2012 University of Washington Summer Finance Conference
2012 University of Washington Summer Finance Conference

August 1-3, 2012
Seattle, Washington

To view the schedule, please click here.
For a map from the Conference Hotel to PACCAR Hall where UoWSFC presentations will be held, please click here.

Keynote Address:
Ken Singleton
, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University 


Papers
:

Santosh Anagol, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Understanding the Incentives of Commissions Motivated Agents: Theory and Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market

Philip Bond, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Government Intervention and Information Aggregation by Prices

Alex Edmans, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania                   
The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

John Hund, A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University                      
Credit Ratings across Asset Classes: A=A?

Dirk Jenter, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
CEO Preferences and Acquisitions

Sandy Klasa, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona                  
Private Information Arrival, Trading Activity, and Price Formation:  Evidence from Nonpublic Merger Negotiations

Shimon Kogan, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Do Exposure and Disclosure Affect Ownership Structure and Stock Returns?

Camelia Kuhnen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University             
Asymmetric Learning from Financial Information

Lalitha Naveen, Fox School, Temple University
Board Advising

Jeff Pontiff, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?

Michael Roberts, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy?

Mark Seasholes, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology                             
Dual-Listed Shares and Trading

Jay Shanken, Goizueta Business School, Emory University                     
Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing with Individual Stocks


Participation in the conference is by invitation only. We will accept submissions for possible inclusion in the 2014 Summer Finance Conference program starting January 1, 2014 at finance@uw.edu.