Finance Workshop Series

 

Organizer: Mark Walker

Fall, 2009 Schedule

September 18 -- Ted Fee (Michigan St.)
                         3:00-4:30; Nelson 1120
                         "Product Market Competition and the Disclosure of Information
                         about Customers" ( pdf)


October 02 --      Special Meeting
                         Finance Faculty &
                         PhD-ECON Students
                         1:30-2:30; Nelson 4210
                         

October 16 --      Robert Darwin (NCSU)
                         3:00-4:30; Nelson 4210
                         "Asymmetric Responses of Break-Even Inflation Rates and the
                         Stock-Bond Correlation to Macroeconomic Announcements"
                         (pdf , slides)

November 13 --  Srini Krishnamurthy (NCSU)
                         3:00-4:30; Nelson 4210
                         "Why are Firms Unlevered?" (pdf)

December 4 --    Paige Ouimet (UNC)
                         3:00-4:30
                         Topic and location: TBA

 

 

Spring, 2009 Schedule

January 30, 2009 -- January 30 -- Andrew Yim (Tilburg University)
                  3:00-4:30      Nelson 1130
                 "Cost of Capital, Hurdle Rate and Default Risk: A Robust Model of Internal

 

Fall, 2008 Schedule

November 17 -- Richard E. Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of                         Financial Institutions and Markets (New York University)

3:00-4:30      Nelson 2405
"The Jack W. Wilson Memorial Lecture in Finance."
Reception - 4:30-5:30 Nelson Board Room

December 5 -- Shawn E. Thomas (University of Pittsburgh).
                   3:00-4:30      Nelson 2403
                  "The Spillover Effects of Changes in Industry Concentration"

 

Spring, 2008 Schedule

March 14 -- Richard Warr (NCSU)                   3:00-4:30      Nelson 2403
                  "Target Debt Ratios: The Impact of Equity Mis-pricing"  (pdf)

 

March 28 -- Mark Walker (NCSU)                    3:00-4:30      Nelson 2403
                 "Bankers on Boards, Financial Constraints, and Financial Distress" (pdf)

   

April 4 --     Anup Agrawal (Alabama)             3:00-4:30     Nelson 2403
                  "Boardroom Brawls: An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors"
                  (pdf)

April 25 --   Tim Simin (Penn St.)                     3:00-4:30     Nelson 2403
                  "Expected Commodity Futures Returns " (pdf)

 

Fall, 2007 Schedule

October 12 -- James Linck (Georgia)               3:00-4:30     Nelson 2403
                   "The Effects and Unintended Consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley                       Act on the Supply and Demand for Directors" (pdf)

 

October 26 -- Richmond Mathews (Duke)         1:00-2:30     Nelson 2403
                   "Empty Voting and Efficiency" (pdf)

 

November 2 -- Randall Heron (Indiana)           3:00-4:30     Nelson 2403
                     "What Fraction of Stock Option Grants to Top Executives have been                         Backdated or Manipulated?"  (pdf)