Darden Financial Economics Workshop

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.  All workshops are 1:30 - 2:30 pm unless otherwise specified.

Last Modified: 09/28/2009

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

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
       

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, April 24  

Frank Warnock

GEM

 
FOB 194 Housing Finance Around the World: A Story in Two Parts
Tues, March 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

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, March 2

1:30 pm 

Susan Chaplinsky

Finance

 
FOB 194 Voluntary De-Listings

Thurs, March 9

noon

Peter Rodriguez

GEM

 
FOB 194 Trade and the Unofficial Economy

Wed, April 12

1:00 pm 

Michael Schill

Finance

 
FOB 194 Ode to Asset Growth

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