Past Seminars

2010-2011

Date	Presenter	Location	Title of Paper
Sept. 22	Jack Hughes UCLA	166, Leverone Hall	Leverage, Excess Leverage, and Future Returns 149KB, 39 pgs. doc
Oct. 5	Alfred Wagenhofer University of Graz	G36, Leverone Hall	Earnings Quality Metrics and What they Measure,398KB, 78 pgs. pdf
Oct. 06	George Serafeim Harvard University	166 Leverone Hall	Analyst Forecast Revisions and Noise in Stock Prices, 211KB, 32 pgs. pdf
Oct. 27	Feng Li University of Michigan	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Managers’ Self-Serving Attribution Bias and Corporate Financial Policies, 192KG, 37 pgs, pdf
Nov. 10	Dennis Campbell Harvard University	Room G05, Leverone Hall	Employee Selection as a Control System, 310 KB, 55 pgs. pdf
Nov. 17	Stefan Reichelstein Stanford University	Room 165 Leverone Hall 10:30 - 12:00	Conservatism Correction for the Market-to-Book Ratio, 508KB, 51 pgs. pdf
Dec. 01	Doug Skinner University of Chicago	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Measuring Securities Litigation Risk, 737KB, 57 pgs. pdf
Jan. 5	Mary Lea McAnally Texas A&M	G03, Leverone Hall	CEO Incentives and Downside Risk, 362KB, 43 pgs. pdf
Jan. 12	(Recruiting) Alon Kalay University of Chicago	G03, Leverone Hall	Investor Sophistication, Disclosure and the information Environment of the Firm
Jan. 19	(Recruiting) Nemit Shroff University of Michigan	G03, Leverone Hall	Managerial Investment and Changes in GAAP: An Internal Consequence of External Reporting, 527 KB, 61 pgs. pdf
Jan. 26	(Recruiting) Anna Costello Universityof Chicago	G03, Leverone Hall	Mitigating Incentive Conflicts in inter-Firm Relationships: Evidence from long-Term Supply Contracts, 381 KB, 55pgs, pdf
Jan. 31	(Recruiting) Richard R. Townsend Harvard University	G03	Propagation of Financial Shocks: The Case of Venture Capital, 795 KB, 51 pgs, pdf
Feb. 2	(Recruiting) Kenneth Merkley University of Michigan	G03, Leverone Hall	More than Numbers: R&D-related Disclosure and Firm Performance, 845 KB, 54 pgs, pdf
Feb. 7	(Recruiting) Sanjay Banerjee University of Minnesota	G42, Leverone Hall	Analysts' Forecasts: The Roles of reputational Ranking and Trading Commissions, 885 KB, 61 pgs, pdf
Feb. 9	(Recruiting) Clare Wang University of Pennsylvania	G03, Leverone Hall	Accounting Standards Harmonization and Financial Statement Comparability: Evidence from Transnational Information Transfer, 688KB, 51 pgs, pdf
Feb. 16	(Recruiting) Dimitris Vrettos Michigan State University	G03, Leverone Hall	Are relative performance measures in CEO Incentive Contracts used for Risk reduction and/or Strategic Interaction? 796KB, 69 pgs., pdf
Feb. 21	(Recruiting) Andrew Acito Iowa State University	G42, Leverone Hall	Does Quarterly Earnings Guidance Increase or Reduce Earnings Management?, 690KB, 42 pgs., pdf
Feb. 23	(Recruiting) Brian Burnett University of Colorado	G03, Leverone Hall	Market Implications of Voluntary Accounting Disclosures in the Absence of a Mandatory Disclosure Requirement, 185KB, 35 pgs., pdf
March 2	(Recruiting) James Naughton Harvard University	G03, Leverone Hall	The impact of Footnote Transparency on Managerial Discretion: Evidence from FAS132R Pension Disclosure, 303KB, 47 pgs., pdf
March 9	Phillip Stocken Dartmouth College	Room 561, Leverone Hall	Managerial Reporting, Overconfidence, and Litigation Rish, 332KB, 37 pgs. pdf
March 30	Andrew Leone University of Miami	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Accounting Restatements and Auditor Accountability, 486KB, 42 pgs, pdf
Apr. 6	Haresh Sapra University of Chicago	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Agency Conflicts, Prudential Regulation, and Marking to Market, 409KB, 52 pgs. pdf.
Apr. 13	Eugene Soltes Harvard University	Room 166, Leverone Hall	The Determinants of Coverage in the Business Press, 332KB, 38 pgs, pdf
Apr. 20	Richard Sloan UC-Berkeley	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Accrual Reversals, Earnings and Stock Returns, 618KB, 57 pgs. pdf.
Apr. 27	Brian Rountree Rice University	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Regulation and Accounting Conservatism, 212KB, 39 pgs, pdf
May 18	Mark Lang UNC	Room 166, leverone Hall	Listing Choices and Self-Regulation: The Experience of the AIM, 826KB, 54 pgs, pdf
June 1	Daniel Taylor	Room 166, leverone Hall	TBA

