Winter 2009

All seminars are in Balmer Hall, please note specific time and room. Contact for all seminars is Andy Anderson

Friday, January 9
Speaker 1: Ching-chieh Chang, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title 1: Investor's Ability in Selecting Funds and the Determinants of Fund Flows: Evidence on Enhanced Index Funds
Speaker 2: Hae Mi Choi, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title 2: Earnings News, Stock Returns & Uncertainty
Speaker 3: Jared Stanfield, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title 3: How Important are your Friends? Social Networks and Leveraged Buyout Exits
Time: 10:45 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, January 16
Speaker: Robert Schonlau, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title: Board Networks and Merger Performance
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, January 23
Speaker: Bruce Carlin, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Title: Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, January 30
Speaker: Tilmann Gneiting, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Paper Title: Probabilistic (weather) forecasting
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, February 20
Departmental Brown Bag
Speaker: Lance Young, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title: Discrimination and Loan Profitability
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, February 27
Speaker: John Griffin, University of Texas, Austin
Paper Title: Why Does the Reation to News Announcements Vary Across Countries?
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Support for this seminar is provided in part by the UW's Global Business Center (GBC) and the UWs Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education.

Friday, March 6
Speaker: Weili Ge, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title: Why Do CFOs Become Involved in Material Accounting Maniuplations?
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313

Friday, March 13
Speaker: Eric Zivot, Department of Economics, University of Washington
Paper Title: A Structural Analysis of Price Discovery Measures
Time: 11:00 - 12:20pm
Room: Balmer 313