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Seminars in Finance

2007-08 Seminars

Date	Presenter	Title	Time	Location
September 28	Marra Faccio (Purdue)	"Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock of Geographic Ties"	10:30am - 12:00pm	285 Lillis
November 9	Lauren Cohen (Harvard)	TBA	10:30am - 12:00pm	285 Lillis
November 16	Simon Gervais (Duke)	TBA	10:30am - 12:00pm	285 Lillis
February 22	Charles Hadlock (Michigan State)	TBA	10:30am - 12:00pm	285 Lillis

Past Seminars

Date	Presenter	Title
June 9	Berk Sensoy (USC)	Performance Evaluation and Self-Designated Benchmark Indexes in the Mutual Fund Industry
April 27	Michael Cooper (Utah)	Corporate Political Contributions and Stock Returns
April 25	Ro Gutierrez (Oregon)	Persistent Performance and Smart Money in Corporate-Bond Mutual Funds
March 9	Paul Tetlock (UT Austin)	"More Than Words: Quantifying Language to Measure Firms' Fundamentals"
February 9	Gustavo Manso (MIT)	"Motivating Innovation"
February 8	Paul Thistle (UNLV)	"CEO Tenure, the Risk of Termination and Firm Value"
October 30, 2006	Michael Weisbach (Illinois)	Corporate Financial and Investment Policies when Future Financing is not Frictionless
October 20-21, 2006	2006 Pacific Northwest Finance Conference	Program
October 6, 2006	Elizabeth Odders-White (Wisconsin)	The Probability and Magnitude of Information Events
May 12, 2005	Stefan Nagel (Stanford)	A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests
April 21, 2006	Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern)	Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns
April 7, 2006	Jon Reuter (Oregon)	The Rise of Teams in Fund Management
December 2, 2005	Jeff Busse (Emory)	Performance Persistence in Institutional Investment Management
November 11, 2005	Diane Denis (Purdue)	Earnouts: A Study of Financial Contracting in Acquisition Agreements
October 28-29, 2005	2005 Pacific Northwest Finance Conference	Program
May 20, 2005	Deon Strickland (Arizona State)	The Determinants of Idiosyncratic Voltility
April 29, 2005	Jennifer Conrad (North Carolina)	"Basis Assets"
October 22-23, 2004	20th Annual Pacific Northwest Finance Conference	Program
September 21-22, 2004	Conference on Delegated Portfolio Management	Program
May 28, 2004	Amy Dittmar (Michigan)	Why do Firms Issue Equity?
May 14, 2004	Antoinette Schoar (MIT)	Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reform of 1985
April 30, 2004	John Chalmers (Oregon)	The Benefit of Brokers: A Preliminary Analysis of the Mutual Fund Industry
April 23, 2004	Greg Kadlec (Virginia Tech)	Issuer Surplus and the Partial Adjustment of IPO Prices to Public Information
April 9, 2004	Joshua Coval (Harvard)	Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
March 12, 2004	Ro Gutierrez (Oregon)	Evidence to the Contrary: Weekly Abnormal Returns are Underreactions
March 5, 2004	Jon Reuter (Oregon)	The Financial Media, Advertising, and Mutual Fund Investors
February 20, 2004	Stephen Ross (MIT)	Compensation, Incentives, and the Duality of Riskiness and Risk Aversion
February 10, 2004	Jeff Pontiff (Boston College)	Shares Outstanding and Cross-Sectional Returns
January 30, 2004	Eric Zitzewitz (Stanford)	Using Prediction Markets to Evaluate Policy: The Case of the Iraq War