Finance Seminar Series 2006
Fall Semester
Michael Weisbach, University
of Illinois
Topic: "Corporate Financial
and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not
Frictionless"
(ND Contact: Hayong Yun)
Friday, September 1, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Rich Sheehan,
University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Price
Stickiness in Bank Deposit Rates: An Analysis of Intra-Market
Relationships"
Friday, September 8, *12:15-2:00, 339 MCOB
*Note Time Change
Charles Hadlock, Michigan
State University
Topic: "What
Happens in Acquisitions? Evidence from Brand Ownership Changes
and Advertising."
(ND Contact: Shane Corwin)
Friday, September 22, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
David and Diane Denis,
Purdue University
Topic: "Earnouts:
A Study of Financial Contracting in Acquisition Agreements"
(ND Contact: Paul Schultz)
Friday, September 29, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Eduardo Zambrano, University
of Notre Dame
Topic: "The Credibility Problem in Politics: Theory
and Evidence on State-Level Abortion Legislation"
Friday, October 6, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Marcin Kacperczyk, University
of British Columbia
Topic: "Labor
Unions, Operating Leverage and Expected Stock Returns"
(ND Contact: Sophie Shive)
Friday, October 13, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Paul Schultz, University
of Notre Dame
Topic: "The
Changing Relation Between Stock Market Turnover and Volatility"
Friday, October 20, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Ann Sherman,
University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Underpricing,
Partial Adjustment and the Effects of Entry on Taiwan's
IPO Auctions"
Friday, October 27, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Lei Yu, University
of Notre Dame
Topic: "Closed-end
Fund Discounts and Individual Investor Trading"
Friday, November 3, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Zhi Da, University
of Notre Dame
Topic: "The
Factor Structure of Realized Volatility and its Implications
for Option Pricing"
Friday, November 10, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Russell Wermers,
University of Maryland
Topic: "False
Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in
Estimated Alphas"
(ND Contact: Paul Schultz)
Wednesday, Novermber 15, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Kumar Venkataraman,
Southern Methodist University
Topic:"In
Search of Liquidity: An Analysis of Order Submission Strategies
in Automated Markets"
(ND Contact: Robert Battalio)
Friday, December 1, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Hayong Yun,
The University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Risk Shifting Through Debt Contracts? Evidence
From Performance Pricing Grids"
Friday, December 8, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Spring Semester
Yiming Qian, University
of Iowa
Topic:
(ND Contact: Lei Yu)
Friday, February 24, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Paul Schultz, University
of Notre Dame
Topic: Flight-to-Quality or Flight to Liquidity? Evidence
from the Euro-Area Bond Market
Friday, March 3, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Ken Kavajecz,
University of Wisconsin
Topic:"Flight-to-Quality or Flight-to-Liquidity? Evidence
from the Euro-Area Bond Market"
(ND Contact: Shane Corwin)
Friday, March 10, 11:30-1:00, L014B MCOB (Note Room Change!)
NO SEMINAR THE WEEK OF MARCH
17th DUE TO SPRING BREAK
Bob Miller, Northern
Illinois University
Topic:
Friday, March 24, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Tim Loughran, University
of Notre Dame
Topic:
Friday, March 31, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
NO SEMINAR THE WEEK OF APRIL
14th DUE TO GOOD FRIDAY
Ming Dong,York University, CANADA
Topic: "Why Do Market Valuations Affect Corporate Investment?"
(ND Contact: Robert Battalio)
Friday, May 12, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB
Marcus Brunnermeir,
Topic:
(ND Contact: Robert Battalio)
Tuesday, May 16, 12:30-2:00, 339 MCOB (*Note Tuesday instead
of Friday)
Zhi Da, Northwestern
University
Topic: "Target Prices, Relative Valuations and the Premium
for Liquidity Provision"
(ND Contact: Robert Battalio)
Wednesday, May 24, 11:30-1:00, 339 MCOB