Seminar Series

Department Research Colloquium Speakers

Fall 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
August 26 Michelle Alexopoulos University of Toronto (Givens) Management Matters
September 2
September 9

Laura Razzolini

Virginia Commonwealth University (Pecorino) Impure Altruism in Dictators' Giving
September 16 Sudheer Chava
Georgia Tech (Agrawal) Environmental Externalities and Cost of Capital
September 23 Cary Deck University of Arkansas (Van Essen) Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets
September 30 Seung Ahn Arizona State University (Lee) Determining the Rank of the Beta Matrix in a Linear Asset Pricing Model
October 7 Vikas Agarwal Georgia State University (Agrawal) Window Dressing in Mutual Funds
October 14 Alex Brown Texas A&M University (Jindapon) An Experimental Analysis of an Envy-Free Auction

October 21

Daniel Henderson Binghamton University (Holt) Gradient Based Smoothing Parameter Selection For Nonparametric Regression Estimation
October 28 Fall Break
November 4 James Weston Rice University
(Underwood)
The Real Effects of Stock Market Prices
November 11

 Kai Li

University of British Columbia (Agrawal) Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions
November 18 Irina Murtazashvili University of Pittsburgh (Holt) A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors
November 25 Thanksgiving
December 2 Richard Baillie Michigan State University (Lee) TBA
December 9 Jonathan Feinstein Yale University (Enders/Jindapon) The Nature of Creative Development/Modeling the Development of a Field

 

Spring 2012 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
February 17 Reserved for EFL Softball
February 24 Byron Tsang Virginia Tech (Ma) TBA
March 2 John Wooders University of Technology, Sydney (Van Essen) TBA
March 23 Alon Brav Duke University (Agrawal) TBA
March 30 Lauren Cohen Harvard University (Agrawal) TBA
April 13 Wally Thurman North Carolina State University (Holt) TBA
April 20 Chris Cunningham Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Reed) TBA
April 27 David Mills The Federal Reserve Board (Reed) TBA

 

Brown Bag Series 2011-2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
October 10 Zeng/Cook Alabama The Takeover Market and Corporate Cash Holdings
October 17 Enders/Hoover Alabama On the Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty
October 24 Sudipta Sarangi LSU Confirming Information Flows in Networks
October 31 Mobbs Alabama
Trade-offs between internal and external governance: Board structure and anti-takeover provisions
November 7 Ellis Alabama How do funds of hedge funds add value?
November 14 Van Essen Alabama A Clarke Tax Tatonnement that Converges to the Lindahl Allocation
November 28 Jindapon Alabama Information acquisition in securities markets: Bertrand Versus Cournot