Seminar Series
Finance Department

T.C. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

Seminars are usually held in Room 210B.
For questions, please contact either Anesia Lamont (713-743-4778, alamont@uh.edu) or Pam Caesar (713-743-4755, pcaesar@bauer.uh.edu).

Spring 2009
Fri, Jan 16, 2009 Kris Jacobs McGill Models for S&P500 Dynamics: Evidence from Realized Volatility, Daily Returns, and Option Prices
Tue, Jan 20, 2009 Rose Liao Ohio State Corporate Block Acquisitions around the World
Fri, Jan 23, 2009 Ryan Israelson U of Michigan Investment Based Valuation
Tue, Jan 27, 2009 Richard Lowery Carnegie Mellon Imperfect Monitoring and Fixed Spreads in the Market for IPOs
Fri, Jan 30, 2009 Ekkehart Boehmer Texas A&M Short selling and the informational efficiency of prices
Tue, Feb 03, 2009 Mike Gallmeyer Texas A&M Portfolio Choice with Capital Gain Taxation and the Limited Use of Losses
Fri, Feb 06, 2009 Matthias Kahl U North Carolina Do Firms Use Commercial Paper to Enhance Financial Flexibility?
Tue, Feb 10, 2009 Miguel Palacios (canceled) UC Berkeley  
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 Bumjean Sohn U North Carolina Cross-Section of Equity Returns: Stock Market Volatility and Priced Factors
Tue, Feb 17, 2009 Xiaoyan Zhang Cornell Is There a Trend in Idiosyncratic Volatility?
Fri, Feb 20, 2009 No Seminar
Fri, Feb 27, 2009 No Seminar
Fri, Mar 06, 2009 No Seminar
Fri, Mar 13, 2009 No Seminar
Fri, Mar 20, 2009 Spring Break --- No Seminar
Fri, Mar 27, 2009 Shane Johnson Texas A&M CEO Confidence and Forced Turnover (Seminar is in Room 213!)
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 Alok Bhargava UH Econ An Econometric Analysis of Dividends and Share Repurchases by U.S. Firms
Fri, Apr 10, 2009 No Seminar
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 Dirk Hackbarth   (postponed) U-Ill. Urbana-Champaign  
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 Itay Goldstein Penn (Wharton) Takeover Activity and Target Valuations: Feedback Loops in Financial Markets
Fri, May 01, 2009 Zsuzsanna Fluck Michigan State A Theory of Corporate Boards with Endogenous Information Collection, Optimal Compensation and Strategic Voting: When do Independent Boards Dominate Rubberstamping Ones?

Fall 2008
Fri, Sep 05, 2008 Marc Martos-Vila UCLA The Search for Corporate Control: Some Evidence
Fri, Sep 12, 2008 Itay Goldstein (postponed) Penn (Wharton)  
Fri, Sep 19, 2008 Hurricane "Ike" --- No Seminar
Fri, Sep 26, 2008 Da Zhi Notre Dame Dividend Smoothing and Predictability
Fri, Oct 03, 2008 No Seminar
Fri, Oct 10, 2008 Brad Paye Rice University Do Macroeconomic Variables Predict Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?
Fri, Oct 17, 2008 Chris Yung Colorado at Boulder The Supply and Demand for Venture Capital Funds: Information and Entry
Fri, Oct 24, 2008 Toni Whited Wisconsin Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 Uday Rajan Michigan The Failure of Models that Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives and Defaults
Fri, Nov 07, 2008 Thomas Chemmanur Boston College IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 Jacob Oded Boston University Payout Policy, Financial Flexibility, and Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 David Mauer U.T. Dallas Stockholder and Bondholder Wealth Effects of CEO Incentive Grants
Fri, Nov 28, 2008 Thanksgiving --- No Seminar
Fri, Dec 05, 2008 Linus Wilson Louisiana at Lafayette Options-Based Pay with Overvalued Equity

Spring 2008
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 Noah Stoffman Michigan Who Trades with Whom? Individuals, Institutions, and Returns
Fri, Jan 25, 2008 Federico Nardari Arizona State Time-Varying Short-Horizon Predictability
Tue, Jan 29, 2008 Baozhong Yang Stanford A Dynamic Model of Corporate Financing with Market Timing
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 Denis Sosyura Yale  
Wed, Feb 06, 2008 David Dicks Northwestern Executive Compensation, Incentives, and the Role for Corporate Governance Regulation
Fri, Feb 08, 2008 Issac Kleshchelski Northwestern Robust Equilibrium Yield Curves
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 Feng Zhao Rutgers Nonparametric Estimation of State-Price Densities Implicit in Interest Rate Cap Prices
Fri, Feb 15, 2008 Mufaddal Baxamusa Minnesota CEO’s Incentives from Control of Cashflows
Wed, Feb 20, 2008 Christopher Schwartz UMass Hedge Fund Fees
Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Orly Sade NYU Endogenizing Bidders Choice in Divisible Goods Auctions; Auctioning Sovereign Bonds: A Global Cross-Section Investigation of the Price Mechanism; Survey