Finance Seminars
Please see the website of Russell Jame for current seminars: http://russelljame.com/Seminars.html
Fall 2015 / Spring 2016:
Tom Chemmanur (Boston College) September 4
Radha Gopalan (Washington University) September 25
Ken Lehn (University of Pittsburgh) November 6
Nick Bollen (Vanderbilt University) November 13
Diane Del Guercio (University of Oregon) December 4
Clemens Sialm (University of Texas) TBD
Recruiting January/February
Alberto Manconi (Tilberg University)
Inaugural UK Finance Conference April 22/23
Stu Gillan (University of Georgia) May 13
Fall 2014 / Spring 2015:
Alex Butler (Rice University) September 19
Pedro Matos (University of Virginia) September 26
Eli Fich (Drexel University) October 24
Rawley Heimer (Cleveland Fed) March 9
Greg Nini (Drexel University) April 10
Denis Sosyura (University of Michigan) May 1
Martin Schmalz (University of Michigan) May 8
Fall 2013 / Spring 2014:
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) September 13
Jongsub Lee (University of Florida) September 20
Roni Michaely (Cornell University) October 25
Chris Schwarz (University of California, Irvine) November 8
Gjergji Cici (The College of William and Mary) November 15
Leonce Bargeron (University of Pittsburg) November 22
Ran Duchin (University of Washington) January 24
UK/UT Conference April 4-5
Veronika Pool (Indiana University) April 18
Joseph Gerakos (University of Chicago) April 25
Spring 2013:
Recruiting January 18, 21, 28; February 8, 11
Kathleen Weiss Hanley (SEC) March 1
Fall 2012:
Alice Bonaime (University of Kentucky) August 31
Xin Hong (University of Kentucky) September 28
Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois) October 5
Russ Wermers (University of Maryland) October 26
Josh Pierce (University of South Carolina) November 9
Spring 2012:
Richard Evans (University of Virginia) January 24
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) February 17
Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois) rescheduled
Mike McDonald (University of Tennessee) March 9
Matt Billett (Indiana University) March 23
Breno Schmidt (Emory University) April 20
Fall 2011:
Chris Clifford (University of Kentucky) September 9
Adriano Rampini (Duke University) September 30
Amy Dittmar (University of Michigan) December 9
Summer 2011:
Will Gerken (Auburn University) June 17
Spring 2011:
Hui Guo (University of Cincinnati) March 4
Russ Wermers (University of Maryland) April 15
Vikas Agrawal (Georgia State University) April 29
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University) May 6
Fall 2010:
Richard Sias (Washington State University) September 2
Lalitha Naveen (Temple University) September 17
Shane Johnson (Texas A&M University) October 15
Paul Schultz (Notre Dame University) November 5
Summer 2010:
Alice Bonaime (University of Kentucky) June 28
Financial Flexibility, Risk Management, and Payout Choice
Spring 2010:
Chris Clifford (University of Kentucky) February 5
Do Investors Care About Risk-Adjusted Returns? Evidence from Fund Flows
Jim Schallheim (University of Utah) April 9
A Test of the Substitution between Debt and Leases Using Sale-and-Leaseback Transactions
Shawn Thomas (University of Pittsburgh) April 16
Accelerated Share Repurchases
Simi Kedia (Rutgers University) April 23
The Effect of CEO Compensation on Relation-Specific Investments by Customers and Suppliers
Kathy Kahle (Arizona / Georgia) - rescheduled
Fall 2009:
Chris Clifford (University of Kentucky) September 4
Out of the Dark: Hedge Fund Reporting Biases and Commercial Databases
Kristine Hankins (University of Kentucky) September 18
Uncertainty, Merger Waves, and Vertical Integrations
Charlie Hadlock (Michigan State) September 25
Financial Strength and Product Market Competition: Evidence from Asbestos Litigation
Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) October 9
Follow the Leader: Strategic Interaction in Corporate Capital Structure
Tom Bates (University of Arizona) October 30
Is Bid Resistance Futile?
Jim Wilcox (University of California, Berkeley) November 20
Regime-Switching in the Prices of Art, Horses, and Houses
Spring 2009:
Ozzie Ince (Virginia Tech) March 27
The Impact of Venture Capitalist and Underwriter: Interactions on Initial Public Offerings
Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) rescheduled
Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) April 17
Incentive Effects of Extreme CEO Pay Cuts
Fall 2008:
Kerry Back (Texas A&M) rescheduled
Chris Stivers (University of Georgia) September 19
Realized Return Dispersion and the Dynamics of Winner-Minus-Loser and Book-to-Market Stock Return Spreads
Ayla Kayhan (Louisiana State University & SEC) October 17
Credit Rating Targets and Corporate Decisions
Mark Carey (Federal Reserve Board) October 30, Thursday
The Bank as Grim Reaper: Debt Composition and Recoveries on Defaulted Debt
Dave Mauer (University of Texas, Dallas) December 5
Stockholder and Bondholder Wealth Effects of CEO Incentive Grants
Spring 2008:
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) February 8
Independent Institutional Investors and Equity Returns
Alice Bonaime (University of Florida) March 4
Reputation and Repurchase Announcements
Dan Bradley (Clemson University) April 4
Do Insiders Practice What They Preach?
Daniel Bergstresser (Harvard Business School) rescheduled
Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota) April 25
Corporate Fraud and Business Conditions: Evidence from IPOs
Fall 2007:
Mark Liu (University of Kentucky) August 31
Analysts Incentives to Produce Industry-Level versus Firm-Specific Information: Theory and Evidence
Sreedhar Bharath (University of Michigan) September 7
Why Do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets?
Chris Yung (University of Colorado) September 21
IPO Information Aggregation and Underwriter Quality
George Jiang (University of Arizona) September 28
The Cross-Section of Stock Price Jumps and Return Predictability
Archishman Chakraborty (Baruch University) October 5
Security Design in Initial Public Offerings
Kristine Hankins (University of Kentucky) October 12
Estimating Dynamic Panel Models: Simulation Results in the Context of Corporate Finance
Greg Udell (Indiana University) October 26
Why Do Firms Switch Banks?
Michael Faulkender (Northwestern University) November 9
A Panel Data Analysis of Interest Rate Risk Management
Takeo Hoshi (UC San Diego) December 10
Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan
Spring 2007:
Dave Denis (Purdue University) March 23
Do Firms Manage Earnings to Meet Dividend Thresholds?
Tong Yao (University of Arizona) April 6
The Investment Value of Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure
Li Jin (Harvard Business School) April 13
Managerial Career Concern and Mutual Fund Short-Termism
Micah Officer (University of Southern California) April 20
Overinvestment, Corporate Governance, and Dividend Initiation
Fall 2006:
Amir Sufi (University of Chicago) September 22
Creditor Control Rights and Firm Investment Policy
Vikram Nanda (Arizona State University) (rescheduled)
Finance and Innovation: The Case of Publicly Traded Firms
Don Mullineaux (University of Kentucky) October 20
A Comparison of Syndicated Loan Pricing at Investment and Commercial Banks
Ron Masulis (Vanderbilt University) November 2
Seasoned Equity Offerings: Quality of Accounting Information and Expected Flotation Costs
Pankaj Maskara (University of Kentucky) November 17
Are Bank Loans Special? Evidence from Bank Loan Announcements
Mark Liu and Qun Wu (University of Kentucky) December 8
The Effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions on the Performance of Corporate Spin-Offs