Spring 2008 Workshops - Financial Markets Research Center (FMRC)

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Spring 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
Jan. 18	Lars-Alexander Kuehn	University of British Columbia	Asset pricing with real investment commitment
Jan. 22	Amir Barnea*	UT Austin	Director networks and firm governance
Feb. 1	Karthik Krishnan	Boston College	Universal banking, private information, and incentive problems: What do ex-post lending patterns tell us?
Feb. 5	Henrik Cronqvist*	Ohio State	CANCELED
Feb. 8	Ilya Strebulaev	Stanford	The evolution of aggregate stock ownership: A unified explanation
Feb. 12	Ran Duchin*	USC	Cash holdings and corporate diversification
Feb. 14	Shang-Jin Wei*	Columbia	Growth potential and corporate disclosure: The case of foreign trade liberalization
Feb. 15	Toni Whited	University of Wisconsin	Which firms follow the market? An analysis of corporate investment decisions
Feb. 19	Paige Parker Ouimet*	University of Michigan	Control and target managerial incentives in acquisition decisions
Feb. 22	Kathleen Hanley	SEC	Strategic disclosure and the pricing of Initial Public Offerings
Mar. 7	SPRING BREAK
Mar. 14	Mohan Venkatachalam	Duke	The power of voice: Managerial affective states and future firm performance
Mar. 25	Evgeny Lyandres	Rice	Real options, volatility, and stock returns
Apr. 4	Steven Swidler	Auburn	Hedging house price risk with CME futures contracts: The case of Las Vegas residential real estate
Apr. 11	Jarrad Harford	University of Washington	Shareholder cross-holdings and their effect on acquisition decisions
Apr. 15	John Fellingham	Ohio State
Apr. 18	FMRC CONFERENCE
Apr. 22	Lakshmanan Shivakumar	LBS	Targets' earnings quality and bidders' takeover decisions
May 2	Diego Garcia	University of North Carolina	Relative wealth concerns and complementarities in information acquisition

* - The seminar is at 2:00 PM in Room 106

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