Finance & Accounting Group –

Fall 2018

• 18. Aug 2018 Yakov Amihud, NY Stern University
  Liquidity spillovers

• 11. Sept. 2018 Dimitris Andriosopoulos of Strathclyde University, Glasgow  
  Overpayment, Financial Distress and Investor Horizons

• 18. Sept. 2018 Jean-Gabriel Cousin, University of Lille  
  Stock market driven acquisitions? Is there really an association between acquirer equity overvaluation and full stock-swaps in M&A transactions?

• 25. Sept. 2018 Diane Pierret, HEC University of Lausanne
  Stressed Banks

• 23. Oct. 2018 Eliezer Fich, Drexel University
  Shareholder Litigation and the Information Environment

• 29. Oct. 2018 Michael Weber, Chicago Booth
  Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy

• 06. Nov. 2018 Andrey Golubov, Rotman School of Management 
  The run-up in acquirer returns

• 13. Nov. 2018 Eric de Bodt, University of Lille   
  Coporate Rivalry and Return Comovement

Spring 2018

• 23. Jan 2018 Paul Smeets, Maastricht University
  Let’s Invite the Women
  Women Reduce Overconfidence in Groups

• 06. Feb 2018 Amedeo De Cesari, University of Manchester
  Employment Protection and Share Repurchases: Evidence from Wrongful Discharge Laws

• 13. March 2018 David Florysiak, University of Southern Denmark
  An Autopsy of a Total Stock Market Failure

• 20. March 2018 Markku Kaustia, Aalto University School of Business
  Hidden Investment Beliefs

• 10. April 2018 Bernard Black, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 
  The Trouble with Instruments: Re-examining Shock-IV Designs

• 17. April 2018 Aksel Mjøs, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
  Credit supply shocks, financial constraints and investments for small and medium-sized firms

• 24. April 2018 Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics (LSE) 
  Board Quotas and Director-Firm Matching

Fall 2017

• 28. Aug. 2017 Ralf Elsas, LMU Munich
  The Dark Side of Short Selling

• 29. Aug 2017 Yakov Amihud, Stern NY 
  Liquidity, Investment & Production

• 05. Sept 2017 Audra Boone, Neeley School of Business 
  Political Uncertainty and Firm Disclosure

• 28. Nov 2017 Marius A. Zoican, University Paris Dauphine
  Smart Settlement

• 05. Dec. 2017 Farzad Saidi, Stockholm School of Economics
  Life Below Zero: Bank Lending Under Negative Policy Rates

• 10. Dec. 2017 Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, University of Luxembourg
  Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment

Spring 2017

• 21. Feb 2017 Igor Goncharov, Lancaster University, UK  
  Do central banks try to avoid losses? Why? And does it matter for policy?

• 07. March 2017 Christodoulos Louca, Cyprus University of Technology
  IPO Allocations and New Mutual Funds

• 14. March 2017 Philipp Schuster, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance
  Volume Dependent Bond Liquidity Measures and Their Asset Pricing Implications

• 21. March 2017 Paul Guest, Surrey Business School, UK  
  Board Ethnic Diversity and Monitoring

• 28. March 2017 Cláudia Custódio, Imperial College Business School, UK 
  Compensation and Real Estate Prices

• 25. April 2017 Denis Gromb, HEC Paris
  The Paradox of Pledgeability

Fall 2016

• 30. Aug 2016 Yakov Amihud, NY Stern University
  Governance and Company Value

• 06. Sep 2016 Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge
  Can Serial Acquirers be profiled?
  Evangelical Investors and the Evolution of Local Bias

• 13. Sep 2016 Eliezer Fich, LeBow Drexel University
  Advertising, Attention, and Acquisition Returns

• 27. Spet 2016 Aurore Burietz, IESEG School of Management
  Europe versus the U.S.: A New Look at the Syndicated Loan Pricing Puzzle

• 25. Oct 2016 Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan 
  Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives 

• 08. Nov 2016 Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, FGV, Brazil
  Dotcom Bubble and Underpricing: Conjecture and Evidence

