Finance Programs

USF Department of Finance

Seminar Schedule--Spring 2007

Date	Time/Room	Speaker	Paper
*January*

February
2/9	12 p.m./BSN 124	Patrick Kelly - USF	Measuring Short-Term International Stock Market Efficiency
2/23	10 a.m./BSN 124	Honghui Chen - University of Central Florida	Identifying Skilled Managers: Evidence from Mutual Fund Short Sales
*March*
3/2	10 a.m./BSN 124	Ziwei Xu, USF	Idiosyncratic Volatility, Uncertainty and Cross-Sectional Returns
3/9	10 a.m./BSN 124	Jung Chul Park - USF	Dissertation Defense: (1) Tests of Idiosyncratic Risk: Market Efficiency versus Noise and Arbitrage Risk (2) Agency Costs and the Underlying Causes of Mispricing: Information Asymmetry versus Conflict of Interests
3/23	10 a.m./BSN 124	Xi Li – University of Miami	The equity ownership of brokerage firms in IPO issuers and the firms’ research coverage
3/28	3 p.m./ BSN 112	Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professorship in Management, Cornell University	Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing
3/30	10 a.m./BSN 124	Rohan Williamson, Holowesko Faculty Research Fellow, Georgetown University	Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth
*April*
4/6	10 a.m./BSN 124	Ajay Khorana - Wachovia Associate Professor of Finance, Georgia Institute of Technology	TBA
4/27	10 a.m./BSN 124	Michael Rebello - Tulane University	Market Conditions and Venture Capitalist Experience in Start-Up Financing

If you wish to present a paper at our seminar, please contact the seminar coordinator, Delroy Hunter. Hard copies of papers will be available in the Finance Department office (BSN 3131) about a week before the presentation date.

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