Department of Finance Seminar Schedule

 

2007-2008

 

 

10:30 – 12:00; 205 Cornell; unless otherwise noted

 

Contact:          Sterling Yan, 884-9708, yanx@missouri.edu

                        Kerri Hogan, 882-4055, hogank@missouri.edu

 

 

Aug

24

No seminar; Department Faculty Meeting

 

 

 

 

31

No seminar; Labor day weekend

 

 

 

Sep

7

Utpal Bhattacharya, Indiana University

 

 

When No Law is Better than a Good Law

 

14

 

 

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

28

 

 

 

 

Oct

5

 

 

 

 

 

12

Andy Puckett, University of Missouri – Columbia

 

 

Voluntary Disclosures and the Exercise of Executive Stock Options

 

 

 

 

19

David Abad, University of Alicante

 

 

Switching to a Temporary Call Auction in Times of High Uncertainty

 

26

 

 

 

 

Nov

2

Li Jin, Harvard University

 

 

Managerial Career Concern and Mutual Fund Short-termism

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

23

No seminar; Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

30

 

 

 

 

Dec

7

 

 

Jan

25

No seminar; Faculty Meeting

 

Feb

1

Kathleen Hanley, Securities and Exchange Commission

Strategic Disclosure and the Pricing of Initial Public Offerings

 

 

 

 

8

Grace Hao, University of Missouri - Columbia

 

 

Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from Investment Banking Relationships

 

 

 

15

Andrei Nikiforov, University of Missouri - Columbia

 

Does the Seasonality of Aggregate Earnings Announcements Affect Asset Prices?

 

 

 

 

22

Andy Kern, University of Missouri - Columbia

 

Board Changes around Bankruptcy

 

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

 

Mar

7

Karl Diether, Ohio State University

 

 

Short Selling, Timing, and Profitability

 

 

 

 

14

No seminar; Missouri Banking Symposium

 

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

28

No seminar; Spring Break

 

 

 

Apr

4

No seminar; Smith Institute of Real Estate Forum

 

 

 

 

11

Andy Puckett, University of Missouri

 

The Interim Trading Skills of Institutional Investors

 

 

 

 

18

Murillo Campello, University of Illinois, vita

 

Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the Technology Bubble

 

Cancelled

 

 

 

 

25

Erik Lie, University of Iowa

 

Cancelled

 

 

 

May

2

Russ Wermers, University of Maryland

 

 

False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas

 

 

 

 

 

2008-2009 or Not Yet Scheduled

 

 

 

 

 

Murillo Campello (Illinois) – Sep. 19, 2008

 

 

Richard Sias (WSU) – 2008-2009

 

 

Karl Lins (Utah) – 2008-2009