Seminar Series

Fall 2008
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper

10/10		FMA CONFERENCE (Dallas)
11/7		Mark Flannery	Florida
11/14		Kee-Hong Bae	Queen's
11/21		Justin Lallemand	Arkansas
11/28		THANKSGIVING BREAK
12/5		Kevin Lee	Arkansas	Momentum and Opacity in the Banking Industry

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 (presentation in Wilson Board Room)

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 Hernández	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.