The Joint Finance Research Seminar - Spring 2008

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 2008 on Mondays.

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

Time: Monday at 15.00 – 16.30.

Place: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki. Casa Academica Building, Perhonkatu 6, room 501, 5th floor.

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

Mikko Leppämäki (GSF), Benjamin Maury (Hanken), or Matti Suominen (HSE)

 
Date Name School

Paper

Notes
14.1.2008 Alexander Wagner University of Zurich 

The executive turnover risk premium, joint with Florian S. Peters.

 
21.1.2008 Nuno Fernandes Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

The Evolution of Earnings Management and Firm Valuation: A Cross-Country Analysis, joint with Miguel A. Ferreira.

 
28.1.2008 Laurent Calvet Imperial College London & HEC-Paris

Fight Or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing By Individual Investors, joint with John Y. Campbell and Paolo Sodini.

 
4.2.2008 Anders Löflund Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

International Bond Diversification Strategies; the Impact of Currency, Country and Credit Risk, joint with Mats Hansson and Eva Liljeblom.

 
11.2.2008 Avanidhar  Subrahmanyam  UCLA Anderson School of Management

The Term Structure of Bond Market Liquidity, joint with Ruslan Goyenko and Andrey Ukhov.

CANCELLED
18.2.2008 No Seminar      
25.2.2008 Vesa Puttonen Helsinki School of Economics

Stock characteristics and financial advisers' labile preferences, joint with Markku Kaustia and Heidi Laukkanen

 
3.3.2008 Peter Nyberg Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration and GSF

A new value-weighted total return index for the Finnish stock market 1912-1969, joint with Mika Vaihekoski

 
7.3.2008 Massimo Massa INSEAD

The role of debt imbalance on stocks and bonds, joint with Lei Zhang.

Note: Friday (not Monday)
10.3.2008 Tim Jenkinson Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Do investors value high levels of regulation?, joint with Tarun Ramadorai.

 
17.3.2008 No Seminar      
31.3.2008 William L. Megginson University of Oklahoma

 

Rescheduled for 9.6.2008
7.4.2008 Samuli Knüpfer Helsinki School of Economics

Do investors learn from their neighbors’ stock market experience?, joint with Markku Kaustia.

 
14.4.2008 Morten Bennedsen Copenhagen Business School

Do CEOs matter?, joint with Francisco Pérez-González and Daniel Wolfenzon.

 
21.4.2008 Raghavendra Rau Krannert Graduate School of Management,
Purdue University

Is there life after the end of analyst coverage?, joint with Ajay Khorana and Simona Mola.

 
28.4.2008 Nicolae Gârleanu Berkeley,
Haas School of Business

Young, old, conservative and bold: The implications of heterogeneity and finite lives for asset pricing, joint with Stavros Panageas.

 
5.5.2008 Jay Ritter University of Florida

The Marketing of Seasoned Equity Offerings, joint with Xiaohui Gao.

 
12.5.2008 Bo Becker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reputation and competition: Evidence from the credit rating industry, joint with Todd Milbourn.

 
19.5.2008 Josef Zechner University of Vienna

 

CANCELLED
26.5.2008 Scott Duellman Binghamton University

Auditor competition and auditor independence: The quality of financial statements, joint with David G. Harris.

Note: Room is 305 at Hanken main building, Arkadiankatu 22.
2.6.2008 Sudipto Bhattacharya London School of Economics

 

CANCELLED
6.6.2008 Chris Leach University of Colorado at Boulder

Relative Gasoline Prices: Octanes and Arbitrage, joint with Frederic P. Sterbenz and Russ Wermers

Note: Room is 306! Note: Friday!
9.6.2008 William L. Megginson University of Oklahoma

Arranger certification in project finance, joint with Stefano Gatti, Stefanie Kleimeier, and Alessandro Steffanoni.

Note: Room is 305 at Hanken main building, Arkadiankatu 22.
16.6.2008 David Yermack NYU Stern School of Business

Deduction Ad Absurdum: CEOs Donating Their Own Stock to Their Own Family Foundations

Note: Room is 305 at Hanken main building, Arkadiankatu 22.
 
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