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FINANCE
Finance Workshop 2005-2006
Fall 2005: 1:30-3:00 p.m.,Friday
Summerfield 502 unless otherwise noted
| Aug | 19 | Na Dai, University of Kansas, “Do Venture Capitalists Add Value to Firms? Evidence from VC-Invested PIPEs” |
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| Sept | 2 | Friday before Labor Day Weekend |
| 9 | Mark Haug and Mark Hirschey, University of Kansas, “The January Effect is Alive and Well after 30 Years” | |
| 16 | APM Golf Tournament | |
| 23 | Jeff Milyo, U. Missouri, “Sex, Power and Money: Market Reaction to a Sudden Change in Political Leadership" | |
| 29-30 | Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference, “Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” at the Kauffman Foundation. | |
| Oct | 7 | Xuemin (Sterling) Yan, University of Missouri, “Do Independent Directors and Chairmen Matter: The Role of Directors in Mutual Fund Governance” |
| 14 | FMA Meetings in Chicago, October 13-15 | |
| 21 | Nicole Boyson,Northeastern University, “Is there Hedge Fund Contagion?” | |
| 28 | Finance Board of Advisors meeting | |
| Nov | 4 | Harold Mulherin,Claremont McKenna College, “Competing with the NYSE” |
| 11 | Karyl Leggio,University of Missouri, Kansas City, “From Alpha (Leland’s) to Omeag: Are Hedge Funds a Good Investment?” | |
| 18 | OPEN | |
| 25 | Day after Thanksgiving | |
| Dec | 2 | OPEN |
| 9 | Stop Day |
Spring 2006: 1:30p.m., Fridays
Summerfield 502 unless otherwise noted
| Feb. | 10 | Ying (Jenny) ZhangPh.D. Student, University of Kansas, “Security Market Reaction to FDA Fast-Track Desingnation” |
| 17 | Diane Del Guercio, University of Oregon, “Shareholder activism and the market for directors: Do vote no campaigns damage director’s reputations?” |
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| 24 | Accounting - Mike Ettredge and Qian Wang, University of Kansas, "A Theory of Compliance with Disclosure Requirements: Empirical Tests" Summerfield 405 |
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| Mar | 3 | Shane Corwin, Notre Dame University, “Limited Attention and the Allocation of Effort in Securities Trading” |
| 10 | Accounting - Lili Sun, Rutgers University – Newark, “Using SFAS No. 109 Tax Data to Detect Fraud” |
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| 17 | Friday before Spring Break | |
| 24 | Spring Break | |
| 31 | Jeff Smith, Director of Economic Research, Nasdaq, “What’s new at the Stock Market” Canceled/illness |
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| Apr | 7 | Christian Schlag, Goethe Universität Frankfurt & Vanderbilt University, “General Equilibrium with Stochastic Volatility and Jumps” |
| 14 | Jefferson Duarte, University of Washington, “Risk and Return in Fixed Income Arbitrage: Nickels in Front of a Steamroller?" |
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| 28 | Finance Advisory Board Meeting | |
| May | 5 | Ying (Jenny) Zhang,Ph.D. Student, University of Kansas, “Security Market Reaction to FDA Fast Track Designation" (Day before Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting) |
| 12 | Yuhang Xing, Rice University, "High Idiosyncratic Volatility and Low Returns: International and Further U.S. Evidence" |
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