FINANCE DEPARTMENT

Wednesday Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2007

(Updated 11-08-2007)

Note: All seminars will be held in Fulton 210 from noon to 1:00 PM.

Date	Speaker	Title
09-05	NO SEMINAR – DEPARTMENT FACULTY MEETING
09-12	Ying Duan (Job Market)	The Role of Mutual Funds in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Mutual Funds Proxy Voting and Trading Behavior
09-19	I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang (Job Market)	Skewness and Coskewness in Bond Returns
09-26	Xuan Tian (Job Market)	Geography, Staging, and Venture Capital Financing
10-03	NO SEMINAR – COLLEGE-WIDE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
10-10	Fabio Moneta (Job Market)	Measuring Bond Mutual Fund Performance with Portfolio Characteristics
10-17	NO SEMINAR – FMA MEETINGS
10-24	Karthik Krishnan (Job Market)	CEO Dismissal and Costs of Delayed Action: Do Some Boards Act Too Late?
10-31	Jerry (Xiaping) Cao (Job Market)	Private Equity Firm’s Role When Leveraged Buyouts Go Public, Cashing out and Conflict of Interest
11-07	Alan Marcus	Opaque Financial Reports and the Distribution of Stock Returns (joint with Amy Hutton and Hassan Tehranian)
11-14	Darren Kisgen	Gender Differences in Corporate Financial Decision Making (joint with Jiekun Huang)
11-21	NO SEMINAR – THANKSGIVING BREAK
11-28	Evgeny Lyandres (Rice University)	TBA
12-05	Jiekun Huang	TBA