Darden Financial Economics Workshop

Financial Economics Brown Bag Seminars

 

The Darden Financial Economics Workshop is intended to provide an environment in which work in an early stage or work that is exploratory in nature can be presented in an informal setting.

 

2013

Day, Date and Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Spring 2013
Wednesday, 10 April
1:30-2:30 p.m.		 Justin Hopkins (ACC)

FOB 274

 Disclosure Timing and Securities Litigation
Monday, 29 April
1:30-2:30 p.m.    		 Attila Ratfai (Central European University in Budapest) visiting UVA and invited by Peter Debaere (GEM) FOB 274 The Geography of Consumer Prices
Friday, 3 May
1:30-2:30 p.m.

Erasmo Giambona (University of Amsterdam) visiting UVA and invited by Pedro Matos (FIN) 

 FOB 274 Improved Creditor Protection and Verifiability in the U.S. 
Monday, 6 May
1:30-2:30 p.m.
CANCELLED		 Rich Evans (FIN) and Peter Debaere (GEM) FOB 274 TBA

Fall 2013
       
       
       

Last update:  6 May 2013

2012

Date & Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2012

*Tues*, Sept 18,
1:30 - 2:30pm    

 Rich Evans
Finance 		FOB 194 Manager Compensation
Wed, Sept 26
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Chris Yung
McIntire		 FOB 194     TBA
Wed, Oct 3
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Quinn Curtis
UVA Law		 FOB 194 Fiduciary and Investor Losses in 401(k) Plans
Wed, Oct 10
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Richard Evans
Finance		 FOB 294     Equity Lending, Investment Restrictions and Fund Performance
Wed, Oct 17
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Justin Hopkins
Accounting		 FOB 174 Strategic Timing
Wed, Oct 24
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Elena Loutskina
Finance		 FOB 194 TBA
*Tues*, Nov 13
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Zhaohui Chen
McIntire		 FOB 194     How Much Liquidity Do Credit Lines Provide?
*Mon*, Nov 19
1:30 - 2:30pm    		 Pedro Matos
Finance    		 FOB 174 The Geography of Mutual Funds: The Advantage of Distant Investors

Spring 2012 
Tues, Feb 7,
1:30-2:30pm		 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 On US International Equity Investment
Tues, Feb 21,
1:30-2:30pm		 Bill Sihler
Finance 		FOB 294 Old Bottle's Gone
Wed, Feb 29,
1:30-2:30pm		 Bob Harris
Finance 		FOB 194 Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?
Tues, Mar 13,
1:30-2:30pm		 Elena Loutskina
Finance		 FOB 294 TBA
Tues, Mar 20,
1:30-2:30pm		 Mary Margaret Frank
Accounting 		FOB 294 TBA
Tues, Apr 3,
1:30-2:30pm		 Pedro Matos
Finance 		FOB 294 Globalization of Firms’ Investor Base and Public Issuance Decisions

2011

Date & Time 

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2011
Mon, Sept 19,
1:30-2:30pm		 David Chambers
Cambridge 		FOB 194 Keynes the Investor
Tues, Sept 20,
1:30-2:30pm		 Rich Evans
Finance 		FOB 194 Manager Incentives and Mutual Fund Performance (with John Morley)
Wed, Sept 28,
1:30-2:30pm		 Pedro Matos
Finance 		FOB 294 The Mutual Fund Industry Worldwide: Explicit and Closet Indexing, Fees, and Performance (joint work with M. Cremers (Yale), M. Ferreira (Nova) and L. Starks (UT Austin))
Wed, Nov 2,
1:30-2:30pm		 Elena Loutskina
Finance		 FOB 174 The Adverse Effect of Financial Integration on Economic Volatility
Mon, Nov 14,
1:30-2:30pm		 David Leblang
(Politics and Miller Center) and Sonal Pandya (Politics) 		FOB 194 Deal or No Deal: The Growth of International Venture Capital Investment
Tues, Nov 15,
1:30-2:30pm		 Mike Gallmeyer
McIntire 		FOB 194 Heuristic Portfolio Trading Rules with Capital Gain Taxes (joint with Marcel Marekwica of Copenhagen Business School)
Tues, Nov 29,
noon-1pm		 Marc Lipson
Finance 		FOB 294 Liquidity Waves

Spring 2011
Mon, Jan 31,
1:30-2:30pm		 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 The Predictive Power of Capital Flow Waves
Thurs, Feb 10,
1:30-2:30pm		 David Smith
McIntire Finance 		FOB 194 The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Ch 11 Restructurings
Tues, Feb 22,
1:30-2:30pm		 Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 194 Financing the U.S. Railroad Industry: The Role of Foreign Listings in the 19th Century
Tues, Mar 29,
noon-1pm		 Mary Margaret Frank
Accounting 		FOB 194 The Effects of the Taxation of Dividends on the Allocation of Foreign Portfolio Investment around the World
Tues, April 19,
1:30-2:30pm		 Yiorgos Allayannis
Finance 		FOB 194 Are US Firms Rated Higher by Rating Agencies? (joint work with Arturo Bris (IMD) and Christos Cabolis (ALBA, visiting UNC))
Mon, May 2,
1:30-2:30pm		 Miguel Palacios
Vanderbilt, Darden '01 		FOB 245 Measuring Aversion to Debt

2010

Date & Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Spring 2010
Wed, April 21,
1:30-2:30pm		 Rich Evans
Finance 		  Mutual Fund Commission Bundling and Performance
Tues, June 8,
noon-1pm		 Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 194 In Search of Sustained Value Gains in Foreign Listings

