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Finance Workshop 2006-2007


Fall 2006: 1:30p.m., Fridays
Summerfield 502 unless otherwise noted

Aug 18 No workshop
  25 Wayne Ferson, Boston College,
"Measuring the Timing Ability of Fixed Income Mutual Funds"
Sept 1 Weekend before Labor Day
  8 Gönül Çolak, Wichita State University,
"Cycles in the IPO Market"
  15 Ying (Jenny) Zhang, University of Kansas,
"Earnings Announcement Bubbles in Chinese A-Shares: Post Announcement Drift versus Price Reversals"
  22 APM Golf Tournament
  29 Alessio Saretto, Purdue University,
"Option Returns and the Cross-Sectional Predictability of Implied Volatility"
Oct 6 No Workshop
  13 Fall Break & FMA Meeting
  20 Jide Wintoki,University of Georgia,
"Endogeneity and the Dynamics of Corporate Governance: A New Look at the Relationship Between Board Structure and Firm Performance"
  27 Finance Advisory Board meeting
Nov 3 Jonathan Karpoff,University of Washington,
"The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Book"
  10 Murray Frank,University of Minnesota,
"Do US Stock Markets typically Overreact to Corporate News Stories?"
  17 Don Morgan, NY Fed,
"The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act: Means Testing or Just Mean?"
  24 Day after Thanksgiving
Dec 1 David Kuipers, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
"On the External Funding of Academic Research in Finance"
  8 Jennifer Juergens, Arizona State University,
"Getting Out Early: An Analysis of Market Making Activity at the Recommending Analyst's Firm" (will be scheduled earlier to accommodate Recognition ceremony).



Spring 2007: 1:30p.m., Fridays
Summerfield 502 unless otherwise noted

Copies of the papers can be obtained in Summerfield 345
For more information contact Becky Combs (bcombs@ku.edu)

Jan 19 Laura Tuttle, University of Kansas,
"Do Short-Sale Constraints Impede Price Discovery?"
  26 David Kuipers, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
"On the External Funding of Research in Academic Finance"
Feb 2 Vlad Ivanov, University of Kansas,
"Corporate venture capital, strategic alliances, and the governance of newly public firms"
  9
  16 Paul Tetlock, University of Texas,
"Does Liquidity Affect Securities Market Efficiency?"
  23 Shane Moser, University of Kansas,
"Do Bonds Lead Stocks?"
Mar 2 Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego,
"Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance"
  9 Stewart Mayhew, SEC,
TBA
  16 Spring Break starts (no workshop)
  23 Spring Break (no workshop)
  30 Hui Guo, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank,
"Understanding Stock Return Predictability"
Apr 6 Gregg Strohkorb, Security Benefit,
"Quantitative Investment in Practice"
  13 Andrew Karolyi, Ohio State University,
TBA
  20
  27 Finance Advisory Board (no workshop)
May 4 Jean Helwege, Pennsylvania State University,
TBA
  11 Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina,
TBA

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