Workshops - Spring 2007

Workshops are in Grainger Hall (please check the Research Calendar for room numbers and times).  Papers are available for download in pdf format, or in 5269 Grainger Hall.  If there are any questions, contact Barbara Lauersdorf, (608) 262-6032.

Date
Author
Affiliation
Paper
1/23/2007 Vikrant Vig Columbia "Access to Collateral & Corporate Debt Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
2/1/2007 Esther Eiling Tilburg University "Can Nontradable Assets Explain the Apparent Premium for Idiosyncratic Risk? The Case of Industry-specific Human Capital"
2/2/2007 Anh Le NYU "Separating the Components of Default Risk: A Derivative-Basd Approach"
2/9/2007 David Cicero University of Georgia "Strategic Timing & Backdating of Executive Stock Option Exercises Before & After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act"
2/15/2007 Anzhela Knyazeva NYU "Delivering on the Dividend Promise: Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, & Dynamic Dividend Behavior"
2/16/2007 Pengjie Gao Northwestern "Herding, Information Aggregation and Momentum Effects"
2/20/2007 Diana Knyazeva NYU "Corporate Governance, Analyst Following, and Firm Behavior"
2/23/2007 Alexei Zhdanov (Rochester Ph.D)
George Mason University
"A Theory of Strategic Mergers"
Rescheduled:
3/13/2007
Luca Benzoni Chicago FED &
University of Minnesota
"Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification Test for Affine Term Structure Models"
3/7/2007 Ayako Yasuda Wharton "The Economics of Private Equity Funds"
3/16/2007 Lily Fang INSEAD "Media Coverage & the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
3/23/2007 Camelia Kuhnen Northwestern "Social Networks, Corporate Governance & Contracting in the Mutual Fund Industry"
4/10/2007 Josef Zechner Vienna "Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structures"
4/20/2007 Juhani Linnainmaa University of Chicago "Is Seeing Believing? Security Analysts' Over-and Underreaction as Rational Responses to Large Signals"
4/27/2007 William Wilhelm University of Virginia "The Industrial Organization of Financial Market Information Production"
5/4/2007 Neng Wang Columbia University "Dynamic Investment, Capital Structure, & Debt Overhang"

 

 

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