2009

Date & Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2009
Wed, Sept 2,
noon-1pm		 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 On Returns-Based Analyses of the Home Bias
Thurs, Sept 17
12:15-1:15pm 		Wei Li
GEM 		FOB 294 Corporate Donation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Tues, Sept 22,
1:30-2:30pm		 Peter Debaere
GEM 		FOB 274 Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: Market Thickness and Firms’ Offshoring
Wed, Sept 23,
12:15-1:15pm		 Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 294 The Pricing of Acquiring Firms: Some Curious Evidence
Wed, Oct 21,
1:30-2:30pm 		Rich Evans
Finance 		FOB 294 The Dual Management of Retail and Institutional Investment Portfolios
Thurs, Oct 29,
1:30-2:30pm 		Ed Burton
UVA Econ 		FOB 294 The Mark-to-Market Controversy
Wed, Nov 11
1:30-2:30pm		 Yiorgos Allayannis
(Finance),
Paul Simko
(Accounting), and
Charlie Murray
(UVA Econ) 		FOB 294 The Growth and Volatility Tradeoff
Tues, Nov 24
1:30-2:30pm		 Kadee Russ
(UC Davis Economics) 		FOB 194 Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade
Wed, Dec 2
1:30-2:30pm		 Brahima Coulibaly
(Federal Reserve/ Darden) 		FOB 294 The Asian Financial Crisis, Uphill Flow of Capital, and Global Imbalances: Evidence from a Micro Study

2008

Date & Time 

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic 

Fall 2008
Tues, Oct 21 Bo Sun,
UVA Econ		 FOB 126 Asset Returns with Earnings Management
Tues, Nov 4 Mary Margaret Frank
(Accounting), Elena Loutskina
(Finance), and Amanda Cowen (McIntire)		 FOB 126 Co-Management in the Competitive World of Innovative Securities
Tues, Nov 25 Ariel Reshef
UVA Econ 		FOB 126 Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector (with Thomas Philippon, NYU)

Spring 2008
Wed, Jan 23 Luann Lynch and
Paul Simko
Accounting 		TBA Voluntary Organic Growth Disclosures
Tues, May 6 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 126 Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home Bias
Tues, May 20
12:30pm		 Yiorgos Allayannis and
Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 174 Competitive Financial Strategy
Thurs, May 29
12:30pm		 Susan Chaplinsky
(Finance) and
Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee
(Loyola University) 		TBA The Changing Face of Venture Capital: The Rise of M&A Exits
Tues, June17
12:30pm		 Marc Lipson
(Finance)
and Sandra Mortal
(University of Memphis) 		FOB 174 The Investment Efficiency of Public and Private Firms

2007

Date & Time 

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2007
Tues, Sept 4 Marc Lipson
Finance 		FOB 126 Asset Change Return Anomolies and Transaction Costs
Tues, Sept 25 Rich Evans
Finance 		FOB 194 Soft Dollars: Trading Efficiency or Agency Cost
Tues, Oct 9 Karen King
Library 		  Database Management at Darden
Tues, Nov 13 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 126 Cross-Border Returns Differentials
Tues, Dec 4 Casey Lichtendahl and
Sam Bodily Quantitative Analysis 		FOB 126 Eliciting the Form of Preferences for Uncertain Multiperiod Consumption or Dividends

Spring 2007
Tues, May 8 Peter Debaere
GEM 		FOB 194 Trade
Tues, Apr 24 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 Housing Finance Around the World: A Story in Two Parts
Tues, Mar 6 Elena Loutskina
Finance		 FOB 174 Securitization and the Declining Impact of Bank Finance on Loan Supply: Evidence from Mortgage Acceptance Rates
Tues, Feb 27 Marc Lipson
Finance 		FOB 194
Stock Market Informativeness and Investments: A Global Perspective
Tues, Feb 20 Sean Carr
Batten 		FOB 194 1907 Crisis

2006

Date & Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2006
Tues, Sept 5 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops
Tues, Sept 19 Bill Sihler
Finance 		FOB 194 Product Diversification by Financial Service Organizations
Tues, Oct 3 Elena Loutskina
Finance		 FOB 174 How Do Corporate Venture Capitalists Create Value for Entrepreneurial Firms?
Tues, Oct 17  Jono Spitzer 
Finance		 FOB 174 Caught by the tail: Tail risk neutrality and hedge fund returns
Tues, Oct 31 Casey Lichtendahl
Decision Analysis		 FOB 174 Bayesian Linear Opinion Pools

Spring 2006
Wed, Feb 22
1:30pm 		Wei Li
GEM 		FOB 194 Taxation and Finance
Thurs, Mar 2
1:30 pm 		Susan Chaplinsky
Finance 		FOB 194 Voluntary De-Listings
Thurs, Mar 9
noon 		Peter Rodriguez
GEM 		FOB 194 Trade and the Unofficial Economy
Wed, Apr 12
1:00 pm 		Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 194 Ode to Asset Growth

2005

Date & Time

Speaker/Group

Location

Topic

Fall 2005
Tues, Sept 20 Marc Lipson
Finance 		FOB 294 The Effects of Institutional Ownership on Equity Market Volatility
Wed, Oct 5 Michael Schill
Finance 		FOB 194
Financial Forecasting Folly: The Nature of Managerial Cognition Bias in Financial Forecast Generation
Wed, Oct 19 Paul Simko
Accounting 		FOB 174 Does Smoothing Earnings Using Accounting Discretion Add Value?
Tues, Nov 1 Frank Warnock
GEM 		FOB 194 New Data on International Capital Flows: Description and Applications
Tues, Nov 15 Mary Margaret Frank
Accounting 		TBA Earnings Management through Pension Accounting: Mountain or Molehill
Tues, Dec 6 Marc Lipson
Finance 		FOB 194 The Effects of Institutional Ownership and Monitoring: Evidence from Financial Reporting Practices

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