2012 - 2013 Finance Seminar Series

Seminars will take place from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in AGB430 unless otherwise indicated. Please check back regularly for additions/changes to the schedule.

* This seminar is taking place on Monday, March 4th from 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m in SB302.

** This seminar is taking place at 2:30 p.m.

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Institution	Paper Title
Mar. 4, 2013*	Jessica Wachter	University of Pennsylvania	Rare Booms and Disasters in a Multi-Sector Endowment Economy
Mar. 8, 2013	Paolo Pasquariello	University of Michigan	Financial Market Dislocations
Mar. 22, 2013**	Scott Yonker	Indiana University	The People in Your Neighborhood: Social Interactions and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
Apr. 5, 2013	Fernando Zapatero	University of Southern California	Labor Income, Relative Wealth Concerns, and the Cross-section of Stock Returns
Apr. 12, 2013	Indraneel Chakraborty	Southern Methodist University	Do Asset Price Bubbles have Negative Real Effects?
Apr. 19, 2013	Vihang Errunza	McGill University	The Impact of Investability on Asset Valuation
May 3, 2013	Jianfeng Yu	University of Minnesota	Arbitrage Asymmetry and the Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle

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Past Seminars

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Institution	Paper Title
Sept. 7, 2012	Fernando Ferreira	University of Pennsylvania	The Role of Contagion in the American Housing Boom
Sept. 14, 2012*	Stefan Nagel	Stanford University	Learning from Inflation Experiences
Sept. 21, 2012**	Yael Hochberg	Northwestern University	Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments
Oct. 5, 2012	Clemens Sialm	University of Texas at Austin	Home Bias and Local Contagion: Evidence from Funds of Hedge Funds
Oct. 26, 2012	Gordon Phillips	University of Southern California	The Stock Market, Product Uniqueness and Comovement of Peer Firms
Nov. 2, 2012	Liyan Yang	University of Toronto	Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices
Nov. 9, 2012	Paul Schultz	University of Notre Dame	Municipal Bonds: One Market or Fifty?
Nov. 30, 2012	Dong Lou	London School of Economics	Industry Window Dressing
Dec. 7, 2012	Bo Becker	Harvard University	Reaching For Yield In The Bond Market

Spring 2012

Jan. 27, 2012	Elizabeth Gutierrez	University of California, Los Angeles	Accounting	TBA
Feb. 10, 2012	Arnie Wright	Northeastern University	Accounting	The Impact of Monitoring Mechanisms and Management Incentives...
Feb. 17, 2012	Scott Weisbenner	University of Illinois	Finance	Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations
Feb. 24, 2012	Mark Evans	Indiana University	Accounting	An Examination of Economic and Statistical Approaches....
Feb. 24,  2012	Ralista Petkova	Purdue University	Finance	Idiosyncratic Volatility of Liquidity and Expected Stock Returns
Mar. 02, 2012	Simi Kedia	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	Finance	Does the Revolving Door Affect the SEC's Enforcement Outcomes?
Mar. 05, 2012 (Monday)**	Danling Jiang	Florida State University	Finance	Trust, Consumer Debt, and Household Finance
Mar. 09, 2012	Brian Cadman	University of Utah	Accounting	The Information Content and Contracting Consequences of SFAS 141(R): The Case of Earnout Provisions
Mar. 19, 2012 (Monday)**	Lauren Cohen	Harvard University	Finance	Importing Alpha
Mar. 23, 2012	Terry Shevlin	University of Washington	Accounting	Does Voluntary Adoption of a Clawback Provision Improve Financial Reporting Quality
Mar. 30, 2012	Susan Shu	Boston College	Accounting	Do Managers Always Know Better? An Examination of the Relative Accuracy of Management and Analyst Forecasts
Apr. 06, 2012	John R. Graham	Duke University	Finance	A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America
Apr. 13, 2012	Francesco Bova	University of Toronto	Accounting	Non-Executive Employee Ownership and Corporate Risk-Taking
Apr. 20, 2012	Matthew T. Billett	Indiana University	Finance	Do Investor Identity and Contract Terms Interact? Evidence from the Wealth Effects of Private Placements
Apr. 27, 2012	Heather E. Tookes	Yale University	Finance	Corporate Leverage, Debt Maturity and Credit Supply: The Role of Credit Default Swaps
May 04, 2012	Alex Edmans	University of Pennsylvania	Finance	The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

Fall 2011

 

