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Finance Workshop 2003-2004


Fall 2003: 1:30-3:20 p.m. in 502 Summerfield Hall

Aug. 22 Mark Hirschey, Zoe-vanna Palmrose and Susan Scholz, "Underreaction to Accounting Restatements" (pdf)
Sept. 05 Paul Koch, "Disagreement and Anomalous Stock Returns around Technology Firms' Earnings Announcements" (pdf)
  19 Sara Moeller, Southern Methodist University. "Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale? A Study of Acquiring-Firm Returns in the Recent Merger Wave" (pdf)
Oct. 03 Elizier Fich, University of North Carolina, "Expanding the Limits of Merger Arbitrage" (pdf)
  17 Myron Slovin, Louisiana State University, "The Gain from Contracting with Equity" (pdf)
Nov. 07 Wally Mullin, George Washington Univeristy, "Spot and Forward Wholesale Electricity Markets in the US" (pdf)
  21 Laura Tuttle, Ohio State University, "Hidden Orders, Trading Costs and Information" (pdf), and
    Joachim Voth, "Stock Price Volatility and Political Uncertainty: Evidence from the Interwar Period" (at 3:30 p.m. in Economics Department workshop) (pdf)
Dec. 01 Bruce Haslem, Indiana University, "Managerial Opportunism During Corporate Litigation" (pdf)
  05 Rick Borghesi, University of Florida, "Value, Survival, and the Evolution of Firm Organizational Structure" (pdf)
  12 Vladimir Ivanov, Vanderbilt University, "Do Corporate Venture Capitalists Have Superior Project Selection Ability? Evidence from the Going Public Process" (pdf)



Spring 2004: 1:30-3:00 p.m. in 124 Summerfield Hall

Jan. 30 Jay Wang, University of Michigan, "Dividend Commitment and Discount Management: The Distribution Policy of Closed-End Funds" (pdf)
Feb. 06 Professor Shu Wu, Department of Economics, University of Kansas, "What Macroeconomic Risks Are (not) Shared by International Investors?" (pdf)
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. 124 Summerfield Hall
  13 Ron Mau, University of Kansas, "Mispricing of Rules and Regulations: The College Football Wagering Market" (pdf)
  20 Justin Wolfers, Stanford University, "What do Financial Markets Think of the War in Iraq?" (pdf)
  27 Paul Koch, University of Kansas, "Sensivity of Investor Reaction to Market Direction and Volatility: The Case of Dividend Change Announcements." (pdf)
Mar. 05 Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference, March 5-6.
  19 Betty Simkins, Oklahoma State University, "Does Fuel Hedging Make Economic Sense? The Case of the US Airline Industry." (pdf)
  26 No Workshop (Spring Break)
Apr. 09 Thomas Miller, St. Louis University, "The Performance of Global Portfolio Recommendations." (pdf)
  23 Peter Orazem, Iowa State University, "Long-term Attachments and Long-Run Firm Rates of Return." (pdf)
  30 Peter Klein, University of Missouri, "Who Discloses Contracts and Why? An Analysis of Contracts Contained in Corporate Filings" (pdf)
May 07 Michael Fu, University of Maryland, "Pricing of American-style Derivatives via Monte Carlo Simulation" (pdf #1) (pdf #2)

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