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Seminars for 2008-2009 | Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper | | Sept
12, 08 | Ingrid Werner | Ohio State University | "When Constraints Bind" | | Oct.
3, 08 | Marc Lipson | Darden
University of Virginia | "What Explains the Asset Growth Effect in Stock Returns?" | | | | | | **The location and times of the seminars may vary. Please contact Professor Gang Hu for further information. Past Seminars 2007-2008 | Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper | | Sept
21, 07 | Neil Pearson | UIUC | "Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?" | | Nov
2, 07
| Charles Jones | Columbia | "Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?" | | Nov
30, 07 | Thomas Chemmanur | BC | "Heterogeneous Beliefs, Short Sale Contraints, and the Economic Role of the Underwriter in IPOs" | |
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| March 7, 08 | Edie Hotchkiss | BC | “Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?” | | April
4, 08
| Amy Edwards | SEC | "Short Selling in Initial Public Offerings" | Past Seminars 2006-2007 | Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper | | Oct 20 | | Yale | "Lessons from Hedge Fund Registration" | | Nov 10 | | University of Washington | "The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books" | | Nov 29 | & | UMass Amherst | "Market Volatility, Investor Flows, and the Structure of Hedge Fund Markets" | | Dec 7 | | University of Florida | "Corporate Executive Bribery: An Empirical Analysis" | | Dec 13 | | HBS | “Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing” | | Feb 16 | | Cornell University | "Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing" | | April 13 | | University of Wisconsin | "Idiosyncratic Volatility of Small Public Firms and Entrepreneurial Risk" | | April 27 | | UNC | "Skewness and the Bubble" |
| Past Seminars | | 2005-2006: Academic Year - Chester Spatt, SEC, "Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information"
- Michael Roberts, The Wharton School, "Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
- QJ Qian, Boston College, "Are Fairness Opinions Fair? The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions?"
- Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University, "Did New Regulations Target the Relevant Corporate Governance Attributes?"
- Robert Hansen, Tulane University, "Investment Bank Governance"
- Anna Scherbina, Harvard University, "Inheriting Losers"
- Chris Leach, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Gas Pump Arbitrage"
2004-2005: Academic Year - Ken Kavajecz, University of Wisconsin, "Price Discovery in the Treasury Futures Market"
- Stu Gillan, Arizona State University, "Explicit vs Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Contracts"
- Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University, "What is a Dollar Worth? The Market Value of Cash Holdings"
- Mike Barclay, University of Rochester, "Automation versus Intermediation: Evidence from Treasuries Going off the Run"
- Dan Bernhardt, Illinois/Rochester, "The Simple Analytics of Informed Finance"
- Mary Ellen Carter, Wharton, "The Role of Incentives and Accounting in the Design of Executive Compensation Packages"
- Leonce Bargeron, University of North Carolina, "A Theory of Shareholder Tender Agreements"
- George Aragon, Boston College, "Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry"
- Gang Hu, Boston College, "The Profitability and Informativeness of Institutional Trading in IPOs"
- Kristina Minnick, University of Maryland, "Write-offs and Corporate Governance"
- Leonardo Madureira, Wharton, Conflicts of Interest, Regulations, and Stock Recommendations"
2003-2004: Academic Year - Robert Van Ness, Mississippi, "Locked and Crossed Markets on the NASDAQ and the NYSE.
- Raghu Rau, Purdue University, "Analyst Behavior at Independent Research Firms, Brokerage Houses, and Investment Banks: Conflicts of Interest or Better Information"
- Utpal Bhattacharya, "When No Law is Better than a Good Law"
- Karen Wruck, Ohio State, "Leverage, Asset Liquidity and Management Credibility: New Evidence on the Determinants on Corporate Borrowing"
- Harold Mulherin, Claremont, "How Firms are Sold"
- Russ Wermers, Maryland, "Is Money Really "Smart"? New Evidence on the Relation Between Mutual Fund Flows, Manager Behavior, and Performance Persistence"
- Li-Anne Woo and Dave Michayluk, Bond University, "News Releases When Markets are Closed"
- Paul Bennett and Li Wei, NYSE, "Market Fragmentation & Market Quality"
- Jay Wang, University of Michigan, "Dividend Commitment and Discount Management: The Distribution Policy of Closed-End Funds"
- Mila Getmansky, MIT, "The Life Cycle of Hedge Funds: Fund Flows, Size and Performance"
- Debarshi Nandy, Boston College, "How is Value Created in Spin-offs? A look Inside the Black Box"
- Swami Kalpathy, Arizona State University, "Six-and-one Option Exchanges and Alignment of Equity Incentives"
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