2011-2012 Schulich Finance Seminars

All seminars are scheduled for Fridays from 1 to 2:30, room W257, unless stated otherwise.

Date

Presenters

Affiliation

email

Paper

09-Sep

Jasmin Gider

Bonn Graduate School of Economics

jgider@uni-bonn.de

Strategic Trading and Trade Reporting by Corporate Insiders

9/21/2011 (Wed, 11:30-1pm, W356)

Bala Balachandran

La Trobe University, Australia

Bala Balachandran <B.Balachandran@latrobe.edu.au>

The Issuance of Warrants in Rights Offerings

23-Sep

Lilian Ng

U Wiscounsin Milwaukee

Lilian Ng, "Lilian Ng" <lng@uwm.edu>

The Role of Foreign Investors in Stock Liquidity Around the World

30-Sep

07-Oct

Jonathan Treussard

Boston U PhD

Jonathan Treussard <jtreussa@gmail.com>

An Options Approach to the Valuation of Active Asset Management

14-Oct

BBA Reading Week

21-Oct

FMA Meetings - 19 to 22nd

28-Oct

MBA Reading Week

04-Nov

MBA Reading week

11-Nov

Denis Schweizer

WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management

denis.schweizer@whu.edu

The Fast Track IPO -Success Factors for Taking Firms Public with SPACs

18-Nov

Uday Rajan

U Michigan

Rajan, Uday <urajan@umich.edu>

Growth Option Exercise and Capital Structure

25-Nov

Raimond Maurer

U Frankfurt

Maurer, Raimond <maurer@finance.uni-frankfurt.de>

Lifecycle Portfolio Choice with Systematic Longevity Risk and Variable Investment-Linked Deferred Annuities

02-Dec

Hank Bessembinder

U Utah

Hank Bessembinder <hank.bessembinder@business.utah.edu>

Why Designate Market Makers? Affirmative Obligations and Market Quality

09-Dec

Hamdi Driss

YorkU

The Psychology of Market Reaction to Analyst Recommendation Changes

16-Dec

George Nishiotis

University of Cyprus

George Nishiotis <nishioti@ucy.ac.cy>

Put-Call Parity Violations and Return Predictability: Evidence from the 2008 Short Sale Ban

Winter 2012

13-Jan

Kee-Hong Bae

YorkU

The Costs of ETF Membership: Valuation Effect of ETFs on Underlying Firms
The Costs of ETF Membership: Valuation Effect of ETFs on Underlying Firms

20-Jan

Nadia Massoud

YorkU

The Value Added by SEC Mandated Public Disclosure – The Case of Banks

27-Jan

03-Feb

Maskara, Pankaj

Eastern Kentucky U

Maskara, Pankaj <Pankaj.Maskara@eku.edu>

Selection Bias Due to Deletion of Confounded Observations in Event Studies

10-Feb

17-Feb

24-Feb

BBA/MBA Reading week

02-Mar

David McLean

U Alberta

McLean, David <david.mclean@business.ualberta.ca>

Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?

09-Mar

Barry Scholnick

U Alberta

Scholnick, Barry <barry.scholnick@business.ualberta.ca>

Bankruptcy Spillovers: Distance, Public Disclosure and Opaque Information

16-Mar

Wei Wang

Queen's U

Wei Wang <WWang@business.queensu.ca>

How costly is corporate bankruptcy to top executive?

23-Mar

30-Mar

Michael King

U Western Ontario

King, Michael <mking@ivey.uwo.ca>

The cross-border contagion and competition effects of bank bailouts announced in October 2008

06-Apr

Good Friday

13-Apr

20-Apr

Vladimir Atanasov

William & Mary

Vladimir.Atanasov@mason.wm.edu

Causal Inference in Corporate Finance Research

27-Apr

04-May

Feng Zhan

YorkU

Exchange Trading Rules, Surveillance and Insider Trading

11-May

18-May

25-May

01-Jun

08-Jun

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