USF Department of Finance

Seminar Schedule--Spring 2008

Date	Time/Room	Speaker	Paper
January
1/11	9:30 a.m./BSN 111
1/18	10 a.m./BSN 111	Xuan Tian--Boston College	Geography, Staging, and Venture Capital Financing
1/25	10 a.m./BSN 111
February
2/1	8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.	Charles Elson Erik Lie Michael Jensen Laura Starks	Corporate Governance Conference—Corporate Governance and Value Location: Marriott Westshore
2/22	10 a.m./BSN 111	David Reeb—Temple University	Founders, Heirs, and Corporate Opacity in the U.S.
March
3/14	10 a.m./BSN 111	Spring Break
3/21	10 a.m./BSN 111	Jayant Kale—Georgia State University	Debt as a Disciplining Mechanism, Employee Productivity, and Outside Employment Opportunities
3/28	10 a.m./BSN 111	Gonul Colak—Florida State University	Idiosyncratic Risk, Short-Sale Constraints, and Other Market Frictions in IPO Stocks
April
4/4	10 a.m./BSN 111
4/10	8 a.m. – 2 p.m.	Jonathan M. Karpoff, University of Washington Ralph A. Walking, Drexel University Dick Dobkin, former managing director of Ernst & Young George Guerra, Fowler White Boggs Bankers	Corporate Governance Conference—Backdating, Cooking the Books, and Misbehaving Managers Location: USF College of Business

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

If you wish to present a paper, please contact the seminar coordinator, Delroy Hunter.  Electronic copies of papers will be available on the Finance Department Seminar web page about one week before the presentation.