2002 2003 2005 2006 2007
All seminars take place at 3:00 pm in Price Hall 3030 unless otherwise noted.

February 15, 2008
Title of Paper: Explicit vs. Implicit Contracts: Evidence from CEO Employment Agreements
Stuart L. Gillan, Jay C. Hartzell, Robert Parrino

November 9, 2007
Title of Paper: The Disposition Effect in Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts
Jay Hartzell, University of Texas

October 12, 2007
Title of Paper: Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans
Simi Kedia, Rutgers Business Schools

September 21, 2007
Title of Paper: Dividend Distributions and Closed-end Fund Discounts
Yexiao Xu, University of Texas at Dallas

September 13, 2007
Title of Paper: Anticipation, Acquisitions and Bidder Returns
Moon H. Song, San Diego State University and Ralph A. Walkling, Drexel University

September 7, 2007
Title of Paper: Institutional Ownership, Share Price Levels and the Value of the Firm
Chitru Fernando, University of Oklahoma

August 31, 2007
Title of Paper: Earnings Quality and International IPO Underpricing
Scott S. Smart, Indiana University

April 27, 2007
Title of Paper: The Impact of Predictability on Empirical Estimates of Municipal Bond Price Volatility and Sensitivity of Prive Volatility to Level of Yields
Duane Stock, Univeristy of Oklahoma

April 13, 2007
Title of Paper: Corporate Payout Policy and Product Market Competition
Gustavo Grullon, Rice University

April 6, 2007
Title of Paper: Evidence of Improved Monitoring and Insolvency Resolution after FDICIA
Edward J. Kane, Boston College

March 9, 2007
Title of Paper: Deviation from the Target Capital Structure and Acquisition Choices
Vahap Uysal, University of Oklahoma

March 2, 2007
Title of Paper: Estimations of Scaled Multifactor CAPM: Simulation Evidence
Evgenia Golubeva, University of Oklahoma

February 16, 2007 Room 2010 at 1:30
Title of Paper: The Market Effects of a Decline in Perceived Audit Quality
Christine Botosan, William Kinney, Zoe-Vonna Palmrose

February 9, 2007
Title of Paper: Why do firms speculate? Evidence from the gold mining industry
Chitru Fernando, University of Oklahoma

January 26, 2007
Title of Paper: Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?
Allen Poteshman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign