Finance Seminar Series
September 16, 2022
Hernan Ortiz-Molina, University of British Columbia
Regional Clusters and Product Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Great Recession
Friday at 1:30 PM CT, in Price Hall 3040
September 23, 2022
Ivo Welch, University of California Los Angeles
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
September 30, 2022
Tomas Jandik, University of Arkansas
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
October 14, 2022
Michael Weber, University of Chicago
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., AH 150
October 28, 2022
Sumudu Watugala, Indiana University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
November 11, 2022
Jillian Grennan, Santa Clara University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., MFPH 3040
November 18, 2022
Bernard Black, Northwestern University
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., 3040 MFPH
December 2, 2022
Youchang Wu, University of Oregon
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
January 27, 2023
Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
February 3, 2023
Harry Turtle, Colorado State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
February 10, 2023
Christa Bouwman, Texas A&M University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
February 24, 2023
Alex Butler, Rice University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
March 3, 2023
Allen Berger, University of South Carolina
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
March 8, 2023
Kate Holland, University of Missouri
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
April 7, 2023
Tracy Wang, University of Minnesota
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
April 21, 2023
Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
April 28, 2023
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., 3040 MFPH
September 3, 2021
Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 24, 2021
Duane Stock, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 10, 2021
Lubo Litov, University of Oklahoma
"Monitoring Secretive Startups"
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Online via Zoom
October 29, 2021
David Matsa, Northwestern
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 5, 2021
Patrick Augustin, McGill University
"The impact of derivatives on cash markets: Evidence from the introduction of bitocin futures contracts."
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
November 12, 2021
Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Efficiency or Resiliency? Corporate Choice between Financial and Operational Hedging
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 19, 2021
Kristoph Kleiner, Indiana University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
December 5, 2021
Lubo Litov, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
December 8, 2021
2021 Price College of Business
Colloquium on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure
February 25, 2022
Dana Kiku, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 4, 2022
Zhi Da, Notre Dame
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 25, 2022
Andra Ghent, University of Utah
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., MFPH 3040
April 1, 2022
Tracy Wang, University of Minnesota
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., MFPH 3210
April 22-23, 2022
Fourth OU Energy and Climate Finance Research Conference
Time and Location: 8:30am Sam Noble Museum
August 28, 2020
2020 Price College of Business Entrepreneurship & Finance Workshop
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Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 11, 2020
Francesco D'Acunto, Boston College
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 18, 2020
Isil Erel, Ohio State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 25, 2020
Tania Babina, Columbia University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 2, 2020
Davidson Heath, University of Utah
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 9, 2020
Sabrina Howell, New York University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 23, 2020
Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 6, 2020
Sandy Klasa, University of Arizona
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 20, 2020
Pat Akey, University of Toronto
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
December 11, 2020
2020 Price College of Business Workshop on Valuation & Accounting for Intangible Assets
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Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
January 29, 2021
Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 5, 2021
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 12, 2021
Alexander Ljundqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 26, 2021
Andrew Mackinlay, Virginia Tech
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 5, 2021
Joel Peress, Insead
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 19, 2021
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 26, 2021
Yan Liu, Purdue University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 2, 2021
Heber Farnsworth, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 9, 2021
Southwest Finance Symposium
Time and Location: 9:00 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 23, 2021
Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
May 28, 2021
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 4, 2021
Jessica Jeffers, University of Chicago
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 11, 2021
Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 18, 2021
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 9, 2021
Micah Officer, Loyola Maramount
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 23, 2021
Greg Eaton, Oklahoma State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 30, 2021
Lubo Litov, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
August 28, 2020
2020 Price College of Business Entrepreneurship & Finance Workshop
Click here for the full meeting program.
