2007-08 Finance Department Seminar Series
 
   

 

 

Date

Speaker

Paper

September 14, 2007

Ron Masulis, Vanderbilt University

How do financial institutions affect the IPO underwriting process when they are venture investors?

September 21, 2007

Manju Puri, Duke University

On Loan Sales, Loan Contracting, and Lending Relationships?

September 28, 2007

Lonestar Finance Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX

 

October 5, 2007

Bill Maxwell, University of Arizona

Persistent Performance and Smart Money in Corporate-Bond Mutual Funds

October 12, 2007

Kelsey Wei, UT-Dallas

Analyst Recommendations, Mutual Fund Herding, and Overreaction in Stock Prices

October 19, 2007

FMA Meetings, Orlando, FL

 

October 26, 2007 Ray Ball, University of Chicago (Accounting-Finance joint seminar)  Rescheduled to a date to be announced

November 2, 2007

Ron Giammarino, UBC                  (SMU-UTD Joint seminar at UT-Dallas)

Leaders, Followers and Risk Dynamics in Industry Equilibrium

November 16, 2007

Sadi Ozelge, New York University

The Role of Banks and Private Lenders in Forced CEO Turnovers

November 29, 2007 (Thursday)

Salvatore Cantale, Tulane University

The Value of Information in Cross-listing

November 30, 2007

Ambrus Kecskes, University of Toronto

Why are firms that raise more financing worth more?

December 7, 2007

Pab Jothikasthira, Indiana University

Does search friction really matter? Evidence from the corporate bond market

December 14, 2007 Qin Lei, SMU Momentum is Not an Anamoly

January 4-6, 2008 

AFA Meetings, New Orleans

 

January 11, 2008

Johan Sulaeman, University of Texas at Austin

Do Shareholder Preferences Affect Corporate Policies?

January 14, 2008 (Monday)

Johnathan Cohn, University of Michigan

Investment, Cash Flow and Financial Markets: Evidence from Tax Loss Carryforwards

January 16, 2008 (Wednesday)

Karthik Krishnan, Boston College

CEO Dismissal Timing and Costs of Delayed Action: Do Some Boards Act Too Late?

January 18, 2008

Swami Kalpathy, Washington State University

Stock and Option Grants with Performance-Based Vesting Provisions

January 22, 2008 (Tuesday)

Evan Dudley, University of Rochester

Intermittent investment and capital structure

January 25, 2008

Julie Wu, Texas A & M

Order flow and prices

February 4, 2008 (Monday)

I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang, Boston College

Skewness and Co-skewness in Bond Returns

March 28, 2008

Andy Winton, University of Minnesota

Corporate Fraud and Business Conditions: Evidence from IPOs

April 4, 2008

Vish Vishwanathan, Duke University (SMU-UTD Joint seminar at SMU)

Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity

April 25, 2008

Wayne Guay, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Accounting-Finance joint seminar)

Improved estimates of marginal tax rates: Why they are needed, approach, and implications

May 2, 2008

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin

Mutual Fund Tax Clienteles

May 9, 2008

Cliff Smith, University of Rochester

Strategic Financial Management: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings

     

 

 All seminars are on Fridays and will be held at 10:30am in 354 Maguire unless noted.

 
 

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