Finance Department Brown Bag Seminars
The brown bag seminars are held on Mondays from 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. (1:35 for external speakers*) in AGB435. Lunch is provided. If you would like to present a paper in this series, please contact Sandro Andrade. Faculty members from all departments with an interest in finance are invited to participate in this seminar series.
Please check back often for possible changes.
*This seminar will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 28 from 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. in AGB435.
Spring 2013
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Date |
Speaker |
Department/Institution |
Title |
| 02/04/2013 | Jerry Parwada |
UNSW/Finance | News Coverage and Insider Trading |
| 02/18/2013 | Eric Weisbrod | Accounting | Stockholders' Unrealized Capital Gains Position and the Market Response to Earnings Announcements |
| 02/25/2013 | Gonul Colak | FSU | Derailed by the Election: Political Uncertainty and IPO Activity |
| 04/15/2013 | David Kelly | Economics | Can Securities Prices Inform Policy? |
| 04/22/2013 | Doug Emery | Finance | The Market for Dreams: Lemons in the Looking Glass |
| 05/06/2013 | Manuel Santos | Economics | On the Empirics of CEO Compensation: What Determines Executive Pay |
Fall 2012
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Date |
Speaker |
Department/Institution |
Title |
| 08/27/2012* | Michael Jetter | Universidad EAFIT | Monetary Policy Shifts and the Forward Discount Puzzle |
| 09/10/2012 | Amit Bubna |
ISB |
Venture Capital Communities |
| 09/17/2012 | Sandro Andrade | Finance | The Euro and European Equity Market Dis-Integration |
| 09/24/2012 | Gennaro Bernile | Finance | Fleeting Local Information: Intraquarter Trading and Performance of Local Institutional Investors |
| 10/01/2012 | Alex Horenstein | ITAM | Determining Rank of the Beta Matrix of a Linear Asset Pricing Model |
| 10/08/2012 | Milica Mormann | UM Law | The Role of Attention in Consumer and Strategic Decision-Making: Eye-Tracking Experiments |
| 10/15/2012 | Michael Fuerst | Finance | "Sell in May and Go Away" Just Won't Go Away |
| 10/29/2012 | Jawad Addoum |
Finance | Political Climate and Predictable Returns |
| 11/28/2012* | Alok Kumar | Finance | Income Hedging and the Value Premium |
| 12/03/2012 | Craig Brown | NUS | Corporate Market Investments: Risk, Returns, and Governance |
| 12/10/2012 | Jawad Addoum | Finance | Political Sentiment and Predictable Returns |
PAST SEMINARS
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Date |
Speaker |
Location |
Department/Institution |
Title |
|
02/22/2012 |
Maurizio Montone |
AGB331 |
Finance |
The Puzzling Countercyclicality of the Value Premium: Empirics and a Theory |
| 02/27/2012 | Raphael Boleslavsky | Exec Conf. Rm(JB 217) | Economics | Learning More By Doing Less |
| 03/26/2012 | John Barrios | AGB331 | Accounting | The Impact of Corporate Social Performance on Forced CEO Turnover: Buffer or Intensifier |
| 04/09/2012 | Christopher Cotton | AGB331 | Economics | Grade Inflation and Education Quality |
|
04/23/2012 |
Christopher F. Parmeter |
Ziff Conference Rm |
Economics |
Country Size and Government Size: A Reassessment |
|
05/14/2012 |
Maurizio Montone |
SB508 |
Finance |
Political Uncertainty and the Presidential Puzzle |
|
05/21/2012 |
Sandro Andrade |
SB302 |
Finance |
Global Value |
| Date |
Speaker |
Department/Institution | Title |
|
08/29/2011 |
George Korniotis |
Finance | Propagation of State-Level Business Cycle Across Firm Networks |
|
09/12/2011 |
Gennaro Bernile |
Finance |
Firm Exposure and Disclosure, Ownership Dispersion, and Stock Returns |
|
09/19/2011** |
Andrea Heuson |
Finance | A New Measure For Assessing Hedge Fund Performance When Fund Returns are Skewed |
