Jim and Gail Peyton Finance Seminar Series
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
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 2008
September 12
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Roger Edelen, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis |
"What do Soft-dollars Buy? Performance, Expense Shifting, Agency Costs" |
September 19
1 - 2:30 p.m. |
Shrikant Jategaonkar, Doctoral Candidate, The University of Arizona
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"If it’s good for the firm, it’s good for me: Insider trading and repurchases motivated by undervaluation" |
September 26
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Jay Huang, Associate Professor of Finance, Penn State |
"Specification Analysis of Structural Credit Risk Models" |
October 3
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Charles Jones, Professor, Columbia University |
"Shorting Restrictions: Revisitng the 1930’S" |
October 17
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Qin Wang, Doctoral Candidate, The University of Arizona |
"Is There an Informational Linkage between Option
Trading Activities and Underlying Stock Depths?" |
October 31
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Ali Nejadmalayeri, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University |
"Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Corporate Credit Spreads" |
November 14
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Jeffrey Wurgler, Research Professor, New York University |
"Comovement and Copredictability of Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks" |
December 5
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
B. Espen Eckbo, Professor, Dartmouth College |
"Markup Pricing Revisted" |
December 12
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Chair, University of California, Los Angeles |
"Why Has Trading Volume Increased?" |
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Spring 2009
March 6
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Joseph Chen, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis |
"Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?" |
April 10
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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Josh Coval, Professor, Harvard Business School |
"The Pricing of Investment Grade Credit Risk during the Financial Crisis" |
April 17
2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Richard Stanton, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
"Optimal Exercise of Executive Stock Options and
Implications for Firm Cost" |
May 1
2 - 3:30 p.m.
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John Griffin, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
"Did Subjectivity Play a Role in CDO Credit Ratings?"
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