The Joint Finance Research Seminar - Fall 2005

During Fall 2005, the Joint Finance Research Seminar  met according to the following schedule:

 

Date Name School Paper Notes
12.9.2005 Mike Burkart Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, FMG and ECGI "Minority Blocks and Takeover Premia", joint with Denis Gromb (London Business School, CEPR and ECGI) and Fausto Panunzi (Università Bocconi, CEPR and ECGI)  
19.9.2005 Elias Rantapuska Helsinki School of Economics and GSF "Taking up or taken in? Irrational behavior in rights issues"  
26.9.2005
David Yermack
 
NYU, Stern School of Business "Pay Me Later: Inside Debt and Its Role in Managerial Compensation" joint with Rangarajan K. Sundaram (NYU, Stern School of Business)  
3.10.2005 Jozsef Molnar University of Toulouse "Preemptive Horizontal Mergers. Theory and Evidence"  
10.10.2005 Claus Munk University of Southern Denmark "Dynamic Asset Allocation with Stochastic Income and Interest Rates" joint with Carsten Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School)  
17.10.2005 Mika Vaihekoski
 
Lappeenranta University of Technology "What is appropriate wage discount for tenure?"  
24.10.2005 Tom Berglund
Swedish School of 
Economics and 
Business Administration 
"Foregin investors' reactions to profitability changes" co-author Joakim Westerholm  
31.10.2005 Esko Valkeila Helsinki University of Technology "Asymmetric information in pricing models"  
7.11.2005 Martin Holmén
 
Uppsala University "Family Ownership and the Cost of Under Diversification" joint with Richard Heaney (RMIT University)  
14.11.2005 Atso Andersen LTT-Research "Pricing of Stock Exchange Trading - The Role of Network Externalities"  
21.11.2005 Erkki Nikoskelainen
Swedish School of 
Economics and 
Business Administration 
GSF
"LBO valuation and the pricing difference between financial and strategic acquirers"  
28.11.2005  Jan Hanousek  CERGE-EI "Rent Extraction by Large Shareholders - Evidence Using Dividend Policy in the Czech Republic"  
5.12.2005 no seminar      
12.12.2005 Markku Kaustia Helsinki School of Economics "Do investors learn from personal experience?" joint with Samuli Knüpfer (Helsinki School of Economics)