Seminar Series
Department Research Colloquium Speakers
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| August 26 | Michelle Alexopoulos | University of Toronto (Givens) | Management Matters |
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| September 9 | 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 |
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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 | 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 |
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| 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 | |