The Joint Finance Research Seminar - Spring 2006

The Joint Finance Research Seminar,  arranged within Graduate School of Finance (GSF) by the Helsinki School of Economics and the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration,  will meet during Spring 2006 on Mondays.

Time: Monday at 15.00 – 16.30.

Place: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Main building, Arkadiankatu 22, room 303.

In case you are interested in presenting your work at the seminar, please contact Mikko Leppämäki or Eva Liljeblom.

 
Date Name School Paper Notes

16.1.2006

Petri Kyröläinen

University of Oulu

Does day trading affect stockprice volatility?

 

23.1.2006

Annalisa Luporini

University of Florence

Ownership Concentration, Monitoring and Optimal Board Structure joint with Clara Graziano (Università degli Studi di Udine)

 

30.1.2006

Sami Vähämaa

University of Vaasa

Central Bank Interventions and Implied Exchange Rate Correlations

 

6.2.2006

Gilles Hilary

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

“Labor Strength and Informational Asymmetry in Financial Markets”

 
 

13.2.2006

Paolo Volpin

London Business School

"Shareholder Protection, Stock Market
Development, and Politics" joint with Marco Pagano

Presentation has been rescheduled  for September 11, 2006.

20.2.2006

Mariassunta Giannetti

Stockholm School of Economics & SITE

“Serial CEOs' Incentives and  the Shape of Managerial Contracts”

 

 

27.2.2006

Alexei  Goriaev
 

New Economic School

"Is Political Risk Company-Specific?The Market Side of the Yukos Affair", joint with Konstantin Sonin

 

6.3.2006

Magnus Dahlquist

Stockholm School of Economics

"Direct Evidence on Dividend Tax Clienteles"

 

13.3.2006

Huang Chunyang

Helsinki School of Economics

"Related-Party Transactions Following Reverse Mergers on the Shenzhen Security Exchange"

 

20.3.2006

Vesa Kanniainen

University of Helsinki

Corporate Social Resposibility: Can Markets Control?, joint with Elise Pietarila

 

27.3.2006

Yossi Spiegel

Tel Aviv University

"Partial cross ownership and tacit collusion" joint with David Gilo and Yossi Moshe

 

3.4.2006

Ian Marsh

Cass Business School

"Bank behaviour with access to credit derivatives markets", joint with B. Goderis, J. Vall Castello and W. Wagner 

 

10.4.2006

No seminar

 

 

 

17.4.2006

No seminar

     
24.4.2006 Timo Vesala

Bank of Finland

"Adverse selection, differentiation and customer poaching in bank lending" joint with Ville Mälkönen

 

1.5.2006

No seminar

     

8.5.2006

Markku Kaustia

Helsinki School of Economics

"Ownership society? Evidence on Investors as Voters", joint with Sami Torstila

 

15.5.2006

Arto Thurlin

Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

"Price discovery for European and U.S. cross-listed stocks"

 

18.5.2006

Antti Petäjistö

Yale School of Management

"Active and Passive Positions by Mutual Funds" joint with Martijn Cremers

Thursday at 3.00-4.30 P.M. Hanken, room 303

22.5.2006

Eirik Kristiansen

NHH, Bergen

"Communication of Soft Information to Investors: Credibility and Reputation", joint with Jay Pil Choi and Jae Nahm