Seminar Series

Upcoming Finance Speaker Series Seminars 

Speakers, papers, dates, times, and locations subject to change. Please contact Professor Ryan Davies for further information.

Past Seminars 

Friday May 10, 2013: Shane  A. Corwin, University of Notre Dame, presented his paper; "The Changing Nature of Investment Banking Relationships" 

                                              
Friday April 5, 2013: 5th Boston Area Finance Symposium (BAFS)

Friday February 1, 2013: Isil Erel, Ohio State University, presented her paper; "Why Did Holdings of Highly-Rated Securitization Tranches Differ So Much Across Banks?"

 Friday January 25, 2013: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School, presented her paper "Reaching For Yield In The Bond Market"

2011-2012 Academic Year

• Friday, December 7, 2012:Laurent Fresard, The University of Maryland, presented his paper with Thierry Foucault:  "Learning from Peers' Stock Prices and Corporate Investment".  
• Friday, September 7, 2012: Bernadette Minton, Ohio State University, presented her paper "Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate".
• Friday, September 28, 2012: Jun Qian, Boston College, presented his paper; "Out of the Limelight but In Play: Trading and Liquidity of Media and Off-media Stocks"                      
• Friday, April 27, 2012: Christopher G. Schwarz, University of California, Irvine and a Babson alum, presented his paper (co-written with Mark Potter)"SEC versus non-SEC Disclosed Portfolios: Revisiting the cost of Mandatory Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure" 
• Friday, March 30, 2012: Philip Strahan, Boston College, presented his paper "Financial Integration, Housing And Economic Volatility"
• Friday, March 2, 2012: Miriam Schwartz Ziv, Harvard/Hebrew U and Michael Weisbach, Ohio State,  presented their paper "What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meeting"
• Friday, February 3, 2012: R. David McLean, MIT/Sloan/University of Alberta, presented his paper "Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?" 
• Friday, December 2, 2011: Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College, presented his paper “How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach"
• Friday, September 23, 2011: Brian Rountree, Rice University, presented his paper “Are individual investors influenced by the optimism and credibility of stock spam recommendations?"
• Friday, September 9, 2011: Sunil Wahal, Arizona State University, presented his paper “Investing in a Global World".

2010–2011 Academic Year

• Jeffrey Coles, Arizona State University, “The Joint Determinants of Managerial Ownership, Board Independence, and Firm Performance”
• Robert Battalio, Notre Dame, “Who, if Anyone, Reacts to Accrual Information?”
• Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Asset Fire Sales and Purchases and the International Transmission of Financial Shocks”
• Eric Jacquier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The information content of realized volatility”
• Elvira Sojli and Wing Wah Tham, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University (Netherlands), “Tapping Hidden Liquidity: Flash Orders at the NASDAQ”
• Daniel Bergstresser, Harvard Business School, “Financial guarantors and the 2007–2009 credit crisis”

2009–2010 Academic Year

• Niki Boyson, Northeastern, “Intense Hedge Fund Activists”
• Belen Villalonga, Harvard Business School, “The Role of Institutional development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms”

2008–2009 Academic Year

• Darren Kisgen, Boston College, “Do Regulations Based On Credit Ratings Affect A Firm’s Cost of Capital?”
• Paul Irvine, University of Georgia, “Performance of Institutional trading desks; An analysis of persistence in trading costs ”
• Larry Fauver, University of Tennessee, “Do IPO Earnings and Revenue Surprise Investors?”
• Ingrid Werner, Ohio State University, “When Constraints Bind”
• Marc Lipson, Darden University of Virginia, “What Explains the Asset Growth Effect in Stock Returns?”
• Jacob Oded, Boston University, “Not All Buybacks are Created Equal: The Case of Accelerated Stock Repurchases”
• Kartik Raman, Bentley College, “How does stock liquidity influence monitoring? Evidence from firms’ tradeoffs between market-based and debt-based monitoring”

