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Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

“Down but Not Out” Mutual Fund Manager Turnover within Fund Families & Financial Industry Consolidation: The Motivations and Consequences of the Financial Services Modernization Act

attachments:
Mutual Fund Manager Turnover Dissertation Essay
FSI Dissertation Tables
FSMA Dissertation Paper
Manager Turnover Dissertation Tables

Presented by Lonnie Bryant, Finance Department

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Detecting Financial Statement Fraud: Three Essays on Fraud Predictors, Multi-Classifier Combination, and Fraud Detection Using Data Mining

Presented by Johan Perols, Info. Sys. & Decision Sciences Department

A copy of his dissertation is available in the ISDS Office, Room 2083 for review Dissertation Committee Kaushal Chari, Ph.D. Jacqueline Reck, Ph.D. Uday Murthy, Ph.D. Manish Agrawal, Ph.D.

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

"Growth Opportunities, Agency Conflicts, and the Effectiveness of Busy Outside Directors" and "Outside Directorships and Acquirer Returns"

Presented by Chia-Wei Chen, Finance Department

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Medicare Part D: A Hedonic Approach

Presented by Rui Dai, Economics Department

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

"The Adoption of Disruptive Technologies: The Case of Open Source Software"

A copy of his dissertation is available in ISDS Office, Room 2082 for review.

Presented by Delmer Nagy, Info. Systems & Decision Sciences Department

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Are Local Directors Better Monitors? and Director Incentives and Earnings Management

Presented by Hong Wan, Finance Department

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Emotional Exhaustion and Its Role in Service Sabotage Among Boundary Spanners

A copy is available in BSN 3231

Presented by Diane Edmondson, Marketing Department

Finance Department Seminar:

"Idiosyncratic Risk, Short-Sale Constraints, and Other Market Frictions in IPO Stocks

Presented by Gonul Colak, Florida State University

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

The Impact of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems Monitoring on Organizational Communications Content

A copy is available in ISDS Office, Room 2082 for review.

Statistics/USF and TECO Scientific Workshop

I.     Reliability:
II    Lightning:
III   Hurricanes:
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TECO Representative:	Scott Smith, Manager for System Reliability
USF Representatives:	Dr. Chris P. Tsokos, Distinguished University Professor Dr. Gan Ladde, Professor Mathematics and Statistics

**OPEN TO THE PUBLIC**

Finance Department Seminar:

"Debt as a Disciplining Mechanism, Employee Productivity, and Outside Employment Opportunities "

Presented by Jayant Kale, Georgia State University

Economics Department Seminar:

“The Dynamics of Market Adjustment” Or

"Market Equilibrium and the Process of Information Transmission: A Summary of Experimental Evidence"

Presented by Charles Plott, California Institute of Technology

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Essay-1: "Self-Directed Learning: Measures and Models for Salesperson Training and Development"
Presented by Stefanie Boyer, Marketing Department, USF

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Essay-1: "How Does National Culture Impact Internalization Benefits in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions?"

Essay-2: "Early-Mover vs. Late-Mover Benefits in Cross-border Mergers and Consequences on Rival Bidders"
Presented by Tanja Steigner, Finance Department, USF

Management Department Seminar:

Sessions on sensemaking, various topics

Essays: Complexity as distributed sensemaking
Faith, evidence and action
Making Sense of Sensemaking 1, Making Sense of Sensemaking 2
Safe Organizations
Experience of Theorizing
Mann Gulch Disaster, Useem and Cook on Mann Gulch

Presented by Karl Weick, University of Michigan

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Essay-1: "Are Local Directors Better Monitors"

Essay-2: "Directors Incentives and Earnings Management"
Presented by Hong Wan, Finance Department, USF

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

Essay-1: "What Drives the Underpricing of Venture Capital-backed IPOs?"

Essay-2: "Do Venture Capitalists Provide Anything More Than Money?"
Presented by Donald Flagg, Finance Department, USF

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

"The Impact of Managements's Tone on the Perception Management's Creditability in Forecasting"

Presented by Robert D. Slater, Jr., USF

ISDS Speaker Series:

“Strategic Learning”
Presented by Gary Koehler, John B Higden Eminent Scholar from the University of Florida

(Documents: "SVM for Dummies"; "Supporting Document for Strategic Learning")

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Market Conditions and Venture Capitalist Experience in Start-Up Financing"
Presented by Michael Rebello, Tulane University

Dissertation Proposal Defense Presentation:

"The Effects of Depressed Mood on Academic Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults"

Presented by Chris Jones, Economics Department, USF

Economics Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

Presented by Joe Terza, University of Florida

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

Presented by Ajay Khorana, Wachovia Associate Professor of Finance, Georgia Institute of Technology

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth"
Presented by Rohan Williamson, Holowesko Faculty Research Fellow, Georgetown University

Economics Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Classroom Gender Composition and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Experiment"

Presented by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing"
Presented by Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professorship in Management, Cornell University

Dissertation Defense:

“The Role of Ethnic Compatibility in Attitude Formation: Marketing to America’s Diverse Consumers”

Presented by Cynthia Cano, Marketing Department, USF

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"The Equity Ownership of Brokerage Firms in IPO's and the Stock Recommendations of Sell-Side Analysts"
Presented by Xi Li, University of Miami

