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Michael Brandt The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University International Risk Sharing is Better Than You Think, or Exchange Rates are Too Smooth
12/03/04 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Jun Yang Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis Executive Stock Options and Earning Management: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
12/10/04 10:00am - 11:30am Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Gang Hu Carroll School of Management, Boston College The Profitability and Informativeness of Institutional Trading in IPOs



2003 Speakers

Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
8/28/2003 2:00pm Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Swaminathan Kalpathy Arizona State University, Tempe "Earnings Management Around Employee Stock Option Reissues"
9/19/2003 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Doron Avramov Robert H. Smith Business School, University of Maryland "Stock Returns are Predictable: A Firm Level Analysis"
9/26/2003 2:30 - 4:00pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Adam V. Reed Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina "Failure is an Option: Impediments to Short Selling and Options Prices"
10/17/2003 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Harold Mulherin Claremont McKenna College "How Are Firms Sold?"
11/7/2003 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Jeff Pontiff Boston College "Shares Outstanding and Cross-Sectional Returns"
11/14/2003 2:30pm Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Paul Bennett New York Stock Exchange "Market Structure, Fragmentation and Market Quality: Evidence from Recent Listing Switches"
12/3/2003 10:00am Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Joe Zhang University of Iowa "Uncertainty Risk and Cross-sectional Returns: Theory and Evidence"
12/5/2003 11:00am Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Mark Liu Boston College "Analysts' Incentives to Produce Firm-Specific versus Industry-Level Information: Theory and Evidence"
12/8/2003 10:30am Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Laura Tuttle The Ohio State University "Hidden Orders, Trading Costs and Information"



2002 Speakers

Date Time Place Speaker Institute Paper Title
Sep 13 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Ken Kavajecz Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "Technical Analysis and Liquidity Provision"
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Sep 20 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Jianping Qi University of South Florida "The Information Role of Debt and Dividends with Lender Holdup"
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Oct 4 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Jeffrey Coles Arizona State University "Endogeneity in Corporate Finance"
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Nov 8 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Henry Cao University of North Carolina "Model Uncertainty, Limited Market Participation and Asset Prices"
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Nov 11 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Julie Agnew The College of William and Mary "Inefficient Choices in 401(k) Plans: Evidence from Individual Level Data"
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Nov 15 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Lisa Kramer Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto "Stare Down the Barrel and Center the Crosshairs: Targeting the Ex Ante Equity Premium"
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Nov 18 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Mengxin Zhao Katz Graduate School of Business – University of Pittsburgh Acquisition Decisions and CEO Turnover: Do Bad Bidders Get Fired?
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Dec 4 3:00 - 4:30 Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Art Durnev University of Michigan  
Dec 9 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 327		 Sonya Lim Ohio State University  
Dec 11 2:30 - 4:00 Brooks Hall
Room 520		 Natasha Burns Ohio State University The Role of Cross-listed Stock as an Acquisition Currency: Evidence from Takeovers of U.S. Firms
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2001 Speakers

Date Speaker Institute Paper Title
3/16/01 Raymond P.H. Fishe Unviersity of Miami The Behavior of Bid-Ask Spreads and Volume in Options Markets during the Competition for Listing in 1999
3/30/01 P. Raghavendra Rau Purdue University It's All Under-Reaction
4/13/01 Ekkehart Boehmer Unviersity of Georgia Who Ends Up Short from Underwriting Short Covering?
9/10/01 Tod Perry Arizona State University Do Boards Affect Performance? Evidence from Corporate Restructuring
10/5/01 Michael Cooper Purdue University Is Time-Series Based Predictability Evident in Real-time?
10/11/01 Yrjo Koskinen Stockholm School of Economics Corporate Leverage and Currency Crises
10/26/01 Tyler Shumway University of Michagan Can Individual Investor Beat the Market?
11/2/01 William Maxwell Texas Tech Do Spin-offs Expropriate Wealth from Bondholders?
11/9/01 Robert Bliss Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Recovering Risk Aversion from Options
11/16/01 Rajesh Aggarwal Dartmouth College Strategic IPO Underpricing, Infomation Momentum, and Lockup Expiration selling
11/30/01 John T. Scruggs Washington Unversity in St. Louis Naked vs Underwritten calls of Covertible Bonds: Estimating the Cross-Section Market Response to and Endogenous Event
12/3/01 Don Chance Viginia Tech Contract Design, Arbitrage, and Hedging in the Eurodollor Futures Market
1/25/02 Hazem Daouk University of Michigan Explaining Asymetric Volatility: A Gloal Approach
1/28/02 Chris Yung Washington University in St. Louis Security Design in Private Market
2/1/02 Audra Boone Pennsyvania State Unversity The Interaction of Ownership, Governance, and Product Markets: Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
2/8/02 Pankaj Jain Indiana Unversity Institutional Design and Liquidity at Stock Exchange around the World
2/22/02 Deepak Agrawal New York University Distress Risk and Stock Returns

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