• 22. Nov 2016 Astrid Schornick, INSEAD  
  Household Investments, limited Participation and Equity Premia when Wealth matters

• 29. Nov 2016 Alexander Hillert, Research Center SAFE & Goethe University Frankfurt
  Mutual Fund Shareholder Letters: Flows, Performance, and Managerial Behavior

Spring 2016

• 31. May 2016 Yupana Wiwattanakantang, National University of Singapore
  Exit in Family Firms

• 15. March 2016 Georges Hübner, University of Liège and Maastricht University 
  Size and value matter, but not the way you thought

• 08. March 2016 Evren Ors, HEC Paris
  Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Banks and International Trade

• 23. Feb. 2016 Kevin Aretz, Manchester Business School
  Conflicting Security Laws and The Democratization of Credit: France’s Reform of the Napoleonic Code

• 16. Feb. 2016 Christian Schlag, House of Finance, Goethe-University Frankfurt
  Does Ambiguity about Volatility Matter Empirically

• 02. Feb. 2016 Eva Schliephake, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn 
  Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Contingent Capital

• 26. Jan. 2016 Tibor Neugebauer, University of Luxembourg 
  Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings in Experimental Asset Markets

Fall 2015

• 30. July 2015 Yakov Amihud, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  The information content of dividend increase announcements:
  Signaling and agency costs

• 15. Sept. 2015 Peter Limbach, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  Financial Advisors and M&A Leakage

• 22. Sept. 2015 Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
  Do Long-Term Investors Improve Corporate Decision Making?

• 29. Sept. 2015 Dimitris Petmezas, University of Surre
  The Role of Corporate Political Strategies in M&As

• 03. Nov. 2015 Tobias Berg, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  Got rejected? Real effects of not getting a loan

• 17. Nov. 2015 Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Swiss Finance Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  How Do Investors and Firms React to an unexpected Currency Appreciation Shock?

• 01. Dec. 2015 Zacharias Sautner, Frankfurt School of Finance
  The Retention Effects of Unvested Equity: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting

Spring 2015

• 03. March 2015 Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics
  Bad times, Good credit

• 10. March 2015 Sascha Steffen, European School of Management and Technology
  Zero Risk Contagion - Banks' Sovereign Exposure and Sovereign Risk Spillovers

• 24. March 2015 Tereza Tykvová, Universität Hohenheim
  Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - Are They an Alternative to IPOs?

• 28. April 2015 Andreas Kaeck, University of Sussex
  Variance-of-Variance Risk Premium

Fall 2014

• 18. August 2014 Yakov Amihud, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  The Pricing of Corporate Foreign Trade Risk

• 16. September 2014 Ettore Crocia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
  Decision‐Making during the Credit Crisis: Why did the Treasury let Commercial Banks fail?

• 28. October 2014 Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics
  Why Do Shareholder Votes Matter?

• 04. November 2014 Karin Thorburn, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
  Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?

• 11. November 2014 Nikolaos Karampatsas, Surrey University
  Do Rating Agencies affect Acquisition Decisions?

• 18. November 2014 Markus Glaser, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  Managerial Voting Power and Firm Value

• 02. December 2014 Oguzhan Ozbas, USC - Koc University
  Managerial Accommodation, Proxy Access, and the Cost of Shareholder Empowerment

Spring 2014

• 28. January 2014 Alexander Kempf, University of Cologne
  Are Financial Advisors Useful? Evidence from Tax-Motivated Mutual Fund Flows

• 05. March 2014 Francois Derrien, HEC Paris
  The effects of investment bank rankings: evidence from M&A league tables

• 11. March 2014 Mark Wahrenburg, Goethe University
  Information Asymmetry around Operational Risk Announcements

• 18.March 2014 Christine Zulehner Goethe Universität Frankfurt, SAFE 
  Competition in Austrian Treasury Auctions

• 25. March 2014 Prof. Dr. Roland Füss, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance s/bf – HSG, University of St. Gallen
  Why Do Local House Prices React so Differently to a Monetary Stimulus?