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 11, 2020
Francesco D'Acunto, Boston College
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 18, 2020
Isil Erel, Ohio State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
September 25, 2020
Tania Babina, Columbia University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 2, 2020
Davidson Heath, University of Utah
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 9, 2020
Sabrina Howell, New York University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
October 23, 2020
Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 6, 2020
Sandy Klasa, University of Arizona
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
November 20, 2020
Pat Akey, University of Toronto
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
December 11, 2020
2020 Price College of Business Workshop on Valuation & Accounting for Intangible Assets
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Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
January 29, 2021
Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 5, 2021
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 12, 2021
Alexander Ljundqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 26, 2021
Andrew Mackinlay, Virginia Tech
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 5, 2021
Joel Peress, Insead
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 19, 2021
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
March 26, 2021
Yan Liu, Purdue University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 2, 2021
Heber Farnsworth, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 9, 2021
Southwest Finance Symposium
Time and Location: 9:00 a.m., Online via Zoom
April 23, 2021
Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
May 28, 2021
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 4, 2021
Jessica Jeffers, University of Chicago
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 11, 2021
Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 18, 2021
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 9, 2021
Micah Officer, Loyola Maramount
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 23, 2021
Greg Eaton, Oklahoma State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 30, 2021
Lubo Litov, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
August 30, 2019
Xi Li, University of Arkansas
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
September 6, 2019
Michael Ewens, Caltech
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
September 13, 2019
George Korniotis, University of Miami
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
September 19-20, 2019
2019 University of Oklahoma Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference
September 27, 2019
Joey Engelberg, UC San Diego
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
November 1, 2019
Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
November 15, 2019
Veronika Pool, Vanderbilt University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
November 22, 2019
Justin Birru, Ohio State University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
December 6, 2019
David Sraer, UC Berkeley
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
February 7, 2020
Bill Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 3040
February 21, 2020
Yaniv Grinstein, Cornell University and IDC Herzalyia
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 3040
May 1, 2020
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma
“Portfolio Inventory Risk of Voluntary Liquidity Providers: Market Frictions and Fragility”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
May 8, 2020
Nick Pan, University of Oklahoma
"Explaining the Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle with a Bayesian-Updating Model”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via ZoomMay 15, 2020
Heber Farnsworth, University of Oklahoma
"Indexing, active management, and market efficiency: a noisy rational expectations approach”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
May 22, 2020
Nadya Malenko, Boston College
“Trading and Shareholder Democracy”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
May 29, 2020
Yael Hochberg, Rice University
“Launching with a Parachute: The Gig Economy and New Business Formation”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 12, 2020
Neil Pearson, University of Illinois a Urbana-Champaign
"Retail Derivatives and Sentiment: A Sentiment Measure Constructed from Issuances of Structured Equity Products”
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
June 26, 2020
Kelly Shue, Yale University
"The Gender Gap in Housing Returns"
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 17, 2020
Paul Irvine, Texas Christian University
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
July 26, 2020
Kristine Hankins, University of Kentucky
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Online via Zoom
February 23, 2018
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 2065
Shane Johnson, Texas A&M
March 30, 2018
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 2065
Henrik Cronqvist, University of Miami
April 27 , 2018
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 2065
Ran Duchin, University of Washington
May 4, 2018
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 2065
Nich Gantchev, Southern Methodist University
May 11, 2018
Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., PH 2065
Gilles Chemla, Imperial College London
February 17, 2017
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Is there a Local Culture of Corruption in the U.S.?"
Speaker: Steven Xiao, University of Texas - Dallas
February 24, 2017
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Measuring Contract Completeness: A Text Based Analysis of Loan Agreements"
Speaker: Malcolm Wardlaw, University of Texas-Dallas
March 3
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Borrowers in Search of Feedback: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets"
Speaker: Inessa Liskovich, University of Texas -Austin
March 10
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Understanding Precautionary Cash at Home and Abroad"
Speaker: Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern
March 24
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Institutions and Innovations"
Speaker: Kose John, New York University
April 7
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "That is Not My Dog: Why Doesn't the Log Dividend-Price Ratio Seem to Predict Future Log Returns or Log Dividend Growths?"
Speaker: Philip Dybvig, Washington University
April 14
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Politicizing Consumer Credit"
Speaker: Rawley Heimer, Cleveland Fed
April 21
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Skilled Labor Risk and Compensation Policies"
Speaker: Tracy Wang, Minnesota
April 28
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Changing Risk Aversion with the Level of Interest Rates: Evidence from Money Market Fund Investors"
Speaker: Mark Flannery, Florida
May 5
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Political Uncertainty and Corporate Disclosure"
Speaker: Audra Boone, Texas Christian University
May 12
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated?"
