Finance Seminars Archive : University of Connecticut School of Business

Spring 2009 Schedule

Date	Presenter	Paper
March 20	Kelvin Wong Hong Kong University	Transaction Volume and Price Dispersion in the Real Estate Spot and Forward Markets
April 3	Brandon Cline Clemson University	Do Insiders Practice What They Preach?
April 10	Theis Lindenthal Maastricht	Option Value Created by the Big Bang in the Berlin Housing Market, 1978-2007

Fall 2008 Schedule

Date	Presenter	Paper
September 26 3:00-4:15 pm	Bill Johnson University of New Hampshire	The Certification Role of Large Customers in the New Issues Market
October 3	An Yan Fordham University	Takeovers and Divergence of Opinion
October 24	Fangjian Fu Singapore Management University	Acquisitions Driven by Stock Overvaluation
October 31	Albert Lee Chun HEC Montreal	Expectations, Bond Yields and Monetary Policy
November 7	Edie Hotchkiss Boston University	Do Buyouts Still Create Value?
November 14	Charles Jones Columbia University	Unshackling Short Sellers: The Repeal of the Uptick Rule
November 21	Evgeny Lyandres Boston University	Strategic IPOs and Product Market Competition
Mon. Dec. 3 Boardroom, Rm 321 2:00-3:15 pm	Xiangjing Wei Georgia State University	Dynamic Model: House Price Returns, Mortgage Rates and Mortgage Default Rates
December 5	Jerome Taillard Ohio State University	Thriving in the midst of financial distress? An analysis of firms exposed to asbestos litigation
Tues. Dec. 9 2:00-3:15 pm	Jung-min Kim Ohio State University	Failure Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns

Spring 2008 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held Fridays,
in room 203, from 2:00-3:30pm.

Date	Presenter	Paper
Friday, February 15	James Forest	The Effect of Treasury Auction Results on Interest Rates
Thursday, February 21 10:00-11:30 Room 463	James Stodder	Transparency and Credible Commitment: Most-Favored-Customer Provisions and the Enforcement of Global Price Discrimination
Thursday, February 28 3:00 - 4:30 BUSN Boardroom Room 321	Ron Masulis Vanderbilt University	Corporate Venture Capitalists, Strategic Alliances, and the Governance of Newly Public Firms
Tuesday, March 4 10:00-11:30am BUSN Boardroom Room 321	Jules Pierre	Sovereign Risk and Dollarization: The Case Of Ecuador
Thursday, March 6 10:00-11:00am Room 463	Malay Dey	Information Content in Small and Large Trades
Friday, March 7	Charles Jones	CANCELLED
Friday, March 28 2-3:15pm Room 204	Tom Chemmanur	Institutional Trading, Brokerage Commissions, and Information Production around Stock Splits
Friday, April 18	Ivo Welch	TBA

Fall 2007 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held Fridays,
in room 203, from 2:00-3:30pm.

Date	Presenter	Paper
Friday, September 14	Rui Yao, Baruch, CUNY BUSN 112	Measuring Intra-temporal Substitution in the Presence of Housing Adjustment Cost - A Structural Approach.
Friday, October 5	Neng Wang, Columbia	TBA
Friday, October 12	Scott Joslin, MIT	Pricing and Hedging Volatility Risk in Fixed Income Markets
Friday, October 26	Jim Hilliard, UConn 3 - 4:30 pm	Insurance Company Capital Structure Swaps and Shareholder Wealth
Friday, November 30	David Grabowski, Harvard Medical School	Ownership Conversions and Nursing Home Performance
Friday, December 7	Ethan Chiang, BC	Skewness and Co-skewness in Bond Returns

Spring 2007 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held Fridays,
in room 204, from 2:00-3:30pm.

Date	Presenter	Paper
Friday, April 20	Heather Tookes Yale School of Management	Dynamic Competition, Innovation, and Strategic Financing
Friday, February 9	Phil Davies Fischer College of Business	Reviving the CAPM: A Bayesian Approach for Testing Asset Pricing Models
Friday, January 26	Dongmei Li University of Pennsylvania	Financial Constraints, R&D Investment, and Stock Returns: Theory and Evidence
Friday, January 19	Nikolay Halov New York University	Dynamics of Asymmetric Information and Capital Structure

Fall 2006 Schedule

Date	Presenter	Paper
Friday, December 15	Douglas Blackburn Indiana University	Option Implied Risk Aversion and Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution
Friday, December 8	Dan DiBartolomeo	TBA
Friday, December 1	Paul Hsu Columbia University	Aggregate Technology Shocks and Market Return Predictability
Friday, November 10	Karthik Krishnan BC	Universal Banking and Incentive Problems: What Do Ex-Post Lending Patterns Tell Us?
Friday, October 27	Mila Getmansky UMASS	Dynamic Risk Exposure of Hedge Funds: A Regime-Switching Approach
Friday, October 20	Harris Schlesinger University of Alabama	Changes in Risk & the Demand for Saving
Monday, October 9 4-5pm, CLAS 344	Yacine Ait-Sahalia Princeton University	Testing for Jumps in a Discretely Observed Process
Friday, September 22	Richard Rendleman UNC	Valuing Multiple Employee Stock Options Issued by the Same Company
Thursday, September 7	Walt Dolde & John Knopf Presented in BUSN Boardroom	Impact of Corporate Ownership and Governance on Risk-Taking and Returns at Thrift Institutions

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