• 01. April 2014 Prof. Dr. Marco Becht, University libre de Bruxelles
  Does Mandatory Shareholder Voting Prevent Bad Acquisitions?

• 08. April 2014 Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim
   Labor Representation in Governance as an Insurance Mechanism

• 15. April 2014 Alexander Groh, EMLYON
  Same Rules, Different Enforcement: Market Abuse in Europe

• 29. April 2014 Serif Aziz Simsir, Sabanci University
  Deal Initiation in Mergers and Acquisitions

• 06. May 2014 Henry Servaes, London Business School
  Distressed Acquisitions

Fall 2013

• 26. Sept. 2013 Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley
  Learning from Inflation Experiences

• 08. Oct. 2013 Dan Li, The University of Hong Kong
  Correlated HFT Strategy

• 15. Oct. 2013 Marion Declerck, University of Lille
  Product Market Competition and Merger Activity

• 29. Oct. 2013 Wenxuan Hou, Edinburgh University
  The role of dissenters in boards: Evidence from outside director activism

• 05. Nov. 2013 Christian Koziol, Universität Tübingen
  The Risk of Low Volatility Stocks: A Theoretical Explanation for an Empirical Puzzle

• 12. Nov. 2013 Philipp Geiler, EMLYON
  Are Female Top Managers Really Paid Less?

• 19. Nov. 2013 Hendrik Hakenes, University of Bonn
  Regulatory Capture by Sophistication

• 26. Nov.2013 Bernd Rudolph, LMU München
  Mindesteigenkapitalvorschriften für Banken im Lichte des Kapitalkostenkonzepts

• 03. Dec. 2013 Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University
  Business Groups in the United States: A Revised History of Corporate
  Ownership, Pyramids and Regulation, 1930-1950

Spring 2013

• 05. March 2013 Thomas Stoeckl, Innsbruck University, School of Management
  Price efficiency and trading behavior in limit order markets with competing insiders

• 12. March 2013 Peter Limbach, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
  Mind the Gap! The Age Difference Between the CEO and Chair

• 19. March 2013 Dion Bongaerts, Rotterdam School of Management - ERIM
  Can alternative business models discipline credit rating agencies?

• 16. April 2013 Hannes Wagner, Università Bocconi
  Wrath of the Titans - CEO disciplining the World's largest Firms

• 23. April 2013 Günter Franke, Universität Konstanz
  Pre Crisis-Tranching and Pricing in CDO-Transactions

• 30. April 2013 Hans Degryse, KU Leuven & Tillburg University
  Suffrage Institutions and Financial Development: Does the Middle Class Have a Say?

• 07. May 2013 Dennis Dlugosch, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
  Relation between Equity Home Bias and Ambiguity Aversion: An International Study

Fall 2012

• 18. Sept. 2012 Erik Theissen, University of Mannheim
  The Market Reaction to Corporate Disclosure

• 02. Oct. 2012 Ulrich Hofbaur, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
  Sequential Patterns in Quarterly Dividend Changes and the Corresponding Stock Markets Reactions

• 09. Oct. 2012 Jos van Bommel, University of Luxembourg
  Monte Carlo Valuation of Derivatives

• 23. Oct. 2012 Burcin Yurtoglu, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
   Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: Evidence from Turkey

• 30. Oct. 2012 Josef Zechner,  WU Wien
  Granularity of Corporate Dept: Theory and Tests

• 06. Nov. 2012 Heiko Jacobs, University of Mannheim
   Losing Sight of the Trees for the Forest? Attention Shifts and Pairs Trading

• 13. Nov. 2012 Andreas Hackethal / Steffen Mayer, Goethe Universität
  Passive Aggressive: Index-Linked Securities and Individual Investors

• 20. Nov. 2012 Joerg Rocholl, ESMT Berlin
  Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank investments During the Financial Crisis

• 27. Nov. 2012 Denis Schweizer, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
  Executive Compensation and informed Trading in Acquiring Firms around Merger Announcements

• 04. Dec. 2012 Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD
  Estimating the Value of the Boss: Evidence from CEO Hospitalization Events