Spring 2007

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are from 11am - 12:20pm in Balmer Hall, room 416. Contact for all seminars is Andy Anderson

Friday, March 30
Speaker: Richard Startz, University of Washington
Paper Title: The Yield Curve Through Time and Across Maturities

Tuesday, April 3
Speaker: Joseph Fan, China University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: Organizational Structure as a Decentralization Device: Evidence from Corporate Pyramids
Location: Bank of America Executive Education Center
Room: 310
Time: 3:30pm - 4:50pm

Friday, April 6
Speaker: Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Paper Title: Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

Friday, April 13
Speaker: Ron Masulis, Vanderbilt University
Paper Title: Strategic Investing and Financial Contracting in Start-ups: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital

Friday, April 20
Speaker: Utpal Bhattacharya, Indiana University at Bloomington
Paper Title: The Global Rise of the Value-Weighted Portfolio

Friday, April 27
Speaker: Fritz Foley, Harvard University
Paper Title: Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment
Jointly Sponsered by the Global Business Center

Friday, May 4
Speaker: Adam Kolasinski, University of Washington
Paper Title: Bears and Numbers: Investigating how short sellers exploit and affect earnings-based pricing anomalies

Friday, May 11
Speaker: Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Paper Title: Stock Market Valuation and Globalization

Friday, May 18
Speaker: Heitor Almeida, New York University
Paper Title:Valuation and performance of firms in complex ownership structures: An application to Korean chaebols
Jointly Sponsered by the Global Business Center

Friday, May 25
Speaker: Jennifer Koski, University of Washington
Paper Title: Short Selling around Seasoned Equity Offerings

Friday, June 1
Speaker: Jefferson Duarte, University of Washington
Paper Title: The Price of Market Volatility Risk