Finance Seminars
2011 - 2012 Finance & Accounting Seminar Series
Seminars will take place from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in AGB432 unless otherwise indicated. Please check back regularly for additions/changes to the schedule.
Spring 2011
| 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... |
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Feb. 17, 2012 |
Scott Weisbenner |
University of Illinois |
Finance |
TBA |
| Feb. 24, 2012 | Mark Evans | Indiana University | Accounting | TBA |
| Feb. 24, 2012* | Ralista Petkova | Purdue University | Finance | TBA |
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Mar. 02, 2012 |
Simi Kedia |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
Finance |
TBA |
| Mar. 09, 2012 | Brian Cadman | University of Utah | Accounting | TBA |
| Mar. 19, 2012 | Lauren Cohen | Harvard University | Finance | TBA |
| Mar. 23, 2012 |
Terry Shevlin |
University of Washington | Accounting | TBA |
| Mar. 30, 2012 | Susan Shu | Boston College | Accounting | TBA |
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Apr. 06, 2012 |
John R. Graham |
Duke University | Finance | TBA |
| Apr. 13, 2012 | Francesco Bova | University of Toronto | Accounting | TBA |
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Apr. 20, 2012 |
Matthew T. Billett | Indiana University | Finance | TBA |
| Apr. 27, 2012 | Heather E. Tookes | Yale University | Finance | TBA |
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May 04, 2012 |
Alex Edmans | University of Pennsylvania | Finance | TBA |
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Past Seminars
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host Department | Paper Titles |
| Sept. 02, 2011* |
Francisco Perez-Gonzalez |
Stanford University |
Finance | Risk Management and Firm Value: Evidence from Weather Derivatives |
| Sept. 9, 2011 | Brian Miller | Indiana University | Accounting | Capital Market Effects of Financial Reporting Regulation Requiring Nontrivial Investor Invovlement: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate |
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Sept. 16, 2011 |
Andrew Ellul |
Indiana University |
Finance | Transparency, Tax Pressure and Access to Finance |
| Sept. 23, 2011 | Venky Nagar | University of Michigan | Accounting | An Evolutionary Risk Basis for Differential Treatment of Gains and Losses |
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Sept. 30, 2011 |
Johan Walden |
University of California, Berkeley |
Finance | Investor Networks in the Stock Market |
| Oct. 7, 2011*** | Stan Markov | University of Texas at Dallas | Accounting | Investor Conferences and the Changing Nature of Analyst Research |
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Oct. 14, 2011 |
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen |
Northwestern University |
Finance | The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy |
| Oct. 28, 2011*** | Ryan Ball | University of Chicago | Accounting | Dissecting Earnings Recognition Timeliness |
| Nov. 4, 2011*** | Joshua Rosett | Claremont McKenna College | Accounting | 150 |
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Nov. 4, 2011** |
Geert Bekaert |
Columbia University |
Finance | Asset Return Dynamics under Bad Environment-Good Environment Fundamentals |
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Nov. 11, 2011 |
Robert Battalio |
University of Notre Dame |
Finance | To Pay or be Paid? The Impact of Taker Fees and Order Flow Inducements on Trading Costs in U.S. Options Markets |
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Dec. 02, 2011 |
Sydney Ludvigson |
New York University |
Finance |
International Capital Flows and House Prices: Theory and Evidence |
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 |
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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 |
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Feb. 11, 2011 |
T. Clifton Green |
Emory University |
Finance | Company Name Fluency, Investor Recognition, and Firm Value |
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Feb. 18, 2011 |
James Sinclair |
Pennsylvania State University |
Accounting | Past Performance and Changes in Local Bias |
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Feb. 25, 2011 |
Shane S. Dikolli |
Duke University |
Accounting | Peer Group Composition, Peer Performance Aggregation, and Detecting Relative Performance Evaluation |
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Mar. 04, 2011 |
Anup Agrawal |
University of Alabama |
Finance | Corporate Financial and Investment Policies in the Presence of a Blockholder on the Board |
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Mar. 11, 2011 |
M.H. Franco Wong |
University of Toronto |
Accounting | Analyst Following Along the Supply Chain and Forecast Accuracy |
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Mar. 18, 2011 |
Spring Break |
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Mar. 25, 2011* |
Steve Rock |
University of Colorodo at Boulder |
Accounting | |
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Apr. 01, 2011** |
Johan Walden |
University of California, Berkeley |
Finance | POSTPONED |
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Apr. 08, 2011 |
K.R. Subramanyam |
University of Southern California |
Accounting | |
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Apr. 15, 2011 |
Manuel Santos |
University of Miami |
Finance | Long-Term Asset Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations |
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Apr. 22, 2011 |
Kenneth R. Ahern |
University of Michigan |
Finance |
Who Writes The News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations |
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Apr. 29, 2011 |
Arnold Wright |
Northeastern University |
Accounting |
CANCELED |
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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 |
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Jan. 22, 2010 |
John Phillips |
University of Connecticut |
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Jan. 29, 2010 |
Phil Berger |
University of Chicago |
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Feb. 19, 2010 |
Rick Johnston |
Ohio State University |
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Feb. 26, 2010 |
Panos N. Patatoukas |
Yale University |
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Mar. 5, 2010 |
Rui Albuquerque |
Boston University |
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Mar. 12, 2010 |
Jay Ritter |
University of Florida |
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Apr. 2, 2010 |
Paul Fischer |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Apr. 9, 2010 |
Christian Lundblad |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Apr. 16, 2010 |
Evgeny Lyandres |
Boston University |
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Apr. 23, 2010 |
Martjin Cremers |
Yale University |
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Apr. 30, 2010 |
Fabrizio Ferri |
New York University |
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May 7, 2010 |
Charles Wasley |
University of Rochester |
| Fall 2009 | ||
| Date | Speaker |
Institution |
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Sept. 4, 2009 |
Long Chen |
Washington University in St. Louis |
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Sept. 18, 2009 |
Elaine Henry* |
University of Miami |
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Sept. 25, 2009 |
Radha Gopalan |
Washington University in St. Louis |
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Oct. 2, 2009 |
Robert Freeman |
University of Texas at Austin |
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Oct. 9, 2099 |
Sundaresh Ramnath* |
University of Miami |
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Oct. 16, 2009 |
Timothy Burch* |
University of Miami |
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Oct. 23, 2009 |
K. Ramesh |
Michigan State University |
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Oct. 30, 2009 |
Vikrant Vig |
London Business School |
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Nov. 6, 2009 |
Heitor Almeida |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Nov. 13, 2009 |
Sandro Andrade* |
University of Miami |
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Nov. 20, 2009 |
Mike Willenborg |
University of Connecticut |
| 2008 - 2009 | ||
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Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
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Apr. 3, 2009 |
Javier Estrada |
University of Navarra |
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Mar. 27, 2009 |
Amar Gande |
South Methodist University |
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Mar. 13, 2009 |
Dirk Hackbarth |
University of Illinois |
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Feb. 27, 2009 |
Andrew Karolyi |
Ohio State University |
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Dec. 5, 2008 |
Yael Hochberg |
Northwestern University |
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Nov. 21, 2008 |
Daniel Bergstresser |
Harvard University |
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Nov. 14, 2008 |
Vik Nanda |
Arizona State University |
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Oct. 21, 2008 |
Sudheer Chava |
Texas A&M University |
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Oct. 3, 2008 |
Simon Gervais |
Duke University |
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Sept. 26, 2008 |
Karl Lins |
University of Utah |
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Sept. 19, 2008 |
Alok Kumar |
University of Texas at Austin |
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