2009-2010

Date	Presenter	Location	Title of Paper
9-8-09	Hyun Song Shin Princeton University	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Management (Slides) pdf, 49 pgs. 350KB,
9-9-09	Hyun Song Shin Princeton University	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	Balance Sheet Management and the Price of Risk (Slides) pdf, 39 pgs. 328 KB
9-16-09	Jimmy Kiat Bee Lee Kellogg School of Management	Rm. 4214 Finance Conference Rm.	Moral Hazard, Firms' Internal Governance and Management Earnings Forecasts pdf, 54 pgs. 788KB
9-23-09	Valeri Nikolaev University of Chicago	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Contracting on Mandatory Changes to GAAP: New Practice and Its Determinants pdf, 41 pages, 173KB
10-21-09	Anne Beatty Ohio State University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Regulatory Capital Ratios, Loan Loss Provisioning and Pro-cyclicality pdf, 49 pages, 2mb
11-10-09	Rafael Rogo Northwestern University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	The Effect of Valuation Uncertainty in the Choice of Selling mechanism, pdf, 51 pgs. 908 KB
11-11-09	Christo Karuna University of Houston	166 Leverone Hall	CEO reputation and internal corporate governance, pdf, 55 pgs. 420 KB
12-2-09	Ilia Dichev Emory University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What hedge fund investors really earn (doc, 46 pgs. 218KB)
1-6-10	Jennifer Blouin Wharton	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Is U.S. Multinational intra-Firm Dividend Policy Influenced by Capital Market Incentives? pdf, 57 pgs. 263KB
1-13-10	Gong Guojin Penn State University	Rm. G36, Leverone Hall	Relative Performance Evaluation and Related Peer Groups in Executive Compensation Contracts pdf, 59 pgs. 277 KB
3-31-09	Mark Defond University of Southern California	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	The Impact of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Foreign Mutual Fund Ownership: The Role of Comparability, pdf 47 pgs. 116 KB
4-14-10	Charles Lee Stanford University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Evaluating Implied Cost of Capital Estimates, pdf, 40 pgs. 375KB
4-21-10	Rodrigo Verdi MIT	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	The Benefits of Financial Statement Comparability, pdf, 47 pgs. 280KB
5-12-10	Richard Saouma UCLA	Rm. 166 Leverone Hall	Testing Incentives in a Buyer-Seller Relationship, pdf, 48 pgs. 388KB
5-19-10	Maria Ogneva Stanford University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Corporate Diversification and the Cost of Capital, pdf, 50 pgs., 168KB
6-2-10	Miles Gietzmann Case School of Business - UK	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Using Voluntary Disclosure Intensity to Infer the Precision of Management's Vision, pdf, 29 pgs, 226KB

