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Jim and Gail Peyton Finance Seminar Series
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
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 2006
September 8
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Ajay Khorana,
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech |
"Portfolio Manager Ownership and Fund Performance" |
September 22
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Ekkehart Boehmer,
Associate Professor and Mays Research Fellow,
Texas A & M |
"Order Flow and Prices" |
September 29
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
George Tauchen,
Professor, Duke University |
"A Discrete-Time Model for Daily S&P500 Returns and
Realized Variations: Jumps and Leverage Effects" |
October 6
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Michael Roberts,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
University of Pennsylvania |
"The Response of Corporate Financing and Investment to Changes in the
Supply of Credit: A Natural Experiment" |
October 20
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Robert Parrino, Professor, University of Texas |
"Capital Market Conditions and
the Volume and Pricing of Private Equity Sales" |
October 27
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Eitan Goldman,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
University of North Carolina |
"Does Political Connectedness Affect Firm Value?" |
November 10
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Micah Officer,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
University of Southern California |
"Dividend policy, dividend initiations, and governance" |
December 1
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Jonathan Karpoff,
Professor of Finance, University of Washington |
"The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books" |
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Spring 2007
January 9
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Ivalina Kalcheva, Doctoral Candidate, University of Utah |
"Liquidity Biases in Asset Pricing Tests" |
January 12
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
David Ross, Doctoral Candidate, New York University |
"On Bankers and Their Incentives under Universal Banking" |
January 26
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Tao Shu, Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
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"Trader Composition, Price Efficiency, and
the Cross-Section of Stock Returns" |
February 2
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Charu Raheja, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt |
"CEOs vs. Directors: Who Calls the Shots
when Firms Underperform?" |
February 6
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. |
Mark Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland |
“The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting” |
February 16
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Sattar Mansi,
Associate Professor,
Virginia Tech |
"Do State Laws Matter for Bondholders?"
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February 22
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. |
Gordon Roberts, Professor, York University |
"Does Institutional Ownership Affect the Cost of Bank Borrowing?" |
February 23
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Hiatao Li, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Michigan |
"Bayesian Analysis of Return Dynamics with Lévy
Jumps;" "Return Dynamics with Lévy Jumps: Evidence
from Stock and Option Prices" |
March 9
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Ralph Walkling, Professor, Drexel University |
"Anticipation, Acquisitions and Bidder Returns" |
March 30
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Jeff Pontiff, Associate Professor, Boston College |
"Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance" |
April 13
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Mark Huson, Associate Professor, University of Alberta |
"Commonality in liquidity: is there asymmetric information about systematic factors?" |
April 27
10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Vikram Nanda, Professor, Arizona State University |
"Are Incentive Contracts Rigged By Powerful CEOs?" |
May 18
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Sandy Klasa, Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona |
"The strategic use of corporate liquidity in collective
bargaining with labor unions" |
Please check back regularly for updates to the Spring 2007 seminar series.
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Series events and papers.
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Series events and papers.
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