Department of Finance and Business Economics

 
Autumn 2009

Contact Catherine Richardson for information on our seminars.

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are scheduled for 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
in the Paccar Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation Room (Balmer Hall, Room 209)

Friday, October 2
Speaker:         Jonathan M. Karpoff, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title:     Short Sellers and Financial Misconduct

Friday, October 9
Speaker:         Juan Carrillo, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
Paper Title:     Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information
Time:               2:00 pm
Location:         Savery Hall Conference Room, Room 410
This seminar is jointly offered through the University of Washington Department of Economics

Friday, October 16
The seminar with Randall Morck planned for 10/16/09 has been cancelled.
We hope to reschedule at a later date.

Friday, October 23
Speaker:          Geoff Tate, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Paper Title:      External Networking and Internal Firm Governance

Friday, October 30
Speaker:          Miguel Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia
Paper Title:      Does Governance Travel Around the World?  Evidence from Institutional Investors 
Support for this seminar is provided in part by the  University of Washington’s Global Business Center (GBC) through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER) program.

Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7
Special Event: Pacific Northwest Finance Conference

Friday, November 13
Speaker:          Xiaoyan Zhang, University of Cornell, The Johnson School
Paper Title:      Shackling Short Sellers:  The 2008 Shorting Ban

Friday, November 20
Speaker:          Adam Kolasinski, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
Paper Title:      Experience and Independent Directors:  Effective Restraints on CEO Overconfidence

Friday, November 27
No seminar scheduled (school holiday)

Friday, December 4
Special Event:  Doctoral Student Summer Research Presentations
Speakers:         Alexander Hanning
                               Market Reactions to a Name Change in Adverse Circumstances
                            Fan Yu    
                                Paper topic to be announced
                            Yeqin Zeng
                                Paper topic to be announced

Friday, December 11
Speaker:         Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University, Department of Economics
Paper Title:     To be announced
Time:               11:00 am
Location:         BLM 209
This seminar is jointly offered with the University of Washington Department of Economics