 |
Jim and Gail Peyton Finance Seminar Series
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
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 2004
September 17
10 - 11 a.m. |
Kent Daniel, John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance, Northwestern University |
“Market Reactions to Tangible and Intangible Information” |
October 1
10:30 a.m. - Noon |
William Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Eller College of Management,
The University of Arizona |
“Information, Analysts, and the Cost of Debt” |
October 8
10:30 a.m. - Noon |
Shu Yan, Assistant Professor, Eller College of Management,
The University of Arizona |
“Jump and Volatility Risk and Risk Premia:
A New Model and Lessons from S&P 500 Options” |
October 15
10 - 11 a.m. |
Kewei Hou, Assistant Professor of Finance, Ohio State University |
“Industry Concentration and Average Stock Returns” |
October 22
10 - 11 a.m. |
Jonathan Berk, Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy and Values, University of California Berkeley |
"A Rational Model of the Closed-End Fund Discount"
"Persistence and Fund Flows of the Worst Performing Mutual Funds" |
November 5
10 - 11 a.m. |
Mike Lemmon, Associate Professor of Finance,
Jake Garn Faculty Fellow, University of Utah |
"Structural Models and Endogeneity in Corporate Finance: The Link Between Managerial Ownership and Corporate Performance" |
November 19
10 - 11 a.m. |
David Yermack, Associate Professor of Finance, New York University |
"Golden Handshakes: Rewards for CEOs Who Leave" |
December 3
10 - 11 a.m. |
Laura Casares Field, Assistant Professor,
Penn State Smeal College of Business |
"The Determinants of Corporate Board Size and Composition:
An Empirical Analysis" |
December 10
10 - 11 a.m. |
Allen Poteshman, Assistant Professor of Finance,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"The Information in Option Volume for Future Stock Prices" |
Spring 2005
January 21
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Todd Milbourn, Associate Professor of Finance,
Washington University in St. Louis |
"Assymetric Benchmarking in Compensation: Executives are Rewarded for Good Luck but Not Penalized for Bad" |
January 28
2 - 3:30 p.m.
|
Mattias Nilsson,
Research Fellow, Stockholm Institute |
"The Euro and Corporate Valuations" |
January 31
9 - 10:30 a.m. |
Matthew Woolley, Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina |
"Optimal Consumption and Investment with Labor Income
Uncertainty and Endogenous Retirement" |
February 4
2 - 3:30 pm |
Antje Berndt,
Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
"Measuring Default Risk Premia
from Default Swap Rates and EDFs" |
February 7
9 - 10:30 a.m. |
Mingqiang Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"A Damped Diffusion Framework for Financial Modeling and
Closed-form Maximum Likelihood Estimation" |
February 11
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Vladimir Atanasov, Assistant Professor, Babson College |
"How Does Law Affect Finance?
An Empirical Examination of Tunneling in an Emerging Market" |
February 25
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Gordon Phillips, Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland |
“Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Equity, Convertible and Debt?” |
March 4
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
|
Ali Nejadmalayeri,
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Nevada, Reno |
"Analysts’ Learning and Herding:
Theory and Evidence" |
March 25
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Peter Carr, New York University |
"Variance Risk Premia." "Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives" |
April 15
2 - 3:30 p.m.
|
Chris Stefanadis,
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Arizona |
“Culture, Financial Development, and Economic Growth” |
April 29
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Russell Wermers, Associate Professor, University of Maryland |
"Mutual Fund Performance and Governance Structure: The Role of Portfolio Managers and Boards of Directors" |
View the full Finance Department Events Calendar for other events.
|
|
