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     FINANCE

Finance Workshop 2002-2003*


Fall 2002: 1:30-3:20 p.m. in 502 Summerfield Hall

Aug. 30 Anand Vijh, U. of Iowa, "Sector Fund Performance" (pdf)
Sept. 12 Paul Koch, U. of Kansas, "Calendar Spreads, Outright Futures Positions, and Risk"
27 Corporate Control, Corporate Disclosure: Lessons for Investors, Directors,Regulators and Researchers.
12:00 - 5:00 p.m., Ritz Charles, 137th and Antioch, Overland Park (link)
28 Research on Corporate Control and Corporate Disclosure,
8:30a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Adams Alumni Center.(link)
Oct. 11 Sorin Sorescu, Texas A&M, TBA
18 No Workshop (Fall Break)
25 Tomas Jandik, U. of Arkansas, "The Long-term Success  of Mergers and Acquisitions"
Nov. 08 Rohan Williamson, Georgetown, TBA
22 Kathy Kahle, U. of Pittsburgh, "Executive Stock Purchase  Loans"

Spring Semester 2003

Jan. 17 David T. Robinson, Columbia University, "Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances" (pdf)
  24 John Charnes, University of Kansas, "Real Options and Telecommunications Network Evolution Economics" (pdf)
Feb. 07 Ellen McGrattan, Minnesota Federal Reserve Bank & U. of Minnesota, "The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right!",
2:30 p.m.  Summerfield 424 (Joint Finance/Economics) (pdf)
  14 Edward Fee, Michigan State, "Gains to Horizontal Mergers"
  28 Sorin Sorescu, Texas A&M, TBA
Mar. 28 Antoinette Schoar, MIT, "The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity"
Apr. 11 Hendrik Bessembinder, University of Utah, TBA

*The workshop series is funded by the Wagnon Chair
This web site was made possible through the generous support of University of Kansas alumnus Ken Wagnon
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