2008-2009

Date	Presenter	Location	Title of Paper
10-08	Gavin Cassar Univ. of Pennsylvania	Rm. 4214, North Wing	Determinants of Hedge Fund Internal Controls and Fees (478 KB, pdf, 47 pages)
10-15-	Dorin Nissim Columbia Univ.	Rm. 4214, North Wing	Activity-Based Valuation of Bank Holding Companies (235 KB, pdf, 63 pages)
10-29	Alan Jagolinzer Stanford Univ.	Rm 4214, North Wing	Scienter Disclosure (723KB, pdf, 47 pages)
11-05	Brian Bushee Univ. of Pennsylvania	Room 165 Leverone Hall	Capital Market Consequences of Conference Presentations (222 KB, word doc, 54 pages)
11-12	Peter Easton Univ. of Notre Dame	TBA	Price-convexity, debt-related agency costs, and timely loss recognition (280KB, pdf, 50 pages)
11-19	Madhav Rajan Stanford Univ.	Rm. 165	Dynamics of Rate of Return regulation (331 KB, pdf, 50 pages)
12-10	Dora Altschuler	Rm. 160	Anticipation of Management Forecasts and Analysts' Incentives to Acquire Private Information
01-14	Camelia Kuhnen KSM	Rm. 276, Leverone Hall	Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment (345KB, pdf, 57 pages)
01-21	Edward Riedl Harvard University	Room 4214, Jacobs Ctr.	Insider Trading and Fair Value Estimates: Evidence from Goodwill Impairments under SFAS 142 (809 KB, pdf, 42 pages)
01-28	Recruiting Reining Chen Ohio State University	(10:00 - 11:30) Rm. 165 Leverone Hall	Regulation Fair Disclosure and Capital Structure (297 KB, pdf, 52 pages)
01-30	Bag Lunch Seminar Ivan Marinovic	(12:00 - 1:30) Rm. 6225, Jacobs Ctr.	The Dynamics of Disclosure Credibility
02-04	Recruiting Edwige Cheynel Carnegie Mellon University	(10-00- 11:30) Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	A Theory of Voluntary Disclosure and Cost of Capital (404 KB, pdf, 60 pages)
02-11	Recruiting Ian Gow Stanford University	Room 276 Leverone Halll	The Role of Corporate Governance in Debt Contracting and Conservatism
02/18	Recruiting Karthik Balakrishnan NYU	Room 160, Leverone Hall	Credit Market Conditions and Economy-wide Consequences of Financial Reporting Quality (580 KB, pdf, 57 pages)
02/25	Recruiting Marcus Kirk Emory University	276 Leverone Hall	The Effect of Investor Relations on Income Objectives and Meeting Expectations
03-11	Recruiting Kalin Kolev NYU	Room G36, Leverone Hall	Do Investors Perceive Marking-to-Model as Marking-to-Myth? Early Evidence from FAS 157 Disclosure (445 KB, pdf, 51 pages)
04-22	Mohan Venkatachalam Duke University	Room 166, Leverone hall	The Impact of influential Investors on Accounting, Governance and Investing Decisions: The Case of Warren Buffett and Bershire Hathaway 265KB, pdf, 66 pages)
05-06	Gary Chen	Rm. 6225, Jacobs Ct - AIM Conference Room	Earnings Management and Proxy Fights in Firms Targeted by Activist Hedge Funds
05-20	Judson Caskey UCLA	Room 166, Leverone Hall	Fair Value Accounting and Debt Contracting Efficiency (961KB, pdf, 52 pgs.)

