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Jim and Gail Peyton Finance Seminar Series

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
When: Fridays
Where: McClelland Hall, Room 315S
Where available, click links below for additional information. Follow a link below, or scroll down for all Finance seminars:
Fall 2007
September 7
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Amir Sufi,
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago |
Contingency and Renegotiation of Financial Contracts:
Evidence from Private Credit Agreements |
September 14
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Hernan Ortiz-Molina,
Assistant Professor,
University of British Columbia |
“Do Labor Unions Affect Agency Costs of Debt?" |
September 28
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Markus Brunnermeir,
Professor of Economics,
Princeton University |
"Hedge Fund Tail Risk" |
October 12
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Michelle Lowry,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Penn State |
"The Variability of IPO Initial Returns" |
October 26
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Malcolm Baker,
Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School |
"Catering Through Nominal Share Prices" |
November 2
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Lu Zhang,
Associate Professor of Finance, University of Michigan |
“Regularities” |
November 9
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Jeff Harris,
Professor of Finance, University of Delaware |
"Liquidity Risk, Investor Flux and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift" |
November 30
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Martijn Cremers,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Yale University |
"CEO Centrality" |
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Spring 2008
January 18
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. |
Chris Schwarz, Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts |
"Hedge Fund Fees" |
January 25
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Jose Ganzalo Rangel, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, San Diego |
"The Factor-Spline-GARCH Model for High and Low Frequency
Correlations" |
January 29
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Zhaodong (Ken) Zhong, Doctoral Candidate, Penn State University |
"Why Does Hedge Fund Alpha Decrease over Time?
Evidence from Individual Hedge Funds" |
February 1
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Ran Duchin, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California |
"Cash Holdings and Corporate Diversification" |
February 5
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Doctoral Candidate, University of British Columbia |
"Asset Pricing with Real Investment Commitment" |
February 8
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Matthew Cain, Visiting Faculty, Purdue University |
"The Information Content of Fairness Opinions in Negotiated Mergers" |
March 4
12:15 - 1:45 a.m.
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Gordon Roberts, Professor, York University
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"The Cost of Virtue:
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Debt Financing" |
March 7
2:00 - 3:30 a.m.
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Federico Nardari, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University |
"Time-Varying Short-Horizon Predictability" |
March 14
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Raj Singh, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota |
"Stapled Finance" |
March 27
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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David Yermack, Professor, New York University |
"Deduction ad absurdum:
CEOs donating their own stock
to their own family foundations" |
April 11
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Jennifer Conrad, Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
"Skewness and the Bubble" |
April 25
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Deniz Yavuz, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University |
"Style Investing, Comovement and Return Predictability" |
May 2
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
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Elena Asparouhova, Assistant Professor, The University of Utah |
"Modelling Price Pressure in Financial Markets" |
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