The interdisciplinary brownbag series is organized by the Finance, Accounting, and Strategy departments. This is co-ordinated by Lalitha Naveen, Sudipta Basu, and Ram Mudambi. Please contact these faculty if you would like to present a paper in this series. Seminar time is 12:00-1:00
Spring 2018
31-Apr
Yi Liang
Determinants and Consequences of Pay-Ratio disclosures
25-Apr
Steve Balsam / Pavel Savor / Ram Mudambi
Elements of Good Research
18-Apr
Wei Wang
Nonlinear Bank Loan Loss Provisioning
11-Apr
Mahsa Kaviani
The Real Effects of Political Connections: Evidence from the Corporate Loan Market
21-Mar
Hosein Maleki
Credit ratings and capital structure stability
Fall 2017
25-Oct
Dmitri Byzalov
Modeling Earnings Discontinuities: A Maximum Likelihood Approach
4-Oct
Hosein Maleki
Lending Relationships and the Resolution of Financial Distress
27-Sep
Sudipta Basu
Measuring Investment Opportunities using Financial Statement Text
Spring 2017
19-Apr
Jang Wook
The impact of Asymmetric Risk on CEO Compensation
5-Apr
Bartram Sohnke
Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?
Fall 2016
30-Nov
Han-Up Park
Profitability Changes and Abnormal Returns after a Sales Decline
16-Nov
Oleg Rytchkov
Information Aggregation and Data Snooping
2-Nov
Jang Wook Lee
The impact of Earnings Management Activities on Equity Incentives
5-Oct
Lily Li
Wealth Transfer & Acquirer CEO Incentives on the Method of Payment in Acquisitions
14-Sep
Mahsa Kaviani
Bank Competition and Corporate Risk-Taking
Spring 2016
4-May
Lily Li / Wei Gao
Relationship Status and Productivity/Identification with Correlated Endogenous Variables
27-Apr
Chi Zhang
IPO Underwriting
20-Apr
Ron Anderson / Kose John
anel Discussion: Having a successful career in academia
16-Mar
Natalia Reisel
Why are firms sold? Evidence from acquisitions of European private firms
24-Feb
Yi Liang State
Director Liability Law and Accounting Conservatism
Fall/Summer 2015
9-Dec
Shira Cohen
Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Investment
2-Dec
Lea Stern
A Learning-Based Approach to Evaluating Boards of Directors
12-Aug
Jamie Weathers
Builders vs. Buyers: Impact on M&A Returns
15-Jul
Wei Gao
Impact of JOBS act on corporate governance and firm value
1-Jun
David Reeb
(Mis)Measuring Innovation Around the World
Spring 2015
29-Apr
Sheng Huang
Why do U.S. firms invest less over time?
22-Apr
So Yean Kwack
Top Management Team Connections
25-Mar
Jennifer Juergens
Analyst coverage and acquisition returns: Evidence from natural experiments
12-Mar
Larry Brown
20 pointers for conducting and publishing research
25-Feb
David Zhang
Why do information technology firms hold large cash balances?
18-Feb
Amy Wang / Mike Puleo
Early stage ideas
11-Feb
Sheryl Winston Smith
Swinging for the fences: How do top accelerators impact the trajectories of new ventures?
4-Feb
udipta Basu / Ram Mudambi
Craft of Research
28-Jan
NO SEMINAR
21-Jan
Oleg Rytchkov
Asset Pricing with Index Investing
14-Jan
Steve Balsam
Creditor Control and CEO Compensation: Evidence from Debt Covenant Violations
Fall 2014
17-Dec
Sophie Liang
Fiscal Policy, Political Parties and Asymmetric Cost Behavior: Evidence from State Governments
10-Dec
Lalitha Naveen
Board Groupthink
3-Dec
Mercedes Delgado
Clusters and the Great Recession
26-Nov
NO SEMINAR
Thanksgiving break
19-Nov
Ram Mudambi
Made, Not Born: Majors, Legitimacy and Rents from Blockbuster Innovation
12-Nov
So Yean Kwack
The impact of CEO social and business connections on CEO compensation and turnover
5-Nov
NO SEMINAR
Young Scholars Forum
29-Oct
Laura Gasiorowski
Friends in the right places: Non-market connections as an emerging market strategy
14-Oct
Mike Puleo
Pledged Shares, Insider Opportunism, and Firm Performance