Seminar Series

The Finance Seminars are presented on Friday mornings from 10:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon, in 1505 Van Munching Hall. Deviations from the standard time will be publicized on this Web site as well as in the e-mail announcement that is sent prior to each seminar. To be included on the e-mail announcement list, send an e-mail to mdexter@rhsmith.umd.edu.

Spring 2006

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Date Speaker Paper Title
Jan. 20 Marc Martos-Vila
Princeton University		 "Executive Compensation
and the Search for Corporate Control"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Jan. 27 Amar Gande
New York University		 "Shareholder Initiated Class Action Lawsuits: Shareholder wealth effects and Industry Spillovers"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 3 Dalida Kadyrzhanova
Columbia		 "Does Governance Pay, or Is Entrenchment the Way? Merger Gains and Antitakeover Provisions"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 10 Radhakrishnan Gopalan
University of Michigan		 "Large Shareholder Trading and Takeovers:
The Disciplinary Role of Voting with your Feet"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 14 Berk Sensoy
University of Chicago		 "Incentives and Mutual Fund Benchmarks"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 17 Bjorn Eraker
Duke		 "Affine General Equilibrium Models"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 21 Georgios Skoulakis
Northwestern		 "Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Bayesian Learning"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Feb. 24 Craig Brown
University of Michigan		 "Self-Dealing in Securities Issuance"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Mar. 3 Aysun Alp
Matthew Kozora Minwen Li
University of Maryland
Ph.D. Students		 "A Study of Rating Volatility"
"An Alternative Route to Portfolio Efficiency"
"Outside Versus Inside CEO Succession and Firm Performance"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Mar. 10 Soeren Hvidkjaer
University of Maryland		 "Small Trades and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Mar. 17 Deborah Lucas
Northwestern		 "Valuing and Hedging Defined Benefit Pension Obligations – The Role of Stocks Revisited"
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room
Mar. 31 Shmuel Baruch
Princeton		 "Working Orders in Limit-Order Markets and Floor Exchanges"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Apr. 7 Brent Goldfarb
University of Maryland		 "Was There Too Little Entry During The Dot Com Era?"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Apr. 28 Josh Lerner
Harvard University 		"Specialization and Success:  Evidence from Venture Capital"
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
1203 Van Munching Hall
May 5 George Constantindies
University of Chicago		 "Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1207 Van Munching Hall
May 12 Paolo Fulghieri
Univ. of North Carolina		 "Corporate Governance, Finance and the Real Sector"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall

Fall 2005

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Date Speaker Paper Title
Sept. 9 Gergana Jostova
George Washington University

“Momentum and Credit Rating”
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Sept. 16 Torben Andersen
Northwestern University

"Nonparametric Exploration of Continuous
Time Volatility Models with Leverage and Jumps"
 (Addendum-Extended Tables and Figures)
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Sept. 23 Alexander Ljungqvist
New York University

"Scaling the Hierarchy: How and Why
Investments Banks Compete for
Syndicate Co-Management Appointments"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Sept. 30 Daniel Wolfenzon
New York University		 "Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families
in Succession Decisions and Performance"
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Oct. 7 Michael Roberts
 UPenn		 "Back to the Beginning: Persistence
and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Oct. 21 Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
UCLA		 "Liquidity and Market Efficiency"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Oct. 25 Liu Yang
University of Maryland
Ph.D. Student		 "Do Productivity Shocks Drive Asset Sales:
Theory and Empirical Evidence"
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room, Van Munching Hall
Oct. 28 Clara Vega
Rochester		 "Informed and Strategic Order Flow
in the Bond Markets"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1505 Van Munching Hall
Nov. 4 Roni Michaely
Cornell		 "Evidence on the Trade Off Between
Risk and Return for IPO and SEO Firms"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Nov. 8 Emir Hrnjic
Tulane University		 "IPO Underpricing to Buy Holding"
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room, Van Munching Hall
Nov. 18 Matt Richardson
New York University		 "The Myth of Long-Horizon Predictability"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Dec. 2 Yuhang Xing
Rice		 "An Intraday Analysis of the Relative
Informational Efficiency of Stocks and Bonds"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Dec. 9 David Robinson
Duke 		"Market Structure, Internal Capital Markets,
and the Boundaries of the Firm"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
1203 Van Munching Hall
Dec. 14 Antonio Falato
University of Maryland
Visiting Professor		 "Paying to Make a Difference:
Executive Compensation and Product Dynamics"
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
1518 Van Munching Hall
Dec. 16 Simon Gervais
Duke		 "Overconfidence, Investment Policy, and Manager Welfare"
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room, Van Munching Hall
 
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