Fall 2009 Research Workshops

Room 2350 UH at 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Tuesday, September 15	Laura Y Li, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign The Underreaction of Management Earnings Forecasts to Past Earnings Changes
Tuesday, September 29	Aiyesha Dey, University of Chicago Disproportional Control and Insider Entrenchment: Evidence from Capital Structure Choices and Institutional Investment
Tuesday, October 13	Shyam V.Sunder, Northwestern University The Role of Managerial Overconfidence in the Design of Debt Covenants
Tuesday, October 20	Jeffrey Burks, Notre Dame University Accounting Restatements and the Timeliness of Disclosures
Friday, October 30 Time : 2:00 - 3:30 pm	Bjorn Jorgensen, University of Colorado at Boulder Numbers Games? A Natural Experiment Investigating Three (Ir)Regularities in Reported Earnings Per Share
Tuesday, November 3	Jeremy Bertomeu, Northwestern University Regulatory Cycles and The Demand for Conservative Standards
Tuesday, November 10	Andrew van Buskirk, University of Chicago Implied Volatility Skew and Firm-Level Tail Risk
Thursday, November 12	Philip Shane, University of Colorado at Boulder Stock Market Efficiency with Respect to a New Measure of Earnings News
Tuesday, November 17	Sarah Zeckman, University of Chicago Disclosure tone and shareholder litigation
Tuesday, November 24	Bin Srinidhi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Gender Diversity on US Corporate Boards and Cost of Capital
Tuesday, December 01	Ram Ramakrishnan & Keejae Hong,University of Illinois at Chicago TBA

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