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
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“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.
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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
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Chris Schwarz, Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts |
"Hedge Fund Fees" |
January 25
2 - 3:30 p.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
2 - 3:30 p.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
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Matthew Cain, Visiting Faculty, Purdue University |
"The Information Content of Fairness Opinions in Negotiated Mergers" |
March 4
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Gordon Roberts, Professor, York University |
"The Cost of Virtue: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Debt Financing" |
March 7
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Federico Nardari, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University |
"Time-Varying Short-Horizon Predictability" |
March 14
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Raj Singh, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota |
"Stapled Finance" |
March 27
2 - 3:30 p.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
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Jennifer Conrad, Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
"Skewness and the Bubble" |
April 25
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Deniz Yavuz, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University |
"Style Investing, Comovement and Return Predictability" |
May 2
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Elena Asparouhova, Assistant Professor, The University of Utah |
"Modelling Price Pressure in Financial Markets" |
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