2007–2008 Academic Year

• Neil Pearson, UIUC, “Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?”
• Charles Jones, Columbia, “Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?”
• Thomas Chemmanur, BC, “Heterogeneous Beliefs, Short Sale Contraints, and the Economic Role of the Underwriter in IPOs”
• Edie Hotchkiss, BC, “Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?”
• Amy Edwards, SEC, “Short Selling in Initial Public Offerings”

2006–2007 Academic Year

• Will Goetzmann, Yale, “Lessons from Hedge Fund Registration”
• Jon Karpoff, University of Washington, “The Consequences to Managers for Cooking the Books”
• Bing Liang and Mila Getmansky Sherman, UMass Amherst, “Market Volatility, Investor Flows, and the Structure of Hedge Fund Markets”
• Jay Ritter, University of Florida, “Corporate Executive Bribery: An Empirical Analysis”
• Peter Tufano, HBS, “Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing”
• Maureen O’Hara, Cornell University, “Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing”
• David Brown, University of Wisconsin, “Idiosyncratic Volatility of Small Public Firms and Entrepreneurial Risk”
• Jennifer Conrad, UNC, “Skewness and the Bubble”

2005–2006 Academic Year

• Chester Spatt, SEC, “Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information”
• Michael Roberts, The Wharton School, “Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure”
• QJ Qian, Boston College, “Are Fairness Opinions Fair? The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions?”
• Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University, “Did New Regulations Target the Relevant Corporate Governance Attributes?”
• Robert Hansen, Tulane University, “Investment Bank Governance”
• Anna Scherbina, Harvard University, “Inheriting Losers”
• Chris Leach, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Gas Pump Arbitrage”

2004–2005 Academic Year

• Ken Kavajecz, University of Wisconsin, “Price Discovery in the Treasury Futures Market”
• Stu Gillan, Arizona State University, “Explicit vs Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Contracts”
• Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University, “What is a Dollar Worth? The Market Value of Cash Holdings”
• Mike Barclay, University of Rochester, “Automation versus Intermediation: Evidence from Treasuries Going off the Run”
• Dan Bernhardt, Illinois/Rochester, “The Simple Analytics of Informed Finance”
• Mary Ellen Carter, Wharton, “The Role of Incentives and Accounting in the Design of Executive Compensation Packages”
• Leonce Bargeron, University of North Carolina, “A Theory of Shareholder Tender Agreements”
• George Aragon, Boston College, “Share Restrictions and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry”
• Gang Hu, Boston College, “The Profitability and Informativeness of Institutional Trading in IPOs”
• Kristina Minnick, University of Maryland, “Write-offs and Corporate Governance Leonardo Madureira, Wharton, Conflicts of Interest, Regulations, and Stock Recommendations”

2003–2004 Academic Year

• Robert Van Ness, Mississippi, “Locked and Crossed Markets on the NASDAQ and the NYSE”
• Raghu Rau, Purdue University, “Analyst Behavior at Independent Research Firms, Brokerage Houses, and Investment Banks: Conflicts of Interest or Better Information”
• Utpal Bhattacharya, “When No Law is Better than a Good Law”
• Karen Wruck, Ohio State, “Leverage, Asset Liquidity and Management Credibility: New Evidence on the Determinants on Corporate Borrowing”
• Harold Mulherin, Claremont, “How Firms are Sold”
• Russ Wermers, Maryland, “Is Money Really Smart? New Evidence on the Relation Between Mutual Fund Flows, Manager Behavior, and Performance Persistence”
• Li-Anne Woo and Dave Michayluk, Bond University, “News Releases When Markets are Closed”
• Paul Bennett and Li Wei, “NYSE, Market Fragmentation & Market Quality”
• Jay Wang, University of Michigan, “Dividend Commitment and Discount Management: The Distribution Policy of Closed-End Funds”
• Mila Getmansky, MIT, “The Life Cycle of Hedge Funds: Fund Flows, Size and Performance”
• Debarshi Nandy, Boston College, “How is Value Created in Spin-offs? A look Inside the Black Box”
• Swami Kalpathy, Arizona State University, “Six-and-one Option Exchanges and Alignment of Equity Incentives”