BYU FINANCE SEMINAR SERIES 2007-2008

FALL SEMESTER

Jay Ritter

Cordell Professor of Finance
University of Florida
Development Seminar: Thursday, September 13, 2007 · 11:00 AM · room 184
The Use and Misuse of Instrumental Variables in Empirical Corporate Finance
Research Seminar: Friday, September 14, 2007 · 11:00 AM · room 184
Multiple Book Runners in IPOs

Woodrow Johnson

Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Oregon
Research Seminar: Friday, September 21, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184
The Portfolio Choice Of Individual Shareholders in Large Mutual Fund Families

Tim Loughran

Professor of Finance
University of Notre Dame
Research Seminar: Friday, September 28, 2007 · 11:00 am · room 120
The Impact of Venture Capital Investments On Industry Performance
Powerpoint Slides

Lu Zhang

Associate Professor of Finance
University of Michigan
Research Seminar: Friday, October 19, 2007 · 11:00am · room 120
Investment-Based Expected Stock Returns

Karl Diether

Assistant Professor of Finance
Ohio State
Research Seminar: Friday, November 9, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184
It's Sho Time! Short-Sale Price-Tests and Market Quality

Bill Megginson

Rainbolt Chair in Finance
University of Oklahoma
Research Seminar: Friday, November 30, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184

Brett Myers

Job Candidate
Research Seminar: Thursday, December 6, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184
Firms, Politicians, and Capital Structure

Craig Israelsen

Associate Professor
BYU
Research Seminar: Friday, December 7, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184
The Benefits of Low Correlation

Jim Brau and Rob Couch

Associate/Assistant Professors
BYU
Research Seminar: Friday, December 14, 2007 · 11:00am · room 184
The Desire to Acquire: Evidence on New IPOs and the Long-Run Performance Puzzle

WINTER SEMESTER

Cahrles Rayhorn

Job Candidate
Research Seminar: Friday, January 11, 2008 · 11:00am · room 220
Emerging Market Efficiencies: New Zealand’s Maturation Experience in the Presence of Non-Linearity, Thin Trading and Asymmetric Information

Giulia Faggio

Job Candidate
Research Seminar: Friday, January 18, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Job Destruction, Job Creation and Unemployment in Transition Countries: What Can We Learn?

David Hunter

Job Candidate
Research Seminar: Friday, January 25, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Mind the Gap: Unmapped Holdings and the Performance of U.S. Equity Mutual Funds

Rossen Valkanov

Associate Professor of Finance
UCSD
Research Seminar: Friday, February 1, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns

Marios Panayides

Assistant Professor of Finance
Utah
Research Seminar: Friday, February 29, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Hidden Liquidity: An Analysis of Order Exposure Strategies in Electronic Stock Markets

Mark Kritzman

President and CEO/Lecturer
Windham Capital Management/MIT
Research Seminar: Friday, March 21, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Optimal Rebalancing: A Scalable Solution

Bob Litterman

Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Investment Services
Goldman Sachs
Schedule TBA
Quantitative Investing

Scott Condie

Assistant Professor of Economics
BYU
Research Seminar: Friday, March 28, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
The Long Run Success of Mutual Funds

Dirk Jenter

Assistant Professor of Finance
Stanford
Research Seminar: Friday, May 16, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know, and When Do They Know It?

Bruce Carlin

Assistant Professor of Finance
UCLA
Research Seminar: Thursday, May 22, 2008 · 11:00am · room 184
Public Trust, The Law, and Financial Investment

Utah Finance Seminar Series

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