The Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration
Department of Finance
Fall 2004 Seminar Series
 

Seminars will be from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. in room BA 268, unless otherwise noted


 

September 3, 2004
John Adams (Texas Tech University , proposal defense)
Paper: CEO Turnover and the Agency Cost of Debt

September 10, 2004
Brad Jordan (Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance, University of Kentucky)
Paper: Overhang and the Cost of Going Public: Why IPO Underpricing has Increased Over Time

September 17, 2004
Vassil Mihov (Texas Christian University)
Paper: "Why do firms issue debt?  Evidence from first-time debt issuers"

September 24, 2004
Christine Panasian (Texas Tech University)

Paper: Board Composition and Firm Performance: The Case of the Dey Report and Publicly Listed Canadian Firms

Editha Querubin (Wall Street Journal, first 15 minutes of seminar)

October 1, 2004
Jeff Mercer (Texas Tech University)
Paper:
Economically Significant Gains from Bond Swap Strategies

October 8, 2004

FMA meetings

October 15, 2004
John Adams

Paper: Board Monitoring and Industry Homogeneity

Nayeem Mano
Paper: Day-of-the-Week Effect on IPO and SEO Underpricing

October 22, 2004
Mike Stegemoller (Texas Tech University)

Paper: Takeover activity as a response to time-varying changes in investment opportunity sets: Evidence from takeover sequences

October 29, 2004
Drew Winters (Texas Tech University)
Paper: Dealer liquidity management in off-the-run T-Bills: An analysis of bid-ask spreads following major market events

November 5, 2004
John Martin (Carr P. Collins Chair, Baylor University)
Paper: Executive Compensation, Audit fees, and Board Oversight: Corporate Governance beyond Enron, and

Paper: Financial Engineering, Corporate Governance, and the Collapse of Enron

November 12, 2004 (Postponed) 
Laura Starks (Charles E. & Sara M. Seay Regents’ Chair in Business Admin., Univ. of Texas )
Paper:

November 19, 2004
SFA meetings

November 26, 2004

Thanksgiving break

December 3, 2004

Mike Lemmon (Wasatch Advisors Professor, University of Utah)
Paper:
Shareholder Welfare and Bid Negotiation in Freeze-Out Deals: Are Minority Shareholders Left Out in the Cold?

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