The Joint Finance Research Seminar - Fall 2008

The Joint Finance Research Seminar, arranged within Graduate School of Finance (GSF) by Helsinki School of Economics and Hanken School of Economics, will meet during Fall 2008 on Mondays.

The Joint Finance Research Seminar is supported by the Finnish Foundation for Advancement of Securities Markets, Foundation for Economic Education and The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation.

Time: Monday at 15.15 – 16.45.

Place: Helsinki School of Economics, Chydenia building, room G-109, Runeberginkatu 22-24.

For more information you may contact any of the seminar organizers:

Mikko Leppämäki (GSF), Timo Korkeamäki (Hanken) or Matti Suominen (HSE)

 
Date Name School Paper Building and room Notes
8.9.2008 Mark Flannery University of Florida

Financing major investments: Information about capital structure decisions, joint with Ralf Elsas and Jon A. Garfinkel

   
15.9.2008 Lauren H. Cohen Harvard Business School

Hiring cheerleaders: Board appointments of "independent" directors, joint with Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy

   
22.9.2008 Florencio
Lopez-de-Silanes
EDHEC Business School

Transparency and accountability, joint with Simeon Djankov, Rafael LaPorta, and Andrei Shleifer

Chydenia, room G-112  
29.9.2008 Stefan Nagel Stanford University

Depression babies: Do macroeconomic experiences affect risk-taking?, joint with Ulrike Malmendier

Chydenia, room G-109 Time Exceptionally: 16.00 - 17.30
1.10.2008 Jeff Pontiff Boston College   Available at the seminar. Chydenia, room G-109 Wednesday at 10.00-11.30
6.10.2008 Bent Jesper Christensen University of Aarhus

The role of implied volatility in forecasting future realized volatility and jumps in foreign exchange, stock, and bond markets, joint with Thomas Busch and Morten Ørregaard Nielsen

   
13.10.2008 No seminar  

 

   
20.10.2008 Peter Nyberg Hanken School of Economics and GSF

The dynamic behavior of the idiosyncratic volatility discount: Aggregate idiosyncratic volatility and return reversals revisited

   
27.10.2008 Kalok Chan The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Stock price synchronicity and liquidity, joint with Allaudeen Hameed and Wenjin Kang

   
3.11.2008 Ingrid Werner Ohio State University

When constraints bind, joint with Karl B. Diether

   
10.11.2008 William J. Wilhelm, Jr. University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

Individual and Institutional Reputation, joint with Zhaohui Chen and Alan Morrison

   
17.11.2008 Petri Jylhä Helsinki School of Economics

Arbitrage capital and currency carry trade returns, joint with Jussi-Pekka Lyytinen and Matti Suominen

   
24.11.2008 Rui Albuquerque Boston University

Advance Information and Asset Prices, joint with Jianjun Miao

   
1.12.2008 Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Informational hold-up and performance persistence in venture capital, joint with Yael V. Hochberg and Alexander Ljungqvist.

   
15.12.2008 Stefano DellaVigna University of California, Berkeley

Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing: An Evaluation Using Demographics, joint with Joshua Pollet

   
 
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