Spring 2011
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/15	10:30	Valery Polkovnichenko	Texas-Dallas	Downside Consumption Risk and Expected Returns
4/29	11:00	Georgios Skoulakis	Maryland	The Baltic Dry Index as a Predictor of Global Stock Returns, Commodity Returns, and Global Economic Activity (presentation in 334 Walker Hall)
PAST PRESENTERS:
Fall 2010
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
Presentations by job candidates
Spring 2010
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/12		Hazel Nguyen	Arkansas	CEO Incentives, Investment and Debt Policy, and Bank Risk
2/19	11:00	Chris Yung	Colorado	The Long-Run Supply and Demand for Venture Capital Funds: Information and Endogenous Entry
2/26		Bilal Erturk	Oklahoma St.	Short Interest and Credit Spreads
4/16	2:00	Stephen Haggard	Missouri St.	The Halloween Effect: Trick or Treat?
4/23	11:00	Sergey Tsyplakov	South Carolina	Time-To-Build and Dynamics of Capital Structure
4/30		Justin Lallemand	Arkansas	Tactical Capital Structure Adjustments by Takeover Targets
Fall 2009
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/04		Kevin Lee	Arkansas	Foreigners as change agents of organizations and institutions: evidence from Sweden
9/18	10:00	Jenny Gu	Arkansas	Corporate Governance, Asset Choice, and Bank Risk
9/25	10:00	Lixin Huang	Georgia State	The Effect of Supplier and Customer Industry Interrelations on Mutual Fund Investment and Performance
10/16	10:00	Vahap Uysal	Oklahoma	Deviation from the target capital structure and acquisition choices
11/13	10:00	J. Manuel Sanchez	Arkansas
Spring 2009
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
3/6	2:00	Ali Nejadmalayeri	Oklahoma St.	Sarbanes Oxley Act and Corporate Credit Spreads
3/27		2009 SOUTHWEST FINANCE SYMPOSIUM (Tulsa)
4/3	11:00	Rajdeep Sengupta	St. Louis Fed	Where's the Smoking Gun? A Study of Underwriting Standards for US Subprime Mortgages
4/17	11:00	Christopher Anderson	Kansas	External Contracting and Equity Financing at Biotech Firms: Evidence from PIPEs
Fall 2008
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
11/7	11:00	Mark Flannery	Florida	Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions
11/7	2:00	Jeff Jones	Drury	Price Discovery in Opaque Markets
11/14	2:00	Kee-Hong Bae	York	Do Foreigners Facilitate Information Transmission?
12/5		Justin Lallemand	Arkansas
Spring 2008
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/29		Joel Harper	Oklahoma St.	Implicit Contract Modification or Wealth Expropriation: Evidence from Pension Terminations and Cash Balance Conversions
3/7		2008 SOUTHWEST FINANCE SYMPOSIUM IN TULSA:
	10:00	Dobrina Georgieva and Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Alternative Methods of Convergence toward U.S. Market and Legal Regulations: Cross-listing vs. Merging with U.S. Bidders
	11:15	Bilal Erturk	Oklahoma St.	Why do short interest levels predict stock returns?
	1:30	Michael Troilo	Tulsa	Trust, Rule of Law, and New Firm Formation
	2:45	Duane Stock	Oklahoma	The Distribution of the Value of the Firm and Stochastic Interest Rates: An Application to Structural Models of Default Risk
3/28		Vikas Agarwal	Georgia State	Implications of Volatility, Skewness, and Kurtosis Risks for Hedge Fund Performance
4/4		Norris Larrymore	Quinnipiac	Do Mutual Fund Media Recommendations Hold Value?An Empirical Analysis of The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney Fund Screen
4/18		Scott Miller	Arkansas	Do Bondholders Change Covenants Over Time in Response to Risk?
4/25		Yingying Shao	Arkansas	Information risk and credit default swap
Fall 2007
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/21	11:00	Karl Lins	Utah	Does Derivative Accounting Affect Risk Management? International Survey Evidence
10/12	11:30	Yingying Shao	Arkansas	The Effects of Credit Derivatives on U.S. Bank Risk and Return, Capital and Lending Structure
11/9	11:30	Jeff Jones	Drury	Does Opacity Really Matter?: Evidence from Bank Mergers
11/16	11:30	Yingying Shao	Arkansas	Predicting Future Stock Market Performance using Style-Based Portfolio Returns
11/30	11:30	Justin Lallemand	Arkansas	Bank Holding Company Interest Rate Risk and its Drivers
Spring 2007
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/2	11:45	Alexey Malakhov	Arkansas	The Role of Uninformed Investors in an Optimal IPO Mechanism
2/9	11:45	Craig Rennie	Arkansas	CEO Compensation and Managerial Power: Do CEOs Really Influence their own Compensation?
2/16	11:45	Tim Yeager	Arkansas	Is Universal Banking Worthwhile?  Evidence From Banks in the Securities Business
2/23	11:30	Chris Brune	Arkansas	The Effects of Insurer Events on Insured Municipal Bonds
3/2	11:30	Scott Miller	Arkansas	Core Charter Value and Bank Risk: Extracting the Effects of the Business Cycle from Charter Value
3/16	11:30	Dobrina Georgieva & Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Alternative Methods of Convergence toward U.S. Market and Legal Regulations: Cross-listing vs. Merging with U.S. Bidders
4/6	11:00	Anil Makhija	Ohio State	The Impact of Shareholder Power on Bondholders
4/13	11:00	David Haushalter	Penn State	Is There Shareholder Expropriation in the U.S.? An Analysis of Publicly-traded Subsidiaries
4/27	11:00	Kathleen Kahle	Arizona	Why do U.S. firms hold so much more cash than they used to?
5/4	11:00	Diane Del Guercio	Oregon	Why Do Some Mutual Fund Families Pick Stocks for the Competition?
Fall 2006
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/22		Rodrigo Hernandez	Arkansas	The Market and the Pricing of Outperformance Certificates
9/29		Chris Tobler	Arkansas	New Evidence on Valuation-Based Acquisition Theory
10/6		Shane Van Dalsem	Arkansas	The effect of severance agreements on good and bad CEO-firm matches
11/3		Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Do Internal Capital Markets Improve Following the Adoption of Economic Profit Plans?
11/10		Dobrina Georgieva	Arkansas	Does Sarbanes-Oxley Act chase away foreign firms? Evidence from ADR terminations
11/17		Jeff Jones	Arkansas	Do Changes in Dividends Signal Changes in Risk? Evidence from the Option Market
Previous presenters include: Jonathan Clarke, David Denis, Craig Dunbar, Stephen Ferris, Laura Field, Jarrad Harford, Simi Kedia, Wayne Mikkelson, Betty Simkins, Vijay Singal, Shawn Thomas.