Speaker: Roni Michaely, Cornell University
August 25
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Art Durnev, University of Iowa
September 15
Time and Location: TBA
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Chotibhak Jotikasthira, SMU
October 6
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College, London
October 26
Time and Location: TBA
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Andrei Simonov, Michigan State University
November 17
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Peter Iliev, Penn State
November 30
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Huibing Zhang, University of Texas - Dallas
December 8
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Speaker: Eric Zwick, University of Chicago
Friday, January 29
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Disentangling the Effects of State Ownership on Investment -- Evidence from Europe"
Patrick Jaslowitzer, Philipps-Universitat Marburg and William Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Friday, February 12
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition"
Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan
Friday, February 19
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Liquidity Provision under Stress: The Fast, the Slow, and the Dead"
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma
Friday, February 26
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Ownership Structure, Incentives, and Asset Prices"
Ajay Subramanian, Georgia State University
Wednesday, March 2
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Understanding the Decline in the Price of Oil since June 2014"
Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
Thursday, March 3
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "The Impact of the Fracking Boom Arab Oil Producers"
Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
Friday, March 4
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Compensation Goals and Firm Performance"
Radha Gopalan, Washington University - St. Louis
Wednesday, March 23
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 3010
Title of Paper: "Do CEO Beliefs Affect Corporate Cash Holdings?"
Anand Goel, Navigant Economics, Chicago, IL
Friday, March 25
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Mutual Funds and Bond Market Liquidity"
Sophie Shive, Notre Dame
Friday, April 8
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Personal Trading by Employees of Financial Intermediaries"
Paul Koch, University of Kansas
Friday, April 15
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Investor Inattention and Stock Prices: Evidence from Acquisitions with a Choice of Payment Types"
Erik Lie, University of Iowa
Friday, April 22
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Crude Oil Price Movements and Institutional Traders"
Jeff Harris, American University
Friday, May 6
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: The Effect of Takeover Protextion on the Value of Cash: Evidence from a Natural Experiment:
Eliezer Fich, Drexel University
Friday, August 26
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "The Impact of Make-Take Fees on Market Efficiency"
Jeff Black, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 31
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Bank Executives' Outside Directorships and Career Outcomes"
Andrea Schertler, Luneberg
Friday, September 2
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Internal CEO Approval and External Reporting"
Felix Meschke, University of Kansas
Friday, September 9
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Operating Losses and Cash Holdings"
David Denis, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 16
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Organization and Innovation Under Costly Information"
Peter MacKay, HKUST
Wednesday, September 21
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 3065
Title of Paper: "Do Clawback Provisions Have Claws?"
Hamed Mahmudi, University of Oklahoma
Friday, September 23
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Using Managerial Attributes to Identify Market Feedback Effects: The Case of Mutual Fund Fire Sales"
Vikram Nanda, UT - Dallas
Friday, September 30
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Insider Trading and the Legal Expertise of Corporate Executives"
Jide Wintoki, University of Kansas, SEC
Friday, October 7
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Growing Up Without Finance"
Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado - Boulder
Wednesday, October 12
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Hedging Gone Wild: Was Delta Airlines' Purchase of Trainer Refinery a Sound Risk Management Strategy"
William Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Friday, October 14
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "OPEC's Impact on Oil Price Volatility: The Role of Spare Capacity"
James Smith, SMU
Wednesday, October 26
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., AH 111
Title of Paper: "Director Networks and Firm Value"
Tor-Erik Bakke, University of Oklahoma
Friday, October 28
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., AH 355
Title of Paper: "Finalization, Intraday Institutional Trading, and Commodity Market Quality"
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 2
Time and Location: 11:45 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Investor Attention Spill-Over Effect: Evidence from DJIA Record Days"
Xuewu (Wesley) Wang, University of Oklahoma
Friday, November 4
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Local Obesity Prevalence and Corporate Policies"
Anup Agrawal, Alabama
Friday, November 11
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Complexity and Information Content of Financial Disclosures: Evidence from Evolution of Uncertainty Following 10-K Filings"
Xiaofei Zhao, University of Texas - Dallas
Friday, November 16
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., AH 111
Title of Paper: "Are Some Things Best Kept Secret? The Effect of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on Financial Leverage"
Scott Guernsey, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 18
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., AH 355
Title of Paper: "Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds"
Stacey Jacobsen, SMU
Friday, November 30
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Raiders, Regulators, and the Risk-Shifting Value of Payout"
Leo Pugachev, University of Oklahoma
Friday, December 2
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: TBA
Simon Gervais, Duke Unviersity
Wednesday, December 7
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., AH 2065
Title of Paper: "How Does Product Market Competition Affect CEO Option Compensation?"
