USF Department of Finance

Seminar Schedule—Spring 2009

Date	Time/Room	Speaker	Paper
January
1/16	10 a.m./BSN 1200	Hein Bogaard – University of Michigan	Structural Economic Change and Foreign Acquisition
1/20	10 a.m./BSN 230	Fariz Huseynov – University of Memphis	The Income Tax Structure’s Impact on Growth, Valuation, and Global Investments: A Three Stakeholder Perspective
February
2/6	1:30 p.m./ BSN 1200	David Ng – Cornell University	Cross-Country Differences in Firm Multiples
2/18	10 a.m./BSN 120	David Walker – Georgetown University	Long-Run Credit Growth in the US
2/20	10.00 a.m. BSN 1200	Dror Parnes – University of South Florida	Negotiating Debt Covenants in Bankruptcy Court
March
3/6	10 a.m./BSN 115	Ajai Singh – Case Western Reserve University	A Dissection of Bookbuilt IPOs: Subscriptions, Underpricing, and Initial Returns
3/13	10 a.m./BSN 115	Devin Shanthikumar – Harvard Business School	The Press and Local Information Advantage
3/25	10 a.m./BSN 120	Andrew Karolyi – Ohio State University	Commonality in Returns, Liquidity, and Turnover Around the World
3/27	3 p.m./BSN 115	Peter MacKay - HKUST	The Hedging Footprint and Corporate Risk Management
April
4/3	10 a.m./BSN 115	Greg Brown – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Why Do Foreign Firms Have Less Idiosyncratic Risk than U.S. Firms?
4/6	10.00 a.m. BSN 230	Javier Estrada - IESE Business School	Mean Compound Return Maximization: An Overlooked Portfolio Approach?
4/10	10 a.m./BSN 115	Murillo Campello – University of Illinois	Corporate Financing and Investment: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier
4/17	10 a.m./BSN 115	Vidhi Chhaochharia – University of Miami	Sovereign Wealth Funds: Their Investment Strategies and Performance

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

If you have any questions, please contact the seminar coordinator, Delroy Hunter. Electronic copies of papers will be available on the Department of Finance Seminar web page about one week before the presentation.

The Department of Finance at the University of South Florida has 12 full-time faculty members on the Tampa campus and four faculty members on the regional campuses in Lakeland and Sarasota. Most faculty members are research active, conducting research in a number of areas, including banking, corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, international finance, investments, and real estate. Faculty members have recently published in the top, internationally recognized, general journals in finance, which include the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Their research also appears in many other prestigious journals, ranging from those covering specialized areas, such as banking (Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money Credit, and Banking), international business (Journal of International Business Studies), international finance (Journal of International Money and Finance), market microstructure (Journal of Financial Markets), and real estate (Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, and Real Estate Economics), to those with a broader appeal, such as Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Management Science, and others.

The department has placed its doctoral students in several institutions, including Bentley College, College of Charleston, Emporia State University, Louisiana Tech University, SUNY Oswego, and others. Graduates of the Department have publications or forthcoming articles in Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and other journals.