2007-2008

Date	Presenter	Location	Title of Paper
Oct. 10th	Jeffrey Hales University of Texas-Austin	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	An Experimental Investigation of the Positive and Negative Effects of Mutual Observation (PDF 194 KB / 46 pages)
Oct. 17th	Darren Roulstone University of Chicago	Room 165, Leverone Hall	The Effects of Insider Trading Regulation on Trade Timing, Litigation Risk, and Profitability (word doc, 38 pages)
Oct. 24th	K. R. Subramanyam USC	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	Earnings Guidance and Managerial Myopia (PDF, 202KB, 50 pages)
Nov. 7th	Mary Ellen Carter Univ. of Pennsylvania	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	The Role and Effect of Compensation Consultants on CEO Pay (PDF, 332 KB, 35 pages)
Nov. 14th	Bin Ke PSU	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	Do Cross-listed Firms provide the same quality disclosure as U.S. firms? Evidence from the Internal Control Deficiency.....(PDF, 352 KB, 43 pages)
Nov. 28th	Pierre Jinghong Liang Carnegie Mellon Univ.	TBA	Voluntary Disclosure of Market Size in Dynamic Oligopolies (PDF, 1,760 KB, 34 pages)
Dec. 5th	Richard C. Sansing Dartmouth College	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	The Effect of Tax-Exempt Investors on Stock Ownership and the Dividend Tax Penalty (word doc; 861 KB, 41 pages)
Jan. 23rd	Gilles Hilary	Rm. 2245, Jacobs Ctr.	Accounting Quality and Catastrophic Market Events (PDF, 269 KB, 51 pages)
Jan. 30	David Erkens Arizona State University	Room 4214, Jacobs Ctr.	The Influence of R&D Investments and Property Rights on Compensation Arrangements (PDF, 265 KB, 47 pages)
Feb. 6th	Anup Srivastava Texas A&M University	Rm. 2245, Jacobs Ctr.	The Challenges of Improving Revenue-Recognition Standard for Multiple-Element Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry (SOP 97-2) (PDF, 648 KB, 49 pages)
Feb. 12th	Jeremy Bertomeu, CMU	Room 165, Leverone Hall	Risk Management, Executive Compensation and the Cross-Section of Corporate Earnings (PDF, 2 MB, 42 pages)
Feb. 13th	Scott Dyreng Univ. of North Carolina	Room 4214, Jacobs Ctr.	The Cost of Private Debt Covenant Violation (PDF, 850 KB, 55 pages)
Feb. 20th	John McInnis University of Iowa	Room 4214, Jacobs Ctr.	Are Smoother Earnings Associated with a Lower Cost of Equity Capital?
February 25th	Ryan Ball, Univ. of North Carolina	Room 165, Leverone Hall	Does Anticipated Information Impose a Cost on Risk-Averse Investors? (PDF, 370 KB, 48 pages)
Feb. 27th	Pingyang Gao, Yale University	Room 4214, Jacobs Ctr.	Disclosure Quality, Cost of Capital, and Investors' Welfare (PDF, 275 KB, 44 pages)
March 3rd	Kyle Peterson, University of Michigan	Room 165 Leverone Hall	Accounting Complexity and Misreporting: Manipulation or Mistake? (PDF, 252 KB, 49 pages)
March 5th	Jeffrey Ng University of Pennsylvania	Room G36, Leverone Hall	The Effect of Information Quality on Liquidity Risk (PDF, 392 KB, 59 pages)
March 6th	Jingjing Zhang, Northwestern University	Room 6225, Jacobs Ctr. Bag Lunch Seminar	Accounting Conservatism and Private Debt Contracting (PDF, 656 KB, 47 pages)
March 10th	Rick Mergenthaler University of Washington	Room 165, Leverone Hall	Principles-Based versus Rules-Based Accounting Standards and Extreme Cases of Earnings Management (PDF, 269 KB, 47 pages)
March 12th	Craig Chapman Harvard University	Room G36, Leverone Hall	The Effects of Real Earnings Management on the Firm, Its Competitors and Subsequent Reporting Periods (PDF, 336 KB, 64 pages)
March 14th	Sarah Zechman Univ. of Pennsylvania	Room 165 Leverone Hall	The Relation Between Voluntary Disclosure and Financial Reporting: Evidence from Synthetic Leases (PDF, 313 KB, 57 pages)
March 17th	Emanuel Zur New York University	Room 4212	The Power of Reputation: Hedge Fund Activists (PDF, 166 KB, 56 pages)
March 19th	Sean Wang Cornell University	Room 160, Leverone Hall	When Informed Agents Disagree (PDF,377 KB, 43 pages)
April 30	Robert Bloomfield	Room G36, Leverone Hall	Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative Survey Project
May 7th	Mary E. Barth Stanford University	Room 165, Leverone Hall	Exclusion of Stock-based Compensation Expense from Analyst Earnings Forecasts: Incentive-and Information-based Explanations (PDF, 194 KB, 40 pages)
June 4th	Ivan Marinovic Ph.D Candidate Northwestern University	Room 165, Leverone Hall	Informativeness of Rating Agency Reports"

