Fall 2008 Workshops - Financial Markets Research Center (FMRC)

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Financial Markets Research Center

Accounting, Economics and Finance Workshops

Fall 2008

All research seminars are on Fridays at 10:30 AM in Room 218 unless noted otherwise.

Seminar coordinator: Alexei Ovtchinnikov

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper title
Aug. 8	Jacob Sagi	Vanderbilt	Do fund managers make informed asset allocation decisions?
Aug. 22	K. Sukwon	Vanderbilt	Is order imbalance related to information?
Sept. 12	Nick Bollen	Vanderbilt	Locked up by a lockup: Valuing liquidity as a real option
Sept. 19	Audra Boone	University of Kansas	Do private equity consortiums impede takeover competition?
Sept. 26	John Fellingham	Ohio State	Evaluation in an induced moral hazard setting (aka an exercise in tension relevance)
Oct. 2	Karin Thorburn	Dartmouth College	Markup pricing revisited
Oct. 3	Chris Parsons	UNC - Chapel Hill	Strike three: Umpires' demand for discrimination
Oct. 10	D. Craig Nichols	Cornell University	Stock option exercises and the quality of operating cash flows
Oct. 17	Owen Conference on Financial Innovation
Oct. 24	Agnes Cheng	Louisiana State University	Role of accruals and cash flows in predicting future cash flows - The growth effect
Oct. 31	Vivek Ghosal	Georgia Tech	Small is beautiful but size matters: The asymmetric impact of uncertainty and sunk costs on small and large businesses
Nov. 5	Rudi Fahlenbrach	Ohio State University	Estimating the effects of large shareholders using a geographic instrument
Nov. 7	Paolo Pasquariello	University of Michigan	Strategic cross-trading in the U.S. stock market
Nov. 14	David Musto	Wharton	High water marks in competitive capital markets
Nov. 21	Dirk Hackbarth	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The timing and returns of mergers and acquisitions in oligopolistic industries
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 3	Berk Sensoy	USC	Club deals in leveraged buyouts
Dec. 5	Itshak Ben-David	Ohio State	Does mandated financial counseling improve mortgage decision-making? Evidence from a natural experiment
Dec. 12	Ted Day	UT Dallas	Dividend distributions and closed-end fund discounts

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