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

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
Presented by Jung Chul Park, USF

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Idiosyncratic Volatility, Uncertainty and Cross-Sectional Returns"
Presented by Ziwei Xu, USF

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Identifying Skilled Managers: Evidence from Mutual Fund Short Sales"
Presented by Honghui Chen, University of Central Florida

Dissertation Proposal Defense:

"Essays on Multiple Identities and Motivated Consumption: Exploring the Role of Identity Centrality on Self-Brand Connections"
Presented by Tracy Harmon, Marketing Department, USF

Finance Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

"Measuring Short-Term International Stock Market Efficiency"
Presented by Patrick Kelly, USF

Economics Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

“Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships"
Presented by Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University

“Stakeholder Influence and Corporate Social Behavior”

Presented by Min-Dong Paul Lee, Cornell University (candidate for Assistant Professor in the Department of Management & Organization, USF)

Economics Spring 2007 Workshop Series:

Title: To be announced

Presented by Inas Rashad, Georgia State University

Economics Fall 2006 Workshop Series:

Presented by Dan Ackerberg, UCLA

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"Does Practice Risk Reduce the Effects of Client Preference on Tax Professionals’ Information Search and Recommendations?"
Presented by Kathryn Kadous, Emory University

COBA Research Brown Bag Presentation:

“Design Science Research and the NSF Science of Design Program"
Presented by Alan R. Hevner, Program Manager, National Science Foundation (NSF), Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology, and Professor and Eminent Scholar, University of South Florida

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"The Effects of Hyperlinks and Irrelevant Information on Investor Judgments"
Presented by Andrea Kelton

Economics Fall 2006 Workshop Series:

"The Incidence and Wage Consequences of Home-Based Work in the United States, 1980-2000"

Presented by Gerald Oettinger, University of Texas

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"Human Resource Outsourcing and Firm Operating Performance"
Presented by Maureen Butler

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"The Impact of Full-accrual Accounting Information in Pricing Municipal Bonds"
Presented by Jackie Reck

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"The Influence of Goal Conflict and Information Asymmetry on Individual’s Tax Evasion Judgments"
Presented by Jennifer Kahle

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"Inference in Online and Memory Based Internal Control Judgments"
Presented by Brad Schafer

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"Does Functional Experience Impair the Balance in Balanced Scorecards?"
Presented by Nathan Stuart

School of Accountancy Fall 2006 Friday Workshop Series:

"The Effect of Relative Performance Information Under Different Compensation Contracts on Performance in a Production Task"
Presented by Uday Murthy

Department of Finance Presentation:

"An Empirical Investigation into the Prevalence and Patterns of External Research Funding in Academic Finance"
Presented by Stephen W. Pruitt, Arvin Gottlieb/Missouri Endowed Chair of Business Economics and Finance at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Funding Paper     Table 1             Table 2

Brownbag Research Presentation Series:

"RFID Technology: Adoption in the Supply Chain"

Presented by Bobby Riggle, Diane Edmondson, and James Stock

COBA Distinguished Scholar Series:

"Value Implications of Investments in Information Technology"

Presented by Rajiv Banker,  Merves Chair in Accounting & Information Technology at Temple University

Economics Spring 2006 Workshop Series:

"How do Workplace Smoking Laws Work?"

Presented by Kitt Carpentar, University of California, Irvin

Brownbag Research Presentation Series:

"A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Incidence of Plural Forms in Franchise Networks: USA, France, and Brazil."

Presented by Rajiv Dant

COBA Presentation:

"NSF and CISE Overview of Funding Opportunities"
Presented by Michael J. Foster, Division Director of Computing & Communication Foundations (CCF) at NSF. 

Brownbag Research Presentation Series:

“Covert Marketing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

Presented by Stefanie Boyer

Finance Department Seminar:

“Forecasting Stock Returns Using the Market P/E Ratio”
"Will the Market P/E Ratio Revert Back to 'Average'?"

Presented by Rob Weigand, Washburn University

Information Systems & Decision Sciences Department Research Presentation:

"Toward Better Fraud Detection - An Open Source, Detectlet-based Solution"
Presented by Conan Albrecht, Brigham Young University
 

COBA Research Workshop:

COBA Distinguished Scholar Series:

“Consumer Action: Automaticity, Purposiveness, and Self-Regulation"
Presented by Richard Bagozzi, University of Michigan

Brownbag Research Presentation Series:

"Consumer Perceived Brand Loyalty"

Presented by Tracy Harmon

School of Accountancy Friday Workshops:

“The Effects of Organizational Culture on Information Technology Investment Decisions”

Presented by John Chan

Brownbag Research Presentation Series:

“How Important is Cause-Brand Fit When Consumers Consider the Credibility of the Company”
Presented by Barbara Lafferty

Seminars on Socio-Economics and Binary Economics

Presented by Robert Ashford of Syracuse University

Seminars on Socio-Economics and Binary Economics

Presented by Robert Ashford of Syracuse University

School of Accountancy Friday Workshops:

“XBRL:  The Effects of Search-Facilitated Technology on Nonprofessional Investors’ Search Strategy and Financial Statement Analysis”

Presented by Ann Dzuranin