2006-2007

Date	Presenter	Location	Title of Paper
09/20/06	Shiva Rajgopal Univ. of Washington	Rm 561, Leverone Hall	Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans (PDF 163 KB / 28 pages)
09/27/06	Joel Demski University of Florida	Rm 165, Leverone Hall	Asset Revaluation Regulation (PDF 324 KB / 48 pages)
10/11/06	Robert Magee Northwestern University	Rm 561, Leverone Hall (12:00 - 1:30)	Reasonably Certain Estimates, Recognition, and Communication of Uncertainty (PDF 348 KB / 43 pages)
10/18/06	Phil Berger Univ. of Chicago	Rm G45, Leverone Hall	Firm Specific Information and the Cost of Equity Capital (PDF 198 KB / 36 pages)
11/08/06	Stephen Brown Emory University	Rm G45, Leverone Hall	The Effect of Meeting or Missing Earnings Expectations on Information Asymmetry(PDF 253 KB / 40 pages)
11/28/06	Ewa Sletten Northwestern University	Rm G42, Leverone Hall (3:00-4:30)	The Effect of Stock Price on Discretionary Disclosure (PDF 261 KB / 49 pages)
11/29/06	Florin Vasvari London Business School	Rm 165, Leverone Hall	The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Information and Loan Syndicate Structure(PDF 358 KB / 45 pages)
12/06/06	Brian Cadman Jayanthi Sunder Northwestern University	Rm, 165, Leverone Hall (12:00 -1:30)	Investor Horizon and CEO Incentives (PDF 355 KB / 40 pages)
01/10/07	Gregory Waymire Emory University	Rm 165, Leverone Hall	Recordkeeping Changes the Course of Economic History (Word doc 1.15 KB / 22 pages)
01/12/07	N. V. Ramanan Northwestern University	Rm 6225 Jacobs Ctr. (AIM Conference Room)	Corporate Governance, Regulation and Earnings Management
01/31/07	Andrew Call Washington University	Rm. 4214 Andersen Hall (Finance Dept.)	The Implications of Cash Flow Forecasts for Investors' Pricing and Managers' Reporting of Earnings (PDF 178 KB / 55 pages)
02/07/07	Jiewei Yu Ohio State University	Rm. G05, Leverone Hall	Loan Spreads and Unexpected Earnings: Do Banks Know What Analysts Don't Know? (PDF 178 KB / 45 pages)
02/14/07	Kirill Novoselov University of Teas-Austin	Rm.. 165, Leverone Hall	Internal Controls and Collusion
02/21/07	Tatiana Fedyk University of California-Berkeley	Rm. G05 , Leverone Hall	Discontinuity in Earnings Reports and Managerial Incentives (PDF 290 KB /36 pages)
02/22/07	Joseph Gerakos University of Pennsylvania	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	CEO Pensions: Disclosure, Managerial Power, and Optimal Contracting (PDF 763 KB/ 46 pages)
02/28/07	Wan Wongsunwai Harvard University	Rm. G05, Leverone Hall	Does Venture Capitalist Quality Affect Corporate Governance? (PDF164 KB /52 pages)
03/06/07	Joseph Piotroski University of Chicago	Rm. 165, Leveron Hall	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the F low of International Listings (974 KB / 51 pages)
03/07/07	Francois Brochet NYU	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall (1:15 - 2:45)	Information Content of Insider Trades: Before and after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (585 KB / 45 pages)
03/14/07	Xiaoyan Wen Carnegie Mellon University	Rm. 165, Leverone Hall	Disclosures and Investments (PDF 315 KB/36 pages)
03/28/07	Christopher Armstrong Stanford University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	The Incentives of Equity-Based Compensation and Wealth
04/04/07	Thomas Lys Northwestern University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	An Examination of the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Attractiveness of US Capital Markets for Foreign Firms (PDF 458KB/ 48 pages)
04/18/07	Dora Altschuler Northwestern University	Rm. G42, Leverone Hall 12:00 - 1:30	Discretionary Disclosure of Cash Flows from Discontinued Operations
04/25/07	Nahum Melumad Columbia University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Operating Profit Variation Analysis: Implications for Future Earnings and Equity Values
05/08/07	Eva Sletten Northwestern University	Doctoral Defense, Rm. 4214, Andersen Hall, 10:00-12:00	TBA
05/08/07	Ramanan Natarajan Northwestern University	Doctoral Defense, Rm. 430, Anderson Hall, 12:15 - 2:15	Essays on disclosure and corporate governance
05/09/07	Rafael Rogo	6225 Jacobs, (AIM Conference Room	Information and Cost of Capital with Uncertainty about Types
05/16/06	Kiat Bee Lee Northwestern University	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	Earnings Management to Just Meet Analysts' Forecoast
05/21/07	Andrew Hertzberg Northwestern University	Room 619 Leverone Hall (M&S Conference Rm) 12:15-1:15	Information and Incentives Inside the Firm: Evidence From Loan Officer Rotation (PDF 571 KB/ 50 pages)
05/23/07	Joe Weber MIT	Rm. 166, Leverone Hall	The Role of Accounting Quality in Reducing Investment Inefficiency in the Presence of Private Information and Direct Monitoring (word doc 241KB/ 37 pages)