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host Department	Paper Titles
Jan. 28, 2011	Judson A. Caskey	University of California, Los Angeles	Accounting	The pricing of shares in equity markets with securities class action lawsuits
Feb. 04, 2011	John R. Robinson	University of Texas at Austin	Accounting	Distilling the reserve for uncertain tax positions: The revealing case of Black Liquor
Feb. 11, 2011	T. Clifton Green	Emory University	Finance	Company Name Fluency, Investor Recognition, and Firm Value
Feb. 18, 2011	James Sinclair	Pennsylvania State University	Accounting	Past Performance and Changes in Local Bias
Feb. 25, 2011	Shane S. Dikolli	Duke University	Accounting	Peer Group Composition, Peer Performance Aggregation, and Detecting Relative Performance Evaluation
Mar. 04, 2011	Anup Agrawal	University of Alabama	Finance	Corporate Financial and Investment Policies in the Presence of a Blockholder on the Board
Mar. 11, 2011	M.H. Franco Wong	University of Toronto	Accounting	Analyst Following Along the Supply Chain and Forecast Accuracy
Mar. 18, 2011	Spring Break
Mar. 25, 2011*	Steve Rock	University of Colorodo at Boulder	Accounting	Inventory Write-downs in the Semiconductor Industry
Apr. 01, 2011**	Johan Walden	University of California, Berkeley	Finance	POSTPONED
Apr. 08, 2011	K.R. Subramanyam	University of Southern California	Accounting	Affiliated Bankers on Board and Conservative Accounting
Apr. 15, 2011	Manuel Santos	University of Miami	Finance	Long-Term Asset Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Apr. 22, 2011	Kenneth R. Ahern	University of Michigan	Finance	Who Writes The News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations
Apr. 29, 2011	Arnold Wright	Northeastern University	Accounting	CANCELED
May 06, 2011	Shimon Kogan	University of Texas at Austin	Finance	Information Content of Public Firm Disclosures and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Fall 2010

*Special Time: 10am - 11:30am

Spring 2010
Date	Speaker	Institution
Jan. 22, 2010	John Phillips	University of Connecticut
Jan. 29, 2010	Phil Berger	University of Chicago
Feb. 19, 2010	Rick Johnston	Ohio State University
Feb. 26, 2010	Panos N. Patatoukas	Yale University
Mar. 5, 2010	Rui Albuquerque	Boston University
Mar. 12, 2010	Jay Ritter	University of Florida
Apr. 2, 2010	Paul Fischer	Pennsylvania State University
Apr. 9, 2010	Christian Lundblad	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Apr. 16, 2010	Evgeny Lyandres	Boston University
Apr. 23, 2010	Martjin Cremers	Yale University
Apr. 30, 2010	Fabrizio Ferri	New York University
May 7, 2010	Charles Wasley	University of Rochester

Fall 2009
Date	Speaker	Institution
Sept. 4, 2009	Long Chen	Washington University in St. Louis
Sept. 18, 2009	Elaine Henry*	University of Miami
Sept. 25, 2009	Radha Gopalan	Washington University in St. Louis
Oct. 2, 2009	Robert Freeman	University of Texas at Austin
Oct. 9, 2099	Sundaresh Ramnath*	University of Miami
Oct. 16, 2009	Timothy Burch*	University of Miami
Oct. 23, 2009	K. Ramesh	Michigan State University
Oct. 30, 2009	Vikrant Vig	London Business School
Nov. 6, 2009	Heitor Almeida	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nov. 13, 2009	Sandro Andrade*	University of Miami
Nov. 20, 2009	Mike Willenborg	University of Connecticut

2008 - 2009
Date	Speaker	Institution
Apr. 3, 2009	Javier Estrada	University of Navarra
Mar. 27, 2009	Amar Gande	South Methodist University
Mar. 13, 2009	Dirk Hackbarth	University of Illinois
Feb. 27, 2009	Andrew Karolyi	Ohio State University
Dec. 5, 2008	Yael Hochberg	Northwestern University
Nov. 21, 2008	Daniel Bergstresser	Harvard University
Nov. 14, 2008	Vik Nanda	Arizona State University
Oct. 21, 2008	Sudheer Chava	Texas A&M University
Oct. 3, 2008	Simon Gervais	Duke University
Sept. 26, 2008	Karl Lins	University of Utah
Sept. 19, 2008	Alok Kumar	University of Texas at Austin

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