2009 Program
Seminars will take place in Lecture Theatre Room ASB 205, level 2 the Australian School of Business Building, starting at 4:00pm. We invite attendance of participants from other universities and from industry who are interested in both theoretical and applied research in finance. The seminar series provides an excellent opportunity to network with scholars from Australia and overseas who are acknowledged as leaders in the field of finance or undertaking cutting edge research. We also welcome presenters who are early career finance academics or practitioners. Interested researchers are required to submit either an abstract or draft paper to the seminar coordinator for consideration for the seminar series.
Seminar Convenor for 2009 is Dr Kingsley Fong, Contact address: k.fong@unsw.edu.au
Session 1
| Date |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Thur 26 Feb |
Zvi Wiener |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
"Credit Risk Spreads in Local and Foreign Currencies"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building
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| Thur 5 Mar |
Josef Zechner |
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration |
"Liquidity And Feasible Debt Relief"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 12 Mar |
Ron Giammarino |
University of British Columbia |
"Leaders, Followers, and Risk Dynamics in Industry Equilibrium"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 19 Mar |
Sudipto Dasgupta |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
"Debt Reclassifications Under Revolving Faculties: Determinants and Real Impact"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 26 Mar |
Lilian Ng |
University of Wisconsin |
"Informed Trading Around The World"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location:
Capital Markets CRC Ltd
Level 3, 55 Harrington Street (Clocktower Building)
The Rocks - Sydney NSW 2000 |
| Thur 2 Apr |
David Yermack |
New York University |
"Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentive Compensation in the Church"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 9 Apr |
Hung Wan Kot |
Hong Kong Baptist University |
"Short-sale Constraints and A-H Share Premiums"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 23 Apr |
Talis Putnins |
University of Sydney |
"Pricing Accuracy, Liquidity and Trader Behavior with Closing Price Manipulation"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 30 Apr |
Alex Edmans |
University of Pennsylvania |
"Short-Term Termination Without Deterring Long-Term Investment: A Theory of Debt (Not Dividends)"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 7 May |
Nicolae Garleanu |
UC Berkeley |
"The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 14 May |
Qianqiu Liu |
University of Hawaii |
"Extreme Downside Risk and Expected Stock Returns"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 21 May |
Effi Benmelech |
Harvard University |
"Negotiating with Labor under Financial Distress"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 11 June |
Andrew Ellul |
Indiana University |
"Control Motivations and Capital Structure Decisions"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 119, Level 1 ASB Building |
Tue 16 June
(Brown Bag Seminar) |
Leonce Bargeron |
University of Pittsburg |
"Do Corporate Acquisitions Affect Uncertainty about the Value of Acquiring Firms?"
Seminar Time: 12:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 216, Level 2 ASB Building |
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| Date |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
Fri 24 July
(Brown Bag Seminar) |
Ron Masulis |
Vanderbilt University |
"Are Foreign Directors Valuable Advisors or Ineffective Monitors?"
Seminar Time: 12.00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 115, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thu 6 Aug |
Keith Wong |
Hong Kong University |
"Intellectual Capital and Financing Decisions:
Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thu 13 Aug |
Massimo Guidolin |
Manchester Business School |
"Regime Shifts in Empirical Pricing Kernels: A
Mixture CAPM"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
Fri 14 Aug
(Brown Bag Seminar)
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Simon Benninga |
Recanati School of Business |
"Non-Marketability and the Value of Equity Based Compensation"
Seminar Time: 12.00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 115, Level 1 ASB Building |
| Thur 20 Aug |
Jennifer Huang |
University of Texas at Austin |
"Internal Capital Allocation and Firm Performance"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thur 27 Aug |
Marcin Kacperczyk |
New York University |
"Attention Allocation Over the Business
Cycle: Evidence from the Mutual Fund
Industry"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thur 17 Sep |
Joseph Chen |
University of California,
Davis Graduate School of Management |
"Yield Curve Predictors
of Foreign Exchange Returns"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
Mon 21 Sep
(Brown Bag Seminar) |
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (Subra) |
The Anderson School, UCLA |
"O/S: The Relative Trading Activity in Options and Stock"
Seminar Time: 11.00am
Seminar Location: Room 388, Law Building |
| Thur 24 Sept |
Astrid Schornick |
INSEAD |
"Competing Capital Constraints"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thur 08 Oct |
Nicolas Papageorgiou |
HEC Montreal |
"An Alternative Performance Measure"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thur 15 Oct |
Mitchell Craig Warachka |
Singapore Management University |
"Operating Efficiency and Corporate Governance"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thur 22 Oct |
Jacob Sagi |
Vanderbilt University |
"Information Content of Public Firm Disclosures and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act"
Seminar Time: 4:00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building |
| Thu 29 Oct |
Timo Teräsvirta |
Aarhus University |
Forecasting inflation with gradual regime shifts and exogenous information
Seminar Time: 10:00 am - note change of time
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 205, Level 2 ASB Building
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| Mon 02 Nov |
Harrison Hong |
Princeton University |
"Values and Socially Responsible Investing: Evidence from Money Managers"
Seminar Time: 12.00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 114, Level 1 ASB Building
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| Wed 11 Nov |
Kumar Venkataraman |
SMU, Cox School of Business |
"Market crashes and institutional trading:
Evidence from U.S. equities during the financial crisis of 2007-08"
Seminar Time: 4.00pm
Seminar Location: CMCRC, The Rocks Sydney |
| Mon 30 Nov |
Stephen Brown |
NYU, Stern School of Business |
Seminar Time: 12.00pm
Seminar Location: Lecture Theatre Room 216, Level 2 ASB Building |
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