January 30
Stephen Ryan, NYU
Identifying Conditional Conservatism in the Presence of Risky Debt and Mixed-Attribute Accounting
February 6
Mustafa Ciftci, Binghamton University
March 13
Hsihui Chang, Drexel
Does Overlapping Membership on Audit and Compensation Committees Improve a Firm’s Financial Reporting Quality?
April 17
Itay Goldstein, Wharton
Takeover Activity and Target Valuations: Feedback Loops in Financial Markets
May 1
Michael D. Kimbrough, HBS
Evidence on Investors’ Assessment of the Plausibility of Seemingly Self-Serving Attributions of Earnings Performance
May 8
Allan Eberhart, Georgetown University
The Market for Thoroughbred Yearlings
May 15
Viral Acharya, LBS/NYU
Securitization Without Risk Transfer
September 12
New York Accounting and Finance Forum
September 19 (Accounting)
Prem C. Jain, Georgetown University
Its Showtime: Do Managers Manipulate Stock Prices before Annual Shareholder Meetings?
September 26
Lalitha Naveen, Temple University
Sources of Financial Flexibility: Evidence from Cash Flow Shortfalls
October 17
Martijn Cremers, Yale University
The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensations
October 24
David Becher, Drexel University
Industry Shocks and Merger Activity: An Analysis of U.S. Public Utilities
November 19
Jonathan Karpoff, University of Washington
Do Short Sellers Detect Overpriced Firms? Evidence from SEC Enforcement Actions
December 5 (Brown Bag)
Linda Wong, Binghamton University
December 12
Jeffrey Wurgler, NYU
Catering Through Nominal Share Prices
February 8
Christa Bowman, Case Western Reserve University
Bank Liquidity Creation
February 29
Avri Ravid, Rutgers
Why Go Vertical? On the various manifestations and wealth effects of vertical mergers
March 7
Chiddi Chidambaram, Rutgers
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Large Governance Changes
April 11
Partha Mohanram, Columbia University
Can Residual Income Distinguish between Earnings Growth derived from Productivity Improvements and Investment-Driven Growth?
April 18
Hong Xie, Syracuse University
Regulation Fair Disclosure and the Cost of Equity Capital
April 25
Feng Gu, SUNY Buffalo
Investor Sentiments, Ill-Advised Acquisitions,and Goodwill Impairment
May 9
Li Jin, Harvard University
Internal capital markets in emerging markets: expropriation and mitigating financing constraints
September 28
Bing Liang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Share Restrictions, Liquidity Premium and Offshore Hedge Funds
October 5
Jie Cai, Drexel University
Executive Stock Option Exercises: Good Timing or Backdating?
October 12
Bin Ke, Penn State
Do cross-listed firms provide the same quality disclosure as U.S. firms? Evidence from the internal control deficiency disclosure under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
October 26
David Weinbaum, Cornell University
Deviations from Put-Call Parity and Stock Return Predictability
November 16
Amy Zang, University of Rochester (accounting)
February 23
Steven Drucker, Columbia
On Loan Sales, Loan Contracting, and Lending Relationships
March 2
Adam Ashcraft, NY Fed
Has the development of the structured credit market affected the cost of the corporate debt?
March 16
Ola Bengtsson, Cornell
Repeated Relationships between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
March 23
Husayn Shahrur, Bentley College
Industry prospects and acquirers’ returns in diversifying takeovers
September 8
William Weld, Cornell University
The Nominal Price Puzzle
September 15
Long Chen, Michigan State University
Return Decomposition
September 29
Scott Duellman, Binghamton University
Auditor independence and client importance
October 6
David Harris, Syracuse University
Bilateral Implict Taxes and Anti-Competitve Banking Regulation
October 20
Antti Petajisto, Yale University
October 27
Xiaoyan Zhang, Cornell University
Which Shorts Are Informed?
November 2
Gang Hu, Babson College
Costly Arbitrage and Idiosyncratic Risk: Evidence from Short Sellers
December 8
Jian Zhou, Binghamton University
February 3
Carol Frost, SUNY Buffalo
February 10
Wei Jiang, Columbia University
"Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage"
February 17
Jialin Yu, Columbia University
Leverage, Anti-Disposition Effect, and Stock Returns
February 24
Kristian Rydqvist and Dennis Lasser
Ranking Journals by Concentration of Author Affliation: Thirty-Five Years of Finance Research
March 3
Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, Binghamton University
Identifying Informed Short Selling: An Empirical Analysis
March 10
Bo Becker, University of Illinois
Geographical Segmentation of US Capital Markets
March 24
Sarah McVay, New York University
SEC Scrutiny and the Evolution of Non-GAAP Reporting*
March 31
Yan Zhang, Binghamton University
Internal Control Deficiencies and Client Risk Management
April 7
Henrik Cronqvist, Ohio State University
Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies
April 14
Kristian Rydqvist, Binghamton University
Direct Evidence on Dividend Tax Clienteles
April 21
Daniel Cohen, New York University
April 28
Neng Wang, Columbia University
Investment, Consumption and Hedging under Incomplete Markets
May 5
Jeffrey Kubik, Syracuse University
Outsourcing Mutual Fund Management: Firm Boundaries, Incentives and Performance
September 16
Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
September 23
Asani Sarkar, N.Y. Federal Reserve
Inter-Temporal Trade Clustering and Two-Sided Markets
October 7
Francisco Perez-Gonzales, University of Chicago
Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance
October 21
Zhenyu Wang, N.Y. Federal Reserve
Public Provision of Private Liquidity Prior to the Millennium Date Change
October 28
Sanjeev Bhojraj, Cornell University
Making Sense of Cents: An Examination of Firms That Marginally Miss or Beat Analyst Forecasts
November 4
Erik Sirri, Babson College
Transparency and Liquidity: A Controlled Experiment on Corporate Bonds
November 11
Russ Wermers, University of Maryland
Mutual Fund Performance and Governance Structure: The Role of Portfolio Managers and Boards of Directors
December 2
Morten Nielsen, Cornell University
The Implied-Realized Volatility Relation with Jumps in Underlying Asset Prices