| 9/26/2011 | Alok Kumar | Finance | Are U.S. Capital Markets Xenophobic? Evidence From Mutual Fund Flow |
| 10/03/2011 |
Doug Emery |
Finance |
In the Wake of a Crisis, Do Markets Overreact? |
| 10/10/2011 | Mehdi Shadmehr | Economics | A Theory of State Censorship |
| 10/24/2011 | Ricardo Caceda | Medical School | Are Ethics and Strategic Thinking Really Incompatible? |
|
11/07/2011* |
Emir Hrnjic |
National University of Singapore | Market-wide sentiment, firm-level sentiment, and IPO pricing process |
| 11/14/2011** | Sandro Andrade |
Finance | Elections and cross-border disagreement: Evidence from Brazil in 2002 |
| 11/28/2011 | Ann Morales Olazábal |
Business Law |
Business Law Scholarship: Opportunities for Collaboration |
|
12/05/2011 |
Neil Johnson |
Physics |
TBA |
| Date |
Speaker |
Department/Institution | Title |
|
01/31/2011 |
Mariassunta Giannetti* |
Stockholm School of Economics | Investors' Horizons and the Amplification of Market Shocks |
|
02/14/2011 |
Sandro Andrade |
Finance |
How Costly is Sovereign Default? Evidence from Financial Markets |
|
02/21/2011 |
Alok Kumar |
Finance | Local Economic Recessions |
|
02/28/2011 |
Gennaro Bernile |
Finance | Regulation and Local Bias |
| 03/14/2011 |
Spring Break |
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03/21/2011 |
DJ Nanda |
Accounting |
Supervision |
|
03/28/2011 |
Qiang Kang |
Finance | PEG Ratio, Market Risk Premium, and Macroeconomic Activity |
|
04/04/2011 |
Peter Wysocki |
Accounting |
The Association between Accounting Quality and "Social Norms": Early Evidence |
|
04/11/2011 |
Tie Su |
Finance | Non-Marketability and One-Day Selling Lock-Up |
|
04/18/2011 |
Vidhi Chhaochharia |
Finance | Stocking Up For Good Times: The Information Content of CEO's Voluntary Equity Exposure |
|
04/25/2011 |
Doug Emery |
Finance |
The Market for Dreams: "Lemons" in the Looking Glass |
|
05/02/2011 |
Michael Fuerst |
Finance | The Economic Rationale for Lender Liability |
|
05/09/2011 |
Joseph Johnson and Hernan Awad |
Marketing | Let's Get Real: Using Option Theory to Value New Product Introductions |
|
05/16/2011 |
Tim Burch |
Finance | Short-term Traders, Volatility and Liquidity |
| Date |
Speaker |
Department | Location | Title |
|
09/07/2010 |
Alok Kumar |
Finance | Ziff Conf Rm |
Political Preferences of Equity Analysts, Earnings Forecasts, and Market Prices |
|
09/14/2010 |
Sandro Andrade |
Finance | AGB 331 | Disagreement and the Integration of Equity and Debt Markets |
|
09/21/2010 |
Qiang Kang |
Finance | AGB 532 |
The Dual Role of Information and Its Effect on Value Premium |
|
09/28/2010 |
Claudia Townsend |
Marketing | Ziff Conf Rm |
Aesthetics as Impetus to Riskier Decision-Making |
|
10/05/2010 |
Andrea Heuson |
Finance | AGB 331 | The Impact of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 on Housing Turnover and House Prices |
|
10/12/2010 |
Gennaro Bernile |
Finance | AGB 331 | Merger-related operating synergies: Do they exist? |
|
10/19/2010 |
Dhananjay Nanda |
Accounting | Exec Conf Rm - 217 |
CEO Tenure and Disclosure Policy |
|
10/26/2010 |
Haresh Gurnani |
Management | AGB 331 | Supply Side Story: Risk, Guarantees, Information and Competition |
|
11/02/2010 |
Manuel Santos |
Economics |
AGB 331 |
Currency Speculation |
|
11/09/2010 |
Elaine Henry |
Accounting | Exec Conf Rm - 217 |
The Impact of Earnings-Announcement Narratives on Investor Judgment |
|
11/16/2010** |
Rik Sen |
HKUST | AGB530 |
Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat |
|
11/23/2010 |
George Korniotis |
Finance | AGB 331 | The Human Capital that Matters: Expected Returns and the Income of Affluent Households |
|
11/30/2010 |
Michael Tsiros |
Marketing | AGB 332 | The Averaging Heuristic in Individual Investment Decisions |
|
12/07/2010 |
Gennaro Bernile |
Finance | Ziff Conf Rm |
Local Ownership and Informational Advantage Away From Firm Headquarters |