Tor-Erik Bakke/Hamed Mahmudi, University of Oklahoma
Friday, December 4
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Relationship Trading in OTC Markets"
Norman Schuerhoff, Universite de Lausanne
Friday, November 20
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "Institutional and Political Economy Considerations in Natural Experiments: The Case of State Antitakeover Laws"
Jonathan M. Karpoff, University of Washington
Friday, November 13
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "A Reexamination of Contingent Convertibles with Stock Price Triggers"
George Pennacchi, University of Illinois
Friday, November 6
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2065
Title of Paper: "Real Misvaluation Externalities"
Laurent Fresard, University of Maryland
Friday, October 30
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Intermediary Asset Pricing: New Evidence from Many Asset Classes"
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago
Friday, October 2
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "The Best of Both Worlds: Accessing Emerging Economies by Investing in Developed Markets"
Mikhail Simutin, University of Toronto
Friday, September 25
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management"
Nicolae Garleanu, Berkeley
Friday, May 1
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Do Firms Engage in Risk-Shifting? Empirical Evidence"
Erik Gilje, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, April 17
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Do Fraudulent Firms Produce Abnormal Disclosure?"
Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University
Friday, April 10
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Taxes and Leverage at Multinational Corporations"
Michael Faulkender, University of Maryland
Friday, April 3
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Skill and Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance: A Manager-Level Assessment"
Ilhan Demiralp, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, March 11
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: "The Illusory Promise of Pre-emptive Rights"
Jesse Fried, Harvard University
Friday, February 27
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3010
Title of Paper: "A Labor Capital Asset Pricing Model"
Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, February 20
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Financial Intermediary Capital"
S. Viswanathan, Duke Unviersity
Friday, February 13
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Why Does the U.S. Have So Few Listed Firms?"
Craig Doidge, University of Toronto
Friday, December 5
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 3010
Title of Paper: "Financing and Workplace Safety"
Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas - Austin
Friday, November 21
Time and Location: 11:00 a.m., PH 3010
Title of Paper: "Liquidity and Market Quality Around Predictable Trades: Evidence from Crude Oil ETF Rolls"
Hank Bessembinder, University of Utah
Friday, March 1
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: Is Good News for a Firm also Good News for a Nearby Firm? Geography and Comovement of Stock Returns
Seth Hoelscher, University of Oklahoma
Title of Paper: Does Political Uncertainty Affect Capital Structure Choices?
Wenbin Cao, University of Oklahoma
Friday, March 8
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “The Causal Effect of Option Pay on Corporate Risk Management: Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry”
Tor-Erik Bakke, University of Oklahoma
Friday, March 29
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “The Informational Role of Spot Prices and Inventories”
James L. Smith and Rex Thompson, Southern Methodist University
Friday, April 5
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Board Structure and Acquirer Performance”
Andrey Golubov, City University London and Visiting Scholar, Stern School of Business, NYU
Friday, October 11
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers”
Jongha Lim, University of Missouri
Friday, October 25
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Scale and Skill in Active Management”
Lucian A. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Friday, November 1
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Testing Dynamic Agency Theory via Structural Estimation"
Boris Nikolov, University of Rochester
February 10, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 pm at PH 3030
Title of Paper: Tailspotting: How disclosure, stock prices and volatility change when CEOs fly to their vacation homes
David Yermack, New York University
February 17, 2012
Time and Location: 1:30 pm at PH 3030
Title of Paper: Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations
Joseph Engelberg, University of California – San Diego
March 9, 2012
Time and Location: 2:30 pm at PH 3030
Title of Paper: Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions
Mark Flannery, University of Florida
March 30, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 pm at PH 3030
Title of Paper: Government Ownership and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from Government Investments in Publicly Traded Firms
Kate Holland, OU Finance PhD Student
April 24, 2012
Time and Location: 4:30 pm at PH 3010
Title of Paper: Corporate Social Responsibility and Company Values
Alan Gregory, University of Exeter, UK
May 4, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 pm at PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Are Credit Ratings Still Relevant?”
Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech
May 11, 2012
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., Price Hall 3065
Title of Paper: "Underwriter Compensation and the Returns to Reputation”
Chitru Fernando and William Megginson, University of Oklahoma
August 24, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., Price Hall 3030
Title of Paper: “The Wealth Effects of Government Investment in Publicly Traded Firms”
Kateryna Holland, University of Oklahoma
August 31, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., Price Hall 3030
Title of Paper: “Bond Market Event Study Methodology”
Louis Ederington, University of Oklahoma
September 7, 2012
Time and Location: 1:15 p.m., Price Hall 3030
Title of Papers: “Corporate Governance Quality and Executive Compensation: The Case of Nonprofits” Ashley N. Newton, University of Oklahoma
“Pre-trade Transparency in Over-the-Counter Markets” Fan Chen, University of Oklahoma
September 14, 2012
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., Price Hall 3030
Title of Paper: “Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth”
Christopher A. Parsons, University of California, San Diego
September 21, 2012
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., Price Hall 3030
Title of Paper: “Defined Contribution Pensions Plans: Sticky or Discerning Money?”
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas
October 10, 2012
Time and Location: 12:00 noon, PH 2065
Title of Paper: “Bond Market Access and Investment”
Vahap Uysal, University of Oklahoma
October 19, 2012
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Taxation and Household Asset Location and Allocation: Evidence from the Bush Tax Acts”
Daeyong Lee, University of Washington
November 16, 2012
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Likely and Unlikely Reasons for Selection into Securitization: Evidence from Commercial Mortgages”
Rossen Valkanov, University of California, San Diego
December 7, 2012
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: “Taxes and Corporate Policies: Evidence from the Canadian Income Trust Market”
Alexander Dyck, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
February 11, 2011
Time and Location: 1:30PM Friday, AH 3030
Title of Paper: "The Volatility of Liquidity and Expected Stock Returns"
Ralitsa Petkova, Texas A&M University
February 18, 2011
Time and Location: 1:30PM Friday, AH 150
Title of Paper: Worry-Free Investing for Retirement
Zvi Bodie, Boston University
March 25, 2011
Time and Location: 1:30PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Wealth Transfers Among and Between Bond Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Bond Tender Offers
Matthew Billet, University of Iowa
April 1, 2011
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Employment Protection Laws and Privatization
William Megginson. University of Oklahoma
April 29, 2011
Time and Location: 2:45PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Agency Conflicts and Cash: Estimates from a Structural Model
Toni Whited, University of Rochester
September 23, 2011
Time and Location: 2:30PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act
Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
September 30, 2011
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Empirical Evidence on Ownership Structure, Management Control and Agency Cost
Scott Linn, University of Oklahoma
October 28, 2011
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Institutional Investors and the Transformation of Underperforming Firms
Janet Kiholm Smith, Claremont McKenna College
November 4, 2011
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: CDS Credit-Event Auctions
Sudip Gupta, Indian School of Business
November 11, 2011
Time and Location: 1:15PM Friday, AH 3040
Title of Paper: A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America
John Graham, Duke University
November 18, 2011
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: The Effect of Interest Rate Volatility on Corporate Yield Spreads on both Noncallable and Callable Bonds
Duane Stock, University of Oklahoma
December 9, 2010
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3040
Title of Paper: Strategic Financial Management: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings
Cliff Smith, University of Rochester
December 3, 2010
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "Regulatory Uncertainty and Market Liquidity: The 2008 Short Sale Ban's Impact on Equity Option Markets"
Paul Schultz, University of Notre Dame
November 19, 2010
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: Local Religious Beliefs and Organizational Risk-Taking Behaviors
Johan Sulaeman, Southern Methodist University
November 12, 2010
Time and Location: 3:00PM Friday, PH 3030
Title of Paper: Impact of the TARP Financing Choice on Existing Preferred Stock
Dong-Hyun Kim and Dr. Duane Stock, University of Oklahoma
November 5, 2010
Time and Location: 1:15 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: "CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
October 15, 2010
Time and Location: 3:00 p/m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: In Search of Attention
Paul Gao, University of Notre Dame
October 8, 2010
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., PH 3030
Title of Paper: Bank Liquidity Creation, Monetary Policy, and Financial Crises
Allen Berger, University of South Carolina
April 30, 2010
Time and Location: 2:45 p.m., PH 2020
Title of Paper: Bonus-driven Repurchases.
Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
April 16, 2010
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., PH 2020
Title of Paper: Heterogeneous Beliefs and Capital Structure.
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
February 12, 2010
Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., PH 2020
Title of Paper: Prior target valuations and acquirer returns: risk or perception?.
Thomas Moeller, Texas Christian University
February 20, 2009
Title of Paper:Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial policies .
Bill Megginson
February 26, 2009
Title of the paper:The Valuation of Executive Stock Options when Executives Can Influence the Payoffs.
Don Chancer.
February 27, 2009
Title of the paper:Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall?.
Rick Green.
April 10,2009
Time and Location: 10:30 a.m., PH 2030
Title of the paper: Loan Officers and Relationship lending to SMEs
Greg Udell, Indiana University
May 1,2009
Time and Location: 9:30 a.m., PH 3040
Title of the paper: Barbarians at the Gate” Perspectives on the Current Financial Crisis
Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
August 28,2009
Title of the paper:Determinants of Trading Profits of Individual Futures Traders: Risk Premia, Information, and Luck.
Chitru Fernando, Louis Ederington, Michaël Dewally.
September 4, 2009
Title of the paper: Deviation from the Target Capital Structure and Acquisition
Vahap B. Uysal
September 14,2009
Title of the paper:Predicting Municipal Bond Yields: Can Municipal Indices Predict Individual Bond Yields? | Tables (doc)
Duane Stock, Le Duong
October 2, 2009
Time and Location:3:00PM Friday, PH 2030
Title of the paper:IBEX 35 Inclusiones and Exclusiones
Jay Dahya, Laura Galguera García
October 14, 2009
Time and Location:12:00 noon Wednesday, PH 2065
Title of the paper:Wealth Effects of Going Private Transactions on Corporate Rivals, Customers and Suppliers.
Sridhar Gogineni, Finance PhD Student
November 6, 2009
Time and Location:10:30 AM Friday, PH 3040
Title of the paper: Credit -Rating Shopping, Selection and the Equilibrium Structure of Ratings.
Francesco Sangiorgi, Jonathan Sokobin, Chester Spatt
November 13, 2009
Time: 3.00PM Friday
Title of the paper: Credit Default Swap Spreads and Variance Risk Premia.
Hao Wang, Hao Zhou, Yi Zhou
All seminars take place at 3:00 pm in Price Hall 3030 unless otherwise noted.
February 15, 2008
Title of Paper: Explicit vs. Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Agreements.
Stuart L. Gillan, Jay C. Hartzell, Robert Parrino
September 12, 2008
Title of the paper: Mandatory Disclosure and Operational Risk: Evidence from Hedge Fund Registration.
Stephen J Brown, William N Goetzmann, Bing Lian and Christopher Schwarz
Title of the paper: Estimating Operational Risk for Hedge Funds: The w-Score.
Stephen J Brown, William N Goetzmann, Bing Lian and Christopher Schwarz
September 19, 2008
Title of the paper: Decoupling the Motives for Takeover Resistance, and the Implications for Stockholders, Managers and Bidders.
Nicholas Carline and Pradeep Yadav.
Octorber 3, 2008
Title: Estimating a Model of Real and Nominal Term Structures using Treasury Yields, Inflation Forecasts, and Inflation Swap Rates.
George Pennacchi, J. Haubrich and P. Ritchken.
November 14, 2008
Hemang Desai.
